Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (January 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Positive Links Speaker Series (January 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70342 70342-17584117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Social Excellence: Detect it, Learn from It, Create It
Robert E. Quinn

Thursday, January 16, 2020
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/social-excellence-detect-it-learn-from-it-create-it

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.

About the talk:
The field of Positive Organizational Scholarship asks what people, groups, and organizations are like when at their very best. Researchers in the field scientifically examine the best of the human condition. This means researchers use science to learn from excellence. For 18 years, Quinn has been teaching executives how to understand and apply these accumulating scientific findings. In the process, he has become increasingly aware that in the world of practice, like the world of science, most people do not attend to or learn from excellence. They learn from failure while seeking to reproduce order. In this participative session, Quinn will explore three questions:
1. What does it mean to learn from excellence?
2. How does learning from excellence alter leadership and culture?
3. What can we do to learn from and create social excellence?

About Quinn:
Robert E. Quinn is the Margaret Elliot Tracy Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. His research and writing focus on purpose, leadership, culture, and change. He is one of the co-founders of the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship and a co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations.

In terms of research, he is in the top 1% of professors cited in organizational behavior textbooks. He has published 18 books. As a teacher, Quinn is the recipient of multiple awards. In a recent global survey, he was named one of the top speakers in the world on the topic of organizational culture and related issues. Last year, his talk on personal purpose went viral on Facebook and has been viewed over 16 million times.

Host:
Gretchen Spreitzer, Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Management and Organizations

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/social-excellence-detect-it-learn-from-it-create-it

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Presentation Mon, 16 Dec 2019 11:58:34 -0500 2020-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Robert E. Quinn
Hawaiian Night (January 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69852 69852-17474731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Mosher-Jordan Hall
Organized By: Michigan Dining

Come by Mojo for a fun Hawaiian evening!

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Well-being Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:20:29 -0500 2020-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T20:00:00-05:00 Mosher-Jordan Hall Michigan Dining Well-being Hawaiian Night
CWPS Film Screening: Gone to the Village (January 16, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70293 70293-17564368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Gone to the Village: Royal Funerary Rites for Asantehemaa Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II
A Film by Kwasi Ampene
Executive Producer: Lester P. Monts

Thursday, January 16, 2020
7-8:30pm
East Quad Keene Theater
Free & Open to the public

Center for World Performance Studies hosts a screening of Gone to the Village, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Kwasi Ampene. Gone to the Village is a unique and powerful documentary, beautifully filmed, of the elaborate funerary rites for the Queen Mother of the Asante in Ghana. Leading Asante scholar Kwasi Ampene directs and narrates with the authority, gaze and sensitivity of a true insider, with stunning footage of the rich cultural traditions of the Asante people. Filmed on location in Kumase during the funeral, we witness traditions that have stubbornly and proudly resisted the onslaught of colonial rule and globalization.

Through the film, we learn about the history of the Asante as well as the central role of women in this matriarchal society. The scenes of dance, song, drumming, proverbs, and dress code are of exceptional and exquisite beauty, unprecedented in the African continent.

Watch the video trailer: https://youtu.be/C2buzvL4bGY

Kwasi Ampene is associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan (USA). He specializes in the rich musical traditions of the Akan people of Ghana, West Africa. He is the author of Female Song Tradition and the Akan Ghana (Ashgate); Engaging Modernity: Asante in the Twenty-First Century (Michigan Publishing); and the producer of the documentary film, Gone to the Village. His book manuscript, Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool, is under contract with Routledge Press.

This film was made possible with funding from: The Office of Research (UMOR) / LSA Scholarship/Research Fund (LSA) / African Studies Center (ASC) / The Michigan Musical Heritage Project (MMHP) / Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) / Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / The African Humanities and Heritage Initiative (AHHI at the ASC) / Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG)

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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Film Screening Fri, 13 Dec 2019 09:28:18 -0500 2020-01-16T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T20:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Film Screening Asantehemaa
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 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 2020-01-17T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
South East Asian Week (Indonesia/Vietnam) (January 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71269 71269-17794067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Bursley Hall
Organized By: Michigan Dining

Bursley will be featuring Southeast Asian cuisine from January 13th-17th at both lunch and dinner.

Friday features:
INDONESIAN
NOODLE MIE GORENG
SF SHRIMP TOPPING
TOFU RAW TOPPING HOT
EGGS SCRAMBLED
TOMATOES SLICED
CUCUMBER SLICES
LIME WEDGES

VIETNAMESE
BO LUC LAC
RICE JASMINE
TOMATO SLICES
CUCUMBER SLICES
ONIONS RED SLICED

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Well-being Fri, 10 Jan 2020 14:54:47 -0500 2020-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T20:00:00-05:00 Bursley Hall Michigan Dining Well-being SE Asian Week Indonesia/Vietnam
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 18, 2020 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 2020-01-18T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 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 (January 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 19, 2020 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 2020-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
UMMA Book Club: Stories from the North (January 19, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68748 68748-17147136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 19, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Please join us for a monthly gathering that offers a starting point to discover a variety of narratives pertaining to the cultures of North American Indigenous people featuring the works of Inuit and indigenous authors. We will meet on the third Sunday of each month in the University of Michigan Museum of Art’s exhibition, Reflections: An Ordinary Day. The prints, drawings, and sculptures featured in this exhibition of Inuit art explore the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Each of the four gatherings will present an opportunity to enjoy traditional storytelling as well as discuss books written by contemporary Inuit and Native American authors. Our book club facilitator is Elizabeth James, a Detroit-based Powhatan storyteller and Program Manager at the U-M Department for AfroAmerican and African Studies.​

3rd Sunday of the month at at 3 p.m. 

January 19: The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet by Sheila Watt-Cloutier 

February 16: House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed]: A Novel (P.S.) Anniversary Edition by N. Scott Momaday 

March 22: Sanaaq:  An Inuit Novel by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk (Author), Peter Frost (Translator)

April 19: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Books will be available for sale in the UMMA Shop. Book Club participants will receive a 10% discount.  

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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Other Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:16:36 -0500 2020-01-19T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Poetry Showcase | " Whose Dream Is This?" (January 20, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70870 70870-17724622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: The Guild Poetry Inc.

From performing for TEDx and the Detroit Pistons to Oxford and the Motown Museum, the award-winning poets of The Guild have assembled their talents to curate a poetry showcase that will be sure to inspire, challenge, and engage audiences of all backgrounds. The performance will feature Michigan-based poets including Justin Gordon, Candace Jackson, Mikhaella Norwood, Mariah Smith, Darius Simpson, Mercedes Pergande, and actor Kate Mendeloff.

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Performance Thu, 02 Jan 2020 10:24:41 -0500 2020-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T19:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle The Guild Poetry Inc. Performance Artists of The Guild Poetry
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 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 2020-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Q & A: Raquel Salas Rivera (January 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64530 64530-16386893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Raquel Salas Rivera is Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, winner of the 2018 Ambroggio Prize, & winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.

Free to attend and open to all!

We invite all to join in this event; if you have any accessibility questions or requests about attending, please contact the Hopwood Program Manager at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu or by phone at 764-6296.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:36:32 -0500 2020-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Poet Raquel Salas Rivera wearing a floral shirt and hoop earrings
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-22T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Mary Kamidoi: My journey from Stockton, through the WWII Rohwer Internment Camp, to Michigan (January 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69832 69832-17433860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Mary Kamidoi recalls her childhood in Stockton, California, her memories of internment camp life in the Rohwer (Arkansas) internment camp, and enduring anti-Japanese and anti-Asian discrimination upon her arrival in Michigan.

Mary Kamidoi serves as Treasurer of Japanese American Citizens League-Detroit Chapter, as Treasurer of American Citizens for Justice, and is the trustee for the Japanese American Citizens League-Detroit Chapter's scholarship program.

This event is free and open to the public and organized in association with AMCULT 301-001: "A/PIA in the Civil Rights Movement"

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:45:24 -0500 2020-01-22T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T11:20:00-05:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 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 2020-01-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Lunch & Learn: Understanding the U.S. Primary Election (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70962 70962-17760236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: International Center

Not sure what happens during the U.S. Primary Elections? Want to know more about getting involved in the U.S. elections as an international student?

Come to this special Lunch & Learn session to hear from International Center and Ginsberg Center staff about the 2020 Primary Elections and what this means for you as international students.

Registration encouraged. Lunch will be provided.

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Other Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:04:06 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:30:00-05:00 Michigan League International Center Other Voting Lunch and Learn
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 23, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-23T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 23, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 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 2020-01-23T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Taste of Culture (January 23, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71572 71572-17842677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 1:00pm
Location: International Center
Organized By: International Center

Stop by the International Center to enjoy some snacks and learn a little bit about the culture and tradition.

No registration is necessary. First come first served. There is no formal presentation at the event.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 28 Feb 2020 09:31:47 -0500 2020-01-23T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 International Center International Center Social / Informal Gathering Taste of Culture
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (January 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Paani Culture Night 2020 (January 23, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71350 71350-17819208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: PAANI

EVERYONE’S INVITED.

Culture. Music. Festivities. Tea. Food. Dance.

Grab your cultural clothes, grab your friends, and join cultural Bangladeshi, Egyptian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Pakistani, Persian, Syrian, and Yemeni student organizations for a night of cultural celebration and empowerment. A chance for our diverse cultures - Desi, Non-Desi, Middle-Eastern, Non-Middle Eastern - to unite over a common struggle.

What all ten of these countries share are serious sanitation issues. Many have suffered as a result of these unsafe conditions, and unfortunately, media has portrayed them as victims from political warfare rather than human beings with rich, deep cultural ties and appreciation for their country. As a way to honor and showcase this love for the countries, Paani is bringing together everyone together to rediscover their cultural roots!

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Performance Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:42:37 -0500 2020-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T23:59:00-05:00 Museum of Art PAANI Performance Culture Night Flier
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 24, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 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 2020-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 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 (January 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 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 2020-01-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Beta Omicron Founders' Ball (January 25, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71691 71691-17862147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc.

On January 23rd, 2000 the infinite eight brought us hoMe. Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Incorporated Beta Omicron Chapter at the University of Michigan is turning 20! Join us in celebrating the Leaders and Best, and the First Lambda Ladies in the Midwest. Enjoy the free food and amazing speeches by our Lovely Sisters!

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Social / Informal Gathering Sat, 18 Jan 2020 13:09:25 -0500 2020-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. Social / Informal Gathering Join us at Beta Omicron Founders' Ball! Celebrating 20 years of being the Epitome of Endurance. Leaders and Best, the first Lambda Ladies in the Midwest!
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 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 2020-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 27, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-27T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (January 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2020-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
In Commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70992 70992-17766491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 8:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Join retired RC Social Theory and Practice faculty member Hank Greenspan and friends for a reading and discussion of his new 15-minute play "Death / Play or Rubinstein, the Mad Jester of the Warsaw Ghetto"

"Death / Play" centers on a psychological duel between Rubinstein and Abraham Gancwaych, a notorious collaborator with the Gestapo. Both Rubinstein and Gancwaych were real people, famous within the ghetto.

Directed by RC Drama head faculty member, Kate Mendeloff
Performed by Hank Greenspan, Robby Griswold, and Isaac Ellis

Monday, January 27, 2020
East Quad classroom 1405
8pm
Free and open to the public

For information, contact Hank at hgreensp@umich.edu

Henry Greenspan, Ph.D., taught in the Residential College of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts from 1987 to 2019, ultimately attaining a Lecturer IV title. Dr. Greenspan received his A.B. (1970) and M.Ed. (1973) from Harvard University and his Ph.D. (1985) from Brandeis University. He came to the University of Michigan as a Junior Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows (1977-80). He worked as a Senior Counselor at Counseling Services (now CAPS) from 1983 to 1988 and joined the faculty of the Residential College in 1987. Within the RC, Dr. Greenspan has been an Academic Advisor, Chair of the First-year Seminar and Social Theory and Practice programs, and a revered teacher.

Dr. Greenspan has been interviewing, writing about, and teaching about Holocaust survivors since the 1970s—now longer than anyone in the world. Both editions of his book—On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History (1998) and the expanded On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Beyond Testimony (2010)--are considered seminal texts in oral history and Holocaust studies. Along with numerous chapters and journal articles on survivors, Dr. Greenspan wrote the chapter on survivor testimony for the Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (2010). He has worked closely with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum since it opened in 1993. He was the museum’s sixth annual Weinmann Lecturer (2000) and co-led the annual Hess seminar for Professors of Holocaust Courses (2011). His interview methodology has been adopted by large oral history projects with genocide survivors—especially in Rwanda and Cambodia. He was the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the Centre of Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University in Montreal (2012). Dr. Greenspan continues to mentor, consult, and present his research internationally--most recently, in Jerusalem (2016), Berlin (2016), New Delhi (2018), London (2018), Toronto (2018), and Montreal (2019).

Dr. Greenspan is also a playwright whose “Remnants” was originally produced at WUOM-FM and distributed to NPR stations in 1991. “Remnants” became a stage play that has been performed at more 300 venues worldwide.

