Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Watershed (August 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (August 22, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 22, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-08-22T00:00:00-04:00 2020-08-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (August 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (August 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (August 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (August 23, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 23, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-08-23T00:00:00-04:00 2020-08-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (August 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-08-23T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (August 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-08-23T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (August 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-08-23T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (August 24, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 24, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-08-24T00:00:00-04:00 2020-08-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (August 25, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-08-25T00:00:00-04:00 2020-08-25T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (August 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (August 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (August 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-08-25T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (August 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (August 25, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-08-25T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-25T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (August 26, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-08-26T00:00:00-04:00 2020-08-26T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
PCAP Coffee Hours (August 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75621 75621-19550857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Please email Mary Heinen at mheinen@umich.edu for the Zoom link

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 11 Aug 2020 08:58:27 -0400 2020-08-26T10:00:00-04:00 2020-08-26T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering In person coffee hour meeting
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (August 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-08-26T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (August 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-08-26T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (August 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-08-26T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (August 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-08-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (August 26, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-08-26T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-26T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (August 27, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 27, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-08-27T00:00:00-04:00 2020-08-27T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (August 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (August 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (August 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (August 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-08-27T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-27T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (August 27, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 27, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-08-27T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-27T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (August 28, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 28, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-08-28T00:00:00-04:00 2020-08-28T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (August 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (August 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (August 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (August 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-08-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (August 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-08-28T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-28T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
PENNY STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES + DPTV PRESENT MEREDITH MONK (August 28, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76182 76182-19671615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 28, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

On Friday, August 28 at 8:00 pm ET, tune in at dptv.org or join us on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page to view a presentation by Meredith Monk.

Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director, choreographer, filmmaker, and creator of new opera, music-theater works, films, and installations. Considered one of the most significant and influential creative forces in the performing arts of the past fifty years, she is a pioneer of what is now called “extended vocal technique” and “interdisciplinary performance.” Ms. Monk has received numerous awards and honors including a Duke Performing Artist Award, a MacArthur “Genius” Award, and two Guggenheim fellowships. She has made more than a dozen recordings, most of which are on the ECM New Series label, including the 2008 Grammy-nominated impermanence. Ms. Monk was named Carnegie Hall’s 2014-15 Debs Composer’s Chair, an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Republic of France, and one of NPR’s 50 Great Voices. In September 2015, she received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. Celebrated internationally, her work has been presented at major venues throughout the world.

This presentation is supported by the University Musical Society.

https://www.facebook.com/PennyStampsSeries/
https://www.dptv.org/programs/arts-culture/penny-stamps-series/

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:28:34 -0400 2020-08-28T20:00:00-04:00 2020-08-28T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual Meredith Monk
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (August 29, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 29, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-08-29T00:00:00-04:00 2020-08-29T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (August 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 29, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (August 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 29, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (August 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 29, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 2020-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (August 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-08-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (August 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-08-29T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-29T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (August 30, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 30, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-08-30T00:00:00-04:00 2020-08-30T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (August 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-08-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (August 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-08-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (August 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-08-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Watershed (August 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-08-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (August 30, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 30, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-08-30T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-30T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Classes Start (August 31, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75613 75613-19546884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 31, 2020 12:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Classes Start

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Class / Instruction Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:14:18 -0400 2020-08-31T00:00:00-04:00 2020-08-31T23:59:00-04:00 1027 E. Huron Building Prison Creative Arts Project, The Class / Instruction
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (August 31, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 31, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-08-31T00:00:00-04:00 2020-08-31T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Connecting Student Creatives (August 31, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76070 76070-19661518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 31, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Connecting Student Creatives is an initiative to share the creative work of University of Michigan students. On Arts at Michigan's website and social media channels, we'll be highlighting some of the many students who make up our campus artistic community: visual artists, filmmakers, dancers, musicians, architects, designers, actors, poets, set designers, cartoonists and more! Check out some of the students we've featured, and follow them on their social media. Then share your own creative work with us!

visit http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/connecting/ for more

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:30:31 -0400 2020-08-31T09:00:00-04:00 2020-08-31T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Connecting Student Creatives poster
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (August 31, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 31, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-08-31T12:00:00-04:00 2020-08-31T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (August 31, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 31, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-08-31T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-31T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 1, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-01T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-01T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (September 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 1, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-01T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 1, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-01T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-01T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 2, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-02T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-02T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (September 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-02T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-02T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 2, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-02T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-02T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 3, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-03T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-03T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (September 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-03T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-03T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 3, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-03T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-03T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
RC Festiforum 2020 (September 3, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76365 76365-19711132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Learn about RC Student Organizations (including RC Forums), meet student leaders, and sign up to join clubs you're interested in!

Open to all RC Students - students, keep an eye out on your email for the zoom link, and email eshabis@umich.edu if you have any questions.

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Fair / Festival Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:05:21 -0400 2020-09-03T15:30:00-04:00 2020-09-03T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Fair / Festival RC Festiforum 2020 poster
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Kaveh Akbar, Janey Lack Visiting Writer in Poetry (September 3, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76478 76478-19719133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Kaveh Akbar's debut book of poetry, Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James Books, 2017; Penguin UK, 2018), boldly confronts addiction and the path of recovery— traversing faith, the self, and the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety.

Akbar is also the author of a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry, 2017) and the recipient of the Levis Reading Prize, Pushcart Prize, Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Born in Tehran, Iran, he teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson.

