Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court (November 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 69348-17310278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:36:20 -0500 2019-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Art at 327 Braun Court
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (November 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-11-22T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 (November 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 66153-16711321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history.

Inspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly, can this thread then be unraveled?

Additionally, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.

As part of his residency, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.

About the artist:

Tylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist, educator, and curator living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity, both individual and collective, politics, race, history and pop culture. In 2013, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York, where he served as an art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. Most recently, in early 2014, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:51:53 -0500 2019-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition DNA by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Art Exhibition: Blood Underwater (November 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68772 68772-17147179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Water, as a natural resource, has been weaponized or made treacherous against people seeking safety and security. Some have been tortured or killed through waterboarding, others have been forced into oceans to die or disappear. Refugees across world regions have drowned crossing bodies of water in hopes for a better life.

Millions of people all over the world are being tortured, disappeared, and forcibly displaced by repressive regimes and wars while governments of other countries are denying them a safe place to live. There are now as many as 1.3 million survivors of politically motivated torture survivors living in the U.S. And over 70 million refugees in the world according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, the highest number in the almost 70 years since the refugee agency was founded.

During this time of rapid political change worldwide, the Blood Underwater Workshop and Exhibition offers an opportunity for students, activists, members of civil society organizations, and NGOs to come together as change agents to protect human rights, freedom and dignity, and to spread peace, justice and love.

Blood Underwater is a collaborative work, which encourages deep thinking and creative expression. It provides a voice for community members and activists, especially from political, national, racial, religious and other minorities, to express their concerns about global suffering through art. Participants gather around a large canvas with paints and music and are guided through a series of artistic expressions by “artivist” Elshafei Dafalla. The purpose is to use art to protest against violence, torture, enforced disappearances and other forms of brutality.

Blood Underwater is a demand for “freedom, peace and justice” -- from San Salvador to Khartoum to Sindh -- and throughout the world. This visual narrative will recognize men and women who have been murdered because they wanted to live in freedom, political prisoners, people forced from their homes, and those who have been tortured for standing up to dictatorships.

The Blood Underwater artwork narrative will connect participants to one another, and to refugees, asylum seekers, political prisoners and others who have already died or are currently suffering in their own countries or in new lands. This collaboration and new knowledge will enable participants to reflect together about global suffering, and what can be done about it.

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Eishafei Dafalla received a Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture from the College of Fine and Applied Art at the University for Science and Technology in Khartoum, Sudan as well as a Diploma in Folklore from the Afro-Asian Institute at the University of Khartoum. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Stamps School of Art and Design at University of Michigan. Dafalla has participated in more than fifty exhibits worldwide, and his work is part of public and private collections in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. He continues to lecture and to exhibit his work, holding artist residencies, participating in community building activities, and creating performative installation events around the U.S. and internationally. An extended interview with Dafalla was created by the Washington DC-based, nonprofit, Center for Concern.

The exhibition will be on display November 4-22, M-F, 10am-5pm, at the Residential College Art Gallery at 701 East University Ave., Ann Arbor MI 48109. Free and open to the public.

There will be an opening reception for Blood Underwater with Elshafei Dafalla in attendance on November 1 from 6-8pm, and refreshments will be served.

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Exhibition Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:19:08 -0400 2019-11-22T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Blood Underwater
Ripple Effect (November 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-22T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (November 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15002316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-11-22T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (November 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-11-22T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-11-22T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (November 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-11-22T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (November 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-11-22T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (November 22, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-11-22T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Experiments in Translation: $10K Grants for Students (November 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69384 69384-17312392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

In March 2020, Experiments in Translation will award up to three $10,000 grants to collaborative projects that bring Duderstadt Center technologies to bear in response to a communications challenge.

This launch event will begin at 4 PM with a reception in the Duderstadt Center Gallery, featuring Ripple Effect, an art installation by Dorsey Kaufmann that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water.

The party will move to the Duderstadt Center Video Studio from 5- 6 PM for inspirational and informative lightning talks by Kaufmann, Duderstadt Center and Arts Engine staff and program partners including the Center for Socially Engaged Design and the Ginsberg Center.

Stay from 6 - 7 PM for a Q&A with support staff and tours of selected Duderstadt Center resources.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:40:49 -0500 2019-11-22T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T19:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Reception / Open House Dorsey Kaufmann's Ripple Effect at the Duderstadt Center
Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court (November 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 69348-17310279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:36:20 -0500 2019-11-22T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-23T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Art at 327 Braun Court
Ripple Effect (November 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69565 69565-17366244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves.

The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate the water held in attached trays. The sonic vibrations create unique patterns to emerge in the water, known as water cymatics. Participants hear and see the water vibrate based on the chemical concentrations in their water samples.

Ripple Effect travels to communities that neighbor resource extraction activity and aims to transform the way people understand their data in relation to their environment.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:07:44 -0500 2019-11-22T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T19:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center ArtsEngine Exhibition Ripple Effect: Communicating Water Quality Data through Art
Opening Reception: Undergraduate Juried Exhibition (November 22, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66992 66992-16792095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Celebrate the work of Stamps undergraduate students selected for the annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition. Refreshments will be served.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:15:37 -0400 2019-11-22T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/WEB_UndergradJuriedExhibition-2.jpg
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (November 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-11-23T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-23T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-23T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-23T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (November 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15002317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-11-23T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (November 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-11-23T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-11-23T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (November 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-11-23T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (November 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-11-23T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (November 23, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-11-23T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Storytime at the Museum: Netherlands (November 23, 2019 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65671 65671-16629880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 11:15am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytime at the Museum promotes art enjoyment for our youngest patrons. Join us as we travel around the world and look at art from different countries. We read a story in the galleries and include a fun, age-appropriate, hands-on activity related to it. Parents must accompany children. Siblings are welcome to join the group. Meet in front of the UMMA Shop.

