Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (Mondays) (November 8, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87388 87388-21641745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Come to Semester in Detroit office hours with Semester in Detroit alumni Ali Elatrache. Ali participated in Semester in Detroit in the Fall semester, which brings together students from all three U of M campuses (Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint). Stop by the office and talk to him about his experience interacting with students from the other campuses and any other questions you may have!

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:18:58 -0400 2021-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Semester in Detroit Meeting
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 9, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 9, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 9, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88172 88172-21650927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Tue, 09 Nov 2021 18:16:06 -0500 2021-11-09T13:30:00-05:00 2021-11-09T14:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 9, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88173 88173-21650928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Tue, 09 Nov 2021 18:16:06 -0500 2021-11-09T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 9, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88174 88174-21650929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Tue, 09 Nov 2021 18:16:06 -0500 2021-11-09T17:30:00-05:00 2021-11-09T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Uncovering Exhibitions: Curriculum / Collection 2022 (November 9, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88661 88661-21656581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07eim6vmjl414212cb.

Conversation and Q&A with David Choberka and Stephanie Hicks

Join us for an exciting, in-depth presentation on the exhibition  Curriculum / Collection 2022. Curated by Andrew W. Mellon Curator for University Learning and Programs David Choberka, this exhibition is created in partnership with University faculty across campus. Curriculum / Collection features works selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of faculty’s specific courses, while offering their students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. David will be joined in conversation by Stephanie Hicks, Lecturer at the Program on Intergroup Relations at the University of Michigan, and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at U-M. 

This event will focus on interdisciplinary teaching and learning, and how art—specifically, works from UMMA’s collection—deepens students’ understanding and connection to a wide range of topics and disciplines. 

This program will be hosted on Zoom. Please register now to reserve your spot.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund.

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Other Tue, 09 Nov 2021 18:16:11 -0500 2021-11-09T17:30:00-05:00 2021-11-09T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
From Here to There with Millicent Wibert (November 9, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88901 88901-21658887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Millicent Wibert began her career as an artist at the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art and Design. She developed skills in printmaking, fibers, and woodworking. During her studies, she took advantage of two study abroad programs in India and China before completing her Bachelors in Fine Arts. After spending a couple years as a freelance graphic designer, she earned a Masters in Business from Durham University in the UK. Though she became wickedly skilled at excel in her next role at Fiji Water, in Los Angeles, the year merely confirmed her heart belonged to the creative industry. Wibert launched her company, The Creative Mill Studio, to produce stop-motions and product photography. Her clients have included The Macallan, Clorox, Starbucks, Bobo’s Oat Bars, as well as some promising new start-ups. Wibert loves her work and corroborates that neither she, nor all artists, must starve.
Learn more about From Here to There events at Stamps.

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 02 Nov 2021 12:15:24 -0400 2021-11-09T18:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Careers / Jobs A blonde woman smiles at the camera.
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 9, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88175 88175-21650930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:16:08 -0500 2021-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 9, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88176 88176-21650931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:16:08 -0500 2021-11-09T20:30:00-05:00 2021-11-09T21:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (November 10, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87387 87387-21641759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Semester in Detroit office hours with Professor Darcy Brandel. Professor Brandel teaches SiD's Detroit Art as Activist course. Stop by the SiD office on Mondays and Wednesdays between 8 am and 1 pm to chat with her about the program and her experiences in Detroit.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:45:58 -0400 2021-11-10T08:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T13:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
CREES Noon Lecture. The Image is the Frame: Revolution, Aesthetics, and Gender in 21st Century Ukraine (November 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86588 86588-21635106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This lecture draws upon over a decade of research toward the book, *Superfluous Women: Feminism, Art, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine* (University of Toronto Press, 2020). Using firsthand interviews, archival documents, historical context, and theoretical frameworks, the author tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but whose ideas and actions were forged in the tumultuous decade between the two revolutions of the 2000s. Gender and sexuality are at the forefront of these activists’ experimentations with the body and public space, circulated online, but locally rooted in 18th - 20th century Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Soviet aesthetics. Mapping out several key historical changes in independent Ukraine, Zychowicz identifies discursive links across eras in order to investigate the deeper shifts driving social relations, politics, and international human rights discourse today. This lecture will present in particular how key ideological shifts in the discourse on gender and class, including “the woman question” underpin both social divisions and points of cohesion in organizing around feminism. Case studies include the women's and pride marches in Kyiv beginning from 2010. The first marches had only a few dozen participants, were mostly local, and focused on equality and labor rights; the two marches now draw over 3,000 international participants annually.

Dr. Jessica Zychowicz is the director of the Fulbright Program in Ukraine and head of the Kyiv office of the Institute of International Education. In 2017-18 she was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in area studies & gender studies to Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Dr. Zychowicz has held numerous research positions, including at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs (2015-16), at the University of Alberta (2018-21), and at Uppsala University in Sweden (2019). Dr. Zychowicz earned her doctorate at the University of Michigan in Slavic languages and literatures with a certificate from CREES. She also holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley. Over the past three years, Jessica has given over 35 talks and interviews in 10 countries, written over 15 articles, and published her monograph: *Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine* (U-Toronto Press 2020), which will soon also be published in 2022 in both Ukrainian at Krytyka Press, and in Polish at Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej. She is a member of several professional associations in global higher education, including an associate member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society of America, and an advisory board member of H-Net-Ukraine at H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. Dr. Zychowicz has also worked in U.S. government at Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C. as a training specialist for mid-career professionals in digital infrastructure, and she served a full term as a Peace Corps Volunteer to Ukraine from 2005-07. For more information: https://www.jes-zychowicz.com/

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/gj8Eq

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Sep 2021 10:05:32 -0400 2021-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Jessica Zychowicz
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 10, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88177 88177-21650932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:16:03 -0500 2021-11-10T13:30:00-05:00 2021-11-10T14:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 10, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88178 88178-21650933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:16:03 -0500 2021-11-10T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (Wednesdays) (November 10, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87389 87389-21641690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 5:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Come by the Semester in Detroit office to talk with SiD alum Mekulash Baron-Galbavi. Mekulash participated in SiD's Spring/Summer semester and interned at an organization focused on housing justice. Stop by on Wednesdays to talk to Mekulash about his time in Detroit and any other questions you have!

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:18:34 -0400 2021-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 10, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88179 88179-21650934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:16:03 -0500 2021-11-10T17:30:00-05:00 2021-11-10T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88180 88180-21650935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:16:09 -0500 2021-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 10, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88181 88181-21650936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:16:09 -0500 2021-11-10T20:30:00-05:00 2021-11-10T21:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 11, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 11, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (Thursdays) (November 11, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87390 87390-21641720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 1:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Come by Semester in Detroit's office on Thursday to talk to SiD alum Alana Burke. Alana participated in SiD's Spring/Summer semester. Stop by the office to talk to Alana about her experiences in SiD as a Detroit native, her internship at an urban farm, and any other questions you have!

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:18:04 -0400 2021-11-11T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T15:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 11, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88182 88182-21650937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:16:00 -0500 2021-11-11T13:30:00-05:00 2021-11-11T14:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88183 88183-21650938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:16:00 -0500 2021-11-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Coming to America: Translating Arabic Fiction in the Age of Global Liberation (November 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88348 88348-21653427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Join Comparative Literature as we welcome Nancy Roberts, free-lance Arabic-to-English translator and editor on November 11th, 2021 @ 4:30pm in room 4310 of the Modern Languages Building.

Translators of literary works perform numerous functions simultaneously in relation to both a written work and its author. These functions include the linguistic, the cultural, the socio-political and the personal. Varied though they are, these functions might be summed up in the words “partner” and “mouthpiece.” After a brief detour into how her life trajectory led her to the field of Arabic-English translation, Nancy Roberts will relate her attempts to serve as “partner” and “mouthpiece” in the process of translating works originating in Palestine (Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Time of White Horses [زمن الخيول البيضاء], Lanterns of the King of Galilee [قناديل ملك الجليل] and Gaza Weddings [أعراس آمنة], and Ahlam Bsharat’s Codename: Butterfly [اسمي الحركي فراشة]) and Libya (Najwa Bin Shatwan’s, The Slave Yards [زرايب العبيد], and Ibrahim al-Koni’s The Night Will Have Its Say [كلمة الليل في حق النهار]).