Kaveh founded Divedapper, a home for dialogues with the most vital voices in American poetry. With Sarah Kay and Claire Schwartz, he writes a weekly column for the Paris Review called "Poetry RX." Previously, he ran The Quirk, a for-charity print literary journal. He has also served as Poetry Editor for BOOTH and Book Reviews Editor for the Southeast Review. Along with Gabrielle Calvocoressi, francine j. harris, and Jonathan Farmer, he starred on All Up in Your Ears, a monthly poetry podcast. His poems appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, PBS NewsHour, The New Republic, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, and elsewhere. His next work, Pilgrim Bell, is forthcoming 2021 (Graywolf).

The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events. Please note, Craft Lectures to follow on Fridays. 

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the  Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

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Presentation Wed, 02 Sep 2020 12:15:30 -0400 2020-09-03T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-03T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 4, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 4, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-04T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-04T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (September 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-04T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-04T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-04T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-04T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-04T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 5, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 5, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-05T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-05T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-05T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-05T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (September 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-05T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-05T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 5, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 5, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-05T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-05T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 6, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 6, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-06T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-06T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-06T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-06T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-06T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Watershed (September 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-06T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-06T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-06T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Labor Day (September 7, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75614 75614-19546885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 7, 2020 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

No Class

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Other Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:19:18 -0400 2020-09-07T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-07T23:59:00-04:00 Prison Creative Arts Project, The Other
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 7, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 7, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-07T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-07T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Connecting Student Creatives (September 7, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76070 76070-19661519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 7, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Connecting Student Creatives is an initiative to share the creative work of University of Michigan students. On Arts at Michigan's website and social media channels, we'll be highlighting some of the many students who make up our campus artistic community: visual artists, filmmakers, dancers, musicians, architects, designers, actors, poets, set designers, cartoonists and more! Check out some of the students we've featured, and follow them on their social media. Then share your own creative work with us!

visit http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/connecting/ for more

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:30:31 -0400 2020-09-07T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-07T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Connecting Student Creatives poster
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-07T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-07T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-07T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-08T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-08T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-08T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-08T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (September 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-08T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 8, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-08T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-08T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 9, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-09T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-09T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 9, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-09T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 9, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-09T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (September 9, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-09T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-09T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-09T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-09T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 10, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-10T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 10, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-10T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 10, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-10T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (September 10, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-10T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-10T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 11, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-11T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-11T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-11T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (September 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-11T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 11, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-11T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 12, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 12, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-12T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-12T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-12T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (September 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-12T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 12, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 12, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-12T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Art & Activism: Creative Campaign Poster Making (September 12, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75781 75781-19604072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 12, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

: . ​As we all look ahead to the November election, we want to get our creative juices flowing and print our own favorite slogan! Student Program Assistant Emily Considine will walk you through some examples of campaign graphics and poster styles. Then Michigan-based artist Shayla Johnson will show you how to create a unique poster (or tote bag) featuring your own personal slogan. UMMA will provide a supply kit you can pick up ahead of time. You must register by Sunday, September 6 to participate. Registered participants will receive an email with information for how to get your supplies.

This event is part of UMMA's welcome events for incoming students. All are welcome if there is space, but we will prioritize student participants as supplies are limited. A version of this event for children and families will occur on September 19.

This artmaking workshop is one of many art & activism events related to the fall 2020 election season. Sign up for our email to receive information about additional upcoming events and activities.   Shayla Johnson is founder and designer of Scarlet Crane Creations, a dedicated micro-batch textile printing house specializing in hand-printed fabrics for home decor products and lifestyle accessories. Unique surface patterns range from free flowing florals to abstract textures in order to produce stylish and sophisticated collections. Scarlet Crane Creations is housed right here at POST so you’ll have the opportunity to see Shayla’s work space, printing table, and work in process. Shayla also works for UMMA as a Museum Applications Developer.

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 12 Sep 2020 18:15:48 -0400 2020-09-12T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-12T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 13, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 13, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-13T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-13T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
PCAP Facilitator Training (September 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75615 75615-19546886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP Facilitator Training

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Meeting Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:39:52 -0400 2020-09-13T10:00:00-04:00 2020-09-13T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Group Zoom Traning
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Watershed (September 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-13T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 14, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 14, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-14T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-14T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Connecting Student Creatives (September 14, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76070 76070-19661520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 14, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Connecting Student Creatives is an initiative to share the creative work of University of Michigan students. On Arts at Michigan's website and social media channels, we'll be highlighting some of the many students who make up our campus artistic community: visual artists, filmmakers, dancers, musicians, architects, designers, actors, poets, set designers, cartoonists and more! Check out some of the students we've featured, and follow them on their social media. Then share your own creative work with us!

visit http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/connecting/ for more

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:30:31 -0400 2020-09-14T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-14T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Connecting Student Creatives poster
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-14T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-14T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-14T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-14T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 15, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-15T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-15T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-15T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (September 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-15T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 15, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-15T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women's Vote (September 15, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77531 77531-19879804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by AIGA in partnership with League of Women Voters

2020 marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in 1920. It was the first legislation for women’s voting rights. Not until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 were voting rights of ALL women protected and enforced, and intimidation tactics progressively eliminated.  The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote poster campaign, organized by AIGA in partnership with the League of Women Voters, commemorates this milestone. A core group of invited women of design submitted the first 65 non-partisan posters, to launch the initiative with their vision and voices. Through the posters, these women joined forces to collectively contribute to dialogue in design and society. This moment in history is an incredible opportunity to catalyze women in design, voting rights, citizenship, community, and diversity. The collection aspires to not only support present day voter participation, but to also serve as a backdrop for discourse and examination of the history of voting rights and women’s fight for equality.  The poster initiative continues at aiga.org/vote, where AIGA members can contribute posters to motivate the American public to register and turn out to vote in the 2020 general election, as well as local elections to come. Posters are available for free download online.