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

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:16:56 -0400 2019-11-23T11:15:00-05:00 2019-11-23T12:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
Exhibition Walkthrough with the Artists: Undergraduate Juried Exhibition (November 23, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66993 66993-16792096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Come listen to the award-winning students from the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition as they discuss their work.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:15:38 -0400 2019-11-23T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-23T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/WEB_UndergradJuriedExhibition-2.jpg
Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court (November 23, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 69348-17310280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:36:20 -0500 2019-11-23T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-24T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Art at 327 Braun Court
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (November 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-11-24T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-24T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-24T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-24T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (November 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15002318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (November 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (November 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (November 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (November 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (November 24, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65380 65380-16575574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 24, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Join a docent on a journey through time and memory, as you explore over 1,000 found photographs together. Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Department of Film, Television, and Media, and Department of American Culture.

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Presentation Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:16:54 -0400 2019-11-24T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-24T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
UMMA Pop Up: Andrew Brown's Djangophonique (November 24, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67475 67475-16860092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 24, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Born in a sandstone victorian farmhouse that has been in his family since it was built four generations ago, Andrew Brown is the son of a Motown session musician and grew up listening to the sounds of his dad’s piano as he steeped in musical influences from Duke Ellington to Stevie Wonder. As a young man returning from a trip to New Orleans with a newfound interest in Swing music, he co-founded the eclectic americana group Appleseed Collective, with whom he has toured 150+ dates a year. Traveling all over the continental United States, playing esteemed venues and festivals such as The Ark, Sisters Folk Festival, Wheatland, Cervantes Ballroom, Summercamp Music Festival, Schuba’s, and The Ann Arbor Folk Festival at Hill Auditorium, he cut his teeth as a guitarist, songwriter and band leader. Since slowing down his touring schedule in 2017 he began tirelessly practicing and performing the music of his favorite guitar player: Django Reinhardt. Since then he has studied at various music camps with many of the genres heavy hitting players such as Angelo Debarre, Sebastian Gineaux, and Gonzalo Bergara, and was even invited to back up Denis Chang at one of his concerts. Andrew currently plays throughout Michigan with his own project Djangophonique, his band Appleseed Collective, and his friends projects Third Coast Gypsy Jazz, Smoking Dandies. He also teaches guitar, both generally and specifically in the style of Django.

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Performance Wed, 25 Sep 2019 18:17:53 -0400 2019-11-24T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-24T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court (November 24, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 69348-17310281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:36:20 -0500 2019-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-24T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Art at 327 Braun Court
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (November 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-11-25T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-25T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 (November 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 66153-16711324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history.

Inspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly, can this thread then be unraveled?

Additionally, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.

As part of his residency, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.

About the artist:

Tylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist, educator, and curator living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity, both individual and collective, politics, race, history and pop culture. In 2013, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York, where he served as an art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. Most recently, in early 2014, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:51:53 -0500 2019-11-25T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition DNA by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (November 25, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67128 67128-16803036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:47:47 -0400 2019-11-25T18:30:00-05:00 2019-11-25T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Surrendurance
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (November 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-11-26T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 26, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-26T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 (November 26, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 66153-16711325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history.

Inspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly, can this thread then be unraveled?

Additionally, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.

As part of his residency, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.

About the artist:

Tylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist, educator, and curator living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity, both individual and collective, politics, race, history and pop culture. In 2013, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York, where he served as an art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. Most recently, in early 2014, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:51:53 -0500 2019-11-26T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition DNA by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (November 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15002319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-11-26T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (November 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-11-26T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-11-26T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (November 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-11-26T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (November 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-11-26T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (November 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-11-26T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (November 26, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-11-26T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show
Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court (November 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 69348-17310283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:36:20 -0500 2019-11-26T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Art at 327 Braun Court
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (November 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-11-27T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-27T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 (November 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 66153-16711326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history.

Inspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly, can this thread then be unraveled?

Additionally, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.

As part of his residency, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.

About the artist:

Tylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist, educator, and curator living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity, both individual and collective, politics, race, history and pop culture. In 2013, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York, where he served as an art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. Most recently, in early 2014, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:51:53 -0500 2019-11-27T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition DNA by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (November 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15002320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-11-27T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (November 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-11-27T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-11-27T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (November 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-11-27T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (November 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-11-27T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (November 27, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-11-27T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (November 27, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-11-27T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show
Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court (November 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 69348-17310284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:36:20 -0500 2019-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-28T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Art at 327 Braun Court
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (November 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-11-28T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-28T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-28T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-28T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 (November 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 66153-16711327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history.

Inspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly, can this thread then be unraveled?

Additionally, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.

As part of his residency, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.

