Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. "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
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 26, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 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 2021-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
CWPS Faculty Lecture | Melanie Manos (October 26, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87491 87491-21642779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Stamps School of Art & Design faculty member and current CWPS Faculty Fellow Melanie Manos discusses the process of creating a MOOC for her ongoing project, *Visualizing Women's Work*. *Visualizing Women’s Work (VWW)* is a research and community centered project examining gender bias in historic public monuments, utilizing multimedia responses that reveal the historically erased, devalued contributions of women across identities including: location-specific performances/actions, augmented reality and QR coding, data gathering and visualization, archival and crowd-sourced research.

University of Michigan community members can access the new online course for free, here: https://online.umich.edu/courses/visualizing-womens-work-using-art-media-for-social-justice/

Melanie Manos is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, video, print, sculpture and installation. Recent exhibitions include galleries and venues in Mechelen (Belgium), Los Angeles, London, Brooklyn, and Detroit. In 2013 Manos presented her work at Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan, and was Artist-in-Residence at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Taliesin, WI, where she created and exhibited video and photographic collage ad-dressing the body and the built environment. Early 2014 Manos was an interdisciplinary Fellow at The MacDowell Art Colony, where she completed four video shorts sub-titled The MacDowell Series based on her response to the environs. Recent work also includes two large-scale outdoor video projections, for Dlectricity (Detroit), and The Not Yet, Site:Lab (Grand Rapids). Manos performed in and produced the videos, which were created using green-screen sets at the Duderstadt Video Studio. Manos’ performance art career began in 1990’s Los Angeles where she performed as a founding member of the duo Too Much Girl in venues as varied as public museums, private art schools, and punk rock clubs.

The Center for World Performance Studies Faculty Lecture Series features our Faculty Fellows and visiting scholars and practitioners in the fields of ethnography and performance. Designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among students, scholars, and the community, faculty are invited to present their work in an interactive and performative fashion.

If you are a person with a disability who requires 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. If you are a U-M community member interested in attending this event in person, please email cwps.information@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:03:26 -0400 2021-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T19:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Melanie Manos
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 27, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 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 2021-10-27T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 27, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-27T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 28, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 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 2021-10-28T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 28, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-28T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (October 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 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 2021-10-29T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 29, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
At the Intersection of Time and Culture: Reflections on Researching Ancient Sculpture in the Present-day Louvre (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87769 87769-21645835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

The Louvre Museum is perhaps the most well-known museum in the entire world. To walk its halls and view its art is more than visiting a museum, it’s experiencing history itself. The museum came into existence as a fortress in the 12th century but was transformed into a private gallery for the royal collection in the 17th century, and then finally a public museum during the French Revolution. The collection was greatly expanded under Napoleon, and it was at this time that the Gabii sculptural assemblage entered the Louvre and became the cornerstone of the Roman sculpture collection.

In this talk, I discuss the ancient site of Gabii, the sculptures that once stood there, and their journey at the Louvre. I explore the relationship between present perceptions and ancient praxis, as well as the transformation of our knowledge and approach to ancient art that is still occurring today. By sharing my reflections during my time at the Louvre, I hope to invite others to consider how we all play a part in this transformation by viewing ancient art in the present, setting the stage for future change.

Presented via Zoom webinar - registration required https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C7JuvtX8RiOOPiRZy91G1Q

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Presentation Fri, 08 Oct 2021 12:01:53 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Presentation Sculpture at the Louvre
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 30, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-30T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (October 31, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 31, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (October 31, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 31, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 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 2021-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 2, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 2, 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 2021-11-02T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 2, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-02T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Special Viewing and Artist/Curator Talk with Shizu Saldamando and Amanda Krugliak (November 2, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88228 88228-21651518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 6:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*, in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery through December 10.

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:35:40 -0400 2021-11-02T18:30:00-04:00 2021-11-02T20:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion La Erika
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 3, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 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 2021-11-03T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 3, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-03T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 3, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-03T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 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 2021-11-04T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-04T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 4, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-04T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-04T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 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 2021-11-05T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-05T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-05T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
28th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (November 5, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87995 87995-21648236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in cooperation with the Ann Arbor Polonia Association and the U-M Polish Student Association. Since its inception in 1993, the festival has featured contemporary Polish documentaries, animated shorts, and feature films offering diverse perspectives on a range of Polish and global issues. The festival features a juried film competition in three categories: documentary film, short narrative film, and film debut.