The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote exhibition at Stamps Gallery includes a selection of the 65 posters chosen by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery. The exhibition includes posters by Audrey Bennett, Johanna Björk, Karen Cheng, Emily Comfort, Jenny El-Shamy, Dinah Fried, Karin Fong, Anne M. Giangiulio, Annabelle Gould, Brockett Horne, Meena Khalili, nicole killian + shawné michaelain holloway, Karen Kurycki, Marty Maxwell Lane, Zuzana Licko, Ana Llorente, Beatriz Lozano, Kelly Salchow MacArthur, Rebeca Mendez, Lana Rigsby, Kaleena Sales, Renee Seward, Laurel Shoemaker, Nancy Sklolos,  Hannah Smotrich, Shanti Sparrow, Jennifer Sterling, Fearn de Vicq, Cymone Wilder, and Lynne Yun.

Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Exhibition Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:52:24 -0400 2020-09-15T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2020_gotv_header-02.jpg
Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations by Heidi Kumao (September 15, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77532 77532-19879827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to present Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations, a solo exhibition of narrative fabric works and experimental animations by Stamps Professor Heidi Kumao.

Using fabric cutouts and machine and hand stitching on industrial felt, Kumao gives physical form to the intangible dynamics underlying ordinary conversations and relationships from a feminist perspective. Intentionally minimal, each image distills an interaction, traumatic incident, or power imbalance into an accessible visual narrative. Recognizable objects such as chairs, roots, ladders, or spotlights set the stage for the story to unfold. Events are captured midstream, suspended in time like a felt film still.

The exhibition is inspired, in part, by the courage, testimony, and experiences of women (like Christine Blasey Ford) who publicly report assault, harassment, or misconduct. The #MeToo movement gave voice to thousands of women to tell their personal stories, but also exposed a hostile backlash meant to silence them. The title, “Real and Imagined,” is a deliberate contradiction; if one is true, the other must not be. In practice, however, both terms are used to reference a woman’s testimony and determine how it is publicly interpreted. Her account is accepted as truthful by many and simultaneously dismissed as imaginary by the court of public opinion: “her memory is wrong,” “she imagined it.”

The works in “Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations” make difficult conversations and relationships tangible by stripping them down to their essentials.

Wordless physical gestures highlight the psychological and emotional forces at play behind even the smallest of interactions.

Biography
Heidi Kumao has created award-winning experimental films, video installations, cinema machines, electronic clothing, and kinetic sculptures. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including shows at Art Science Museum Singapore, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), and Museu da Imagem e do Som (São Paulo). She has received fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:10 -0400 2020-09-15T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/HK-Real-and-Imagined-email-header-01.jpg
Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition (September 15, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77530 77530-19879780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition

Stamps Gallery is proud to kick-off the fall semester with Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition, which brings together powerful posters and playful videos made by the students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the stakeholders in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We found inspiration in the thoughtful words of renowned civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) who wrote, “My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” His powerful words are a reminder for all of us - present and future generations to stay hopeful, proactive, and resilient in our collective efforts to end racial discrimination and foster a true democracy.

In this spirit, Stamps Gallery invited the undergraduate and graduate students at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. How can we acknowledge our own biases, learn from each other, and listen to the voices of those that have been silenced? We are at a pivotal moment in our history as the pandemic radically transforms everyday life. Through this exhibition Stamps Gallery asks the UM community to come together as artists and audiences and envision models for inclusion that are grounded in equality, belonging and empathy.

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition includes work by Emily Albright, Adriana Alcala, Nathan Byrne, David Forsee, Eloise Jansenn, Rey Jeong, Sohyun Lim, Anika Love, Maggie McConnell, Willian Minzer, Judah Premble, Casey Rheault, Natalia Rocafuerte, Jenna Scheen, Ellie Schmidt, Abigail Seguin, LaKyla Thomas, Elijah Thompson, Benjamin Winans, and Molly Wu.

Artwork was selected through an open call by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery.

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Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition
Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition
September 15, 2020 – December 4, 2020

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition

Stamps Gallery is proud to kick-off the fall semester with Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition, which brings together powerful posters and playful videos made by the students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the stakeholders in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We found inspiration in the thoughtful words of renowned civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) who wrote, “My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” His powerful words are a reminder for all of us - present and future generations to stay hopeful, proactive, and resilient in our collective efforts to end racial discrimination and foster a true democracy.

In this spirit, Stamps Gallery invited the undergraduate and graduate students at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. How can we acknowledge our own biases, learn from each other, and listen to the voices of those that have been silenced? We are at a pivotal moment in our history as the pandemic radically transforms everyday life. Through this exhibition Stamps Gallery asks the UM community to come together as artists and audiences and envision models for inclusion that are grounded in equality, belonging and empathy.

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition includes work by Emily Albright, Adriana Alcala, Nathan Byrne, David Forsee, Eloise Jansenn, Rey Jeong, Sohyun Lim, Anika Love, Maggie McConnell, Willian Minzer, Judah Premble, Casey Rheault, Natalia Rocafuerte, Jenna Scheen, Ellie Schmidt, Abigail Seguin, LaKyla Thomas, Elijah Thompson, Benjamin Winans, and Molly Wu.

Artwork was selected through an open call by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery.


Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Auditions Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:10 -0400 2020-09-15T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Respond.jpg
Arts Ambassadors Mass Meeting (September 15, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76132 76132-19663712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Rally / Mass Meeting Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:11:59 -0400 2020-09-15T18:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Rally / Mass Meeting Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 16, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-16T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-16T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 16, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-16T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 16, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-16T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (September 16, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-16T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 16, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-16T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Membership Meeting (September 16, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75616 75616-19546887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Membership Meeting

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Meeting Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:35:12 -0400 2020-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 2020-09-16T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting
LSWA's First All-Community Meeting (September 16, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77246 77246-19824153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

We're excited to see you all on Wednesday at 7PM (Eastern) for our first All-Community Meeting. It will be a fun and creative time with our LSWA community.

Attendance is required and goes toward your LSWA course grade. Email LSWA@umich.edu with any questions or concerns.

(The Zoom link is on Canvas and will be emailed out on Wednesday.)

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:16:15 -0400 2020-09-16T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Livestream / Virtual Sept. 16 All-Community Meeting
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 17, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-17T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (September 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-17T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 18, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-18T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Watershed (September 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-18T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 18, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women's Vote (September 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77531 77531-19879805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by AIGA in partnership with League of Women Voters

2020 marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in 1920. It was the first legislation for women’s voting rights. Not until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 were voting rights of ALL women protected and enforced, and intimidation tactics progressively eliminated.  The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote poster campaign, organized by AIGA in partnership with the League of Women Voters, commemorates this milestone. A core group of invited women of design submitted the first 65 non-partisan posters, to launch the initiative with their vision and voices. Through the posters, these women joined forces to collectively contribute to dialogue in design and society. This moment in history is an incredible opportunity to catalyze women in design, voting rights, citizenship, community, and diversity. The collection aspires to not only support present day voter participation, but to also serve as a backdrop for discourse and examination of the history of voting rights and women’s fight for equality.  The poster initiative continues at aiga.org/vote, where AIGA members can contribute posters to motivate the American public to register and turn out to vote in the 2020 general election, as well as local elections to come. Posters are available for free download online.

The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote exhibition at Stamps Gallery includes a selection of the 65 posters chosen by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery. The exhibition includes posters by Audrey Bennett, Johanna Björk, Karen Cheng, Emily Comfort, Jenny El-Shamy, Dinah Fried, Karin Fong, Anne M. Giangiulio, Annabelle Gould, Brockett Horne, Meena Khalili, nicole killian + shawné michaelain holloway, Karen Kurycki, Marty Maxwell Lane, Zuzana Licko, Ana Llorente, Beatriz Lozano, Kelly Salchow MacArthur, Rebeca Mendez, Lana Rigsby, Kaleena Sales, Renee Seward, Laurel Shoemaker, Nancy Sklolos,  Hannah Smotrich, Shanti Sparrow, Jennifer Sterling, Fearn de Vicq, Cymone Wilder, and Lynne Yun.

Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Exhibition Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:52:24 -0400 2020-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2020_gotv_header-02.jpg
Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations by Heidi Kumao (September 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77532 77532-19879828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to present Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations, a solo exhibition of narrative fabric works and experimental animations by Stamps Professor Heidi Kumao.

Using fabric cutouts and machine and hand stitching on industrial felt, Kumao gives physical form to the intangible dynamics underlying ordinary conversations and relationships from a feminist perspective. Intentionally minimal, each image distills an interaction, traumatic incident, or power imbalance into an accessible visual narrative. Recognizable objects such as chairs, roots, ladders, or spotlights set the stage for the story to unfold. Events are captured midstream, suspended in time like a felt film still.

The exhibition is inspired, in part, by the courage, testimony, and experiences of women (like Christine Blasey Ford) who publicly report assault, harassment, or misconduct. The #MeToo movement gave voice to thousands of women to tell their personal stories, but also exposed a hostile backlash meant to silence them. The title, “Real and Imagined,” is a deliberate contradiction; if one is true, the other must not be. In practice, however, both terms are used to reference a woman’s testimony and determine how it is publicly interpreted. Her account is accepted as truthful by many and simultaneously dismissed as imaginary by the court of public opinion: “her memory is wrong,” “she imagined it.”

The works in “Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations” make difficult conversations and relationships tangible by stripping them down to their essentials.

Wordless physical gestures highlight the psychological and emotional forces at play behind even the smallest of interactions.

Biography
Heidi Kumao has created award-winning experimental films, video installations, cinema machines, electronic clothing, and kinetic sculptures. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including shows at Art Science Museum Singapore, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), and Museu da Imagem e do Som (São Paulo). She has received fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:10 -0400 2020-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/HK-Real-and-Imagined-email-header-01.jpg
Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition (September 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77530 77530-19879781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition

Stamps Gallery is proud to kick-off the fall semester with Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition, which brings together powerful posters and playful videos made by the students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the stakeholders in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We found inspiration in the thoughtful words of renowned civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) who wrote, “My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” His powerful words are a reminder for all of us - present and future generations to stay hopeful, proactive, and resilient in our collective efforts to end racial discrimination and foster a true democracy.

In this spirit, Stamps Gallery invited the undergraduate and graduate students at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. How can we acknowledge our own biases, learn from each other, and listen to the voices of those that have been silenced? We are at a pivotal moment in our history as the pandemic radically transforms everyday life. Through this exhibition Stamps Gallery asks the UM community to come together as artists and audiences and envision models for inclusion that are grounded in equality, belonging and empathy.