About the artist:

Tylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist, educator, and curator living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity, both individual and collective, politics, race, history and pop culture. In 2013, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York, where he served as an art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. Most recently, in early 2014, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:51:53 -0500 2019-11-28T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition DNA by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (November 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15002321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-11-28T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (November 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-11-28T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-11-28T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (November 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-11-28T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (November 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-11-28T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (November 28, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 28, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-11-28T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (November 28, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 28, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-11-28T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-28T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (November 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-11-29T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-29T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 29, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-29T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 (November 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 66153-16711328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 29, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history.

Inspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly, can this thread then be unraveled?

Additionally, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.

As part of his residency, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.

About the artist:

Tylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist, educator, and curator living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity, both individual and collective, politics, race, history and pop culture. In 2013, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York, where he served as an art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. Most recently, in early 2014, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:51:53 -0500 2019-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition DNA by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (November 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15002322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-11-29T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (November 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-11-29T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-11-29T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (November 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-11-29T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (November 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-11-29T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (November 29, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 29, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-11-29T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (November 29, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 29, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-11-29T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-29T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show
Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court (November 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 69348-17310286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:36:20 -0500 2019-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-30T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Art at 327 Braun Court
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (November 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-11-30T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-30T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 30, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 30, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-30T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (November 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15002323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-11-30T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (November 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-11-30T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-11-30T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (November 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-11-30T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (November 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-11-30T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (November 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-11-30T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (November 30, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 30, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-11-30T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-30T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show
Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court (November 30, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 69348-17310287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 30, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:36:20 -0500 2019-11-30T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-01T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Art at 327 Braun Court
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (December 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-12-01T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-01T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-01T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (December 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15002324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (December 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (December 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (December 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (December 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (December 1, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 1, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show
The Power Family Program for Inuit Art Reflections: An Ordinary Day (December 1, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65383 65383-16575577@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 1, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Our second exhibition on Inuit art explores the serene expressions of day-to-day activities found in mid-century to contemporary Inuit prints and sculptures. Donors inspired by the Power gift and the development of a Power Program for Inuit Art at UMMA contributed to this exhibition with diffuse offerings to incorporate into our holdings, or with loans to expand our conversations. 

This exhibition is made possible by the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

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Presentation Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:16:55 -0400 2019-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-01T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Painting with the Fellows (December 1, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69732 69732-17392932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 1, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Munger Graduate Residences
Organized By: Munger Graduate Residences

Join the Munger Transdisciplinary Fellows for another painting event - we will have a design pre-selected so we can paint together, but feel free to come and paint something else if you have something in mind.

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Recreational / Games Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:56:14 -0500 2019-12-01T16:30:00-05:00 2019-12-01T17:30:00-05:00 Munger Graduate Residences Munger Graduate Residences Recreational / Games Munger Graduate Residences
Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court (December 1, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 69348-17310288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 1, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:36:20 -0500 2019-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 2019-12-01T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Art at 327 Braun Court
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (December 2, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-12-02T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-02T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 (December 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 66153-16711331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history.

Inspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly, can this thread then be unraveled?

Additionally, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.

As part of his residency, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.

About the artist:

Tylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist, educator, and curator living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity, both individual and collective, politics, race, history and pop culture. In 2013, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York, where he served as an art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. Most recently, in early 2014, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:51:53 -0500 2019-12-02T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition DNA by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (December 2, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show
HIV Monologues (December 2, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69700 69700-17384707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In honor of World AIDS Day, please join us for an evening of presentations, performances and reflection about HIV/AIDS, an issue that still affects millions. HIV Monologues, presented by the National Council for Negro Women, aims to educate, advocate and destigmatize stereotypes associated with those afflicted by HIV. We will be promoting awareness and prevention of HIV/AIDS through spoken-word poetry, skits, music and monologues presented by students, staff and special guests. 

This program is co-sponsored by the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Performance Sat, 23 Nov 2019 00:16:43 -0500 2019-12-02T18:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (December 3, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-12-03T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 3, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-03T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 (December 3, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 66153-16711332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history.

Inspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly, can this thread then be unraveled?

Additionally, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.

As part of his residency, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.

About the artist:

Tylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist, educator, and curator living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity, both individual and collective, politics, race, history and pop culture. In 2013, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York, where he served as an art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. Most recently, in early 2014, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:51:53 -0500 2019-12-03T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition DNA by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (December 3, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15002325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (December 3, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 3, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (December 3, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (December 3, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (December 3, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Online Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (December 3, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69730 69730-17392928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

View the products online. Then cast your vote!

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:32 -0500 2019-12-03T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T14:00:00-05:00 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 Online IPD Trade Show
Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court (December 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 69348-17310290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:36:20 -0500 2019-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Art at 327 Braun Court
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (December 4, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-12-04T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-04T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 (December 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 66153-16711333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history.

Inspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly, can this thread then be unraveled?

Additionally, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.

As part of his residency, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.

About the artist:

Tylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist, educator, and curator living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity, both individual and collective, politics, race, history and pop culture. In 2013, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York, where he served as an art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. Most recently, in early 2014, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:51:53 -0500 2019-12-04T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition DNA by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (December 4, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15002326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-12-04T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (December 4, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-12-04T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 4, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-12-04T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (December 4, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-12-04T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (December 4, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-12-04T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (December 4, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-12-04T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court (December 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 69348-17310291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:36:20 -0500 2019-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Art at 327 Braun Court
2019 Integrated Product Development Trade Show (December 4, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69723 69723-17392891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Taught jointly by faculty of the Ross School of Business and the Stamps School of Art & Design, the annual Integrated Product Design course challenges seven cross-disciplinary student teams from the College of Engineering, Ross School of Business, Stamps School of Art & Design, and School of Information to design, build, and market a brand new product, and then to face free market competition through the IPD Trade Show.