Nancy Roberts is a free-lance Arabic-to-English translator and editor with experience in the areas of modern Arabic literature, politics and education; international development; Arab women’s economic and political empowerment; Islamic jurisprudence and theology; Islamist thought and movements; and interreligious dialogue. Literary translations include works by Ghada Samman, Ahlem Mostaghanemi, Naguib Mahjouz, Ibrahim Nasrallah, Ibrahim al-Koni, Salman al-Farsi, Laila Al Johani, and Haji Jabir, among others. Her translation of Ghada Samman’s Beirut ’75 won the 1994 Arkansas Arabic Translation Award; her rendition of Salwa Bakr's The Man From Bashmour (Cairo: AUC Press, 2007) was awarded a commendation in the 2008 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Translation, while her English translations of Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Gaza Weddings (Cairo: Hoopoe Press, 2017), Lanterns of the King of Galilee (AUC Press, 2015) and Time of White Horses (Cairo: Hoopoe Reprint, 2016) won her the 2018 Sheikh Hamad Prize for Translation and International Understanding. She is based in Wheaton, Illinois.

This event will be held IN PERSON.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:45:08 -0400 2021-11-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Nancy Roberts
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 11, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88184 88184-21650939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:16:01 -0500 2021-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 2021-11-11T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 11, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88187 88187-21650942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:16:01 -0500 2021-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Shizu Saldamando (November 11, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86084 86084-21631381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Shizu Saldamando is an LA based Japanese/Latinx American mixed media artist whose portraits give visibility to urban youth, part of subcultures and countercultures. She has explored portraiture for two decades, capturing images of real people, her friends from the punk scenes in San Francisco’s Mission District, and those in the creative community in LA. Primarily concerned with portraiture and drawings, she experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials from wood panels to bed sheets. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on canvas, wood, paper, and cloth, and functions as homage to peers and loved ones. Her mother’s family is Japanese American and survivors of the Japanese American Internment camps. Her father is a Chicano from Nogales, AZ.
A selection of her solo exhibitions include LA Intersections, Oxy Arts, Highland Park, CA; When You Sleep: A Survey of Shizu Saldamando, Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA; All Tomorrow’s Parties, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA; and Too Return, Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Selected group exhibitions include: Phantom Sightings at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Portraits of the Encounter, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Trans-Pacific Borderlands, part of the Getty Pacific Standard Time initiative at the Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA; We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists from Los Angeles, an official collateral exhibition of the Venice Biennale; Drawing the Line at Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA and The High Art of Riding Low at the Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, CA. She is represented by Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles.
Shizu Saldamando’s work is on view at the Institute for the Humanities (Suite 1111, 202 S. Thayer St.) from November 2 through December 10, 2021.
How to Watch
This Penny Stamps Speaker Series event will premiere on November 11, 2021 at 8pm and can be viewed on this page, at dptv.org, or on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:15:10 -0400 2021-11-11T20:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion A colored pencil drawing of a person in a black sweatshirt and hat, squatting low over a pink background.
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 11, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88185 88185-21650940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:16:00 -0500 2021-11-11T20:30:00-05:00 2021-11-11T21:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit (November 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86729 86729-21642771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:10:49 -0400 2021-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Art Exhibit
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Symposium on Translation and the Making of Arab American Community (November 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88791 88791-21657766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Please save the date for a one-day symposium on Friday, November 12, 2021, exploring how various modes of translation contribute to the making of Arab American communities in the Midwest.

10:00 am – 5:30 pm (hybrid)
Join us in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the Michigan Room of the Michigan League
or virtually through Zoom
For registration visit tinyurl.com/TranslatingArabic

This hybrid one-day symposium at the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program (AMAS), the Department of Middle East Studies (MES), and the 2021-22 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest. Co-organized by Khaled Mattawa and Graham Liddell, the symposium features three panels that reflect on different forms of translation in Arab American communities in the Midwest. The event culminates a reading by Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail.

The symposium will be held on the University of Michigan central campus in Ann Arbor, with the option to attend by remote access.

This event is free and open to the public. For registration visit tinyurl.com/TranslatingArabic

PANEL 1: Translation for Community Needs

This discussion will focus on the translation and interpretation services that are crucial for maintaining wellness and facilitating civic engagement and personal development among Limited English Proficiency (LEP) communities in Michigan, particularly Arab Americans. Moderated by Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine (professor at UM-Dearborn), the panel includes Karen Phillippi (director of the Office of Global Michigan), Anisa Sahoubah (director of ACCESS’s Youth and Education department), and Bilal Hammoud (chair of the Language Access Task Force for the State of Michigan).

PANEL 2: Arab American Media

This panel will center on the ways that Midwest Arab-American communities past and present have represented themselves in media. Moderated by Graham Liddell (Ph.D. candidate, U Michigan), the panel includes Ali Harb (reporter for Al Jazeera English), Hany Bawardi (professor at UM-Dearborn), William Youmans (professor at the George Washington University), and Lana Barkawi (Executive and Artistic Director of Mizna).

PANEL 3: Living in Translation

Our final panel will feature a conversation between three prominent Arab-American authors and translators about the aesthetics and politics of Arabic–English translation, within and beyond the realm of literature. Moderated by Nancy R. Roberts (translator of Arabic fiction), the panel includes Khaled Mattawa (poet, translator, and professor at U Michigan), Fady Joudah (poet, physician, and translator), and Dunya Mikhail (poet and lecturer at Oakland University).

Reading by Dunya Mikhail
The symposium will culminate in a reading by Iraqi-American poet, Dunya Mikhail.

For registration visit tinyurl.com/TranslatingArabic

This symposium is co-sponsored by the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program at the University of Michigan and the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:48:27 -0500 2021-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Conference / Symposium Translating Arabic
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (November 12, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21624276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-11-12T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Lecture & Watch Party: Tereza Ruller, The Rodina (November 12, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88864 88864-21658655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 11:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 12, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88186 88186-21650941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 18:16:09 -0500 2021-11-12T13:30:00-05:00 2021-11-12T14:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88189 88189-21650944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 18:16:10 -0500 2021-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 12, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88188 88188-21650943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 18:16:10 -0500 2021-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 2021-11-12T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Envi­sion: The Michi­gan Artist Ini­tia­tive Opening Reception (November 12, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88637 88637-21656326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for the opening reception of Envi­sion: The
Michi­gan Artist Ini­tia­tive at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition features new work by the five Envision finalists, artists Nayda Col­lazo-Llorens, Michael Dixon, Car­ole
Har­ris, Kylie Lockwood, and Dar­ryl DeAngelo Ter­rell. All the artists will
be in attendance. Enjoy live music by Max Bowen. We look forward to seeing you
there! This is the inaugural year of Envi­sion: The Michi­gan Artist Ini­tia­tive, a new awards pro­gram designed to sup­port the devel­op­ment of con­tem­po­rary artists liv­ing and work­ing in Michi­gan. The five finalists were selected by jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Cura­tor, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA ​’73), Artist; and Lor­ing Ran­dolph (BFA ​’04), Direc­tor, Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection.
Envi­sion: The Michi­gan Artist Ini­tia­tive is on view at Stamps Gallery from November 12, 2021 — Janu­ary 22, 2022.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:15:27 -0400 2021-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 12, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88190 88190-21650945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sat, 13 Nov 2021 00:16:03 -0500 2021-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 12, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88191 88191-21650946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sat, 13 Nov 2021 00:16:04 -0500 2021-11-12T20:30:00-05:00 2021-11-12T21:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 13, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-13T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Stamps Undergraduate Transfer Institute (November 13, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86302 86302-21632697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Interested in transferring to a four-year art and design program? Join us for Stamps Transfer Institute to learn more about the transfer process and community at the Stamps School of Art & Design!
Stamps Transfer Institute is a virtual program designed for current community college students interested in transferring to the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. This program is focused on developing each participant’s transfer readiness and fluency. Students will participate in a comprehensive review of our transfer guidelines with Stamps Admissions staff, engage with current Stamps students through a Q&A and learn about financial aid and scholarships from the Office of Financial Aid.
All Stamps Transfer Institute participants earn a SlideRoom fee waiver for their undergraduate portfolio submission.