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition includes work by Emily Albright, Adriana Alcala, Nathan Byrne, David Forsee, Eloise Jansenn, Rey Jeong, Sohyun Lim, Anika Love, Maggie McConnell, Willian Minzer, Judah Premble, Casey Rheault, Natalia Rocafuerte, Jenna Scheen, Ellie Schmidt, Abigail Seguin, LaKyla Thomas, Elijah Thompson, Benjamin Winans, and Molly Wu.

Artwork was selected through an open call by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery.

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Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition
Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition
September 15, 2020 – December 4, 2020

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition

Stamps Gallery is proud to kick-off the fall semester with Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition, which brings together powerful posters and playful videos made by the students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the stakeholders in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We found inspiration in the thoughtful words of renowned civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) who wrote, “My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” His powerful words are a reminder for all of us - present and future generations to stay hopeful, proactive, and resilient in our collective efforts to end racial discrimination and foster a true democracy.

In this spirit, Stamps Gallery invited the undergraduate and graduate students at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. How can we acknowledge our own biases, learn from each other, and listen to the voices of those that have been silenced? We are at a pivotal moment in our history as the pandemic radically transforms everyday life. Through this exhibition Stamps Gallery asks the UM community to come together as artists and audiences and envision models for inclusion that are grounded in equality, belonging and empathy.

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition includes work by Emily Albright, Adriana Alcala, Nathan Byrne, David Forsee, Eloise Jansenn, Rey Jeong, Sohyun Lim, Anika Love, Maggie McConnell, Willian Minzer, Judah Premble, Casey Rheault, Natalia Rocafuerte, Jenna Scheen, Ellie Schmidt, Abigail Seguin, LaKyla Thomas, Elijah Thompson, Benjamin Winans, and Molly Wu.

Artwork was selected through an open call by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery.


Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Auditions Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:10 -0400 2020-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Respond.jpg
New Red Order: Never Settle (September 18, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77318 77318-19840073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The New Red Order (NRO) is a mutable collective, a “public secret society,” facilitated by three core contributors — brothers Zack and Adam Khalil, who are Ojibway and grew up in northern Michigan, and Jackson Polys, who is Tlingit from Alaska. The collective creates video and performance works that question the desire for indigeneity in dominant culture. Working with an interdisciplinary network of informants, the NRO co-produces video, performance, and installation works that confront settler colonial tendencies and obstacles to Indigenous growth and agency. Their individual and collaborative work has been presented at the Alaska State Museum, Anchorage Museum, Berlinale, LACMA, Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, Tate Modern, Toronto Biennial of Art, Walker Art Center, and Whitney Biennial 2019.

This speaker series event includes the screening of two films presented by the artists.

Never Settle: Calling In is a short recruitment video for New Red Order, a public-secret society that simultaneously satirizes and sincerely engages with efforts for solidarity and the desire for Indigenous epistemologies. Delving into the stakes of accompliceship, the video examines dynamic conditions in which the concerns of Indigenous people can be treated as a topic du jour, then co-opted. This video is part of an ambitious, multi-part project that includes a public recruitment campaign and participatory installations that invite prospective recruits to undergo an initiation. Playing with the notion of headhunting, NRO seeks to enlist candidates in their public secret-society, thereby investigating shame and the desire for indigeneity. Never Settle poses the question of how to channel what might be seen as inappropriate urges to merge with indigeneity into paths for the expansion of Indigenous growth and agency.

Adam and Zack Khalil’s debut film INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place/it flies. falls./] re-imagines an Anishinaabe story, the Seven Fires Prophecy, which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans. A kaleidoscopic experience blending documentary, narrative, and experimental forms, INAATE/SE/ explores how the prophecy resonates through the generations in their indigenous community on the Michigan/Canadian border. With acute geographic specificity, and grand historical scope, the film fixes its lens between the sacred and the profane to pry open the construction of contemporary indigenous identity.

Supported by the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

How to Watch

All speaker series events will be webcast on Fridays at 8 pm EST at http://pennystampsevents.org and at https://www.dptv.org/programs/arts-culture/penny-stamps-series/ starting Friday, September 18. You can also watch the talks and join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PennyStampsSeries/.

Notice of uncensored content

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:04:26 -0400 2020-09-18T20:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/NRO-STILL-%281%29.jpg
Penny Stamps Speaker Series: ​New Red Order, Never Settle (September 18, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77114 77114-19798482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

the Penny Stamps Series Facebook.

The New Red Order (NRO) is a mutable collective, a “public secret society,” facilitated by three core contributors — brothers Zack and Adam Khalil, who are Ojibway and grew up in northern Michigan, and Jackson Polys, who is Tlingit from Alaska. The collective creates video and performance works that question the desire for indigeneity in dominant culture. Working with an interdisciplinary network of informants, the NRO co-produces video, performance, and installation works that confront settler colonial tendencies and obstacles to Indigenous growth and agency. Their individual and collaborative work has been presented at the Alaska State Museum, Anchorage Museum, Berlinale, LACMA, Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, Tate Modern, Toronto Biennial of Art, Walker Art Center, and Whitney Biennial 2019.

This speaker series event includes the screening of two films presented by the artists.

Never Settle: Calling In is a short recruitment video for New Red Order, a public-secret society that simultaneously satirizes and sincerely engages with efforts for solidarity and the desire for Indigenous epistemologies. Delving into the stakes of accompliceship, the video examines dynamic conditions in which the concerns of Indigenous people can be treated as a topic du jour, then co-opted. This video is part of an ambitious, multi-part project that includes a public recruitment campaign and participatory installations that invite prospective recruits to undergo an initiation. Playing with the notion of headhunting, NRO seeks to enlist candidates in their public secret-society, thereby investigating shame and the desire for indigeneity. Never Settle poses the question of how to channel what might be seen as inappropriate urges to merge with indigeneity into paths for the expansion of Indigenous growth and agency. 