For this year's full program and to purchase tickets, please see the festival website: https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/

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Film Screening Wed, 06 Oct 2021 17:14:19 -0400 2021-11-05T19:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening 28th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
28th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (November 6, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87995 87995-21648237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 6, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in cooperation with the Ann Arbor Polonia Association and the U-M Polish Student Association. Since its inception in 1993, the festival has featured contemporary Polish documentaries, animated shorts, and feature films offering diverse perspectives on a range of Polish and global issues. The festival features a juried film competition in three categories: documentary film, short narrative film, and film debut.

For this year's full program and to purchase tickets, please see the festival website: https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/

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Film Screening Wed, 06 Oct 2021 17:14:19 -0400 2021-11-06T00:00:00-04:00 2021-11-06T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening 28th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 6, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 6, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-06T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-06T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-06T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Curator Tour: Free Your Mind (November 6, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88759 88759-21657350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 6, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Behind every exhibition there are many people, stories, and histories to share. Janie Paul, co-curator of the Free Your Mind exhibition, is a thirty-plus year veteran of working with artists who have experienced incarceration—and many who still remain behind bars. Join Janie to learn about the exhibition, her work, and how art-making in prison can be a form of resistance and liberation.

This fall at the MSU Broad Art Museum visitors are invited to join artists and guest curators participating in the exhibition program to explore the works on view at the museum and Art Lab. These special opportunities to dialogue and learn directly from artists themselves will provide unique insights and further shed light on the important conversations their work contributes.

This program is presented in partnership with the MSU Broad Art Museum. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is on view through Dec. 12, 2021 at the MSU Broad.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:03:51 -0400 2021-11-06T14:00:00-04:00 2021-11-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Janie Paul leads a tour at the Free Your Mind exhibit
28th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (November 7, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87995 87995-21648238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 7, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in cooperation with the Ann Arbor Polonia Association and the U-M Polish Student Association. Since its inception in 1993, the festival has featured contemporary Polish documentaries, animated shorts, and feature films offering diverse perspectives on a range of Polish and global issues. The festival features a juried film competition in three categories: documentary film, short narrative film, and film debut.

For this year's full program and to purchase tickets, please see the festival website: https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/

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Film Screening Wed, 06 Oct 2021 17:14:19 -0400 2021-11-07T00:00:00-04:00 2021-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening 28th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 7, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 7, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-07T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 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 2021-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 9, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 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 2021-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 9, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 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 2021-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 10, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-10T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 11, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 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 2021-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 11, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 11, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 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 2021-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Lecture & Watch Party: Tereza Ruller, The Rodina (November 12, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88864 88864-21658655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 11:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

You're invited to attend an interactive lecture in the Art & Architecture Building Commons (or tune in virtually) on Friday, November 12, featuring designer, performer, and educator Tereza Ruller from The Rodina. Lunch will be provided for watch party attendees that register - and please plan to bring your laptop.

How to make freedom and playfulness – traditionally granted to artists – accessible to a wider audience? And, how to design situations or objects that stimulate activity and participation, that could lead to a transformation in a viewer or a social context? During this talk, Amsterdam-based designer Tereza Ruller (studio The Rodina) tries to answer these questions. She identifies performative components in graphic design processes and results. With examples of her recent projects, Ruller proposes the term “performative design” for a practice that incorporates graphic design, playfulness, bodies, action, and eventness (understanding this as a unique time and space). Performance becomes an alternative mode of value production and a space for critique and imagination.

The Rodina (Tereza and Vit Ruller) is a post-critical design studio with an experimental practice drenched in strategies of performance art, play and subversion. The Rodina invents ways in which experience, knowledge and relations are produced and preserved. In their work, Tereza and Vit often explore the spatial and interactive possibilities of virtual environments as a space for new thoughts and aesthetics that come forward from between culture and technology. The studio works mostly for the cultural clients such as Harvard GSD (USA), Sonic Acts Foundation (NL), and Hyundai Card Library Seoul (KR).

This event is hosted in partnership with the Penny Stamps Speaker Series. Please register here: https://umich.formstack.com/forms/the_rodina

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Nov 2021 16:31:15 -0400 2021-11-12T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Rodina
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 13, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-13T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 14, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 14, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-14T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 15, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-15T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 16, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 17, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-17T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 18, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-18T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 18, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 19, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-19T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
The Clements Bookworm: Native American Boarding Schools as a Tool of U.S. Empire (November 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87868 87868-21647195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Dr. Veronica Pasfield discusses her continuing research to understand the full purpose and force of federal Indian boarding schools. She asserts that the creation story of Carlisle Indian School must be rooted in missionary schools founded to prepare Kanaka Maoli for wage labor on their own Hawaiian homelands as well as in the captivity of Native children in the Southwest by a U.S. Army desperate to bring about the submission of Western tribes by any means necessary. While administrators touted assimilation as a benevolent enterprise, the archives show that Indian children were used as hostages to secure the extraction of tribal resources, and “schools” were used as an instrument for transforming indigenous peoples into a permanent underclass in their own homeland.