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Other Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:16:55 -0400 2021-11-13T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Other Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (November 13, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-11-13T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 13, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88195 88195-21650950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sat, 13 Nov 2021 18:15:58 -0500 2021-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-13T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 13, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88194 88194-21650949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sat, 13 Nov 2021 18:15:58 -0500 2021-11-13T14:30:00-05:00 2021-11-13T15:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 13, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88193 88193-21650948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sat, 13 Nov 2021 18:15:58 -0500 2021-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 13, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88192 88192-21650947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sat, 13 Nov 2021 18:15:58 -0500 2021-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 2021-11-13T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 13, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88198 88198-21650953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 13, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:15:57 -0500 2021-11-13T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-13T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 14, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 14, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 14, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88200 88200-21650955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 14, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:15:58 -0500 2021-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-14T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 14, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88199 88199-21650954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 14, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:15:58 -0500 2021-11-14T14:30:00-05:00 2021-11-14T15:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88197 88197-21650952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:15:58 -0500 2021-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 14, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88201 88201-21650956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 14, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:15:59 -0500 2021-11-14T17:30:00-05:00 2021-11-14T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL by 600 HIGHWAYMEN (November 14, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88196 88196-21650951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 14, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://tickets.a2sf.org/events?view=list&premove=Y&promo=A2SFSTUDENT.

The Ann Arbor Summer Festival and UMMA present 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new, multi-part work that offers enthralling social interactions that deliver us from isolation and toward togetherness.

A Thousand Ways is a three-part performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert. 

Obie Award-winning theater makers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up. 

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

Part One: A Phone Call – On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.

Learn more by reading the Frequently Asked Questions below.

CREDITS A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

FAQs Due to the unique nature of this performance, please read all the important information below before purchasing tickets.

This experience cannot take place without you. This is an experience for two people – just you and another ticket holder. The other person is counting on your attendance. If you do not attend, the experience cannot take place.

How does it work? 24 hours before, we will send you a phone number to call at your scheduled performance time. Please call this number at your scheduled performance time.

Can I attend the experience with another member of my household? This ticket is for one person only. Members of the same household must have their own ticket and separate devices to join the event.

Where should I call from? Your place of current residence, in a quiet indoor space with a strong telephone signal, and by yourself.

What kind of phone do I need? Any phone will work. All that matters is that it’s charged, cordless, and gets good reception.

Can I use headphones or speakerphone? Corded headphones are fine. Bluetooth/wireless headphones are not recommended. Please do not use speakerphones.

I’m calling from another country, what should I do? Please reach out to the box office at boxoffice@a2sf.org, and we’ll give you a local phone number.

What else do I need to know? Due to the intimate nature of this experience, we cannot accommodate late arrivals.

GET TICKETS Tickets on sale now: $5 for students / $10 general admission For ages 16+  

A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call is co-presented with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Michigan Radio is the Exclusive Media Partner of "A Thousand Ways: Part 1 (A Phone Call)"

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Performance Mon, 15 Nov 2021 00:16:00 -0500 2021-11-14T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-14T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (November 15, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87387 87387-21641664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Semester in Detroit office hours with Professor Darcy Brandel. Professor Brandel teaches SiD's Detroit Art as Activist course. Stop by the SiD office on Mondays and Wednesdays between 8 am and 1 pm to chat with her about the program and her experiences in Detroit.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:45:58 -0400 2021-11-15T08:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 15, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-15T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-15T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (Mondays) (November 15, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87388 87388-21641746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Come to Semester in Detroit office hours with Semester in Detroit alumni Ali Elatrache. Ali participated in Semester in Detroit in the Fall semester, which brings together students from all three U of M campuses (Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint). Stop by the office and talk to him about his experience interacting with students from the other campuses and any other questions you may have!

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:18:58 -0400 2021-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 Semester in Detroit Meeting
Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition! (November 15, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89277 89277-21661671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student drawings for our As I See It Drawing Competition! All drawing media are accepted-- pencil, charcoal, comic, digital drawing, watercolor, etc. Share your artistic genius with us and you could win $100! Deadline for submissions is Thursday, November 18 at 10pm.

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:40:34 -0500 2021-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition
Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition! (November 15, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89277 89277-21661672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student drawings for our As I See It Drawing Competition! All drawing media are accepted-- pencil, charcoal, comic, digital drawing, watercolor, etc. Share your artistic genius with us and you could win $100! Deadline for submissions is Thursday, November 18 at 10pm.

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:40:34 -0500 2021-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 16, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 16, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-16T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition! (November 16, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89277 89277-21661673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student drawings for our As I See It Drawing Competition! All drawing media are accepted-- pencil, charcoal, comic, digital drawing, watercolor, etc. Share your artistic genius with us and you could win $100! Deadline for submissions is Thursday, November 18 at 10pm.

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:40:34 -0500 2021-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition
Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series: Jen Shyu (November 16, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89034 89034-21660282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

The Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments and Center for World Performance Studies present a talk by groundbreaking vocalist, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and dancer Jen Shyu. For this talk, Shyu will discuss her previous ethnographic research and her use of non-western musical instruments in composing and performing, including the Japanese biwa and Taiwanese moon lute.

Jen Shyu ("Shyu" pronounced "Shoe" in English, Chinese name: 徐秋雁, Pinyin: Xúqiūyàn) is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, 2019 United States Artists Fellow, 2016 Doris Duke Artist, and was voted 2017 Downbeat Critics Poll Rising Star Female Vocalist. Born in Peoria, Illinois, to Taiwanese and East Timorese immigrant parents, Shyu is widely regarded for her virtuosic singing and riveting stage presence, carving out her own beyond-category space in the art world. She has performed with or sung the music of such musical innovators as Nicole Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Bobby Previte, Chris Potter, Michael Formanek and David Binney. Shyu has performed her own music on prestigious world stages such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rubin Museum of Art, Ojai Festival, Ringling International Arts Festival, Asia Society, Roulette, Blue Note, Bimhuis, Salihara Theater, National Gugak Center, National Theater of Korea and at festivals worldwide.

A Stanford University graduate in opera with classical violin and ballet training, Shyu had already won many piano competitions and performed the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto (3rd mvmt.) with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra by the age of 13. She speaks 10 languages and has studied traditional music and dance in Cuba, Taiwan, Brazil, China, South Korea, East Timor and Indonesia, conducting extensive research which culminated in her 2014 stage production Solo Rites: Seven Breaths, directed by renowned Indonesian filmmaker Garin Nugroho. Shyu has won commissions and support from NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, MAP Fund, US-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship from Japan-US Friendship Commission and National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works, Exploring the Metropolis, New Music USA, Jazz Gallery, and Roulette, as well as fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, Asian Cultural Council, Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Korean Ministry of Sports, Culture, and Tourism.