Adam and Zack Khalil’s debut film INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place/it flies. falls./] re-imagines an Anishinaabe story, the Seven Fires Prophecy, which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans. A kaleidoscopic experience blending documentary, narrative, and experimental forms, INAATE/SE/ explores how the prophecy resonates through the generations in their indigenous community on the Michigan/Canadian border. With acute geographic specificity, and grand historical scope, the film fixes its lens between the sacred and the profane to pry open the construction of contemporary indigenous identity. 

 

Supported by UMMA and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

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

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Film Screening Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:15:56 -0400 2020-09-18T20:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 19, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 19, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-19T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-19T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-19T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-19T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Virtual Family Art Studio: Creative Campaign (September 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75780 75780-19604071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Please click here to register.: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07eh9cnafo6e0fb22c.

As we all look ahead to the November election, we want to get our creative juices flowing and print our own favorite slogan! Student Program Assistant Emily Considine will walk you through some examples of campaign graphics and poster styles. Then Michigan-based artist Shayla Johnson will show you how to create a unique poster (or tote bag) featuring your own personal slogan.

Shayla Johnson is founder and designer of Scarlet Crane Creations, a dedicated micro-batch textile printing house specializing in hand-printed fabrics for home decor products and lifestyle accessories. Unique surface patterns range from free flowing florals to abstract textures in order to produce stylish and sophisticated collections. Scarlet Crane Creations is housed in Detroit at POST so you’ll have the opportunity to see Shayla’s work space, printing table, and work in process. Shayla also works for UMMA as a Museum Applications Developer.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 19 Sep 2020 12:15:51 -0400 2020-09-19T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-19T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Watershed (September 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-19T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-19T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 19, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 19, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-19T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-19T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 20, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 20, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-20T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-20T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Watershed (September 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73787 73787-18315849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region. 

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:23 -0400 2020-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Frazier%2520cropped.jpg
Apply to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76131 76131-19663711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The Arts Ambassador Program is designed to increase student awareness of the arts on campus and connect students who share an interest in the arts.

Arts at Michigan is looking for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll learn about the arts both on campus and in the community, meet local artists, and help promote arts events and activities.

Being a part of the Arts Ambassadors program is an extremely rewarding and fun experience! As an Arts Ambassador, you will be responsible for attending weekly (virtual) meetings, taking leadership roles in organizing arts events, collaborating with other Arts Ambassadors to engage students in the arts, and most importantly, spreading the word about the vast arts community at U-M!

Want to learn more about Arts Ambassadors? Join us for a virtual Mass Meeting on Tuesday, September 15 at 6pm.

The application deadline for Fall 2020 is September 20.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:08:10 -0400 2020-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-20T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Apply to be an Arts Ambassador!
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 21, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-21T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Connecting Student Creatives (September 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76070 76070-19661521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Connecting Student Creatives is an initiative to share the creative work of University of Michigan students. On Arts at Michigan's website and social media channels, we'll be highlighting some of the many students who make up our campus artistic community: visual artists, filmmakers, dancers, musicians, architects, designers, actors, poets, set designers, cartoonists and more! Check out some of the students we've featured, and follow them on their social media. Then share your own creative work with us!

visit http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/connecting/ for more

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:30:31 -0400 2020-09-21T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Connecting Student Creatives poster
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
Monday Painters (September 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75801 75801-19608015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Monday Painters is a flexible art group. Each week a DVD is shown about art that lasts half an hour. This group has become like family and all are welcome to join in for fun, learning, growing, and gentle critiquing. Instructor Barb Anderson has studied art for over thirty years and prior to that taught special education.
She hopes to welcome new members to Monday Painters. The Study Group meets on Monday Sep. 21 to Aug. 30, 2021 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. (No class on Sept. 28, Dec. 28, Jan. 4 & 18, May 31 and July 5.)
Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access this Study Group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:04:47 -0400 2020-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
The Future of Art: Is the Future of Art the Death of Art? (September 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76645 76645-19733044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

The role of artists has shifted with cultural, political, economic, and technological changes, from creators as artisans, bohemians, or professionals. In his new book The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech, William Deresiewicz interviews artists of all kinds and describes their experiences in a narrative of the modern struggles of creators, the unique challenges they face in this digital era, how exploitation and instant gratification have changed our perceptions of art. In this panel, Deresiewicz and one rap artist, one visual artist, and one novelist—SAMMUS, atiya jones, and Monica Byrne—will describe their observations and experiences with the nature of art and the role of the artist in society, and will propose their visions for the future of art.

William Deresiewicz is an award-winning essayist and critic, a frequent speaker at colleges and other venues, and a former professor of English at Yale. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, the Nation, the New Republic, and many other publications. He is the recipient of a National Book Critics Circle award for excellence in reviewing and is the New York Times bestselling author of Excellent Sheep, The Death of the Artist, and A Jane Austen Education.

SAMMUS (Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo) is a Black feminist rap artist and producer from Ithaca, NY with a PhD in science and technology studies from Cornell University. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University in the music department teaching classes on rap songwriting and feminist sound studies.

atiya jones is a multi-disciplinary artist & creative director at TWELVE\TWENTY STUDIO. Her work is about human connection and serves as a visual depiction of healing, finding one’s tribe and building a life as a unit, the magic permeating beneath the surface of Self, and the search to find it.