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Presentation Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:04:08 -0500 2020-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T21:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Presentation Rubinstein in the Warsaw Ghetto
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-28T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 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 2020-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Privacy@Michigan 2020 (January 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71094 71094-17777056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Register to attend the Privacy@Michigan Symposium and Research Showcase Tuesday, January 28, 1 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre (4th floor) and celebrate the 2020 International Data Privacy Day. Attendance is free and open to the public but space is limited. Please RSVP.

For a schedule of events and to register visit: https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/privacy-at-michigan/2020

Kathleen Kingsbury, editor of The New York Times Privacy Project, will give the keynote address. Multi-disciplinary experts will participate in panel discussions on a range of privacy-related topics. A privacy fair including a privacy clinic, where students help with general privacy questions, and posters showcasing privacy research at the University of Michigan will be available throughout the afternoon.

This event organized by the University of Michigan School of Information, University of Michigan Information Assurance, and the Dissonance Event Series.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:49:19 -0500 2020-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Information and Technology Services (ITS) Conference / Symposium Privacy@Michigan Symposium - Keynote Speaker: Kathleen Kingsbury
Hopwood Award Submissions Drop-in Workshop (January 28, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64574 64574-16388943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Before the January 29th deadline for the January Hopwood Awards, come by to finalize your submission!

This is an informal chance to drop in, ask questions about the submissions tool, troubleshoot anything that might go wrong, and learn more about the contest categories and eligibility requirements.

For details on the Hopwood Awards that are open to you, visit
https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood/contests-prizes.html

This event is free and all are welcome. If you have any accessibility questions or requests, please contact the Hopwood Program Manager at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu or by phone at 764-6296.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:19:47 -0400 2020-01-28T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Class / Instruction The Hopwood Room
Wallace House Presents “The 1619 Project: Examining the Legacy of Slavery and the Building of a Nation” (January 28, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70101 70101-17530518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

Journalism is often called the first draft of history. But journalism can also be used as a powerful tool for examining history.

Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia, establishing the system of slavery on which the United States was built.

With The 1619 Project, The New York Times is prompting conversation and debate about the legacy of slavery and its influence over American society and culture. From mass incarceration to traffic jams, the project seeks to reframe our understanding of American history and the fight to live up to our nation’s central promise.

Wallace House Presents the project’s creator, New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, in conversation with Rochelle Riley, longtime journalist and columnist.

About the Speaker:
Nikole Hannah-Jones is a domestic correspondent for The New York Times Magazine focusing on racial injustice. She has written on federal failures to enforce the Fair Housing Act, the resegregation of American schools and policing in America. Her extensive reporting in both print and radio on the ways segregation in housing and schools is maintained through official action and policy has earned the National Magazine Award, a Peabody and a Polk Award. Her work designing “The 1619 Project” has been met with universal acclaim. The project was released in August 2019 to mark the 400th anniversary of American slavery and re-examines the role it plays in the history of the United States.

Hannah-Jones earned her bachelor’s in history and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame and her master’s in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

About the Moderator:
Rochelle Riley was a 2007-2008 Knight-Wallace Fellow and is the Director of Arts and Culture for the City of Detroit. For nineteen years she was a columnist at the Detroit Free Press. Riley is author of “The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery” and the upcoming “That They Lived: Twenty African Americans Who Changed The World.” She has won numerous national, state and local honors, including the 2017 Ida B. Wells Award from the National Association of Black Journalists for her outstanding efforts to make newsrooms and news coverage more accurately reflect the diversity of the communities they serve and the 2018 Detroit SPJ Lifetime Achievement Award alongside her longtime friend, Walter Middlebrook. She was a 2016 inductee into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.

This is a 2020 Annual U-M Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium event.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:04:06 -0500 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T19:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Nikole Hannah-Jones
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 29, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-29T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 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 2020-01-29T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Wallace House Presents Davey Alba of The New York Times with Ceren Burdak of the School of Information and College of Engineering (January 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70103 70103-17530519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

In 2018, journalist Davey Alba traveled to the Philippines to investigate Facebook’s breakneck proliferation in that country and President Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to power. She revealed how the politician’s incendiary style aligned perfectly with the tech company’s algorithms that reward entertaining, inflammatory content. From maligning opponents to espousing hardline policies to combat the drug trade, Duterte’s operatives created memes, propaganda and egregious libel that flourished on Facebook. Join Alba and Ceren Budak, associate professor, University of Michigan, for an examination of how demagogic political campaigns worldwide have weaponized the social media platform.

About the Speakers:
Davey Alba is a reporter for The New York Times covering technology. Prior to joining the Times, she was a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News. She has been a staff writer at Wired and an editor at Popular Mechanics. Alba grew up in the Philippines and holds a B.A. degree from De La Salle University in Manila and an M.A. in science journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She received the 2019 Livingston Award for international reporting for her BuzzFeed investigation “How Duterte Used Facebook to Fuel the Philippine Drug War“.

Ceren Budak is an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and the College of Engineering. Her research interests lie in the area of computational social science, a discipline at the intersection of computer science, statistics and the social sciences. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New York. Burdak received a PhD from the computer science department at University of California, Santa Barbara and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Bilkent University in Turkey.

This Livingston Lecture event is co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program

The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy is a co-sponsor of the event.

This event is produced with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Dec 2019 11:09:45 -0500 2020-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Davey Alba
60 Minutes Around the Globe (January 29, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71803 71803-17885892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 5:30pm
Location: International Center
Organized By: International Center

60 Minutes Around the Globe is an opportunity for international students to present a variety of topics they choose (e.g. food, music, sports, politics, religions, etc.) from their home countries. Through an informal presentation, followed by questions and answers, it promotes awareness and discussions among those attending the events.

Cultural food tastings provided. While walk-ins are welcome at the event, early registration is appreciated so we can better prepare for the event.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:25:11 -0400 2020-01-29T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-29T18:30:00-05:00 International Center International Center Social / Informal Gathering 60 Minutes Saudi Arabia
Local Learning at Literati: The Art of Cullen Washington Jr. (January 29, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70733 70733-17621673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Vera Grant, curator of the UMMA exhibition Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square, presents an expansive look at the exhibition, and the artist’s recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly, through the dual lens of race and humanity.

Vera Ingrid Grant is an art consultant, curator, and writer, living in Ann Arbor, MI. Grant served as Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, and curator of modern and contemporary art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) in 2018-19. Previously, she was the founding director of the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University. She most recently curated Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square; Reflections: An Ordinary Day. Grant has an MA in Modern European History from Stanford University with a concentration in comparative studies of race and visual culture and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hamburg. She was the Associate Director for the Program in African and African American Studies (2001-2007) at Stanford University. She was a fellow (2015-16) at the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL). January 29th. 

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:03 -0500 2020-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 30, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-30T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 30, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 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 2020-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (January 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Continuing Korematsu: Our Fight in the Trump Era (January 30, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72117 72117-17939981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Asian Pacific American Law Students Association

January 30th is the Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. On February 19th, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, one of the most blatant forms of racial profiling in US history, which led to the forced removal and incarceration of over 120,000 American citizens and residents on the basis of being ethnically Japanese. Fred T. Korematsu was one of many who refused to be incarcerated, and was arrested. A national civil rights hero, Fred Korematsu appealed his case to the Supreme Court. Although the Supreme Court ruled against him in 1944, in 1983 his conviction was overturned in a coram nobis proceeding where Fred Korematsu addressed the court, saying, “I would like to see the government admit they were wrong, and do something about it so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color.”

In 2014 and again in 2019, the US government attempted to reopen the Fort Sill camp to incarcerate migrant children from Latin America; Fort Sill was previously used as a concentration camp where Native Americans and Japanese Americans were detained. In June 2017, ICE agents raided and arrested Iraqi families in the Detroit area, leading to the ACLU’s lawsuit, Hamama v. Adducci. Raids on Iraqi families have continued into 2019.

On January 30th, APALSA's Political Action Committee, in partnership with the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission and Stop Repeating History would like to invite you to attend a screening of the documentary Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 by Jon Osaki, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A led by University of Michigan Law student Kevin Luong.

This event features incredible guest speakers: Dr. Karen Korematsu, Don Tamaki, Aamina Ahmed, Mary Kamidoi, and Michael Steinberg. Free and open to the public. Food from Curry On will be provided with RSVP: bit.ly/2tfDsnu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:49:48 -0500 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Asian Pacific American Law Students Association Lecture / Discussion Korematsu Day Poster
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 31, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-31T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (January 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 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 2020-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 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 (February 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 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 2020-02-01T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 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 2020-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Malaysian Cultural Night 2020 (February 2, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71700 71700-17868607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: Michigan Malaysian Students' Association (MiMSA)

For the past 10 years, the Michigan Malaysian Students' Association (MiMSA) has come together to prepare for one special night every year: the Malaysian Cultural Night.
Free for all, people of all ages are welcome to spend their evening with a musical that delves into Malaysian art, culture and racial dynamics. Guests are also invited for a free dinner with some good Malaysian company after the show. This year, we present Kita.

Kita (Us)

Malaysian Cultural Night 2020 will follow the story of 4 Malaysian students who transferred to the University of Michigan, each with their unique background stories. The light hearted play will showcase unity among ethnically diverse people, and most importantly, the significance of true friendship. The characters will embody individuals that struggle with family expectations, finding their identities away from home, making friends all whilst adapting to a new culture in a new country. This play is highly relatable to students who are studying abroad, and it aims to realize the experience as well as to educate the non-Malaysian audience on our identity. MCN 2020 will also showcase a variety of traditional dances from different ethnic groups in Malaysia.

To RSVP: https://www.universe.com/events/malaysian-cultural-night-2020-tickets-6TYBWL

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Performance Sun, 19 Jan 2020 10:53:10 -0500 2020-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T21:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Michigan Malaysian Students' Association (MiMSA) Performance Malaysian Cultural Night 2020
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 3, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-03T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
American Musical Theater (February 3, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70454 70454-17596560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This course will cover the lives and the musical careers of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin and their contemporaries. The Study Group for those 50 and over led by Edwin Marcus is held Mondays February 3 through March 2.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 17 Dec 2019 20:28:44 -0500 2020-02-03T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72533 72533-18015940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019《2019年逃犯及刑事事宜相互法律協助法例(修訂)條例草案》, also known as the Extradition Bill, a wave of ongoing protests have begun in Hong Kong since June 2019. The Extradition Bill incident led to a wide-reaching social movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only ways through which Hong Kong people expressed their opinions. Promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes also played significant roles in the movement. In this exhibition, we will present these incredible art pieces, exploring their aesthetics and functions.

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:46:24 -0500 2020-02-04T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 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 2020-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72533 72533-18015941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019《2019年逃犯及刑事事宜相互法律協助法例(修訂)條例草案》, also known as the Extradition Bill, a wave of ongoing protests have begun in Hong Kong since June 2019. The Extradition Bill incident led to a wide-reaching social movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only ways through which Hong Kong people expressed their opinions. Promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes also played significant roles in the movement. In this exhibition, we will present these incredible art pieces, exploring their aesthetics and functions.

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:46:24 -0500 2020-02-05T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 5, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-05T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 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 2020-02-05T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72533 72533-18015942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019《2019年逃犯及刑事事宜相互法律協助法例(修訂)條例草案》, also known as the Extradition Bill, a wave of ongoing protests have begun in Hong Kong since June 2019. The Extradition Bill incident led to a wide-reaching social movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only ways through which Hong Kong people expressed their opinions. Promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes also played significant roles in the movement. In this exhibition, we will present these incredible art pieces, exploring their aesthetics and functions.

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:46:24 -0500 2020-02-06T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-06T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 6, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 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 2020-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (February 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara: Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer, A Performance Piece and Lecture (February 6, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71938 71938-17903273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara is a native Angelino Chicano musician, singer and songwriter, a record producer of Chicano rock and roll and rock en español compilations, and a performance artist, poet, short story writer, historian, journalist, and activist. His newly published book Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer (University of California Press, 2018) is a moving memoir of his life and a compelling counter-history of the city of Los Angeles.

“It is as if Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara, polymath Azteca warrior and Chicano superhero, rose with the first East Los Angeles Aztlȧn sun that gave creative light to the barrio.” – Louie Pérez, musician, songwriter with Los Lobos

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:03:57 -0500 2020-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T21:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara 2.6.20
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72533 72533-18015943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019《2019年逃犯及刑事事宜相互法律協助法例(修訂)條例草案》, also known as the Extradition Bill, a wave of ongoing protests have begun in Hong Kong since June 2019. The Extradition Bill incident led to a wide-reaching social movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only ways through which Hong Kong people expressed their opinions. Promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes also played significant roles in the movement. In this exhibition, we will present these incredible art pieces, exploring their aesthetics and functions.