Shyu has produced seven albums as a leader, including the first female-led and vocalist-led album Pi Recordings has released, Synastry (Pi 2011), with co-bandleader and bassist Mark Dresser. Her critically acclaimed Sounds and Cries of the World (Pi 2015) landed on many best-of-2015 lists, including those of The New York Times, The Nation, and NPR. Her latest album Song of Silver Geese (Pi 2017) is receiving rave reviews and was also included on The New York Times’ Best Albums of 2017.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Nov 2021 10:44:00 -0500 2021-11-16T18:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T19:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Livestream / Virtual Photo credit: Steven Schreiber
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (November 17, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87387 87387-21641760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Semester in Detroit office hours with Professor Darcy Brandel. Professor Brandel teaches SiD's Detroit Art as Activist course. Stop by the SiD office on Mondays and Wednesdays between 8 am and 1 pm to chat with her about the program and her experiences in Detroit.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:45:58 -0400 2021-11-17T08:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 17, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-17T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (November 17, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition! (November 17, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89277 89277-21661674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student drawings for our As I See It Drawing Competition! All drawing media are accepted-- pencil, charcoal, comic, digital drawing, watercolor, etc. Share your artistic genius with us and you could win $100! Deadline for submissions is Thursday, November 18 at 10pm.

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:40:34 -0500 2021-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition
Stamps Undergraduate Transfer Info Session (November 17, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86300 86300-21632694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for an hour long info session for students interested in transferring to the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design from another school or college. The info session will include a presentation and Q&A with current students and the admissions team.

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Other Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:16:46 -0400 2021-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Other Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (Wednesdays) (November 17, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87389 87389-21641691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 5:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Come by the Semester in Detroit office to talk with SiD alum Mekulash Baron-Galbavi. Mekulash participated in SiD's Spring/Summer semester and interned at an organization focused on housing justice. Stop by on Wednesdays to talk to Mekulash about his time in Detroit and any other questions you have!

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:18:34 -0400 2021-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T19:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 18, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-18T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 18, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 18, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (November 18, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-11-18T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (Thursdays) (November 18, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87390 87390-21641721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 1:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Come by Semester in Detroit's office on Thursday to talk to SiD alum Alana Burke. Alana participated in SiD's Spring/Summer semester. Stop by the office to talk to Alana about her experiences in SiD as a Detroit native, her internship at an urban farm, and any other questions you have!

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:18:04 -0400 2021-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T15:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition! (November 18, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89277 89277-21661675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student drawings for our As I See It Drawing Competition! All drawing media are accepted-- pencil, charcoal, comic, digital drawing, watercolor, etc. Share your artistic genius with us and you could win $100! Deadline for submissions is Thursday, November 18 at 10pm.

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:40:34 -0500 2021-11-18T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Drawing Competition
MFA Virtual Open House (November 18, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88138 88138-21650702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

What’s it like to be an MFA graduate student at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan? What kind of careers do Stamps MFA alums have? Find out at our Virtual MFA Open House on Thursday, November 18 from 3-4:40 pm ET via Zoom.
You’ll learn all about our two-year graduate MFA program, student experiences, career outcomes, the admissions process, and more.
This event is free. Registration is required.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:15:24 -0400 2021-11-18T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Luciferous: On Bioluminescence + (Sub)surface Darkness (November 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88099 88099-21650293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

Fireflies are among the most conspicuous bioluminescent organisms existing topside. Creatures that emit their own chemically generated light from within also populate oceanic and subterranean depths, which are obscured planetary realms long associated with chthonic underworlds. Bioluminescence causes squids, fish, fungi, insects, bacteria, and worms to glow in dim conditions beyond the Sun’s rays. Their colorful flashes and glimmers function as camouflage, thus allowing them to evade predators and lure prey. Sensitive infrared night vision cameras seem best equipped to image the phenomenon. Two of the main substances fueling bioluminescence, Luciferin and Luciferase, share etymological roots with Lucifer, the radiant fallen angel and ruler of hell below chronicled in Abrahamic traditions. Coincidentally, certain clinical and industrial applications of bioluminescent technology have attracted public suspicion because they are thought to be readily weaponizable for malevolent purposes. Given this context, my talk considers how demonological perspectives inflect understandings of bioluminescence as a visual and scientific phenomenon.

Cecilio M. Cooper is a Forsyth Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan. By engaging the visual cultures of alchemy, demonology, and cartography, their first book manuscript South of Heaven: Surface, Territory + the Black Chthonic examines the occulted role blackness plays in cosmological constitutions of territory throughout Europe and the Americas. They earned their PhD from Northwestern University in 2019.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:58:55 -0400 2021-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Livestream / Virtual Lecture image - four people floating in a dark cave with bioluminescence above.
Artists' Books Among the Shelves (November 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85817 85817-21629111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Join Curator Juli McLoone for a walk through the library's Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) collections through the lens of artists' books. The SCRC collects artists' books, but does not have an artists' book collection. Instead, artists' books may be found spread throughout the collections and topical collecting areas of SCRC, from artists' books that play with the genre of children’s alphabet books to Emily Martin’s three-dimensional Shakespeare adaptations, to works like The Diabolical History of the Chicken by Laura Ladendorf that engage with our culinary past and present.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:01:26 -0400 2021-11-18T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Lecture / Discussion The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, by Emily Martin, 2012; held in the U-M Library, Special Collections Research Center.
Jen Shyu (November 18, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88925 88925-21659070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 7:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Thursday, November 18 | 7:30pm
Free and open to the public.

*Composition, vocals, piano, sound design, Japanese biwa, Taiwanese moon lute, dance by Jen Shyu*
*Directed by Alexandru Mihail*

Space limited. Seating first come first served. Guests entering the Keene must provide proof of vaccination, complete a health questionnaire and wear a face cover - no exceptions.

Center for World Performance Studies will host groundbreaking vocalist, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and dancer Jen Shyu for an artist residency, including a performance of her new multilingual multimedia show Zero Grasses. In this mythical monodrama, Shyu effortlessly weaves together music, monologue and video projection, tracing the threads of her life to explore the painful terrain of expectation, ambition, longing and love. A performance of the piece will take place at East Quad Keene Theater on Thursday, November 18 at 7:30pm, and is free and open to the public.

Zero Grasses was commissioned by John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning series and premiered in October 2019 at National Sawdust. It is sung in English, Taiwanese, Tetum of East Timor, Korean, Javanese, and Indonesian. The work features Shyu’s original music as well as some traditional music from these countries, with movement and installation art that carry the essence of these specific vocal and dance traditions. Shyu will accompany her voice with Taiwanese moon lute, gayageum, piano, violin, dance, and electronics.

Jen Shyu ("Shyu" pronounced "Shoe" in English, Chinese name: 徐秋雁, Pinyin: Xúqiūyàn) is a groundbreaking, multilingual vocalist, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, 2019 United States Artists Fellow, 2016 Doris Duke Artist, and was voted 2017 Downbeat Critics Poll Rising Star Female Vocalist. Born in Peoria, Illinois, to Taiwanese and East Timorese immigrant parents, Shyu is widely regarded for her virtuosic singing and riveting stage presence, carving out her own beyond-category space in the art world. She has performed with or sung the music of such musical innovators as Nicole Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Bobby Previte, Chris Potter, Michael Formanek and David Binney. Shyu has performed her own music on prestigious world stages such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rubin Museum of Art, Ojai Festival, Ringling International Arts Festival, Asia Society, Roulette, Blue Note, Bimhuis, Salihara Theater, National Gugak Center, National Theater of Korea and at festivals worldwide.

A Stanford University graduate in opera with classical violin and ballet training, Shyu had already won many piano competitions and performed the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto (3rd mvmt.) with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra by the age of 13. She speaks 10 languages and has studied traditional music and dance in Cuba, Taiwan, Brazil, China, South Korea, East Timor and Indonesia, conducting extensive research which culminated in her 2014 stage production Solo Rites: Seven Breaths, directed by renowned Indonesian filmmaker Garin Nugroho. Shyu has won commissions and support from NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, MAP Fund, US-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship from Japan-US Friendship Commission and National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works, Exploring the Metropolis, New Music USA, Jazz Gallery, and Roulette, as well as fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, Asian Cultural Council, Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Korean Ministry of Sports, Culture, and Tourism.