Monica Byrne is a playwright and science fiction novelist based in Durham, North Carolina. Her work is funded by a community of patrons on Patreon. Her second novel The Actual Star will be published by HarperVoyager in 2021.

Introduction by Tina Olsen, Arts Initiative Co-Chair; Director, UMMA
Moderated by Rebekah Modrak, Professor, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design

Register here to receive join details: https://umich.formstack.com/forms/sept21_futureofart

This event will be followed by a related event hosted by Literati Bookstore on Sept. 27 at 7:00 pm. More info here https://www.literatibookstore.com/event/home-literati-william-deresiewicz-katrina-frye

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:27:54 -0400 2020-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T17:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Livestream / Virtual William Deresiewicz, SAMMUS, atiya jones, Monica Byrne
Online Preview: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (September 22, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69783 69783-19238196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP is exploring rescheduling options for the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, originally scheduled for March 18-April 1, 2020. We invite you to participate in our online preview at http://myumi.ch/MEllE.

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

Photo credit:
Moses Whitepig, 25 and Counting
(Self-Portrait), pencil and acrylic

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:23:55 -0400 2020-09-22T00:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Livestream / Virtual 25th Annual Exhibion of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope (September 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68986 68986-17207574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:16:43 -0500 2020-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Copy%2520of%2520Helen%2520Frankenthaler_Sunset%2520Corner.jpg
Collection Ensemble (September 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

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

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Explore the arts in Downtown Ann Arbor! (September 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76129 76129-19663622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

The downtown Ann Arbor area is full of vibrant arts organizations, businesses, and public art. This self-guided art tour will welcome you to the rich arts culture that the downtown area has to offer. Enjoy this tour from the comfort of your own space or follow along on foot by following the Google map! We have highlighted the places we think students should know about, listed the free or low-cost resources they offer, and gave you some hints for fun things to spot along the way!

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Other Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:53:55 -0400 2020-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Art Around Town
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "From Virtuosity to Vernacularism: Reversals of Glass Paintings" (September 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76121 76121-19663557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar.

This study examines the transformation of reverse glass painting from an art of virtuosity to a vernacular form of art from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century during Sino-European encounter. The vernacularization of reverse glass painting, Dr. Liu shall argue, reflected a consumption-driven reinvention of certain literary scenes or popular drama that highlighted the common value of plate glass as a diaphanous spectatorial plane. By examining the interrelationship among technique, medium, and genre, this talk reassesses the material agency and medial effect of clear plate glass which was used to support and spark the theatrical views.

Lihong Liu is Sally Michelson Davidson Assistant Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan. Dr. Liu specializes in Chinese art history of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Her research focuses on time, matter, space, and motion in art, especially with regard to art’s environmental engagement. Liu earned her PhD in the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, she taught at the University of Rochester.

Zoom Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mDik8MGCR1SxkXz3F_8hBw

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Sep 2020 16:52:14 -0400 2020-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Lihong Liu, Sally Michelson Davidson Assistant Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan
Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women's Vote (September 22, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77531 77531-19879806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by AIGA in partnership with League of Women Voters

2020 marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in 1920. It was the first legislation for women’s voting rights. Not until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 were voting rights of ALL women protected and enforced, and intimidation tactics progressively eliminated.  The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote poster campaign, organized by AIGA in partnership with the League of Women Voters, commemorates this milestone. A core group of invited women of design submitted the first 65 non-partisan posters, to launch the initiative with their vision and voices. Through the posters, these women joined forces to collectively contribute to dialogue in design and society. This moment in history is an incredible opportunity to catalyze women in design, voting rights, citizenship, community, and diversity. The collection aspires to not only support present day voter participation, but to also serve as a backdrop for discourse and examination of the history of voting rights and women’s fight for equality.  The poster initiative continues at aiga.org/vote, where AIGA members can contribute posters to motivate the American public to register and turn out to vote in the 2020 general election, as well as local elections to come. Posters are available for free download online.

The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote exhibition at Stamps Gallery includes a selection of the 65 posters chosen by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery. The exhibition includes posters by Audrey Bennett, Johanna Björk, Karen Cheng, Emily Comfort, Jenny El-Shamy, Dinah Fried, Karin Fong, Anne M. Giangiulio, Annabelle Gould, Brockett Horne, Meena Khalili, nicole killian + shawné michaelain holloway, Karen Kurycki, Marty Maxwell Lane, Zuzana Licko, Ana Llorente, Beatriz Lozano, Kelly Salchow MacArthur, Rebeca Mendez, Lana Rigsby, Kaleena Sales, Renee Seward, Laurel Shoemaker, Nancy Sklolos,  Hannah Smotrich, Shanti Sparrow, Jennifer Sterling, Fearn de Vicq, Cymone Wilder, and Lynne Yun.

Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Exhibition Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:52:24 -0400 2020-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/2020_gotv_header-02.jpg
Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations by Heidi Kumao (September 22, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77532 77532-19879829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps Gallery is pleased to present Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations, a solo exhibition of narrative fabric works and experimental animations by Stamps Professor Heidi Kumao.

Using fabric cutouts and machine and hand stitching on industrial felt, Kumao gives physical form to the intangible dynamics underlying ordinary conversations and relationships from a feminist perspective. Intentionally minimal, each image distills an interaction, traumatic incident, or power imbalance into an accessible visual narrative. Recognizable objects such as chairs, roots, ladders, or spotlights set the stage for the story to unfold. Events are captured midstream, suspended in time like a felt film still.