The current IPD challenge: Design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes; and be profitable at a consumer cost of less than $200.

Members of the University of Michigan community and the general public are invited to meet the student design teams, test out prototypes of their new technologies, and vote for the “best of the best” at the 2019 Integrated Product Development Trade Show, December 4 at the Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor.

Want a preview?  Student teams will design webpages and videos to advertise their new health technology products and release them to the public on November 26th.  Check www.tauber.umich.edu for the latest updates.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:15:31 -0500 2019-12-04T16:30:00-05:00 2019-12-04T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/IPD-challenge-F2019-TWbanner-112119.jpg
Trade Show: Integrated Product Development: Healthy 20-30 Year Old's (December 4, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69735 69735-17392937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

University of Michigan’s Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 25th offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.

IPD is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design, Business, Engineering, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Problem Statement: to design and produce a tangible product suitable for use by working adults, which may be used to build healthy living habits, so as to improve quality of life, health maintenance and outcomes.

See the actual products and test them out. Then cast your vote! Network, have fun and meet up with friends, old and new!

Parking is street meter or there is public parking available in the Hill Street Structure Parking Garage.

Event is Free and open to the public, with light refreshments.

GREAT LOCATION: Lobby of the Robertson Auditorium, at the Ross School of Business, 1st floor at 701 Tappan, Ann Arbor, MI

ONLINE VOTING BEGINS Nov. 26th:
https://tauber.umich.edu/events-training/integrated-product-development/2019-12-04/25th-integrated-product-development-trade

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:35:28 -0500 2019-12-04T16:30:00-05:00 2019-12-04T18:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Exhibition 2019 IPD Trade Show
PCAP Membership Meeting Fall 2019 (December 4, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64056 64056-16113180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

PCAP Membership Meeting Fall 2019
1405 East Quad, Residential College
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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Meeting Thu, 20 Jun 2019 10:26:14 -0400 2019-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Painting 4
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (December 5, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-12-05T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 5, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-05T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 (December 5, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 66153-16711334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history.

Inspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly, can this thread then be unraveled?

Additionally, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.

As part of his residency, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.

About the artist:

Tylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist, educator, and curator living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity, both individual and collective, politics, race, history and pop culture. In 2013, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York, where he served as an art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. Most recently, in early 2014, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:51:53 -0500 2019-12-05T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition DNA by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (December 5, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-12-05T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (December 5, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-12-05T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 5, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-12-05T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (December 5, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-12-05T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (December 5, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-12-05T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (December 5, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-12-05T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Reading the Romantics (December 5, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68722 68722-17140909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Please join us for the second discussion of our Fall 2016 reading series called Reading the Romantics.

We will meet on December 5th from 12:30-1:30pm in Angell Hall 3154 to discuss the first chapter from Tilottama Rajan's *Romantic Narratives: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft* (2010), called “The Trauma of Lyric: Shelley’s Missed Encounter with Poetry in Alastor.”

The chapter focuses on Shelley’s Alastor and some of the Wordsworth poems that influenced it — mostly the Lucy poems and The Ruined Cottage — in order to further Rajan’s larger claim about a Romantic ’narrativity’ that is, for her, separate from the novelistic, chronological plot structure (although not always excluded from it) and characterized by a certain openness, “worklessness,” and a “constant process of unmaking” that allows Shelley and other Romantic authors to oscillate between poetry and prose.

A light vegetarian lunch will be served. Please kindly RSVP to Ani Bezirdzhyan (abezirdz@umich.edu) to receive the pre-circulated reading materials.

All are welcome to attend one or both events in the reading series.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:47:05 -0400 2019-12-05T12:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T13:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion A poster for Reading the Romantics with an image of William Blake's 'Newton'
Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court (December 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 69348-17310292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:36:20 -0500 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Art at 327 Braun Court
Monuments and Public Art: A Public Conversation with Paul Farber (Monument Lab), Tina Olsen (UMMA), Srimoyee Mitra (Stamps Gallery) and Kristin Hass (Dept. of American Culture) (December 5, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69699 69699-17384706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the release of the new book on Philadelphia’s Monument Lab project, the U-M Center for World Performance Studies presents project co-founder and book co-editor​ Dr. Paul M. Farber​ to lead a public conversation about monuments and public art. Participants will be asked to interrogate the notion of what constitutes art in the public realm, address current controversies of public art and the future place of monuments, and consider the question of what kinds of monuments we need today.

Please note this event takes place at the U-M Hatcher Library Gallery at 913 S. University Avenue in Ann Arbor.  

Paul M. Farber​ is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Public Art and Space at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Farber earned a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan and is a former graduate resident of the Center for World Performance Studies. He is the author of ​A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall ​(University of North Carolina Press, 2020) which tells the untold story of a group of American artists and writers (Leonard Freed, Angela Davis, Shinkichi Tajiri, and Audre Lorde) who found refuge along the Berlin Wall and in Cold War Germany in order to confront political divisions back home in the United States. He is also the co-editor with Ken Lum of ​Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia​ (Temple University Press, 2019), a public art and history handbook and catalogue designed to generate new critical ways of thinking about and building monuments.