Shyu has produced seven albums as a leader, including the first female-led and vocalist-led album Pi Recordings has released, Synastry (Pi 2011), with co-bandleader and bassist Mark Dresser. Her critically acclaimed Sounds and Cries of the World (Pi 2015) landed on many best-of-2015 lists, including those of The New York Times, The Nation, and NPR. Her latest album Song of Silver Geese (Pi 2017) is receiving rave reviews and was also included on The New York Times’ Best Albums of 2017.

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Performance Wed, 03 Nov 2021 09:50:42 -0400 2021-11-18T19:30:00-05:00 2021-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Performance Photo credit: Wolf Daniel Courtesy of Roulette Intermedium
Public Talk: Sir David Adjaye + Chika Okeke-Agulu: Homeward (November 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86425 86425-21634284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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This program will be webcast on the main Penny Stamps Series page and at dptv.org/pennystamps. You can also watch the talks and join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

The debate about restitution and the ethics of Western museums’ owning African artworks collected during the era of colonization has never been more in the public eye. Most well-known, perhaps, are the “Benin bronzes,” artistic and royal heirlooms made since the 13th century by highly specialized metalworkers in the Kingdom of Benin (now southern Nigeria). In 1897, British forces sacked the capital of this prosperous kingdom. They tore sculptures and plaques from the palace walls, and took them back to Europe, where the looted treasures were sold to museums and private collectors. The royal court of Benin, Nigerian officials, and high-profile scholars such as Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu (Princeton) have been demanding their return for decades. Over the last decade, some museums based in the Global North have been listening to these calls for repatriation, and some have pledged to return works from their collections. To provide a new home for the repatriated works, plans for a new Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA), are currently in development with world renowned architect Sir David Adjaye leading the building design project. 

On the occasion of Wish You Were Here: African Art & Restitution, a public investigation into our own collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), Sir David Adjaye and Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu will discuss their current and recent projects that address   how works of art may re-enter the societies they were torn away from. Laura De Becker, Interim Chief Curator and the Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art at UMMA, will introduce the event.   Sir David Adjaye OBE is an award winning Ghanaian-British architect known to infuse his artistic sensibilities and ethos for community-driven projects. His ingenious use of materials, bespoke designs and visionary sensibilities have set him apart as one of the leading architects of his generation. In 2000, David founded his own practice, Adjaye Associates, which today operates globally, with studios in Accra, London, and New York taking on projects that span the globe. The firm’s work ranges from private houses, bespoke furniture collections, product design, exhibitions, and temporary pavilions to major arts centers, civic buildings, and master plans. His largest project to date, The National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, DC opened on the National Mall in Washington DC in 2016 and was named Cultural Event of the Year by The New York Times.

In 2017, Adjaye was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and was recognized as one of the 100 most influential people of the year by TIME Magazine. Most recently, Adjaye was announced the winner of the 2021 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. Approved personally by Her Majesty the Queen, the Royal Gold Medal is considered one of the highest honors in British architecture for significant contribution to the field internationally. Sir Adjaye is also the recipient of the World Economic Forum’s 27th Annual Crystal Award, which recognizes his “leadership in serving communities, cities and the environment.”

Chika Okeke-Agulu, an artist, critic and art historian, is director of the Program in African Studies and professor of African and African Diaspora art in the Department of African American Studies, and Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. His books include Yusuf Grillo: Painting. Lagos. Life (Skira, 2020); Obiora Udechukwu: Line, Image, Text (Skira, 2016); Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria (2015); and (with Okwui Enwezor), Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (2010). He recently co-organized, with Okwui Enwezor, El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale (Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2019). He is co-editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, has written for The New York Times and Huffington Post, and maintains the blog Ọfọdunka.

His many awards include The Melville J. Herskovits Prize for the most important scholarly work in African Studies published in English during the preceding year (African Studies Association, 2016); and Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (College Art Association, 2016).Okeke-Agulu serves on the advisory boards of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre, Tate Modern, London, The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Bët-bi/Le Korsa Museum Project, Senegal. He is also on the advisory council of Mpala Research Center, Nanyuki, Kenya; serves on the executive board of Princeton in Africa, and on the editorial boards of African Studies Review and Journal of Visual Culture. 

Laura De Becker is the Interim Chief Curator and the Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). A specialist in Central African art, she joined UMMA after a fellowship at Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. After many years of working with a team to research to envision a new installation of UMMA’s African art collection, De Becker’s , a project that doubled the footprint of the African galleries at UMMA, opened in September 2021. De Becker’s work on the reinstallation led to , a separate project grappling with issues of restitution, also on view at UMMA for the 2021-22 academic year.

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.  

This program is presented in partnership with the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series with support from the Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Lead support for the UMMA exhibition Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:15:54 -0500 2021-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Sir David Adjaye + Chika Okeke-Agulu (November 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86085 86085-21631382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The debate about restitution and the ethics of Western museums’ owning African artworks collected during the era of colonization has never been more in the public eye. Most well-known, perhaps, are the “Benin bronzes,” artistic and royal heirlooms made since the 13th century by highly specialized metalworkers in the Kingdom of Benin (now southern Nigeria). In 1897, British forces sacked the capital of this prosperous kingdom. They tore sculptures and plaques from the palace walls, and took them back to Europe, where the looted treasures were sold to museums and private collectors. The royal court of Benin, Nigerian officials, and high-profile scholars such as Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu (Princeton) have been demanding their return for decades. Increasingly, museums based in the Global North have been listening to these calls for repatriation, and some have pledged to return works from their collections. To provide a new home for the repatriated works, plans for a new Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA), are currently in development with world renowned architect Sir David Adjaye leading the building design project.
On the occasion of Wish You Were Here: African Art & Restitution, a public investigation into our own collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), Sir David Adjaye and Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu will discuss their current and recent projects that address how works of art may re-enter the societies they were torn away from. Laura De Becker, Interim Chief Curator and the Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art at UMMA, will introduce the event.
Sir David Adjaye OBE is an award winning Ghanaian-British architect known to infuse his artistic sensibilities and ethos for community-driven projects. His ingenious use of materials, bespoke designs and visionary sensibilities have set him apart as one of the leading architects of his generation. In 2000, David founded his own practice, Adjaye Associates, which today operates globally, with studios in Accra, London, and New York taking on projects that span the globe. The firm’s work ranges from private houses, bespoke furniture collections, product design, exhibitions, and temporary pavilions to major arts centers, civic buildings, and master plans. His most well known commission to date, The National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, DC opened on the National Mall in Washington DC in 2016 and was named Cultural Event of the Year by The New York Times.
In 2017, Adjaye was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and was recognized as one of the 100 most influential people of the year by TIME Magazine. Most recently, Adjaye was announced the winner of the 2021 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. Approved personally by Her Majesty the Queen, the Royal Gold Medal is considered one of the highest honors in British architecture for significant contribution to the field internationally. Sir Adjaye is also the recipient of the World Economic Forum’s 27th Annual Crystal Award, which recognizes his “leadership in serving communities, cities and the environment.
Chika Okeke-Agulu, an artist, critic and art historian, is director of the Program in African Studies and professor of African and African Diaspora art in the Department of African American Studies, and Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. His books include Yusuf Grillo: Painting. Lagos. Life (Skira, 2020); Obiora Udechukwu: Line, Image, Text (Skira, 2016); Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria (2015); and (with Okwui Enwezor), Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (2010). He recently co-organized, with Okwui Enwezor, El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale (Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2019). He is co-editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, has written for The New York Times and Huffington Post, and maintains the blog Ọfọdunka.
His many awards include The Melville J. Herskovits Prize for the most important scholarly work in African Studies published in English during the preceding year (African Studies Association, 2016); and Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (College Art Association, 2016).Okeke-Agulu serves on the advisory boards of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre, Tate Modern, London, The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Bët-bi/Le Korsa Museum Project, Senegal. He is also on the advisory council of Mpala Research Center, Nanyuki, Kenya; serves on the executive board of Princeton in Africa, and on the editorial boards of African Studies Review and Journal of Visual Culture.
Laura De Becker is the Interim Chief Curator and the Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). A specialist in Central African art, she joined UMMA after a fellowship at Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. After many years of working with a team to research to envision a new installation of UMMA’s African art collection, De Becker’s We Write to You About Africa, a project that doubled the footprint of the African galleries at UMMA, opened in September 2021. De Becker’s work on the reinstallation led to Wish You Were Here: African Art & Restitution, a separate project grappling with issues of restitution, also on view at UMMA for the 2021-22 academic year.
Lead support for the UMMA exhibition Wish You Were Here: African Art & Restitution is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.
Wish You Were Here: African Art & Restitution is on view at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (525 S. State St.) through July 3, 2022.
How to Watch
This Penny Stamps Speaker Series event will premiere on November 18, 2021 at 8pm and can be viewed on this page, at dptv.org, or on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:15:10 -0400 2021-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion Edo Museum of West African Art. Architecture by Adjaye Associates.
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 19, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-19T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
MDes Virtual Open House (November 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88139 88139-21650703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