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:46:24 -0500 2020-02-07T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 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 2020-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
AE 285 Undergraduate Seminar: Culture and Careers Panel Discussion (February 7, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72478 72478-18009388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 1:30pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Ellen Chang -- Co-Founder, LightSpeed Innovations
Trudy Kortes -- Chief of Human Exploration & Space Operations, NASA Glenn
Kevin Michaels -- Managing Director, AeroDynamic Advisory
Tia Sutton -- Regulatory Engineer, Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association
Anthony Waas -- Chair, U-M Department of Aerospace Engineering

This panel discussion signals the completion of the “Introduction to the Aerospace Enterprise” component of Aero 285, and ushers in the Cultures and Careers components. Please join us for an enlightening panel discussion featuring a diverse group of speakers from academia, industry, government, consulting, and financial sectors. Each panelist will spend a few minutes providing insights into their individual career paths, and then also talk about what constitutes a culture of excellence in any entity within the Aerospace Enterprise. There will also be plenty of time for questions – both pre-submitted and from the audience.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:54:55 -0500 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 BBB Aerospace Engineering Workshop / Seminar Top row: Ellen Chang, Trudy Kortes, Kevin Michaels; Bottom row: Tia Sutton, Anthony Waas
The American Novel (February 7, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70849 70849-17660839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

“For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us,” declared John Winthrop as he travelled with his followers to Massachusetts in 1630. He marked the beginning of what was expected to be a grand experiment. Winthrop rightly anticipated that the colonial endeavors unfolding in North America presented a chance for self-determination, collective identity, and industriousness. And yet, he could not have conceived of the legacy of that experiment or the challenges that would come with it. In this study group, we will explore how diverse writers represented, challenged, and helped to create the dominant cultural narratives that remain influential in our nation today. We will read (in the following order): Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland, Susanna Rowson’s Charlotte Temple, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables, Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno, Frank Norris’s McTeague, and John Niehardt’s Black Elk Speaks. Instructor Emelia Abbe-Robertson will lead classes on Fridays from February 7 through March 20.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 25 Dec 2019 17:14:47 -0500 2020-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Activist Love Letters (February 7, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71056 71056-17770759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Activist Love Letters is a participatory performance & workshop with artist Syrus Marcus Ware that invites participants to think about their role in sustaining a movement and supporting their communities. If you could reach out to one person who moves you by what they do, who would it be? What would you say?

This event is presented in partnership with the U-M Trotter Multicultural Center and the Spectrum Center LGBTQ Health & Wellness Week. Activist Love Letters will be held in the Sankofa Lounge. Refreshments will be served.

Syrus Marcus Ware is a Vanier Scholar, visual artist, community activist, researcher, youth-advocate and educator. For 12 years, he was the Coordinator of the Art Gallery of Ontario Youth Program. Syrus is currently a facilitator/designer for the Cultural Leaders Lab (Toronto Arts Council & The Banff Centre) and is the inaugural artist-in-residence for Daniels Spectrum (2016/2017). He is a core-team member of Black Lives Matter Toronto.

As a visual artist, Syrus works within the mediums of painting, installation and performance to challenge systemic oppression. Syrus’ work explores the spaces between and around identities; acting as provocations to our understandings of gender, sexuality and race. His work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Art Gallery of York University (AGYU), Gladstone Hotel, ASpace Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, SPIN Gallery and other galleries across Canada. Syrus holds degrees in Art History, Visual Studies and a Masters in Sociology and Equity Studies, University of Toronto. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.

Image: Syrus Marcus Ware, installation view of Activist Love Letters, 2012 - ongoing. Courtesy the artist.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/activist-love-letters-tickets-86153949783

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 26 Jan 2020 21:49:49 -0500 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Workshop / Seminar https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/activist-love-letters.jpeg
Stone Sound Collective (February 7, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71110 71110-17777075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 8:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Stone Sound Collective unites diverse musicians and instruments to create a new global soundscape. Led by multi-percussionist Mark Stone, the group brings together celebrated world percussion traditions of Africa and India with the lyricism of cello and saxophone. Stone Sound Collective performs new music drawing on Mark's wide-ranging compositional influences, stretching from American jazz to traditional African music and classical Indian music to European concert music.

Prof. Mark Stone is a composer-performer with a passion for using music to bring diverse communities together. An internationally recognized multi-percussionist, Stone has performed with the foremost musicians of Uganda, Ghana, South Africa, India, Trinidad, Ecuador, and the United States. In the group, Stone plays the newly-invented array mbira, an American-made 120 key lamellaphone and a wide range of traditional melodic African instruments, including the Ghanaian gyil, Ugandan akogo, and South African karimba. He is joined by Matt Dufresne (saxophones, flute, atenteben, and nadaswaram), Abigail Alwin (cello), Chinelo Amen-Ra (djembe, congas, and cajon) and Sam Jeyasingham (mridangam, tabla, kanjira, thavil, and morsing). These established artists freely cross musical boundaries with their dynamic playing and are exceptional improvisers, bringing a wide-range of performance experience and artistry to the Stone Sound Collective.

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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Performance Wed, 08 Jan 2020 13:16:00 -0500 2020-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T22:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Performance Stone Sound Collective
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72533 72533-18015944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019《2019年逃犯及刑事事宜相互法律協助法例(修訂)條例草案》, also known as the Extradition Bill, a wave of ongoing protests have begun in Hong Kong since June 2019. The Extradition Bill incident led to a wide-reaching social movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only ways through which Hong Kong people expressed their opinions. Promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes also played significant roles in the movement. In this exhibition, we will present these incredible art pieces, exploring their aesthetics and functions.

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:46:24 -0500 2020-02-08T08:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Saturday Morning Physics | The Universe Caught Speeding: Dark Energy, Two Decades After (February 8, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70879 70879-17726703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In the late 1990s cosmologists discovered that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, not slowing down as expected. This discovery, honored with the Physics Nobel Prize in 2011, has generated waves in the field of cosmology and presents us with a grand mystery: what is the origin and nature of dark energy, the stuff that causes the accelerated expansion? Professor Huterer will review the exciting new developments in this field, including hints for new physics lurking in the data, and the upcoming ground and space telescopes dedicated to solve the dark energy mystery.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:43:26 -0500 2020-02-08T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-08T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Dark matter density (left) transitioning to gas density (right). Credit: Illustris Simulations
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 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 2020-02-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 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 2020-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-10T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 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 2020-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Togetherness: QTIPOC Dinners - February (February 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72127 72127-17940036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration required! Please go to http://bit.ly/TogethernessDinners

Spectrum Center and the Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs Office (MESA) are proud to continue an initiative centering Queer and Transgender People of Color (QTPOC): Community Dinners for/by QTPOC. FREE DINNER will be provided to the first 15 students who sign up for the respective dinners. If there are more than 15 students signing up for a dinner session, they will be put on a waiting list. The host for this dinner is Mark Chung Kwan Fan.

Food TBA

Mark Chung Kwan Fan currently serves as the Assistant Director for Engagement at the Spectrum Center at the University of Michigan. His main responsibilities focus on events and partnerships, external/community relations, assessment, alumni and stewardship, and the Center's communications work. With a student-centered approach, he grounds his work with a racial and gender justice foci while centering the intersections of students' multiple complex identities and experiences. His past experience revolves in areas of housing and residence life, honors college, international student orientation and support, and various identity-based initiatives. He obtained his bachelor's degrees in Spanish and French from Adrian College followed by a master's degree from Michigan State University in Student Affairs Administration. ​Born and raised in Mauritius, Mark is a Taurus sun, world traveler, and an Asian food lover while being vegetarian for 346 days a year on a leap year. He currently is involved with ACPA-Michigan, a state division within ACPA: College Student Educators International; ACPA 2020 Nashville, TN Convention Planning Committee; and a regional representative for the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals. Mark engages with the local community as a member of the Board of Directors of the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair and as a Community Advisory Board for the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center.

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:48:32 -0500 2020-02-11T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering February's Togetherness: QTIPOC Dinner will be hosted by Mark Chung Kwan Fan. A casual photo of Mark is included. Mark is an Asian man with short black hair. He wears black-rimmed glasses and holds a coffee cup. Palm trees can be seen behind him. He is looking at the camera and smiling.]
Value the Voice: It’s Above Me Now: Lessons Learned from Letting Go (February 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71104 71104-17777065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of educational entertainment known to mankind. From the West African tradition of the Griot to modern day Moth events, storytelling environments have served as a means to pass along history, shape culture, share helpful lessons, and establish a sense of belonging and community.

The U-M Comprehensive Studies Program and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies invite you to explore themes related to campus life, coming of age, and learning and growing, at this series of Moth Style Storyteller Lounge events. Storytellers include students, faculty and staff, and Voices of Wisdom (alums or community members). 

 

Value the Voice is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Presentation Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:16:57 -0500 2020-02-11T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 12, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-12T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 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 2020-02-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
CREES Noon Lecture. Terroir, Ecological Stewardship, and Heritage Politics in the Bulgarian Wine Industry (February 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71275 71275-17794081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Bulgaria is arguably one of the oldest wine-producing countries in the world, and built a large, highly industrialized and export-oriented wine sector during state socialism as a wine-producing specialist of COMECON (the economic alliance of Soviet allies). When socialism collapsed in 1989, the wine industry faced multiple challenges, including the accepted international hierarchy of wine-producing countries through which Bulgarian wines then became understood and marketed. In this talk, I examine the contestations over the idea of *terroir* (a taste of place) among Bulgarian wine professionals to understand how wine is involved in heritage projects. As new resources and opportunities became available through EU heritage politics in which wine traditions became a central piece of the heritage industry and of agricultural and rural development, these debates highlight diverse meanings of ecological stewardship in light of heritage preservation. Understanding wine as a cultural heritage raises important questions of whose and which past is worthy of preservation, and why. The tensions within the Bulgarian wine industry, namely reconciling the cultural pride of winemaking heritage with a competitive hierarchical global wine market, illustrate the multi-faceted aspects of culture, ecology, and politics in the era of post-Cold War globalization.

Yuson Jung is associate professor of anthropology at Wayne State University. Her research explores issues of consumption, food politics, globalization, and postsocialism. She is the author of "Balkan Blues: Consumer Politics after State Socialism" (Indiana University Press, 2019) which examines everyday consumer experience in postsocialist Bulgaria. She has also co-edited (with Jakob Klein and Melissa Caldwell) "Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World" (University of California Press, 2014). Currently, she is working on a book project entitled "The Cultural Politics of Wine: Globalization, Heritage, and the Transformation of the Bulgarian Wine Industry," as well as on a collaborative research project (with Andrew Newman) regarding food politics and urban governance in Detroit.

This lecture is part of the WCEE environment series.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. 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, 10 Jan 2020 16:42:53 -0500 2020-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Bulgarian vineyard
Lunch & Learn: Building Healthy Relationships and Dating Safety (February 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72174 72174-17948643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: International Center
Organized By: International Center

Come discuss tricky and confusing topics about U.S. culture with other international students. Discussions are informal and it's a great place to get your burning questions answered! Pizza is provided.

Dating can be complicated. How do you ask someone out? How do you address inappropriate behavior? What do you do if you feel unsafe while out on a date?

Representatives from the IC and SAPAC will help address relationship health and cultural norms of dating in the U.S.

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Other Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:44:43 -0500 2020-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 International Center International Center Other Dating Safety
2020 Ford Distinguished Lecture in Physics | Tracking the Motion Inside Molecules with X-Ray Lasers (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70890 70890-17732907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The last decade marked the development of a new kind of powerful research laser that can deliver a trillion 1-Angstrom x-rays in a femtosecond or even less. This x-ray free-electron laser is revolutionizing the way scientists observe dynamics on the quantum scale in the laboratory. We are beginning to learn how to track the relative motion of atoms inside molecules. Professor Bucksbaum will discuss the current efforts and future opportunities to employ these sources for molecular movies.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:51:38 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Workshop / Seminar electrons streaming
GLACE Mass Meeting (February 12, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72153 72153-17948626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Come learn about GLACE before the February 21 Application Deadline!

GLACE (Great Lakes Arts, Cultures, and Environments) is a new, interdisciplinary humanities program held in Northern Michigan during the Spring half-term. UM faculty and other instructors teach four interconnected, two-credit courses: two in English, one in Anthropology, and one in American Culture.

The program takes place at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS), a research campus situated on Douglas Lake, amid 10,000 undeveloped acres in Pellston, Michigan. From May 11-June 13, 2020, a small cohort of students will work closely with four faculty exploring such concepts as “place,” “natural history,” and “cultural identity” through an engagement not only with literary and other texts but also, in hands-on ways, with the local landscape and its inhabitants, ecologies, and histories.

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Presentation Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:15:36 -0500 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Presentation GLACE poster
A Concert for HOPE (February 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71771 71771-17879422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Michigan Medicine Department of Surgery

Join us along with the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, Adam Foss, JD, and others for a free event at Hill Auditorium on February 12, 2020 to build awareness and support for the HOPE Collaborative at Michigan Medicine.