Register for the link to join at myumi.ch/gjgzR

This episode of the Bookworm is generously sponsored by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:57:13 -0400 2021-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Carlisle School (PA) photographed by Choate (detail). Pohrt Collection of Native American Photography, Clements Library.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 20, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-20T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
American Historical Print Collectors Society 2021 Webinar (November 20, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89090 89090-21660467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join the American Historical Print Collectors Society for a fascinating look at maritime history in historic prints, maps and charts. Open to the general public as well as AHPCS members. Free; co-sponsored by the U-M William L. Clements Library.

Register at http://myumi.ch/51nbp

HOST: Clayton Lewis, Curator of Graphics Material, William L. Clements Library and AHPCS Vice President.

SCHEDULED SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

"Shaping A New Course: Chart Making in America, 1694-1815" with Richard Malley, Curator of the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum in Wethersfield, CT.

As American colonists in the 17th-18th centuries gradually developed home-grown approaches to political, social and economic challenges, so too did mariners, mathematicians and scholars in creating an impressive body of local and regional charting. This talk examines a number of New England-based pioneers whose work contributed to American seaborne success in the colonial and Early National periods. It is an outgrowth of a collections assessment of Mystic Seaport Museum’s map and chart collection conducted by Malley, 2015-2016.

"The Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington" with James Brust, Vice President, AHPCS.

Lithographer and publisher Nathanael Currier’s first significant success was with the 1840 disaster lithograph "The Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington." Collector/scholar James Brust examines the truth and the legends surrounding this image’s many forms, including appearances in the “penny-press” New York Sun days after the event. Brust collaborated with the late Wendy Shadwell for much of his research.

"Coastal Views of Fitz Henry Lane" with Georgia Barnhill, Curator of Graphic Arts Emerita at American Antiquarian Society.

Georgia Barnhill’s presentation will focus on New England coastal views by American Luminist painter and printmaker Fitz Henry Lane. Lane grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where his father was a sailmaker. Barnhill will discuss some of the precursors to Lane’s views and will examine several closely.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Nov 2021 10:06:01 -0500 2021-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual "The Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington," (1840) courtesy of James Brust.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 21, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 21, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-21T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 22, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 22, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 23, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 23, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-23T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 24, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-24T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-24T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-25T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-25T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 25, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 25, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-25T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-25T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-25T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-25T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 26, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 26, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-26T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 26, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 26, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-26T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-26T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-26T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-26T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 27, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 27, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-27T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-27T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-27T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-27T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 28, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 28, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-28T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-28T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-28T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-28T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 30, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 30, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21664521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-30T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-01T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (December 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 2, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-12-02T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 2, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-02T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-02T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (December 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-02T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 3, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-12-03T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 3, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-03T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (December 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 4, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 4, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-04T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (December 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
2021 PCAP Art Auction - December 4th, 2021 (December 4, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88204 88204-21651368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 4, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join us in-person OR online Saturday, December 4th, at the Michigan League - Hussey Room for the Prison Creative Arts Project's 2021 Art Auction.

*Set an alarm!* The Silent Auction will begin online on Thursday, December 2nd at 7:00pm here: https://pcapauction2021.ggo.bid/

This event raises funds to support the *26th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners* (March 22 - April 5, 2022), where 700+ pieces of art created by incarcerated artists will be exhibited at the University of Michigan for public viewing & purchase.

The auction will feature artwork by incarcerated artists, PCAP curators, University of Michigan faculty and local artists.

6:30 pm Cocktail Reception, Silent Auction
7:30 pm Live Auction

This event will be BOTH in-person & virtual.

We will be utilizing mobile-bidding, so have your smartphone handy & charged.
*No smartphone? No problem!* Assistance will be available at the event and desktops can also be used for online participants.

*Want to skip the line?* Pre-register ahead of time here: https://pcapauction2021.ggo.bid/

*Joining us online?* Log in here: https://pcapauction2021.ggo.bid/ & watch LIVE via Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92389024316

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Nov 2021 17:02:24 -0500 2021-12-04T18:30:00-05:00 2021-12-04T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Reception / Open House PCAP 2021 Art Auction - Saturday, December 4th
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-05T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-05T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (December 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-05T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 6, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 6, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-12-06T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Who Am I? Art Exhibit & Interactive Activity (December 6, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89484 89484-21663284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 6, 2021 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

This semester, we asked UM student artists use art to answer the question “Who Am I?” and we want you to see what your fellow Wolverines created! Come to the Union (outside the Michigan Room) to see the winners of this call for submissions. Art will be displayed during building hours from December 1 - December 17.