What’s it like to be an MDes graduate student at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan? What kind of careers do MDes alums have? Come find out at our Virtual MDes Open House on Friday, November 19 from 10-11:30am EST via Zoom.
You’ll learn all about the Stamps MDes program, student experiences, career outcomes, the admissions process, and more.
This event is free. Registration is required.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:15:24 -0400 2021-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (November 19, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-11-19T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
NAHM presents: Firekeeper's Daughter, Author Presentation with Angeline Boulley (November 19, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88521 88521-21654672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Come join us as we engage with Angeline Boulley, author for the #1 NYT Bestseller novel, Firekeeper's Daughter.

This event will provide a free book and meal pickup available at the Michigan Union for those that register.

Angeline Boulley is an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Angeline lives in southwest Michigan, but her home will always be on Sugar Island. Firekeeper's Daughter is her debut novel, and was an instant #1 NYT Bestseller.

Register here!:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMocOmurz4pGtPqbX0aurjqQNkuiMUNZETZ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Presentation Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:46:03 -0500 2021-11-19T17:30:00-05:00 2021-11-19T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Presentation Event Description
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 20, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-20T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 20, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-20T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (November 20, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-11-20T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SCHEDULED SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Nov 2021 10:06:01 -0500 2021-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual "The Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington," (1840) courtesy of James Brust.
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative Exhibition Tour (November 20, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88775 88775-21657751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for an exhi­bi­tion tour of Envi­sion: The
Michi­gan Artist Ini­tia­tive at Stamps Gallery. The exhi­bi­tion fea­tures new work by the five Envi­sion final­ists, artists Nayda Col­lazo-Llorens, Michael Dixon,
Car­ole Har­ris, Kylie Lock­wood, and Dar­ryl DeAn­gelo Ter­rell. We will
discuss the artworks on view and look forward to hearing your thoughts as
well.
This is the inau­gural year of Envi­sion: The
Michi­gan Artist Ini­tia­tive, a new awards pro­gram designed to sup­port
the devel­op­ment of con­tem­po­rary artists liv­ing and work­ing in
Michi­gan. The five final­ists were selected by jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Cura­tor, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA ​’73), Artist; and
Lor­ing Ran­dolph (BFA ​’04), Direc­tor, Nancy A. Nasher
and David J. Haemiseg­ger Collection.
Spaces are lim­ited. Please reserve your ticket here. Tour par­tic­i­pants are requested to wear masks, main­tain
social dis­tanc­ing and fol­low Stamps Gallery’s COVID-19
policies.
Envi­sion: The Michi­gan Artist Ini­tia­tive is on view at Stamps Gallery from November 12, 2021 — Janu­ary 22, 2022.

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Exhibition Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:15:28 -0400 2021-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Envision logo: stylized white letters spell out ENVISION on a black background
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 21, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 21, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-21T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-21T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 21, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 21, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (November 22, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87387 87387-21641665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 22, 2021 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Semester in Detroit office hours with Professor Darcy Brandel. Professor Brandel teaches SiD's Detroit Art as Activist course. Stop by the SiD office on Mondays and Wednesdays between 8 am and 1 pm to chat with her about the program and her experiences in Detroit.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:45:58 -0400 2021-11-22T08:00:00-05:00 2021-11-22T13:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 22, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 22, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 22, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 22, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-22T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-22T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (Mondays) (November 22, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87388 87388-21641747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 22, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Come to Semester in Detroit office hours with Semester in Detroit alumni Ali Elatrache. Ali participated in Semester in Detroit in the Fall semester, which brings together students from all three U of M campuses (Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint). Stop by the office and talk to him about his experience interacting with students from the other campuses and any other questions you may have!

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:18:58 -0400 2021-11-22T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-22T15:00:00-05:00 Semester in Detroit Meeting
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 23, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 23, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-23T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 23, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 23, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-23T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-23T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (November 24, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87387 87387-21641761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Semester in Detroit office hours with Professor Darcy Brandel. Professor Brandel teaches SiD's Detroit Art as Activist course. Stop by the SiD office on Mondays and Wednesdays between 8 am and 1 pm to chat with her about the program and her experiences in Detroit.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:45:58 -0400 2021-11-24T08:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T13:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 24, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-24T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-24T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-24T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (November 24, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-11-24T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (November 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (Wednesdays) (November 24, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87389 87389-21641692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 5:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Come by the Semester in Detroit office to talk with SiD alum Mekulash Baron-Galbavi. Mekulash participated in SiD's Spring/Summer semester and interned at an organization focused on housing justice. Stop by on Wednesdays to talk to Mekulash about his time in Detroit and any other questions you have!

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:18:34 -0400 2021-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 2021-11-24T19:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-25T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-25T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 25, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 25, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-25T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-25T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 25, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 25, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-25T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-25T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (Thursdays) (November 25, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87390 87390-21641722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 25, 2021 1:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Come by Semester in Detroit's office on Thursday to talk to SiD alum Alana Burke. Alana participated in SiD's Spring/Summer semester. Stop by the office to talk to Alana about her experiences in SiD as a Detroit native, her internship at an urban farm, and any other questions you have!

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:18:04 -0400 2021-11-25T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-25T15:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 26, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 26, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-26T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 26, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 26, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-26T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-26T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 26, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 26, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-26T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-26T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 27, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 27, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-27T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-27T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 27, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 27, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-27T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-27T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 28, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 28, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-28T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-28T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 28, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 28, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-11-28T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-28T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (November 29, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87387 87387-21641666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 29, 2021 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Semester in Detroit office hours with Professor Darcy Brandel. Professor Brandel teaches SiD's Detroit Art as Activist course. Stop by the SiD office on Mondays and Wednesdays between 8 am and 1 pm to chat with her about the program and her experiences in Detroit.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:45:58 -0400 2021-11-29T08:00:00-05:00 2021-11-29T13:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 29, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 29, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-29T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-29T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (Mondays) (November 29, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87388 87388-21641748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 29, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Come to Semester in Detroit office hours with Semester in Detroit alumni Ali Elatrache. Ali participated in Semester in Detroit in the Fall semester, which brings together students from all three U of M campuses (Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint). Stop by the office and talk to him about his experience interacting with students from the other campuses and any other questions you may have!

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:18:58 -0400 2021-11-29T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-29T15:00:00-05:00 Semester in Detroit Meeting
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (November 30, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (November 30, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-11-30T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (November 30, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21664521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-11-30T11:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (December 1, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87387 87387-21641762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Semester in Detroit office hours with Professor Darcy Brandel. Professor Brandel teaches SiD's Detroit Art as Activist course. Stop by the SiD office on Mondays and Wednesdays between 8 am and 1 pm to chat with her about the program and her experiences in Detroit.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:45:58 -0400 2021-12-01T08:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (December 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-12-01T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-01T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (December 1, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-12-01T11:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (December 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Beinecke Scholarship Program (December 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87134 87134-21639079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

Register here: https://myumi.ch/O4eKQ

The Beinecke Scholarship Program seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue opportunities available to them and to be courageous in the selection of a graduate course of study in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Each scholar receives $4,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate school. There are no geographic restrictions on the use of the scholarship, and recipients are allowed to supplement the award with other scholarships, assistantships, and research grants. Scholars must utilize all of the funding within five years of completion of undergraduate studies.