The HOPE (health equity, opportunity, pipeline, and education) Collaborative’s goals are threefold: develop, strengthen, and study early pipeline and youth educational programs for medicine; broaden Michigan Medicine’s clinical reach and engagement of community partners for at-risk neighborhoods; diversify training programs and trainee recruitment.

Our guest performers and speakers will inspire and build excitement around the opportunities for underrepresented minorities in medicine.

Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit is an award-winning national model for Creative Youth Development. Founded in 1992,Mosaic annually provides accessible acting and singing training for hundreds of youth from more than 50 Metro Detroit schools. Mosaic's mission is to empower young people to maximize their potential through professional performing arts training and the creation of theatrical and musical art that engages, transforms and inspires. The organization has toured their critically-acclaimed all-teen performances to Europe, Asia, Africa, 25 states throughout the U.S., the White House and The Kennedy Center. At the 2014 World Choir Games in Latvia, Mosaic brought home two gold and two silver medals. Mosaic is proud to report that 95% of their performers have gone on to college. To learn more about Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, visit us online at www.mosaicdetroit.org.

Adam Foss, JD, is a renowned prosecutor and criminal-justice reform advocate who founded Prosecutor Impact – a non-profit focused on training prosecutors to reframe their role in the criminal justice system to focus on metrics beyond “cases won.”

This event is free, but there will be opportunities to support the mission through donations. Funds will be directed towards resources supporting the HOPE Collaborative’s mission.

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Performance Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:45:40 -0500 2020-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T21:00:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium Michigan Medicine Department of Surgery Performance Impacting HOPE Collaborative
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-13T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 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 2020-02-13T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
SEAS 2020 Michigan Environmental Justice Summit (February 13, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70372 70372-17592357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

The School for Environment and Sustainability honors the 30th Anniversary of the “Incidence of Environmental Hazards Conference,” which helped put environmental justice (EJ) on the national radar for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Building on the momentum of the 1990 conference, the University of Michigan soon became the first university to establish environmental justice as an academic field of study. Join us for a dynamic discussion with our panel of environmental justice game-changers:

- Robert Bullard, 'Father of Environmental Justice"; named one of 13 Environmental Leaders of the Century by Newsweek

- Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Policy Director, New Consensus; An architect of the Green New Deal

- Charles Lee, Senior Policy Advisor, EPA; EJ pioneer and principal author of the landmark report, Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States

- Regina Strong, Environmental Justice Public Advocate, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy

- Michelle Martinez (MS '08), Panel Moderator; Coordinator, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, Detroit-based EJ activist, speaker, writer, and mother

For tickets, follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michigan-environmental-justice-summit-2020-tickets-84740474039

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Presentation Tue, 17 Dec 2019 09:40:17 -0500 2020-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Program in the Environment (PitE) Presentation Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (February 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-02-14T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Pop-up Exhibit: Love Letters & Romance in the Archives (February 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71417 71417-17825627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The rich collections at the Clements Library teem with love letters and romance of all kinds. Come swoon with us as we share examples of Americans expressing their love in the past. The pop-up exhibit features materials dating from the 18th to the 20th century, including handmade and printed valentines, manuscript letters filled with kisses, and published courtship guides.

During the Clements Library's exhibit open hours on Friday, February 14, join us for the pop-up exhibit in the Norton Strange Townshend Room between 10am and 4pm.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:59:42 -0500 2020-02-14T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition "The art of good behaviour; and letter writer on love, courtship, and marriage" (1848)
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 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 2020-02-14T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Saturday Morning Physics | Ocean Modeling: Big Computers, Big Science (February 15, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71160 71160-17783477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In this talk, Professor Arbic will describe how ocean circulation models work and how they predict physical motions in the ocean, including currents, eddies, and tides. He will discuss the many applications of ocean models, including short-term ocean forecasting, national security applications, longer-term global change predictions, and preparing for satellite ocean monitoring missions. The talk will focus on the work done in our group here at University of Michigan, with a focus on oceanic eddies and tides.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:29:14 -0500 2020-02-15T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-15T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar The Pleiades Supercomputer which some of the models Professor Arbic uses runs on. (NASA)
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 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 2020-02-15T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 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 (February 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 16, 2020 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 2020-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
UMMA Book Club: Stories from the North (February 16, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68762 68762-17147150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 16, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Please join us for a monthly gathering that offers a starting point to discover a variety of narratives pertaining to the cultures of North American Indigenous people featuring the works of Inuit and indigenous authors. We will meet on the third Sunday of each month in the University of Michigan Museum of Art’s exhibition, Reflections: An Ordinary Day. The prints, drawings, and sculptures featured in this exhibition of Inuit art explore the relationship between the artist and the representation of everyday experiences. Each of the four gatherings will present an opportunity to enjoy traditional storytelling as well as discuss books written by contemporary Inuit and Native American authors. Our book club facilitator is Elizabeth James, a Detroit-based Powhatan storyteller and Program Manager at the U-M Department for AfroAmerican and African Studies.​

3rd Sunday of the month at at 3 p.m. 

January 19: The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet by Sheila Watt-Cloutier 

February 16: House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed]: A Novel (P.S.) Anniversary Edition by N. Scott Momaday 

March 22: Sanaaq:  An Inuit Novel by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk (Author), Peter Frost (Translator)

April 19: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Books will be available for sale in the UMMA Shop. Book Club participants will receive a 10% discount.  

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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Other Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:17:11 -0500 2020-02-16T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Lecture: Lesley Lokko (February 17, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70986 70986-17762335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Lesley Lokko is an architect, academic and the author of eleven best-selling novels. She served as Head of School at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and as of December 2019, she took up the post of Dean of Architecture at the Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, New York. She trained as an architect at the Bartlett School of Architecture from 1989–1995, and gained her PhD in Architecture from the University of London in 2007. She has taught at schools in the US, the UK and South Africa. She is the editor of White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2000); editor-in-chief of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture and is on the editorial board of ARQ (Cambridge). She has been an on-going contributor to discourses around identity, race, African urbanism and the speculative nature of African architectural space and practice for nearly thirty years. She is a regular juror at international competitions and symposia, and is a long-term contributor to BBC World. In 2004, she made the successful transition from academic to novelist with the publication of her first novel, Sundowners (Orion 2004), a UK-Guardian top forty best-seller, and has since then followed with ten further best-sellers, which have been translated into fifteen languages.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:58:40 -0500 2020-02-17T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Lesley Lokko
Religion and Romance (February 17, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72720 72720-18064018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

The Interfaith Program will be hosting our monthly dialogue on Monday, February 17th, at the Trotter Multicultural Center Sankofa Lounge. Come talk about dating and faith! Romantic relationships within and across religions can be difficult at times and we want to explore the different dynamics these situations present. The title may include the word "religion", but we are explicitly opening this space for those who hold secular/non-affiliated worldviews. Please use the QR code to RSVP or the link provided below. Hope to see you there!
https://myumi.ch/Axn82

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:22:14 -0500 2020-02-17T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Social / Informal Gathering Dialogue Flyer
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 18, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-18T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 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 2020-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Positive Links Speaker Series (February 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70344 70344-17586171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
How to Create Positive Team and Organizational Hierarchies
Lindy Greer

Tuesday, February 18, 2020
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/how-to-create-positive-team-and-organizational-hierarchies

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.

About the talk:
Hierarchy is the most ubiquitous way in which human beings organize social interactions. However, hierarchy comes with substantial downsides in terms of inequities and conflicts. As a result, organizations have explored flatter modes of organizing, such as holacracy, which unfortunately have yet to yield much success. In this presentation, Greer will explore the possibility that hierarchy may still be the most effective form of organization but needs to be used wisely. She will discuss data-driven strategies which can allow hierarchy to be a useful and positive organizational tool, including helping leaders learn how to ‘flex’ the hierarchy for bursts of flatness, to humanize the hierarchy through sharing emotions at work, and to reduce competitions around hierarchy by creating areas of individual ownership and autonomy.

About Greer:
Lindy Greer is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at Michigan Ross and the Faculty Director of the Sanger Leadership Center. Her research focuses on how to lead effective organizational teams with specific interests in leadership skills in conflict management, diversity and inclusion, vision crafting, and the communication of emotions.

Lindy has published in top management and psychology research outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among others. Her work has also been covered in well-known media outlets including The New York Times, CNN, Forbes, and Fast Company. She has received awards for her research from the Academy of Management and American Psychological Association, and she was recently named one of the Top 40 under 40 Business School Professors by Poets and Quants.

Lindy is currently an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal, on the boards of seven of the top management and psychology journals, and has served on the boards of professional associations such as the International Association of Conflict Management and the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management. Lindy received her BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in social and organizational psychology from Leiden University in the Netherlands. She joined the team at Ross in 2019.

Host:
Jane Dutton, co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations; Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Register here: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/events/how-to-create-positive-team-and-organizational-hierarchies

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Presentation Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:07:29 -0500 2020-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Lindy Greer
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 19, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-19T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 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 2020-02-19T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Settler Colonial Choreography and the Divided Body: Performing Masculinities Through the Switch Dance at a Native American Prison Powwow (February 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71853 71853-17894529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Native American Studies

The Native American Studies Program welcomes Dr. Tria Blu Wakpa, a rising scholar whose innovative work combines Native American Studies and Dance Studies. Wakpa is a scholar and practitioner of Indigenous contemporary dance, North American Hand Talk (Indigenous sign language), martial arts, and yoga. Her research combines community-based, Indigenous and feminist methodologies with critical race theories to examine the politics and practices of dance and embodiment historically and contemporarily in educational and carceral institutions for Indigenous peoples. Her work has been published in The American Indian Culture and Research Journal and Dance Research Journal. Dr. Wakpa is also the co-founder and co-editor of the academic journal Race & Yoga and a former UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow. We invite you to partner with us in supporting this rising scholar and connecting students and the university publics to learn about her current work.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:56:43 -0500 2020-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Tria Blu Wakpa Poster
Story Lab Showcase (February 19, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66689 66689-16770204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Sanger Leadership Center

The Sanger Leadership Center and Ross Design + Business Club invite you to join us for the Story Lab Showcase. During the evening, you will hear powerful stories from Ross students in a "Moth-style" presentation on stage. Expect to laugh, to empathize, and perhaps even shed a tear.

All are welcome. We hope to see you there!

Questions? Email us at rossleaders@umich.edu.

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Performance Mon, 09 Sep 2019 14:12:58 -0400 2020-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T18:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Sanger Leadership Center Performance Story Lab at Michigan Ross
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 20, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-20T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 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 2020-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (February 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 21, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-21T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 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 2020-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Science as Art Exhibition- Panel discussion & Awards Reception (February 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/38185 38185-17963890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan, ArtsEngine and the Science Learning Center invite you to the Science as Art Contest Exhibition and Awards Reception- Hatcher Graduate Library, Rm 100.

2pm Office Hours for participating artists
3pm Panel Discussion & Reception
4pm Awards Announcements


University of Michigan undergraduate students will have artwork on view expressing a scientific principle, concept, idea, process, or structure. The artwork ranges in media, including visual, literary, musical, video and performance-based art. A juried panel using criteria based on both scientific and artistic considerations will choose winning submissions. This is our fourth year of the exhibition, and we received a record number of submissions, so we hope you'll join us to view the work and give out the awards!

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:57:18 -0500 2020-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T16:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Arts at Michigan Exhibition Science as Art logo
How Is Esports Building a Billion-Dollar Empire? (February 21, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72732 72732-18068367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Michigan China Forum

What comes to your mind when you hear the word “Esports”? A billion-dollar empire being built? Causes of addiction and violence? Having come a long way from video gaming, Esports has evolved into a global phenomenon even though controversies persist.

Research shows that 65% of 8-12 years old teenagers play video games for more than 2 hours per day. About 41% of boys think they have spent too much time on video games. Being addicted to video games is only one of many reasons that people are against Esports. From many adults’ perspective, violent, bloody elements in video games are likely to negatively affect teenagers. Hence, Esports is an industry bearing prejudice and stereotypes.

However, as a burgeoning industry, Esports is gaining massive popularity across the globe in recent years. According to Newzoo, revenues of the global Esports industry exceeded $1.1 billion in 2019, which is an increase of 26.7% over the previous year. Asia-Pacific sees the highest proportion of Esports viewership (57%) and the major growth is being witnessed in China. North America is once again the largest Esports market where the major share is contributed by the United States. With more investors, favorable policies, and the potential access to the Olympics, Esports, a new era “gold rush” is redefining the world of games.

From game development, to corporate social responsibility, to higher education, how should Esports navigate the controversies? What factors have contributed to the rise of Esports? What is the future of this industry? Come join us at the Esports panel discussion with Professor Katherine Babiak, Professor Austin Yarger, Ph.D. student Luis Velazquez, Arbor eSports’ president Alexander Ball, and UM Esports program manager Cybbi Barton.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:27:09 -0500 2020-02-21T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T19:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Michigan China Forum Lecture / Discussion Present by Michigan China Forum: How Is Esports Building a Billion-Dollar Empire?
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 22, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-22T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
World Information Architecture Day Ann Arbor (February 22, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72964 72964-18114396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 8:30am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: School of Information Student Association

The Student Organization for Computer-Human Interaction (SOCHI) is hosting the Ann Arbor location of World Information Architecture Day (WIAD). WIAD is a global event that celebrates and informs communities about information architecture as part of good user experience (UX).