Kristin Ann Hass​ is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and the Faculty Coordinator of the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She has written two books, Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall,​ a study of militarism, race, war memorials and U.S. nationalism and ​Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial,​ an exploration of public memorial practices, material culture studies and the legacies of the Vietnam War. Her next book, ​Taking the Price of Freedom Seriously​, takes up the twentieth century public investment in and narratives about US militarism and nationalism in memorial Washington, DC and beyond. She lectures, teaches, and writes about nationalism, memory, publics, memorialization, militarization, visual culture and material culture studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies and has worked in a number of historical museums, including the National Museum of American History. She was also the co-founder and Associate Director of ​Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life​, a national consortium of educators and activists dedicated to campus-community collaborations.

Christina Olsen​ is the Director, University of Michigan Museum of Art. In a career spanning more than two decades, Christina has curated and produced groundbreaking exhibitions and initiatives, including ​Shine a Light​, an acclaimed annual museum-wide exhibition and event in Portland, Oregon; ​Object Stories​, an installation, audience, participation, and outreach initiative in 2010; ​WALLS​, a student art loan program at Williams College, and ​Accession Number,​ an exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art. In earlier posts, she was an associate producer at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco; curator of ​Art Access​, one of the first digital museum collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum; and a program officer at the Getty Foundation, where she managed the Foundation’s $4M in global grants for museum-based research and interpretation. Christina earned a bachelor’s degree in history of art from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree and doctorate in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.

Srimoyee Mitra​ is the Director of the Stamps Gallery at the Stamps School of Art and Design. She is a curator and writer whose work is invested in building empathy and mutual respect by bringing together meaningful and diverse works of art and design. She develops ambitious and socially relevant projects that mobilize the agency within creative practices and public audiences. Her research interests lie at the intersection of exhibition-making and participation, migration, globalization and decolonial aesthetics. Mitra has worked as an Arts Writer for publications in India such as ​Time Out Mumbai​ and ​Art India Magazine​. She was the Programming Co-ordinator of the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (2008-2010) in Toronto, where her curatorial projects included ​Crossing Lines: An Intercultural Dialogue​ at the Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford. In 2011, she was appointed the Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Windsor, where she developed an award-winning curatorial and publications program.

This program is organized by the U-M Center for World Performance Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art, the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design; and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

For more information, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 01 Dec 2019 18:16:56 -0500 2019-12-05T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Public Conversation: Monuments & Public Art (December 5, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69573 69573-17366253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Thursday, December 5
7:00pm-8:30pm
Hatcher Library Gallery | 913 S. University Avenue
Free & Open to the public

In celebration of the release of the new book on Philadelphia’s Monument Lab project, CWPS presents project co-founder and book co-editor Dr. Paul M. Farber to lead a public conversation about monuments and public art. Participants will be asked to interrogate the notion of what constitutes art in the public realm, address current controversies of public art and the future place of monuments, and consider the question of what kinds of monuments we need today.

Paul M. Farber is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Public Art and Space at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Farber earned a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan and is a former graduate resident of the Center for World Performance Studies. He is the author of A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) which tells the untold story of a group of American artists and writers (Leonard Freed, Angela Davis, Shinkichi Tajiri, and Audre Lorde) who found refuge along the Berlin Wall and in Cold War Germany in order to confront political divisions back home in the United States. He is also the co-editor with Ken Lum of Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia (Temple University Press, 2019), a public art and history handbook and catalogue designed to generate new critical ways of thinking about and building monuments.

Kristin Ann Hass is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and the Faculty Coordinator of the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She has written two books, Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall, a study of militarism, race, war memorials and U.S. nationalism and Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, an exploration of public memorial practices, material culture studies and the legacies of the Vietnam War. Her next book, Taking the Price of Freedom Seriously, takes up the twentieth century public investment in and narratives about US militarism and nationalism in memorial Washington, DC and beyond. She lectures, teaches, and writes about nationalism, memory, publics, memorialization, militarization, visual culture and material culture studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies and has worked in a number of historical museums, including the National Museum of American History. She was also the co-founder and Associate Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, a national consortium of educators and activists dedicated to campus-community collaborations.

Christina Olsen is the Director, University of Michigan Museum of Art. In a career spanning more than two decades, Christina has curated and produced groundbreaking exhibitions and initiatives, including Shine a Light, an acclaimed annual museum-wide exhibition and event in Portland, Oregon; Object Stories, an installation, audience, participation, and outreach initiative in 2010; WALLS, a student art loan program at Williams College, and Accession Number, an exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art. In earlier posts, she was an associate producer at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco; curator of Art Access, one of the first digital museum collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum; and a program officer at the Getty Foundation, where she managed the Foundation’s $4M in global grants for museum-based research and interpretation. Christina earned a bachelor’s degree in history of art from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree and doctorate in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.

Srimoyee Mitra is the Director of the Stamps Gallery at the Stamps School of Art and Design. She is a curator and writer whose work is invested in building empathy and mutual respect by bringing together meaningful and diverse works of art and design. She develops ambitious and socially relevant projects that mobilize the agency within creative practices and public audiences. Her research interests lie at the intersection of exhibition-making and participation, migration, globalization and decolonial aesthetics. Mitra has worked as an Arts Writer for publications in India such as Time Out Mumbai and Art India Magazine. She was the Programming Co-ordinator of the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (2008-2010) in Toronto, where her curatorial projects included Crossing Lines: An Intercultural Dialogue at the Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford. In 2011, she was appointed the Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Windsor, where she developed an award-winning curatorial and publications program.