Learn more: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/united-states/beinecke-scholarship-program.html

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 Oct 2021 08:56:37 -0400 2021-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual Photos of the ASME Code and Standard book for installing and manufacturing elevators.
IPD Online Trade Show: Aging in Place Safely (December 1, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89683 89683-21664878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Online IPD Trade Show
Cast your vote Dec 1-7! Consider these products and how they would help Senior Adults Age in Place Safely. Products might for example help seniors in one or more of the areas of household tasks, hobbies, mobility, physical safety and health, mental health, and maintaining social connections. U-M students in this semester's Integrated Product Development (IPD) created brand new products that help fill this need.

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the University of Michigan's STAMPS School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Catch the competitive buzz!

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

VOTE ONLINE:
https://myumi.ch/rq1ej

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:06:52 -0500 2021-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD ONLINE TRADE SHOW
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (Wednesdays) (December 1, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87389 87389-21641693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 5:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Come by the Semester in Detroit office to talk with SiD alum Mekulash Baron-Galbavi. Mekulash participated in SiD's Spring/Summer semester and interned at an organization focused on housing justice. Stop by on Wednesdays to talk to Mekulash about his time in Detroit and any other questions you have!

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:18:34 -0400 2021-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T19:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
IPD Online Trade Show: Aging in Place Safely (December 2, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89683 89683-21664879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Online IPD Trade Show
Cast your vote Dec 1-7! Consider these products and how they would help Senior Adults Age in Place Safely. Products might for example help seniors in one or more of the areas of household tasks, hobbies, mobility, physical safety and health, mental health, and maintaining social connections. U-M students in this semester's Integrated Product Development (IPD) created brand new products that help fill this need.

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the University of Michigan's STAMPS School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Catch the competitive buzz!

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

VOTE ONLINE:
https://myumi.ch/rq1ej

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:06:52 -0500 2021-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 2021-12-02T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD ONLINE TRADE SHOW
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 2, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-12-02T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (December 2, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-12-02T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-02T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 2, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-02T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-02T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (December 2, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-12-02T11:00:00-05:00 2021-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (December 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-02T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (Thursdays) (December 2, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87390 87390-21641723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 1:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Come by Semester in Detroit's office on Thursday to talk to SiD alum Alana Burke. Alana participated in SiD's Spring/Summer semester. Stop by the office to talk to Alana about her experiences in SiD as a Detroit native, her internship at an urban farm, and any other questions you have!

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:18:04 -0400 2021-12-02T13:00:00-05:00 2021-12-02T15:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
FoodCorps (Ian Cheney & Curt Ellis): Rebroadcast (December 2, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88729 88729-21657084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Friends since college, Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney are the stars and co-creators of King Corn, the Peabody Award-winning documentary about their year growing one acre of corn and seeing it transformed into high fructose corn syrup and fast-fattened beef. After King Corn, Cheney and Ellis teamed up to create the Truck Farm film and education project, based on a whimsical farm-on-wheels planted in the back of a 1986 Dodge pickup. They are also the co-founders of FoodCorps, a national team of Americorps leaders who connect kids to real food and help them grow up healthy. In 2011, Cheney and Ellis were the youngest recipients ever to receive the prestigious Heinz Award for their work using humor and innovation to engage people about sustainable food. Ellis is currently Executive Director of FoodCorps, and Cheney, a Knight Journalism fellow at MIT, recently directed the feature documentary The Search for General Tso.
This event is a rebroadcast of a presentation that originally took place on October 16, 2014.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Nov 2021 18:15:17 -0500 2021-12-02T20:00:00-05:00 2021-12-02T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
IPD Online Trade Show: Aging in Place Safely (December 3, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89683 89683-21664880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Online IPD Trade Show
Cast your vote Dec 1-7! Consider these products and how they would help Senior Adults Age in Place Safely. Products might for example help seniors in one or more of the areas of household tasks, hobbies, mobility, physical safety and health, mental health, and maintaining social connections. U-M students in this semester's Integrated Product Development (IPD) created brand new products that help fill this need.

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the University of Michigan's STAMPS School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Catch the competitive buzz!

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

VOTE ONLINE:
https://myumi.ch/rq1ej

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:06:52 -0500 2021-12-03T00:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD ONLINE TRADE SHOW
Residential College Student Art Show (December 3, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89727 89727-21665247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Art Show at the Residential College Art Gallery.

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Exhibition Fri, 03 Dec 2021 13:01:56 -0500 2021-12-03T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T15:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Residential College Art Show at the Residential College Art Gallery
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 3, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-12-03T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition! (December 3, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89278 89278-21661694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is seeking student submissions for the As I See It Monologue Competition! Students can submit up to two recorded original monologues along with scripts.

There is no theme for this competition. All monologues must be original content (written by the student submitting the video) and cannot be taken or adapted from an existing work. A script for each video must also be submitted.

Submissions will be accepted throughout the semester. The final date to submit is Friday, December 3 at 10pm. There will also be optional opportunities to perform your monologues in front of a live audience as part of the submission process. Live performances are not required to enter the competition.

The first place winner will receive $100!

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:44:47 -0500 2021-12-03T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Enter the As I See It Monologue Competition
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 3, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-03T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (December 3, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (December 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
IPD Online Trade Show: Aging in Place Safely (December 4, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89683 89683-21664881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 4, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Online IPD Trade Show
Cast your vote Dec 1-7! Consider these products and how they would help Senior Adults Age in Place Safely. Products might for example help seniors in one or more of the areas of household tasks, hobbies, mobility, physical safety and health, mental health, and maintaining social connections. U-M students in this semester's Integrated Product Development (IPD) created brand new products that help fill this need.

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the University of Michigan's STAMPS School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Catch the competitive buzz!

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

VOTE ONLINE:
https://myumi.ch/rq1ej

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:06:52 -0500 2021-12-04T00:00:00-05:00 2021-12-04T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD ONLINE TRADE SHOW
Residential College Student Art Show (December 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89727 89727-21665248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Art Show at the Residential College Art Gallery.

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Exhibition Fri, 03 Dec 2021 13:01:56 -0500 2021-12-04T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-04T15:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Residential College Art Show at the Residential College Art Gallery
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 4, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 4, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-04T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (December 4, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 4, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-12-04T11:00:00-05:00 2021-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (December 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This event will be BOTH in-person & virtual.

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

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

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

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Nov 2021 17:02:24 -0500 2021-12-04T18:30:00-05:00 2021-12-04T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Reception / Open House PCAP 2021 Art Auction - Saturday, December 4th
IPD Online Trade Show: Aging in Place Safely (December 5, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89683 89683-21664882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 5, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Online IPD Trade Show
Cast your vote Dec 1-7! Consider these products and how they would help Senior Adults Age in Place Safely. Products might for example help seniors in one or more of the areas of household tasks, hobbies, mobility, physical safety and health, mental health, and maintaining social connections. U-M students in this semester's Integrated Product Development (IPD) created brand new products that help fill this need.

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the University of Michigan's STAMPS School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Catch the competitive buzz!

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

VOTE ONLINE:
https://myumi.ch/rq1ej

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:06:52 -0500 2021-12-05T00:00:00-05:00 2021-12-05T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD ONLINE TRADE SHOW
Residential College Student Art Show (December 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89727 89727-21665249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 5, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Art Show at the Residential College Art Gallery.

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Exhibition Fri, 03 Dec 2021 13:01:56 -0500 2021-12-05T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-05T15:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Residential College Art Show at the Residential College Art Gallery
Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan (December 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88762 88762-21657429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:21:37 -0400 2021-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-05T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition installation view at the MSU Broad Art Lab, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
What The F Presents: A Discussion on Art and Feminism with Prof. Holly Hughes (December 5, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89663 89663-21664753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 5, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Passionate about feminism? Art? UofM? If you said yes to any or all of those then clear your calendar to hear University of Michigan Professor, Holly Hughes, talk about her involvement in the feminist community as a queer artist.