Speakers:
• Peter Morville, Semantic Studios - "Gentle Change"
• Meg Green, Thomson Reuters - “Artificial Intelligence & Consent”
• Dan Cooney, The Understanding Group - “Mindful Models and the Conscious Organization”
• Daniel O'Neil, The Understanding Group - “Information Architecture and the Coming Digital Renaissance”
• Scott Showalter, Ford - “The Chemistry of Information Architecture and Experience Design”
• Rachel Aliana Jaffe, Adjacent - “The Structuralist Language for Information Architecture”

Registration through Eventbrite is required. Professionals and students from Ann Arbor, Metro Detroit, Lansing, and Toledo typically attend.

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Conference / Symposium Sun, 16 Feb 2020 15:05:05 -0500 2020-02-22T08:30:00-05:00 2020-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union School of Information Student Association Conference / Symposium Logo for World Information Architecture Day
Saturday Morning Physics | The Truth About Entropy (February 22, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71162 71162-17783480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Crystalline forms of matter, from ice to diamond, are highly ordered with atoms lined up neatly in rows. Do these crystals have low or high entropy? We are taught that entropy implies disorder, so crystals must have low entropy...or do they? In this talk, find out how some ordered crystal phases of matter can have more entropy than their disordered phases, and why this matters.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:54:49 -0500 2020-02-22T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-22T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Crystalline structures pc: NASA David Weitz
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 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 2020-02-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 23, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-23T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-16390977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 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 2020-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (February 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67799 67799-16951994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 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 Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:16:35 -0500 2020-02-23T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 24, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-24T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Greek Week (February 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71593 71593-18123078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Dining

East Quad will be hosting
Monday (2/24):

Dinner: Mediterranean Fish with Tomatoes, Lemons and Olives over Lemon Greek Rice

Dessert: Greek Yogurt Pana Cotta, Dried Apricot, Pistachio & Honey Syrup

Tuesday (2/25):

Lunch: Crispy Fried Calamari w/ Lemon, Greek lemon Chicken Soup

Dinner: Greek Lentil Salad Recipe with Feta cheese over Crispy Greek Fried Eggplant recipe

Dessert: Pasta Flora (Jam Tart)

Wednesday (2/26):

Dinner: Crispy Greek Lamb Meatballs, Tzatziki, Warm Pita, Shaved Red Onion, Cucumber and Olive.

Dessert: Chocolate Biscuit Cake/ Baklava

Thursday (2/27):

Breakfast: Greek Yogurt with Honey and Walnuts

Lunch: Greek Meatloaf stuffed with Eggs over Greek Spinach and Rice

Dessert: Greek rice Pudding recipe

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Well-being Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:00:34 -0500 2020-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Dining Well-being Greek Week
60 Minutes Around the Globe (February 24, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71803 71803-17885893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 2:00pm
Location: International Center
Organized By: International Center

60 Minutes Around the Globe is an opportunity for international students to present a variety of topics they choose (e.g. food, music, sports, politics, religions, etc.) from their home countries. Through an informal presentation, followed by questions and answers, it promotes awareness and discussions among those attending the events.

Cultural food tastings provided. While walk-ins are welcome at the event, early registration is appreciated so we can better prepare for the event.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:25:11 -0400 2020-02-24T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T15:00:00-05:00 International Center International Center Social / Informal Gathering 60 Minutes Saudi Arabia
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 25, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-25T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Mardi Gras (February 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71588 71588-17844794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Dining

Join us at Bursley, Markley, Mojo, or North Quad for a Mardi Gras celebration.

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Well-being Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:25:36 -0500 2020-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan Dining Well-being Mardi Gras
Taste of Culture (February 25, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71572 71572-17842678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 1:00pm
Location: International Center
Organized By: International Center

Stop by the International Center to enjoy some snacks and learn a little bit about the culture and tradition.

No registration is necessary. First come first served. There is no formal presentation at the event.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 28 Feb 2020 09:31:47 -0500 2020-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 International Center International Center Social / Informal Gathering Taste of Culture
Black Art, Politics and Visibility: “Printed” Challenges for the Black Community in Brazil and the US in Times of Totalitarianism (February 25, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72567 72567-18018160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event is part of the *O Menelick 2Ato*: Art, Culture and Society From the Perspective of Contemporary Brazilian Black Press series.

Luciane Ramos Silva and Nabor Jr, editors of the Afro-Brazilian magazine O Menelick 2Ato, will discuss historical and current relations between Brazilian and American black presses. By discussing the dominant aesthetic and poetic regimes of representation, Luciane and Nabor will propose the black arts as a fundamental channel of critical engagement in contexts of social and political cleavage.

Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsors: Romance Languages and Literatures Department, UM Hatcher Graduate Library, UM Library Mini Grant, Women’s Studies, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), Language Resource Center (LRC), Department of History, African Studies Center, Center for Latin-American and Caribbean Studies – Brazil Initiative, Department of Communication and Media, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:18:37 -0500 2020-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 North Quad Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Black Art, Politics and Visibility: “Printed” Challenges for the Black Community in Brazil and the US in Times of Totalitarianism
Black Excellence Gala (February 25, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73215 73215-18175239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The Black Excellence celebration aims to honor the diversity of blackness within the UM campus and community. This event intends to have different black cultural organizations across campus come and showcase their cultural pride through art, performance, or any form of creative expression. The event will also include a buffet of food from different aspects of the African diaspora, such as soul food, different African dishes, and even dishes from Afro-Latino/Caribbean backgrounds.

At this event, participants and student groups will have an opportunity to celebrate and showcase their artistic talents in many ways, including spoken word, dance, singing, etc. We'll also have local Black vendors at the event.

We are also looking for black art, photographs, and creative pieces to showcase in an art gallery during this event that will take place at the very beginning. There will be an entire section of the union ballroom dedicated to displaying all sorts of black art, Afrocentric collective pieces for anyone who chooses to have art displayed.

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Performance Sun, 23 Feb 2020 23:20:37 -0500 2020-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Performance Black Excellence Gala
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 26, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-26T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Rethinking Foundational STEM Courses: Pulling Weeds or Growing Deep Roots? (February 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72540 72540-18015964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

For students dreaming of careers in science, technology, engineering and math fields, at public research universities like the U-M, introductory courses in these subjects are the first steps on a path to a STEM degree.

The class sizes are huge. They also can be challenging, causing many students to stumble on these first steps.

As a result, students often shift course, abandoning their dreams of working in a STEM discipline, researchers say.

University of Michigan Engineering is excited to welcome Dr. Timothy McKay to our DEI lecture series for the month of February. His lecture will be focused on the Sloan Equity and Inclusion in STEM Introductory Courses (SEISMIC) project – a multi-university initiative to tackle equity and inclusion in STEM.

He will discuss ways that institutions can collaborate to ensure courses are diverse, equitable and inclusive for students.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:26:29 -0500 2020-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Timothy A. McKay. Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics, Astronomy, Education, and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education. U-M LSA
Launch of O Menelick 2 Ato #21 and Opening of “O Menelick 2Ato. Making Black Press in 21st Century Brazil” (February 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72569 72569-18018161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event is part of the *O Menelick 2Ato*: Art, Culture and Society From the Perspective of Contemporary Brazilian Black Press series.

Launch of the 21st issue of the Afro-Brazilian magazine *O Menelick 2 Ato* and of its curated edition in English. Panel discussion with Q&A featuring the magazine editors, Luciane Ramos Silva, Nabor Jr. and U-M faculty.

Followed by the opening of a digital and print exhibit of selected magazine covers by Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Diasporic artists.

The exhibit will be on display until March 11th at the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery.

Light reception to follow. Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsors: Romance Languages and Literatures Department, UM Hatcher Graduate Library, UM Library Mini Grant, Women’s Studies, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), Language Resource Center (LRC), Department of History, African Studies Center, Center for Latin-American and Caribbean Studies – Brazil Initiative, Department of Communication and Media, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:19:01 -0500 2020-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Launch of O Menelick 2 Ato #21 and Opening of “O Menelick 2Ato. Making Black Press in 21st Century Brazil”
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 27, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-27T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Greek Week (February 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71593 71593-18123079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Dining

East Quad will be hosting
Monday (2/24):

Dinner: Mediterranean Fish with Tomatoes, Lemons and Olives over Lemon Greek Rice

Dessert: Greek Yogurt Pana Cotta, Dried Apricot, Pistachio & Honey Syrup

Tuesday (2/25):

Lunch: Crispy Fried Calamari w/ Lemon, Greek lemon Chicken Soup

Dinner: Greek Lentil Salad Recipe with Feta cheese over Crispy Greek Fried Eggplant recipe

Dessert: Pasta Flora (Jam Tart)

Wednesday (2/26):

Dinner: Crispy Greek Lamb Meatballs, Tzatziki, Warm Pita, Shaved Red Onion, Cucumber and Olive.

Dessert: Chocolate Biscuit Cake/ Baklava

Thursday (2/27):

Breakfast: Greek Yogurt with Honey and Walnuts

Lunch: Greek Meatloaf stuffed with Eggs over Greek Spinach and Rice

Dessert: Greek rice Pudding recipe

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Well-being Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:00:34 -0500 2020-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Michigan Dining Well-being Greek Week
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (February 27, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Film Screening: "Kiki" (February 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73180 73180-18151414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Come celebrate the end of Black History Month with the Programming Board by watching the spiritual successor to the classic "Paris is Burning!" "Kiki" features a look into the NYC drag and vogue scene of the late 2010's. The screening will be held on Thursday, February 27th from 7-8:30pm in the North University Building room 1544 near CCTC. Snacks provided!

Learn more about the film at http://www.kikimovie.com. Hosted by the Spectrum Center Programming Board student organization.

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Film Screening Thu, 20 Feb 2020 18:56:28 -0500 2020-02-27T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T20:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Spectrum Center Film Screening The poster for the film, featuring the title and a headshot of one of the subjects of the film, overlaid in purple. No additional relevant information.
Listening to Object Witnesses: Decolonizing Research in Museum Collections (March 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73024 73024-18258845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Dr. Bruchac will discuss strategies for recovering Indigenous object histories through material analyses, consultation, and re-assessments of imposed museological categories that may have distanced objects from their origins. She will reveal how memories can be reawakened when otherwise mysterious objects are reconnected with the stories, ecosystems, and communities that created them.

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Presentation Wed, 04 Mar 2020 08:27:48 -0500 2020-03-04T08:00:00-05:00 2020-03-04T09:00:00-05:00 Museum Studies Program Presentation Dr. Bruchac brushing an object off in the dirt
Women on a Mission 2.0: Leadership, Citizenship & Advocacy (March 6, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73597 73597-18267644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 6, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: CEW+

The free morning keynote will be a conversation with Dr. Joy DeGruy, nationally & internationally renowned researcher, educator, author, & presenter, and Dr. Julianne Malveaux, economist, author, social and political commentator, & businesswoman. They will discuss inclusive citizenship and the role of women as transformative change agents for voting rights, economic policy, prison reform, and access to education.

Please note that the keynote lecture (8:30-10:30am at Hill Auditorium) is open to the general public and no registration is required. However, pre-registration is required to attend the full-day WCTF Career Conference workshops and luncheon.

Click here to view the live stream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/cew/cew030620.html

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 11:45:18 -0500 2020-03-06T08:30:00-05:00 2020-03-06T10:30:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium CEW+ Lecture / Discussion Dr. Joy DeGruy & Dr. Julianne Malveaux
A Brief Review of Iran History and Culture (March 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70832 70832-17660820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The main goal of this course is to inform and give a better understanding about Iran to the study group. This includes a brief review of Iran history from ancient times up to the 21st century, conversion of the Iranian from Zoroastrianism to Islam and later to Islam-Shia, a review of the three aspects of Iranian society: modernity, nationalism, and Islam, discussion of the Iranian two revolutions in 1906 and 1979, review of the history of U.S.-Iran relations. Instructor Moe Bidgoli will lead the study group on Mondays from March 9 through 30.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 25 Dec 2019 16:08:33 -0500 2020-03-09T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Freedom Writings: Black Abolitionists and the Struggle Against "Race Hatred" in Brazil - 1870-1890 (March 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72781 72781-18077119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

How do you think about the experiences of freedom among black people in Brazil before the end of slavery in 1888? Interested in this question, this lecture presents a reflection on the experiences of free and literate black men, who were active in the press, as well as in the political-cultural landscape of the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ferreira de Menezes, Luiz Gama, Machado de Assis, José do Patrocinio, Ignacio de Araújo Lima, Arthur Carlos and Theophilo Dias de Castro are the central subjects in this narrative, along with so many other “free men of color” who sought in different ways to conquer and maintain their spaces in the public debate about the Brazil’s paths, while relying on the sustainability of their own individual projects. Against the grain of “ race hatred” daily practices, they not only contributed to debates on daily, abolitionist, black and literary newspapers, but also led the creation of resistance, confrontation and dialogue tools and mechanisms.

Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Brasília. She received her PhD in History from the State University of Campinas, her MA in History from the University of Brasília, and her BA in Journalism from The University Center of Brasília. Pinto has developed research articulating knowledge in the areas of History, Communication, Literature and Education, with an emphasis on political-cultural performance of black thinkers, black press, abolitionism and experiences of black freedom and citizenship in the slavery period and post-abolition in Brazil and elsewhere in the African Diaspora.

This lecture will take place on Monday, March 9, at 4:00pm in 1014 Tisch Hall.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:44:25 -0500 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto
CWPS Faculty Lecture | Christi-Anne Castro (March 10, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72929 72929-18096956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Folkloric dance and music festivals draw in diverse audiences, entertaining participants and instilling a sense of pride in Canadian multiculturalism as a national trait. Folklorama lays claim to being the longest running and largest multicultural festival of its kind in the world, and it is one that relies heavily on community groups more than well known performers. What can an examination of the festival tell us about Canadian national self-narratives? And is it possible to negotiate the complexities of difference and identity politics by engaging in music and dance?

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:08:17 -0500 2020-03-10T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Folklorama
Listening to Object Witnesses: Decolonizing Research in Museum Collections (March 10, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73024 73024-18125288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Dr. Bruchac will discuss strategies for recovering Indigenous object histories through material analyses, consultation, and re-assessments of imposed museological categories that may have distanced objects from their origins. She will reveal how memories can be reawakened when otherwise mysterious objects are reconnected with the stories, ecosystems, and communities that created them.

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Presentation Wed, 04 Mar 2020 08:27:48 -0500 2020-03-10T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Dr. Bruchac brushing an object off in the dirt
U-M Museum Studies Program Presents Listening to Object Witnesses: Decolonizing Research in Museum Collections (March 10, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73581 73581-18263272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How do Indigenous objects in museum collections speak to those who collect, curate, observe, and claim them?  The observable materials and patterns of construction obviously reflect particular ecosystems, cultures, and technologies, but do these objects also retain memories of the artisans who created them?  Do they wield more than just imagined meaning or distributed agency?  In this talk, Dr. Bruchac discusses strategies for recovering object histories through material analyses, consultation, and critical re-assessments of imposed museological categories (e.g., art, artifact, utilitarian, etc.) that may have distanced objects from their origins and isolated them from others like themselves.  Case histories will feature new research into iconic creations – such as a 17th century wooden war club embedded with re-purposed wampum beads, and a shell band wampum belt with a single glass bead – that function as "object witnesses" to entangled colonial settler/Indigenous encounters.  Through her practice of "reverse ethnography," Bruchac will reveal how, in many cases, memories can be reawakened when otherwise mysterious objects are reconnected with the stories, ecosystems, knowledges, and communities that created them.  Object histories can also be recovered by tracking the desires and actions of non-Indigenous curators and collectors who transported these objects and stories to physically and conceptually distant locales.   Dr. Margaret M. Bruchac is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies, and Associate Faculty in the Penn Cultural Heritage Center at the University of Pennsylvania.  Her new book, "Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists," was the winner of the 2018 Council for Museum Anthropology Book Award.

Co-sponsored by the Department of American Culture; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; LSA/Great Lakes Theme Semester; Native American and Indigenous Student Interest Group; Native American Studies Program; Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Program in Science, Technology and Society (STS); U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology; U-M Office of Research; and the U-M Museum of Art.

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Other Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:17:18 -0400 2020-03-10T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Positive Links Speaker Series (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70345 70345-17586172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Is it Really Better to Give than Receive?
Wayne Baker

Wednesday, March 11, 2020
4:00-5:00 p.m.
This event will only be live web streamed.

Follow the stream here: http://myumi.ch/518e2

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the talk:
The greatest barrier to generosity isn't that people are unwilling or unable to help, but that people don't ask for what they need. Requests drive the giving-receiving cycle. Drawing on his new book, All You Have To Do Is Ask, Baker describes the four asking-giving styles, how to assess your style, how to overcome the obstacles to asking, how to make effective requests, and how to figure out who to ask. He will present several tools that individuals, teams, and organizations use to create a robust culture of workplace generosity. In-person attendees will have the opportunity to use the tools in real time.

About Baker:
Wayne Baker is Robert P. Thome Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management & Organizations at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. He is also Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research. He currently serves as Faculty Director of the Center for Positive Organizations.

His teaching and research focus on social capital, social networks, generosity, positive organizational scholarship, and values. His management and leadership articles appear in venues such as Harvard Business Review, Chief Executive Magazine, and Sloan Management Review. His latest book, All You Have To Do Is Ask, will be published in January 2020.

He puts his knowledge into practice as a frequent guest speaker, management consultant, and as an advisor and board member of Give and Take Inc., developers of the Givitas collaborative technology platform.

Prior to joining the Michigan faculty, he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago business school. He earned his PhD in sociology from Northwestern University and was a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard University.

Host:
Dave Mayer, Jack D. Sparks-Whirlpool Corporation Research Professor

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Presentation Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:22:08 -0400 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Presentation Wayne Baker
Ken Fischer, Reflections on a Remarkable Career and Visionary Leadership, (March 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70586 70586-17609085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Kellogg Eye Center
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Known in every corner of Ann Arbor for bringing arts into the community, Ken Fischer has made an indelible impact in his 30 years as President of University Musical Society from 1987-2017.

In addition to numerous professional highlights, partnerships, and awards, Ken Fischer has also served the community outside UMS. He has served on many boards of directors, locally, nationally, and internationally. He has won numerous awards for his contributions to improving the quality of life in our city and region. In 2014 Fischer and UMS were presented the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the U.S. government. It was presented at a ceremony at the White House by President Barack Obama.

But this is just the beginning. Please join us for a conversation with Ken Fischer and Bev Geltner, as we explore his nurturing spirit, passion, and connection to the arts and learn more about the remarkable visionary leadership of Ken Fischer.

Please note the new start time for this event,

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Class / Instruction Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:33:49 -0500 2020-03-11T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T19:30:00-04:00 Kellogg Eye Center Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Evening with OLLI
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (March 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 13, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72845 72845-18261079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.


CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict, civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:22:59 -0400 2020-03-13T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
CANCELED: CLIFF 2020: (Counter)Narratives of Migration (March 13, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72845 72845-18085916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event has been canceled. Plans to postpone are TBD.


CLIFF is an annual conference organized by graduate students in Comparative Literature. This year’s conference theme, “(Counter)Narratives of Migration,” stems from the current migration crises around the globe, but is not restricted to the present moment. Our conference seeks to interrogate the narrativization, visibility, and media surrounding the movement of bodies, ideas and material objects across concrete and abstract boundaries. We will explore circulation in all its forms, through its various manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

We are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and filmmaker and art curator, currently teaching at Brown University. Azoulay’s work explores visual culture, offering an in-depth critique of contemporary forms of violence, imperialism and body politics. Her films, exhibitions and scholarship address gendered and racial violence, the Israel-Palestine conflict, civil engagement and human rights. We will be screening her film "Un-documented--Unlearning Imperial Plunder" at 4:30 on Friday March 13th at Palmer, Great Lakes South.

As part of the conference, we will also host a graduate student creative reading on Saturday, March 14th from 7:30-9pm at Bar 327 Braun Court.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:22:59 -0400 2020-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium CLIFF Flyer
POSTPONED: South Meets North (March 13, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73528 73528-18322368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 6:30pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: SPIC MACAY at the University of Michigan

UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

SPICMACAY in collaboration with Jaya and Roger B. Natrajan present a Carnatic instrumental concert featuring Prof. Purnapragna Bangere on violin, accompanied by Amit Kavthekar on tabla.

Stay back after the concert for an interactive session with the artists and some insight into Prof. Bangere's geometric interpretation of music.

FREE ADMISSION!

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Performance Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:15:18 -0400 2020-03-13T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T20:30:00-04:00 1027 E. Huron Building SPIC MACAY at the University of Michigan Performance Poster for South meets North
Make Giant Puppets for FestiFools! (March 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73560 73560-18261057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Campus Safety Services Building
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

Join U-M students, staff, and faculty interested in helping out with the creation of giant puppets for this year's FestiFools event. Come to the FestiFools studio any Saturday to help bring these puppet creations to life just in time for our 14th Annual FestiFools extravaganza (held on Sunday, April 5, 2020, from 4-5pm/Main Street Ann Arbor). If you have questions, email Mitchel (heathmd@umich.edu).

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Community Service Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:05:20 -0400 2020-03-14T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Campus Safety Services Building Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Community Service Photo of FestiFools by Myra Klarman
Atreh Nowruzi (Fragrance of Spring) (March 14, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72577 72577-18018178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: Persian Student Association

Join the Persian Student Association in celebrating the Persian New Year and the start of Spring at our 22nd Annual Cultural Show, "Atreh Nowruzi" or "Fragrance of the New Year." Make sure to save to date and come see your favorite Michigan Persian students perform traditional and modern dances, skits, recite poetry and spoken word, and so much more! PSA is excited to collaborate with the Chinese Student Organization by having their dance group "rXn" as a guest act! Tickets are now available at the Michigan Union Ticket Office and online at this link: https://tinyurl.com/s66lbfn

Ticket Pricing: All Students - $5, Non-Students - $15

Seating: General

Doors open at 5:30 pm

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Performance Thu, 06 Feb 2020 09:36:39 -0500 2020-03-14T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-14T20:30:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts Persian Student Association Performance PSA Cultural Show Poster
Cancelled: Maasai Remix: Film Screening (March 15, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73432 73432-18217181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Please join us for the Ann Arbor premiere of Kelly Askew's latest award
winning film, Maasai Remix on Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 7 p.m. in the
Michigan Theater. The screening is part of the DAAS 50th Anniversary
commemoration and it is free and open to the public.

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Film Screening Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:52:24 -0400 2020-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Film Screening Maasai Remix
Taste of Culture (March 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71572 71572-17842680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: International Center
Organized By: International Center

Stop by the International Center to enjoy some snacks and learn a little bit about the culture and tradition.

No registration is necessary. First come first served. There is no formal presentation at the event.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 28 Feb 2020 09:31:47 -0500 2020-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 International Center International Center Social / Informal Gathering Taste of Culture
CANCELLED: “Suing for an Enslaved Woman’s Child in the Nineteenth-Century Río de la Plata” (March 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73357 73357-18208321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Please join us for a lunchtime discussion of the pre-circulated paper:

“Suing for an Enslaved Woman’s Child in the Nineteenth-Century Río de la Plata”

This article traces the history of Petrona, an enslaved woman sold in Santa Fe (Argentina), sent to Buenos Aires and later possibly to Montevideo (Uruguay). Her case demonstrates how the legal status of enslaved persons was affected by the redefinitions of jurisdictions and by the forced or voluntary crossings between political units. It sheds light on the circulation and uses of the Free Womb law (1813) in Argentina and Uruguay and traces legal experts’ debates over its meaning. And it reveals the knowledge enslaved people had of those abolitionist norms and how they used them to resist forced relocations, attempt favorable migrations, or achieve full freedom. The article reflects on the impact of independence on enslaved persons’ lives, the gendered bias of the abolitionist process, and the
central yet untold uses of antislavery rhetoric in the national narratives.

The article will be circulated in advance of the event; please contact Elizabeth Collins (elizabac@umich.edu) to obtain a copy.

Magdalena Candioti is Associate Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr Emilio Ravignani” and Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Sciences, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina. Candioti’s doctoral research focused on the political history of justice in the nineteenth-century Río de la Plata, resulting in the book Un maldito derecho: leyes, jueces y derecho en la Buenos Aires republicana, 1810–1830 (Buenos Aires, Didot). She is currently working on a book on gradual abolition in the Río de la Plata (1810-1860) called El tiempo de los libertos. Esclavitud y abolición en el Río de la Plata. Candioti was a visiting fellow in ILAS-Columbia University, NYC (2010-2011), and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPIeR), Frankfurt, Germany (2014). In 2014, she was awarded a scholarship by the Slicher van Bath DeJong Foundation, CEDLA (Holland) to conduct comparative research on slavery in Santa Fe and Buenos Aires. Currently, she is a Fulbright fellow at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University.

Ángela Pérez-Villa is an Assistant Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies at Western Michigan University. Her research and teaching focus on the social, legal, and gender history of Latin America, particularly Colombia. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript that examines how during Colombia’s war of independence, political power and legal practice were disputed and reconfigured locally on the terrains of family, sexuality, and gender.