This is event is co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art, Stamps Gallery at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Nov 2019 10:11:42 -0500 2019-12-05T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T20:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Monument Lab Poster
The Yeomen of the Guard (December 5, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68637 68637-17128430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society

To begin its 73rd season UMGASS presents "The Yeomen of the Guard, or the Merryman and His Maid," the story of the heroic Colonel Fairfax, under sentence of death on questionable grounds, whose heirs will lose their inheritance if he dies unmarried. The night before his scheduled execution the Colonel arranges to marry the strolling player Elsie Maynard for the price of 100 crowns, much to the chagrin of her traveling partner and presumed fiancé, the jester Jack Point. Will the Colonel, the marriage, and the Jester all survive until the final curtain?

David Andrews directs a cast featuring Austin DuBois, Megan Laine-Yacobozzi, and Makoto Takata, with music direction by Ezra Donner.

Tickets available at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/umichevents/4418283

Students can attend for free through the Passport to the Arts Program (http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/passport/).

Running time is 2 hours and 45 minutes.

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Performance Fri, 06 Dec 2019 10:39:37 -0500 2019-12-05T20:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T22:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society Performance Poster for Yeomen of the Guard
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (December 6, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-12-06T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 6, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-06T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 (December 6, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 66153-16711335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history.

Inspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly, can this thread then be unraveled?

Additionally, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.

As part of his residency, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.

About the artist:

Tylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist, educator, and curator living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity, both individual and collective, politics, race, history and pop culture. In 2013, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York, where he served as an art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. Most recently, in early 2014, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:51:53 -0500 2019-12-06T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition DNA by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (December 6, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-12-06T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (December 6, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-12-06T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 6, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-12-06T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (December 6, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-12-06T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (December 6, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-12-06T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (December 6, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-12-06T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
BLI Leadership Lunch: Dialogue on Peace (December 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69930 69930-17483067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Please join us for a discussion and presentation centered around peace leadership and peace studies at the University of Michigan. Members of the 2019 Japan Peace Leadership cohort and a 2019 Ginsberg Center Davis Peace Project recipient will talk about their program experience and observations about peace studies options on campus.

Please register:
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/21278

Open to non-BLI members.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:13:48 -0500 2019-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Social / Informal Gathering Peace Leadership Lunch
Engaging Images: Art History and Anthropology in Conversation (December 6, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66190 66190-16719579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: History of Art

A symposium in honor of Jennifer Robertson and Celeste Brusati.

SPEAKERS:

Art and/as "Historical Ethnography"
Julie Hochstrasser - University of Iowa

In which an art historian reflects upon the role of anthropology in her scholarship on the seventeenth-century Dutch across the course of her career, pausing to dwell upon several case studies in greater depth. Explores the notion of "historical ethnography" in several respects: examples of early modern artists as proto-ethnographers, and on the other hand, the art historian herself as ethnographer, tackling subjects doubly distanced, both culturally and temporally.

"Historically Hot: Reimagining Beauty from Japan's Past"
Laura Miller - University of Missouri, St. Louis

Who was considered to be a beautiful man or a gorgeous woman in Japan’s ancient period? What did an attractive Edo samurai or courtesan look like? When contemporary popular culture producers set out to create manga, anime, film and TV series set in historical eras, they often find that the beauty standards of long ago are quite different from contemporary reader and viewer standards. Rather than try to represent historically accurate appearance, artists and writers meld some aspects of historic fashion with recent ideals for body and facial types. This presentation will feature several reimagined historical figures who are represented by actors, cosplayers, or drawn characters who reflect today’s beauty ideology rather than those of the periods they are portraying. Although some efforts are made to depict the costumes and hairstyles of the period, the desire to cater to current beauty norms dominates these productions.

"Lodging/Dwelling/Painting in Elizabethan England"
Elizabeth Alice Honig - University of Maryland, College Park

From the Old Testament to Heidegger and beyond, the concept of “dwelling” has been freighted with significance. It has meant belonging and being chosen, shared community and special entitlement, a state of mind as well as one of physical habitation, the possession of selfhood and of a perspective on the world. This paper explores “dwelling” in Renaissance England, particularly considering those who lack that privilege. It takes as its foci first, a set of Elizabethan wall paintings at Pittleworth Manor that depicts the story of rich Dives and the roaming beggar Lazarus; and second, the prison run by Pittleworth’s recusant owner, which became a kind of dwelling-place for imprisoned Catholics.

"Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan"
Gennifer Weisenfeld - Duke University

An army of schoolgirls march through Tokyo, their faces an anonymous procession of gas masks. Photographer Horino Masao’s Gas Mask Parade, Tokyo from 1936 is one of the most iconic images of the anxious modernism of 1930s Japan. It reveals the vivid yet prosaic inculcation of fear in Japanese daily life through the increasingly pervasive visual culture of civil defense. Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in late 1931—the beginning of its Fifteen-Year War—marks the onset of a period of intense social mobilization and militarization on the home front as the war zone expanded on the continent and throughout the Pacific. Surveillance, secrecy, darkness, defensive barriers, physical security, and prophylaxis all became standard visual tropes of national preparedness and communal anxiety. Still, amidst this anxiety, a culture of pleasure and wonder persisted, a culture in which tasty Morinaga-brand caramels were sold to children with paper gas masks as promotional giveaways, and popular magazines featured everything from attractive models in the latest civil defense fashions to marvelous futuristic wartime weapons. The visual and material culture of civil air defense or bōkū titillated the senses, even evoking the erotic through the monstrously enticing gas mask figures marching through the streets.