Starts at 6 pm | Sunday, Dec. 5 | Michigan Union Anderson Room D

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Dec 2021 10:15:27 -0500 2021-12-05T18:00:00-05:00 2021-12-05T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Lecture / Discussion What The F Presents: A Discussion on Art and Feminism with Prof. Holly Hughes
IPD Online Trade Show: Aging in Place Safely (December 6, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89683 89683-21664883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 6, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Online IPD Trade Show
Cast your vote Dec 1-7! Consider these products and how they would help Senior Adults Age in Place Safely. Products might for example help seniors in one or more of the areas of household tasks, hobbies, mobility, physical safety and health, mental health, and maintaining social connections. U-M students in this semester's Integrated Product Development (IPD) created brand new products that help fill this need.

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the University of Michigan's STAMPS School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Catch the competitive buzz!

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

VOTE ONLINE:
https://myumi.ch/rq1ej

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:06:52 -0500 2021-12-06T00:00:00-05:00 2021-12-06T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD ONLINE TRADE SHOW
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (December 6, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87387 87387-21641667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 6, 2021 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Semester in Detroit office hours with Professor Darcy Brandel. Professor Brandel teaches SiD's Detroit Art as Activist course. Stop by the SiD office on Mondays and Wednesdays between 8 am and 1 pm to chat with her about the program and her experiences in Detroit.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:45:58 -0400 2021-12-06T08:00:00-05:00 2021-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
Residential College Student Art Show (December 6, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89727 89727-21665250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 6, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Art Show at the Residential College Art Gallery.

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Exhibition Fri, 03 Dec 2021 13:01:56 -0500 2021-12-06T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Residential College Art Show at the Residential College Art Gallery
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 6, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 6, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-12-06T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (Mondays) (December 6, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87388 87388-21641749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 6, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Come to Semester in Detroit office hours with Semester in Detroit alumni Ali Elatrache. Ali participated in Semester in Detroit in the Fall semester, which brings together students from all three U of M campuses (Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint). Stop by the office and talk to him about his experience interacting with students from the other campuses and any other questions you may have!

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:18:58 -0400 2021-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 2021-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 Semester in Detroit Meeting
Who Am I? Art Exhibit & Interactive Activity (December 6, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89484 89484-21663284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 6, 2021 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

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

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

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Other Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:42:49 -0500 2021-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 2021-12-06T20:00:00-05:00 Center for Campus Involvement Other Gallery
IPD Online Trade Show: Aging in Place Safely (December 7, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89683 89683-21664884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Online IPD Trade Show
Cast your vote Dec 1-7! Consider these products and how they would help Senior Adults Age in Place Safely. Products might for example help seniors in one or more of the areas of household tasks, hobbies, mobility, physical safety and health, mental health, and maintaining social connections. U-M students in this semester's Integrated Product Development (IPD) created brand new products that help fill this need.

Take part in this nationally renowned course by reviewing the products developed by 6 teams of students from the University of Michigan's STAMPS School of Art & Design, Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Catch the competitive buzz!

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

VOTE ONLINE:
https://myumi.ch/rq1ej

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Exhibition Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:06:52 -0500 2021-12-07T00:00:00-05:00 2021-12-07T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition IPD ONLINE TRADE SHOW
Residential College Student Art Show (December 7, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89727 89727-21665251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Art Show at the Residential College Art Gallery.

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Exhibition Fri, 03 Dec 2021 13:01:56 -0500 2021-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-07T15:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Residential College Art Show at the Residential College Art Gallery
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 7, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:34:42 -0400 2021-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition La Erika
Envision Conversations: Dar­ryl DeAn­gelo Ter­rell (December 7, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89398 89398-21662614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Meet Detroit-based artist Dar­ryl DeAn­gelo Ter­rell as they discuss their new work, created for
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative with Ron Platt, Chief Curator at the Grand Rapids Art
Museum.

Envision Conversations is a series of five virtual events presenting
insightful conversations between each finalist of Envision: The Michigan
Artist Initiative and a leading Michigan-based curator. Audiences will hear about the
artist’s process and ideas that they have explored through the new and old
work(s) they are presenting at Envision. Each event includes an artist talk
followed by a conversation between the featured artist and curator. Audiences
will have an opportunity to engage with the artist and curator during a 15-min
Q&A period at the end of their conversation.

Envi­sion:
The Michi­gan Artist Ini­tia­tive
is on view at Stamps Gallery from November 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022.

Stamps
events are free and open to the pub­lic, and we are com­mit­ted to mak­ing
them acces­si­ble to all atten­dees. This event will be online using the Zoom
plat­form with an auto-gen­er­ated Live Tran­script avail­able. If you
antic­i­pate need­ing any addi­tional accom­mo­da­tions to
par­tic­i­pate, please email Jen­nifer Junker­meier-Khan at
jenjkhan@​umich.​edu at least one week in advance of the sched­uled event
so we can arrange for your accom­mo­da­tion or an effec­tive
alter­na­tive. After receiv­ing your request, our team will fol­low up with
you directly.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:15:24 -0500 2021-12-07T18:00:00-05:00 2021-12-07T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Semester in Detroit Office Hours (December 8, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87387 87387-21641763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 8:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Semester in Detroit office hours with Professor Darcy Brandel. Professor Brandel teaches SiD's Detroit Art as Activist course. Stop by the SiD office on Mondays and Wednesdays between 8 am and 1 pm to chat with her about the program and her experiences in Detroit.

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Meeting Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:45:58 -0400 2021-12-08T08:00:00-05:00 2021-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Meeting East Quadrangle
Residential College Student Art Show (December 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89727 89727-21665252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Residential College Art Show at the Residential College Art Gallery.

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Exhibition Fri, 03 Dec 2021 13:01:56 -0500 2021-12-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Residential College Art Show at the Residential College Art Gallery
When This is All Over / Cuando Esto Termine (December 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88229 88229-21651555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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

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

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

This exhibt runs through December 12, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:58:45 -0500 2021-12-08T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-08T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad.
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative (December 8, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84619 84619-21657064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exhibition: Nov 12, 2021 - January 22, 2022
Public Opening and Award Ceremony: November 12, 2021
Organized by Stamps Gallery, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative is a new awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. This inaugural program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state.
The call for work went out to artists across the state in March 2020. In July 2020, Envision jurors Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator, MCA Chicago; Ken Aptekar (BFA '73), Artist; and Loring Randolph (BFA '04), Director, Frieze New York; gathered virtually to review the submissions.
After evaluating 259 submissions from across the state, the jurors selected five finalists to receive a group exhibition at Stamps Gallery.
On December 10, 2021, one finalist will be named the 2021 Envision Award recipient, receiving a cash prize.
The exhibition will tour to different venues in Michigan, including the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Envision Finalists
Nayda Collazo-Llorens examines the way in which we perceive and process information, dealing with concepts of navigation, memory, language, hyperconnectivity and noise through her interdisciplinary creative practice. Learn more: naydacollazollorens.com
Through oil painting, Michael Dixon explores the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. Learn more: michaeldixonart.com
Carole Harris is a fiber artist who extends the boundaries of traditional quilting by exploring other forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, textiles, materials, and objects. Learn more: charris-design.com
Kylie Lockwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the history of sculpture. Learn more: kylielockwood.com
Darryl Terrell explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories through photography and digital art. Learn more: darryldterrell.com
This program is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA).

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:15:23 -0500 2021-12-08T11:00:00-05:00 2021-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Stylized text spells out Envision in white capital letters on black background
Connections, New Beginnings: Artists in Transition (December 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88761 88761-21657358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Other Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:42:49 -0500 2021-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 2021-12-08T20:00:00-05:00 Center for Campus Involvement Other Gallery