On December 6 and December 8, we want to hear from you! Visit the displayed art and take a moment to tell us who YOU are. Giant posterboard and markers will be available for you to express yourself.

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Other Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:42:49 -0500 2021-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 2021-12-06T20:00:00-05:00 Center for Campus Involvement Other Gallery
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 7, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-12-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 8, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-08T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-08T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (December 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-08T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Who Am I? Art Exhibit & Interactive Activity (December 8, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89484 89484-21663285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

This semester, we asked UM student artists use art to answer the question “Who Am I?” and we want you to see what your fellow Wolverines created! Come to the Union (outside the Michigan Room) to see the winners of this call for submissions. Art will be displayed during building hours from December 1 - December 17.

On December 6 and December 8, we want to hear from you! Visit the displayed art and take a moment to tell us who YOU are. Giant posterboard and markers will be available for you to express yourself.

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Other Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:42:49 -0500 2021-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 2021-12-08T20:00:00-05:00 Center for Campus Involvement Other Gallery
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 9, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 9, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-12-09T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 9, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 9, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-09T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-09T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (December 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-09T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 10, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando was born in 1978 to parents of Mexican-American and Japanese-American descent and raised in San Francisco’s Mission District. Saldamando merges painting and collage, often using origami paper, glitter, or gold leaf in her compositions, many of which are painted on wood or found surfaces. Her modern portraits and innovative methods challenge social constructs pertaining to individual and collective identity within the broader context of the “American Portrait.” Saldamando’s visual biographies, which use her friends, family, and fellow members of the Chicanx creative community in Los Angeles, create new ways of seeing and being seen.

On November 2, 6:30-8pm, Shizu Saldamando talks to curator Amanda Krugliak about Shizu's artistic practice and her exhibition *When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine*.

About the artist: Shizu Saldamando is an LA based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth. The work functions as homage, as well as documentation, of friends and peers within artistic and musical subcultures around the Los Angeles metropolitan area. She is currently represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.

Shizu Saldamando is the 2021 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-12-10T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 10, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 10, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-10T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-10T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (December 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-12-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-10T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (December 10, 2021 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21662057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 10, 2021 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2021-12-10T16:15:00-05:00 2021-12-10T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
Student-Made Video Games Virtual Showcase (December 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89369 89369-21662358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 10, 2021 7:00pm
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 Friday evening (the 10th) to participate!

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Exhibition Thu, 18 Nov 2021 15:18:17 -0500 2021-12-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-12-10T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition EECS 494 Showcase Event
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 11, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 11, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

Making art can be a transformative experience. It helps us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art has the power to shift the way we see and understand the world around us, and the worlds within us. Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan invites us to consider these qualities of art, while also grappling with the carceral system and the many ways it affects the lives of all of us.

Currently there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and in Michigan, there are roughly 33,000 residents currently serving time in the prison system. Working together with a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and Michigan State University units and departments, Free Your Mind explores the inner worlds of incarcerated individuals and the fundamental issues that shape conversations around incarceration today. The exhibition centers on four key topics of inquiry: Michigan’s length of sentencing and overcrowding in prisons; the impact of incarceration on women; youth incarceration; and the dangers of COVID-19.

The exhibition features artists, poets, and storytellers of great achievement. The majority of these artists are either currently or formerly incarcerated. Their works on view invite us to consider the role art-making plays in prisons as a liberating force, and offer unique perspectives on the experience of incarceration. The works also invite us to approach the subject of incarceration with an open mind. Free Your Mind aims to cultivate a greater sense of empathy for those directly impacted by incarceration and an understanding that their growth as individuals is linked to the greater health of the society we all live in, together.

Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and curated by Steven L. Bridges, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Janie Paul, Senior Curator and Cofounder, Annual Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Eli and Edythe Broad endowed exhibitions fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-11T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (December 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition features the work of artists in the Linkage Project, a program of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) that affirms the creativity of adults who have returned from incarceration. The artists previously exhibited their work at PCAP's Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the University of Michigan. For some, this exhibition at the MSU Broad Art Lab is the first opportunity to show their work since regaining their freedom. Art-making has helped these artists during the dark years of their incarceration, and we hope the exhibition inspires visitors to learn more about how to support formerly incarcerated people reconnecting with their communities.

Martín Vargas, artist and curator of this exhibition, invites visitors and supporters to not only connect with the artists through their work, but also during select Art Lab studio hours, which will feature several of the artists working in person.

Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition is organized by the Linkage Project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The exhibition is curated by Martín Vargas, Vanessa Mayesky, Scott Tompkins, Nico Slowik, Kimiko Uyeda, and Jenna VanFleteren.

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-12-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.