Prevailing scholarship portrays the war years in Japan as a landscape of privation where consumer and popular culture—and creativity in general—were suppressed under the massive censorship of the war machine. Without denying the horrors of total war, this understanding of the cultural climate needs revision. Pleasure, desire, wonder, creativity, and humor were all still abundantly present. Humanity persisted in its complexity. Therefore, by grasping the full nature of wartime’s all-encompassing sensory and compensatory enticements, the dangers of its mix of sacrifice and gratification are unmasked

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:57:23 -0500 2019-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) History of Art Conference / Symposium poster
Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court (December 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 69348-17310293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:36:20 -0500 2019-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-07T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Art at 327 Braun Court
Opening Night: If we were ___________, this would be ________________. (December 6, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69727 69727-17392896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 4:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

The exhibition includes work created as part of the fall 2019 RCARTS classes including Photography, Sculpture, Ceramics and Drawing as well as the RCHUMS course, How To Think (Arts).

Opens on December 6 with a reception serving local baked goods and snacks from 4:30-6pm. Runs until December 17. Gallery hours 10-5pm, Monday through Friday.

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:11:29 -0500 2019-12-06T16:30:00-05:00 2019-12-06T18:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Exhibition Poster
The Yeomen of the Guard (December 6, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68637 68637-17128431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society

To begin its 73rd season UMGASS presents "The Yeomen of the Guard, or the Merryman and His Maid," the story of the heroic Colonel Fairfax, under sentence of death on questionable grounds, whose heirs will lose their inheritance if he dies unmarried. The night before his scheduled execution the Colonel arranges to marry the strolling player Elsie Maynard for the price of 100 crowns, much to the chagrin of her traveling partner and presumed fiancé, the jester Jack Point. Will the Colonel, the marriage, and the Jester all survive until the final curtain?

David Andrews directs a cast featuring Austin DuBois, Megan Laine-Yacobozzi, and Makoto Takata, with music direction by Ezra Donner.

Tickets available at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/umichevents/4418283

Students can attend for free through the Passport to the Arts Program (http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/passport/).

Running time is 2 hours and 45 minutes.

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Performance Fri, 06 Dec 2019 10:39:37 -0500 2019-12-06T20:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T22:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society Performance Poster for Yeomen of the Guard
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (December 7, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-12-07T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-07T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 7, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-07T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (December 7, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (December 7, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 7, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (December 7, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (December 7, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (December 7, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
The Yeomen of the Guard (December 7, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68637 68637-17128433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society

To begin its 73rd season UMGASS presents "The Yeomen of the Guard, or the Merryman and His Maid," the story of the heroic Colonel Fairfax, under sentence of death on questionable grounds, whose heirs will lose their inheritance if he dies unmarried. The night before his scheduled execution the Colonel arranges to marry the strolling player Elsie Maynard for the price of 100 crowns, much to the chagrin of her traveling partner and presumed fiancé, the jester Jack Point. Will the Colonel, the marriage, and the Jester all survive until the final curtain?

David Andrews directs a cast featuring Austin DuBois, Megan Laine-Yacobozzi, and Makoto Takata, with music direction by Ezra Donner.

Tickets available at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/umichevents/4418283

Students can attend for free through the Passport to the Arts Program (http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/passport/).

Running time is 2 hours and 45 minutes.

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Performance Fri, 06 Dec 2019 10:39:37 -0500 2019-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society Performance Poster for Yeomen of the Guard
Noel Night (December 7, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64979 64979-16499250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

Join us as we participate once again in Midtown's annual Noel Night.

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Other Wed, 07 Aug 2019 10:37:44 -0400 2019-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 2019-12-07T22:00:00-05:00 Detroit Center University of Michigan Detroit Center Other
Prison Creative Arts Project Art Auction (December 7, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64739 64739-16442903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Mark your calendars for 2019 Art Auction hosted by Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), and join us for an evening with wine, dessert, art, and connect with the PCAP community.

Behind the scene of every Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is our ongoing effort towards making the exhibition happen. Proceeds from the auction will support the upcoming 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. This auction will feature artwork donated by incarcerated artists, PCAP curators, University of Michigan faculty, and Michigan artists.

Dec 7, 2019 at Michigan League, Hussey Room
911 N. University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
6:30 p.m. Wine & Dessert Reception, Silent Auction
7:30 p.m. Live Auction Begins
*Free Admission*

Cover Artwork: Still Paul, Nino Tanzini, acrylic on canvas

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Other Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:40:52 -0400 2019-12-07T18:30:00-05:00 2019-12-07T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Prison Creative Arts Project, The Other event cover
Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court (December 7, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 69348-17310294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

From Nov 7 to Dec 7, 2019, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by, check out the art from PCAP, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:36:20 -0500 2019-12-07T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering PCAP Art at 327 Braun Court
The Yeomen of the Guard (December 7, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68637 68637-17128432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society

To begin its 73rd season UMGASS presents "The Yeomen of the Guard, or the Merryman and His Maid," the story of the heroic Colonel Fairfax, under sentence of death on questionable grounds, whose heirs will lose their inheritance if he dies unmarried. The night before his scheduled execution the Colonel arranges to marry the strolling player Elsie Maynard for the price of 100 crowns, much to the chagrin of her traveling partner and presumed fiancé, the jester Jack Point. Will the Colonel, the marriage, and the Jester all survive until the final curtain?