The exhibition is inspired, in part, by the courage, testimony, and experiences of women (like Christine Blasey Ford) who publicly report assault, harassment, or misconduct. The #MeToo movement gave voice to thousands of women to tell their personal stories, but also exposed a hostile backlash meant to silence them. The title, “Real and Imagined,” is a deliberate contradiction; if one is true, the other must not be. In practice, however, both terms are used to reference a woman’s testimony and determine how it is publicly interpreted. Her account is accepted as truthful by many and simultaneously dismissed as imaginary by the court of public opinion: “her memory is wrong,” “she imagined it.”

The works in “Real and Imagined: Fabric Works and Video Animations” make difficult conversations and relationships tangible by stripping them down to their essentials.

Wordless physical gestures highlight the psychological and emotional forces at play behind even the smallest of interactions.

Biography
Heidi Kumao has created award-winning experimental films, video installations, cinema machines, electronic clothing, and kinetic sculptures. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including shows at Art Science Museum Singapore, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), and Museu da Imagem e do Som (São Paulo). She has received fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:10 -0400 2020-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/HK-Real-and-Imagined-email-header-01.jpg
Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition (September 22, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77530 77530-19879782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition

Stamps Gallery is proud to kick-off the fall semester with Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition, which brings together powerful posters and playful videos made by the students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the stakeholders in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We found inspiration in the thoughtful words of renowned civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) who wrote, “My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” His powerful words are a reminder for all of us - present and future generations to stay hopeful, proactive, and resilient in our collective efforts to end racial discrimination and foster a true democracy.

In this spirit, Stamps Gallery invited the undergraduate and graduate students at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. How can we acknowledge our own biases, learn from each other, and listen to the voices of those that have been silenced? We are at a pivotal moment in our history as the pandemic radically transforms everyday life. Through this exhibition Stamps Gallery asks the UM community to come together as artists and audiences and envision models for inclusion that are grounded in equality, belonging and empathy.

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition includes work by Emily Albright, Adriana Alcala, Nathan Byrne, David Forsee, Eloise Jansenn, Rey Jeong, Sohyun Lim, Anika Love, Maggie McConnell, Willian Minzer, Judah Premble, Casey Rheault, Natalia Rocafuerte, Jenna Scheen, Ellie Schmidt, Abigail Seguin, LaKyla Thomas, Elijah Thompson, Benjamin Winans, and Molly Wu.

Artwork was selected through an open call by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery.

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Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition
Respond / Resist / Rethink: A Stamps Poster & Video Exhibition
September 15, 2020 – December 4, 2020

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition

Stamps Gallery is proud to kick-off the fall semester with Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Student Poster & Video Exhibition, which brings together powerful posters and playful videos made by the students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the stakeholders in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We found inspiration in the thoughtful words of renowned civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) who wrote, “My fellow Americans, this is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we must do so again.” His powerful words are a reminder for all of us - present and future generations to stay hopeful, proactive, and resilient in our collective efforts to end racial discrimination and foster a true democracy.

In this spirit, Stamps Gallery invited the undergraduate and graduate students at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, to design posters and make videos to respond and contemplate what each of us can do to build a stronger community, one that is based on the values of racial equality, justice and belonging. How can we acknowledge our own biases, learn from each other, and listen to the voices of those that have been silenced? We are at a pivotal moment in our history as the pandemic radically transforms everyday life. Through this exhibition Stamps Gallery asks the UM community to come together as artists and audiences and envision models for inclusion that are grounded in equality, belonging and empathy.

Respond/ Resist/ Rethink: A Stamps Student Poster & Video Exhibition includes work by Emily Albright, Adriana Alcala, Nathan Byrne, David Forsee, Eloise Jansenn, Rey Jeong, Sohyun Lim, Anika Love, Maggie McConnell, Willian Minzer, Judah Premble, Casey Rheault, Natalia Rocafuerte, Jenna Scheen, Ellie Schmidt, Abigail Seguin, LaKyla Thomas, Elijah Thompson, Benjamin Winans, and Molly Wu.

Artwork was selected through an open call by a committee of Stamps faculty, students, and staff including Nicholas Dowgwillo, Eloise Janssen, Keesa V. Johnson, Francis Nunoo-Quarcoo, Endi Poskovic, Destini Riley, and Stamps Gallery.


Fall 2020 Hours and Policies
Beginning September 15, 2020, Stamps Gallery will be open to University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-7 pm.
All visitors must have a valid M-Card to enter Stamps Gallery. We are unable to welcome the general public to this space at this time.

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Auditions Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:10 -0400 2020-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/Respond.jpg
Art History I--Paleolithic through New Kingdom Egypt (September 22, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75796 75796-19608012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The first in a sequence of 3 introductory art history courses, this study group will focus on works of art that demonstrate the ways in which artists documented their world. Beginning in the pre-historic era artists painted cave paintings and carved images on stone and bison horn.
In the subsequent Neolithic time period, technology and art joined to support the burgeoning agricultural society in the ancient Near East. The Sumerians, Akkadians, and Assyrians depicted their gods and religious rituals of their cultures, wars and empires. I will focus on early Egyptian art and one of their pyramids.
Molly Lindner brings to this subject her 11 years of teaching art history at Kent State Univ. The Study Group meets on Tuesdays Sept. 22 to Oct. 27 from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access this Study Group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:41:13 -0400 2020-09-22T14:30:00-04:00 2020-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group