Sponsored by the U-M Department of History, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:53:37 -0400 2020-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Modo de fabricar velas
[POSTPONED] History of Photography (March 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72660 72660-18035612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

***Update 3/10/20: This event has been postponed. It will be rescheduled at a later date.***

The Clements Library's photography collection is comprised of over 150,000 images with examples of virtually every popular photographic format in use in America from 1840 into the 20th century. In recent years, the photograph collection has become the library’s fastest growing. Join the Graphics Division as they showcase amazing photographic items from the collections. A wide range of images and photographic technology will be on display as Clements staff explain the evolution of techniques used throughout the decades.

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Presentation Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:06:25 -0400 2020-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Curator of Graphics Clayton Lewis shares a photo album.
Cancelled! Museum Studies Program - Museums at Noon (March 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72722 72722-18064020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Presentation by Jeremy York (PhD candidate, Information)

The speaker will discuss the importance of and challenges in preserving contextual information about museum objects. He will describe projects that he worked on at the Detroit Institute of Arts library to make digitized photographs from historical exhibitions and track works that reference items owned by the DIA.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:18:10 -0400 2020-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Detroit Institute of Arts
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (March 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
CANCELLED: "Hail!": Harmony and Dissonance in the University of Michigan’s Campus Songs (March 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72995 72995-18123072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join musicologist Mark Clague of the School of Music, Theatre and Dance as he explores the traditional college songs of the University of Michigan -- as reflective of school spirit, aspirations of U-M students, campus life, and often the prejudices and biases of the times in which they were composed. The talk will include musical performance. This lecture is part of a series on the history of the University of Michigan sponsored by the Bentley Historical Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:32:24 -0400 2020-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T20:30:00-04:00 Gerald Ford Library Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Illustrated score of "The Yellow and Blue" from the student magazine, Palladium, early 1900s
Postponed: CEW+ Inspire Workshop: Launching Your Ship (March 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70004 70004-17491349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

The workshop is from 2-3:30, followed by a networking reception until 4:00. RSVP requested online at: cew.umich.edu/events/cew-inspire-workshop-launching-your-ship

In this workshop, Woods will share experiences in creatively tackling problems and experiencing the joys of coalition building. Participants will be encouraged to think about how they approach situations where the ship they are in seems to be stuck in a port and is not going anyplace. Stuck in racism? Stuck in sexism? Stuck in certain social classes? What do you need to make your ship sail? Will a new captain do it? Or, should you be the “Captain of your own fate?” Do you need a new destination? Are you bored with the direction you have been going? Are you going in circles? Do you need new perspectives, new shipmates? Have you outgrown the mundane, xenophobic habits of those in your circle? How can you develop healthy habits to move your life and community forward? Short, interactive activities will assist each participant in using the ship metaphor to move forward in their life.

Wendy Ann Woods served the citizens of Ann Arbor from 2001 to 2007 as City Councilwoman. She is a strong advocate for affordable housing, a vibrant downtown, a balanced budget, a living wage ordinance, and corporate social responsibility. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry Management and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Policy and Management at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. Woods is the Associate Director of the Michigan Community Scholars Program (MCSP), a nationally recognized living-learning program at the U-M that focuses on social justice, community service, diversity, and civic engagement. She also teaches a seminar for the students in MCSP, is a member of the Association of Black Professionals, Faculty, Administrators, and Staff at U-M; and serves on the Advisory Board for the University Outreach Council.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Mar 2020 08:51:10 -0400 2020-03-20T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T15:30:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Wendy Woods - older African American woman with short blonde hair, smiling, wearing yellow collared shirt, white necklace, and white shirt underneath.
UPDATED: ConEco Webinar: Biocultural Approaches to Resource Management: Community-Researcher Collaborations (March 20, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72955 72955-18096987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Please join us for the School for Environment and Sustainability's Conservation Ecology Seminar Series.

This event and the remaining Seminars in the SEAS Conservation Ecology Seminar Series will be moved to webinars accessible through BlueJeans.

Please join us Fridays 3-4pm in BlueJeans Meeting ID 798 256 173
This site has some instructions on using BlueJeans and a link to download the app: https://its.umich.edu/communication/videoconferencing/blue-jeans
Audience members will join with microphone and videos muted. Questions will be moderated through the chat function.

Questions can be directed to Karen Alofs (kmalofs@umich.edu).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:54:43 -0400 2020-03-20T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Workshop / Seminar Seminar Poster
Dancing Justice (March 22, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70557 70557-17604950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Daring Dances Student Fellows present global dance exploration of social issues in this evening performance. The Daring Dances project, led by U-M dance professor Clare Croft, embraces how dance invites us into difficult conversations. This project includes a Student Fellowship program to support U-M students with interests in dance and social justice.

Ambiance Dance Team, a U-M Student organization, is a collective of dancers interested in fostering a social, artistic and diverse community. Their latest work, Deviation, acknowledges the struggle and strength of young women making their mark in a male dominated world.

Arabesque Dance Troupe, a U-M Student organization, brings focus to Middle Eastern and North African Culture through artmaking. “Arab Expressions” brings these art forms together for a yearly celebration. Arabesque will perform an excerpt from this concert, highlighting their history, culture and experiences. 

Iraqi Student Association (ISA) aims to promote and raise awareness of Iraqi and Middle Eastern culture. The association strives to bring the Iraqi community together while educating the student population at the University of Michigan on topics within the Iraqi and Middle Eastern society. ISA will invite the audience to join in learning “Chobi”, a traditional dance performed at public events and weddings. *Audience Participation Optional 

Queer Artist Collective, an organization founded by dance majors Alana ​Packo and Rose Janusiak, aims to create a space where Queer artists from any craft can establish community. Their latest work, “An Exploration of Intimacy in Queer Friendship," asks the question how can two people of the same sexuality develop a friendship of deep intimacy despite the prospect of attraction?  

This program is funded by University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre and Dance, with support from the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:05 -0400 2020-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
CANCELED High Stakes Culture Series: "Cultural Contagions: Xenophobia, Scapegoating, and Coronavirus" (March 24, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70167 70167-17540923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 5:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Over the past few years, “culture wars” have been ignited across the country. Activists from all points of the political spectrum, even the President of the United States himself, are turning to beloved cultural objects to stake a claim for their differing beliefs in a politically fraught moment.

What is at stake in the ways we understand culture and cultural conflict? High Stakes Culture, a series presented by the Institute for the Humanities and the Humanities Collaboratory, brings humanities perspectives to bear on current debates.

Featuring Alexandra Stern (American culture, history, women's studies, and obstetrics and gynecology), Ian Shin (American culture), and Yi-Li Wu (women's studies, history) with Angela Dillard (Afroamerican and African studies, Residential College) as moderator.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:31 -0400 2020-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
CANCELLED: CCSW "Contemporary Narratives" Writing Workshop (March 26, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72972 72972-18116563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop's writing workshop will give graduate students a chance to get feedback in small groups from faculty respondents and graduate student peers on works-in-progress about contemporary literature, art, or culture. The papers will be pre-circulated to the assigned groups. The intention of the workshop is to bring together students in different departments and to spark discourse across traditional generic and/or disciplinary boundaries.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:56:48 -0400 2020-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (March 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
MESA SPRING OPEN OFFICE HOURS (March 26, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73982 73982-18454144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Need to connect? MESA is available for our community members. Please join us during MESA open office hours virtually via Zoom every Friday from 12 pm - 1 pm.

Join Zoom Meeting at:

https://umich.zoom.us/j/544097674

Meeting ID: 544 097 674

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:31:56 -0400 2020-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Spring Virtual Hours
MESA SPRING OPEN OFFICE HOURS (March 26, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73982 73982-18454145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Need to connect? MESA is available for our community members. Please join us during MESA open office hours virtually via Zoom every Friday from 12 pm - 1 pm.

Join Zoom Meeting at:

https://umich.zoom.us/j/544097674

Meeting ID: 544 097 674

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:31:56 -0400 2020-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Spring Virtual Hours
Michelle Penãloza Poetry Reading (March 30, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73219 73219-18179626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 10:30am
Location:
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Free and open to the first 200 participants to login at this link: https://bluejeans.com/199159640 Meeting ID 199 159 640

On Monday, March 30, 2020, in commemoration of March as Women’s History Month and the University of Michigan’s observance of Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, author Michelle Peñaloza will discuss and read from her new book of poems, Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, Winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize. The 10:30AM-11:30AM EDT poetry reading and discussion is in conjunction with the Women’s Studies/American Culture/Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies 363 course entitled “Asian/Pacific Islander American Women”. It will be hosted online, using Blue Jeans, the University of Michigan Video Meeting app and website. You do not need the app to join the meeting (although the connection may be more stable with the app.

Michelle Peñaloza is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize (Inlandia Books, 2019). She is also the author of two chapbooks, landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias, 2015), and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (Organic Weapon Arts, 2015). The recipient of fellowships and awards from the University of Oregon, Kundiman, Hugo House and The Key West Literary Seminar, Michelle has also received support from Lemon Tree House, Caldera, 4Culture, Literary Arts, VONA/Voices, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, among others. The proud daughter of Filipino immigrants, Michelle was born in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Nashville, Tenessee. She now lives in rural Northern California. www.michellepenaloza.com

Sponsors:
Arts at Michigan (Course Connections Grant), Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies, Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, Department of Women’s Studies, Filipino American Students Association (FASA), & United Asian American Organizations (UAAO)

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Performance Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:50:10 -0400 2020-03-30T10:30:00-04:00 2020-03-30T11:30:00-04:00 Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Performance Michelle Peñaloza Book
Leading a Meaningful Life in a Self-centered World (March 30, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70498 70498-17602778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Having survived their youth and entered maturity, OLLI members will appreciate the affirming and instructive book, "The Second Mountain - The Quest for a Moral Life", which we will read and discuss.
Author and New York Times columnist David Brooks has moved from strictly political and government issues to spending much of his time studying human values and behaviors, while he has climbed the second mountain of life. The second mountain holds experiences that are really worthwhile, not the things other people tell them to want. They move from self-centered to other-centered.
They embrace a life of interdependence, not independence. They take on commitment. Gerry Lapidus has lead more than 50 OLLI book discussion classes. Please read through pg. 26 (Intro, sections 1-3) for the first meeting. The Study Group for those 50 and over is held Mondays March 30 through May 11 (no class April 6).

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Class / Instruction Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:44:07 -0500 2020-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
MESA SPRING OPEN OFFICE HOURS (March 30, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73982 73982-18487533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 6:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Need to connect? MESA is available for our community members. Please join us during MESA open office hours virtually via Zoom every Friday from 12 pm - 1 pm.

Join Zoom Meeting at:

https://umich.zoom.us/j/544097674

Meeting ID: 544 097 674

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:31:56 -0400 2020-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T19:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Spring Virtual Hours
Virtual Open Mic (April 1, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74052 74052-18499988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Please join Center for Campus Involvement for our first annual Virtual Open Mic Night! The theme of this year's event is "Identity." Please submit an image or video (3 minutes maximum) to the submission form-any art form is encouraged including poetry, dance, songs, visual art, monologues, etc. To submit a video and be featured on our social media, please visit https://forms.gle/nmCbLh9ofTa63mPz9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:27:41 -0400 2020-04-01T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T23:00:00-04:00 Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Image with microphone, boombox, headphones, and cassette tape with the words: VIRTUAL OPEN MIC, April 17, 2020; Submissions will be posted on Center for Campus Involvement Social Media!
Virtual Open Mic (April 1, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74052 74052-18499998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Please join Center for Campus Involvement for our first annual Virtual Open Mic Night! The theme of this year's event is "Identity." Please submit an image or video (3 minutes maximum) to the submission form-any art form is encouraged including poetry, dance, songs, visual art, monologues, etc. To submit a video and be featured on our social media, please visit https://forms.gle/nmCbLh9ofTa63mPz9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:27:41 -0400 2020-04-01T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T10:00:00-04:00 Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Image with microphone, boombox, headphones, and cassette tape with the words: VIRTUAL OPEN MIC, April 17, 2020; Submissions will be posted on Center for Campus Involvement Social Media!
Join MESA for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (April 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73972 73972-18452024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every Wednesday between 11:00 am - 1:00 pm for Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu or call (734) 763-9044.

When: Starting 04-01-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 May 2020 10:14:00 -0400 2020-04-01T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Virtual Open Mic (April 2, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74052 74052-18499989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Please join Center for Campus Involvement for our first annual Virtual Open Mic Night! The theme of this year's event is "Identity." Please submit an image or video (3 minutes maximum) to the submission form-any art form is encouraged including poetry, dance, songs, visual art, monologues, etc. To submit a video and be featured on our social media, please visit https://forms.gle/nmCbLh9ofTa63mPz9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:27:41 -0400 2020-04-02T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T23:00:00-04:00 Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Image with microphone, boombox, headphones, and cassette tape with the words: VIRTUAL OPEN MIC, April 17, 2020; Submissions will be posted on Center for Campus Involvement Social Media!
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (April 2, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Virtual Open Mic (April 3, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74052 74052-18499990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Please join Center for Campus Involvement for our first annual Virtual Open Mic Night! The theme of this year's event is "Identity." Please submit an image or video (3 minutes maximum) to the submission form-any art form is encouraged including poetry, dance, songs, visual art, monologues, etc. To submit a video and be featured on our social media, please visit https://forms.gle/nmCbLh9ofTa63mPz9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:27:41 -0400 2020-04-03T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T23:00:00-04:00 Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Image with microphone, boombox, headphones, and cassette tape with the words: VIRTUAL OPEN MIC, April 17, 2020; Submissions will be posted on Center for Campus Involvement Social Media!
CANCELLED - GISC Conference. Muslims in Comics: Superheroes & Scapegoats (April 3, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71494 71494-17834206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled. We will reschedule this event in Fall 2020.