David Andrews directs a cast featuring Austin DuBois, Megan Laine-Yacobozzi, and Makoto Takata, with music direction by Ezra Donner.

Tickets available at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/umichevents/4418283

Students can attend for free through the Passport to the Arts Program (http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/passport/).

Running time is 2 hours and 45 minutes.

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Performance Fri, 06 Dec 2019 10:39:37 -0500 2019-12-07T20:00:00-05:00 2019-12-07T22:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society Performance Poster for Yeomen of the Guard
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (December 8, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-12-08T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-08T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (December 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (December 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (December 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Mari Katayama (December 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile. Born with a developmental condition, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas, dressed in revealing lingerie in private, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (December 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection, and why? Who and what should be represented, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen, who has gathered more than 60,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film, Television, and Media.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
UMMA Pop Up: Benjamin Green & Elijah Meisse (December 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68223 68223-17028939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Benjamin Green & Elijah Meisse explore sounds and soundscapes through the medium of the analog synthesizers and iconic drum machines of the 1970s and 1980s. Inspired by masters such as Jeff Mills and Blake Baxter. Benjamin Green is a senior Jazz Studies major in the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance (SMTD). Elijah Meisse is also in the SMTD, studying Performing Arts Technology.

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Performance Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:17:37 -0400 2019-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (December 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65379 65379-16575573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Far from being frowned upon as uncreative, in China, Korea, and Japan, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world. A museum docent will interpret the complex ways that Asian artists have produced multiple artworks through time.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Presentation Fri, 08 Nov 2019 18:17:02 -0500 2019-12-08T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
The Yeomen of the Guard (December 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68637 68637-17128434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society

To begin its 73rd season UMGASS presents "The Yeomen of the Guard, or the Merryman and His Maid," the story of the heroic Colonel Fairfax, under sentence of death on questionable grounds, whose heirs will lose their inheritance if he dies unmarried. The night before his scheduled execution the Colonel arranges to marry the strolling player Elsie Maynard for the price of 100 crowns, much to the chagrin of her traveling partner and presumed fiancé, the jester Jack Point. Will the Colonel, the marriage, and the Jester all survive until the final curtain?

David Andrews directs a cast featuring Austin DuBois, Megan Laine-Yacobozzi, and Makoto Takata, with music direction by Ezra Donner.

Tickets available at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/umichevents/4418283

Students can attend for free through the Passport to the Arts Program (http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/passport/).

Running time is 2 hours and 45 minutes.

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Performance Fri, 06 Dec 2019 10:39:37 -0500 2019-12-08T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society Performance Poster for Yeomen of the Guard
In Conversation: Finding Memories in Found Photographs (December 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65675 65675-16629884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs by joining Assistant Curator of Photography, Jennifer M. Friess, for an interactive tour in the new ArtGym gallery.  We will discuss the significance of “everyday” photographs, the sometimes unknowable stories of these historic images, and what the photographs might contribute to UMMA’s permanent collection for future audiences. Visit the gallery, reflect on our long history of photographing ourselves and our experiences, and then cast your vote for your favorites! 

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Department of Film, Television, and Media, and Department of American Culture.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 07 Dec 2019 18:16:19 -0500 2019-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (December 9, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-12-09T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 9, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-09T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 (December 9, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 66153-16711338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history.

Inspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly, can this thread then be unraveled?

Additionally, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.

As part of his residency, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.

About the artist:

Tylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist, educator, and curator living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity, both individual and collective, politics, race, history and pop culture. In 2013, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York, where he served as an art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. Most recently, in early 2014, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:51:53 -0500 2019-12-09T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition DNA by Tylonn J. Sawyer
If we were ___________, this would be ________________. (December 9, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69729 69729-17392897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

The exhibition includes work created as part of the fall 2019 RCARTS classes including Photography, Sculpture, Ceramics and Drawing as well as the RCHUMS course, How To Think (Arts). Runs until December 17. Gallery hours 10-5pm, Monday through Friday.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:40:07 -0500 2019-12-09T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Exhibition Poster
Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck (December 10, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 69123-17250825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces, peoples, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths.

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:13:59 -0500 2019-12-10T08:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T20:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hamtramck
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 10, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-10T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 (December 10, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 66153-16711339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history.

Inspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly, can this thread then be unraveled?

Additionally, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.

As part of his residency, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.

About the artist:

Tylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist, educator, and curator living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity, both individual and collective, politics, race, history and pop culture. In 2013, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York, where he served as an art director, teacher, curriculum specialist, and more. Most recently, in early 2014, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:51:53 -0500 2019-12-10T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition DNA by Tylonn J. Sawyer
If we were ___________, this would be ________________. (December 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69729 69729-17392898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

The exhibition includes work created as part of the fall 2019 RCARTS classes including Photography, Sculpture, Ceramics and Drawing as well as the RCHUMS course, How To Think (Arts). Runs until December 17. Gallery hours 10-5pm, Monday through Friday.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:40:07 -0500 2019-12-10T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Exhibition Poster
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (December 10, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15784133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s, that question was hotly debated as artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-12-10T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (December 10, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s, artists, critics, and the public grappled with the relationship between art, politics, race, and feminism. During these decades, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-12-10T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 10, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-12-10T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art