All Day Conference
Fri, April 3, 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
555 Weiser Hall

Panelists will include: Esra Mirze Santesso, Chris Gavaler, Aliyah Khan, & Karla Mallette. A keynote address will be given at 4:00 PM by Saladin Ahmed.

This event is free and open to the public but please RSVP: https://forms.gle/MKZ96YSR7JgiYvHn8

Schedule:
10:00-11:00: Esra Mirze Santesso
11:00-12:00: Karla Mallette
12:00-2:00: BREAK
2:00-3:00: Aliyah Khan
3:00-4:00: Chris Gavaler
4:00-5:30: Saladin Ahmed

From dissidents to villains to superheroes, how are Muslim characters written--and how does the public read them--in comic books today? This workshop explores the roles open to Muslim characters in serialized comics and graphic novels. The medium of serialized comics, commercialized in the twentieth century by mainstream comics publishers such as Marvel and DC, and epitomized by their respective superhero universes, has long been associated with a lack of racial and religious diversity, the sexualization of female characters, and a reader base that is stereotypically young, male, and white. Minority characters were often limited to tokenized villains or sidekicks designed for comic relief. But the contemporary young Muslim female superhero Ms. Marvel symbolizes a comics landscape that is changing. In the contexts of the Gulf Wars, 9/11, the Arab Spring, the Palestinian conflict, ongoing civil unrest in the Middle East, and worldwide refugee migrant crises, writers and artists from the Muslim and Arab worlds, and others writing journalistically and historically about those locales, are at the forefront of graphic medium literary production.

Graphic novels and comics by and about Muslims and Arabs comprise a growing and distinctive narrative strain within comics studies—one that this workshop of comics and Muslim and Arab Studies artists and scholars seeks to investigate.

Keynote speaker and Eisner Award-winning comics artist and science fiction and fantasy author Saladin Ahmed (*Throne of the Crescent Moon*, *Miles Morales: Spider-Man*, *Black Bolt*, *Exiles*) will speak about his new work for Marvel and other enterprises.

Chris Gavaler (*On the Origin of Superheroes: From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1*, 2015) explores the Islamicist history of the 20th-century superhero.

Esra Mirze Santesso (*Disorientation: Muslim Identity in Contemporary Anglophone Literature*, 2013) discusses human rights discourse in narratives of war and dissidence in Iran and Kashmir.

Karla Mallette (*European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean*, 2010) reports on resistance to Muslim and other minority identity politics from some comics readers.

Aliyah Khan (*Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean*, 2020) examines orientalist representations of Muslim female superheroes.

The presenters bring postcolonial, decolonial, comics studies, and historicizing methodologies to bear on understanding commonalities and differences among Islamic, Muslim, and Arab graphic narratives, reading them as transnational works that, as many of their subjects do, cross borders and resist authoritarian states.


Cosponsored by: The Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, The Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, Middle East Studies, and Arab and Muslim American Studies

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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please contact us at islamicstudies@umich.edu, we'd be happy to help. As you may know, some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange, so please let us know as soon as you can.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:41:27 -0400 2020-04-03T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Conference / Symposium Muslims_in_comics_poster
MESA SPRING OPEN OFFICE HOURS (April 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73982 73982-18487534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Need to connect? MESA is available for our community members. Please join us during MESA open office hours virtually via Zoom every Friday from 12 pm - 1 pm.

Join Zoom Meeting at:

https://umich.zoom.us/j/544097674

Meeting ID: 544 097 674

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:31:56 -0400 2020-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Spring Virtual Hours
Virtual Open Mic (April 4, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74052 74052-18499991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Please join Center for Campus Involvement for our first annual Virtual Open Mic Night! The theme of this year's event is "Identity." Please submit an image or video (3 minutes maximum) to the submission form-any art form is encouraged including poetry, dance, songs, visual art, monologues, etc. To submit a video and be featured on our social media, please visit https://forms.gle/nmCbLh9ofTa63mPz9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:27:41 -0400 2020-04-04T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T23:00:00-04:00 Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Image with microphone, boombox, headphones, and cassette tape with the words: VIRTUAL OPEN MIC, April 17, 2020; Submissions will be posted on Center for Campus Involvement Social Media!
Virtual Open Mic (April 5, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74052 74052-18499992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Please join Center for Campus Involvement for our first annual Virtual Open Mic Night! The theme of this year's event is "Identity." Please submit an image or video (3 minutes maximum) to the submission form-any art form is encouraged including poetry, dance, songs, visual art, monologues, etc. To submit a video and be featured on our social media, please visit https://forms.gle/nmCbLh9ofTa63mPz9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:27:41 -0400 2020-04-05T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T23:00:00-04:00 Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Image with microphone, boombox, headphones, and cassette tape with the words: VIRTUAL OPEN MIC, April 17, 2020; Submissions will be posted on Center for Campus Involvement Social Media!
Virtual Open Mic (April 6, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74052 74052-18499993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Please join Center for Campus Involvement for our first annual Virtual Open Mic Night! The theme of this year's event is "Identity." Please submit an image or video (3 minutes maximum) to the submission form-any art form is encouraged including poetry, dance, songs, visual art, monologues, etc. To submit a video and be featured on our social media, please visit https://forms.gle/nmCbLh9ofTa63mPz9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:27:41 -0400 2020-04-06T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T23:00:00-04:00 Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Image with microphone, boombox, headphones, and cassette tape with the words: VIRTUAL OPEN MIC, April 17, 2020; Submissions will be posted on Center for Campus Involvement Social Media!
Women’s Issues: The Moment of Lift (April 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70495 70495-17602775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

“If you want to lift society up - invest in women!” (Melinda Gates). In her book which we will be discussing, "The Moment of Lift", the author traces the link between women’s empowerment and the health of societies. She shows some of the tremendous opportunities that exist right now to “turbo charge” change and provides simple and effective ways each of us can make a difference. The Study Group for those 50 and over led by Bernie Beach and Sigrid Hermon is held Mondays April 6 through April 20.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:31:22 -0500 2020-04-06T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Virtual Open Mic (April 7, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74052 74052-18499994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Please join Center for Campus Involvement for our first annual Virtual Open Mic Night! The theme of this year's event is "Identity." Please submit an image or video (3 minutes maximum) to the submission form-any art form is encouraged including poetry, dance, songs, visual art, monologues, etc. To submit a video and be featured on our social media, please visit https://forms.gle/nmCbLh9ofTa63mPz9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:27:41 -0400 2020-04-07T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T23:00:00-04:00 Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Image with microphone, boombox, headphones, and cassette tape with the words: VIRTUAL OPEN MIC, April 17, 2020; Submissions will be posted on Center for Campus Involvement Social Media!
Virtual Open Mic (April 8, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74052 74052-18499995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Please join Center for Campus Involvement for our first annual Virtual Open Mic Night! The theme of this year's event is "Identity." Please submit an image or video (3 minutes maximum) to the submission form-any art form is encouraged including poetry, dance, songs, visual art, monologues, etc. To submit a video and be featured on our social media, please visit https://forms.gle/nmCbLh9ofTa63mPz9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:27:41 -0400 2020-04-08T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T23:00:00-04:00 Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Image with microphone, boombox, headphones, and cassette tape with the words: VIRTUAL OPEN MIC, April 17, 2020; Submissions will be posted on Center for Campus Involvement Social Media!
Stories in Stone (April 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70840 70840-17660830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

There is no single site in the community that tells its story with more drama than the cemetery. It is the one place where we can trace our ‘roots’ in what is becoming a ‘rootless’ society. There are pioneers, the rich and famous lying side by side with the poor and not so famous. There are scoundrels and saints, infants and centenarians. Each gravestone has a story to tell. Traveling from Alaska to Key West, from Hawaii to Canada, from New Zealand to England we have found examples of the myriad of burial customs and examples of symbolism on gravestones. Instructor Rochelle Balkam wishes to encourage communities to focus on one of their most significant resources - the local cemetery.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 25 Dec 2019 16:31:18 -0500 2020-04-08T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Olli Study Group
Join MESA for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (April 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73972 73972-18452025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every Wednesday between 11:00 am - 1:00 pm for Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu or call (734) 763-9044.

When: Starting 04-01-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 May 2020 10:14:00 -0400 2020-04-08T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Virtual Open Mic (April 9, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74052 74052-18499996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Please join Center for Campus Involvement for our first annual Virtual Open Mic Night! The theme of this year's event is "Identity." Please submit an image or video (3 minutes maximum) to the submission form-any art form is encouraged including poetry, dance, songs, visual art, monologues, etc. To submit a video and be featured on our social media, please visit https://forms.gle/nmCbLh9ofTa63mPz9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:27:41 -0400 2020-04-09T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T23:00:00-04:00 Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Image with microphone, boombox, headphones, and cassette tape with the words: VIRTUAL OPEN MIC, April 17, 2020; Submissions will be posted on Center for Campus Involvement Social Media!
Cancelled! Museum Studies Program - Museums at Noon presentation (April 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72171 72171-17948641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Presentation by Susan Dine (PhD candidate, History of Art)

This talk will present analyses of the history and functions of museums studied from two perspectives: that of museum visitor studies compared to museums’ presentations in popular visual culture. It will address how the latter can both reflect and shape cultural perspectives.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:27:01 -0400 2020-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Museums and Movies
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (April 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Virtual Open Mic (April 10, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74052 74052-18499997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Please join Center for Campus Involvement for our first annual Virtual Open Mic Night! The theme of this year's event is "Identity." Please submit an image or video (3 minutes maximum) to the submission form-any art form is encouraged including poetry, dance, songs, visual art, monologues, etc. To submit a video and be featured on our social media, please visit https://forms.gle/nmCbLh9ofTa63mPz9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:27:41 -0400 2020-04-10T09:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T23:00:00-04:00 Center for Campus Involvement Livestream / Virtual Image with microphone, boombox, headphones, and cassette tape with the words: VIRTUAL OPEN MIC, April 17, 2020; Submissions will be posted on Center for Campus Involvement Social Media!
MESA SPRING OPEN OFFICE HOURS (April 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73982 73982-18487535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Need to connect? MESA is available for our community members. Please join us during MESA open office hours virtually via Zoom every Friday from 12 pm - 1 pm.

Join Zoom Meeting at:

https://umich.zoom.us/j/544097674

Meeting ID: 544 097 674

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:31:56 -0400 2020-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Spring Virtual Hours
Witness Lab Simulation: Mock Trial With Professor Jatin Dua's U-M Law And Culture Class (April 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73783 73783-18315755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our page for an ever-evolving list of opportunities to see the project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:15 -0400 2020-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T14:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
CANCELLED: Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony (April 14, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64841 64841-16460978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

This event has been cancelled.

Please contact the Hopwood Program Manager at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu or by phone at 764-6296 with any questions.

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Ceremony / Service Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:59:38 -0400 2020-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-14T19:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service Author Kiese Laymon, an African American man with a shaved head wearing a black zippered shirt.
Join MESA for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (April 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73972 73972-18452026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every Wednesday between 11:00 am - 1:00 pm for Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu or call (734) 763-9044.

When: Starting 04-01-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 May 2020 10:14:00 -0400 2020-04-15T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
Witness Lab Simulation: Mock Trial With Professor Jatin Dua's U-M Law And Culture Class (April 16, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73784 73784-18315756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:15 -0400 2020-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T14:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (April 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
MESA SPRING OPEN OFFICE HOURS (April 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73982 73982-18487536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Need to connect? MESA is available for our community members. Please join us during MESA open office hours virtually via Zoom every Friday from 12 pm - 1 pm.

Join Zoom Meeting at:

https://umich.zoom.us/j/544097674

Meeting ID: 544 097 674

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:31:56 -0400 2020-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Spring Virtual Hours
Value the Voice: It took my village… (April 21, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71103 71103-17777064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of educational entertainment known to mankind. From the West African tradition of the Griot to modern day Moth events, storytelling environments have served as a means to pass along history, shape culture, share helpful lessons, and establish a sense of belonging and community.

The U-M Comprehensive Studies Program and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies invite you to explore themes related to campus life, coming of age, and learning and growing, at this series of Moth Style Storyteller Lounge events. Storytellers include students, faculty and staff, and Voices of Wisdom (alums or community members). 

Value the Voice is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:10 -0400 2020-04-21T18:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Join MESA for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (April 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73972 73972-18452027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every Wednesday between 11:00 am - 1:00 pm for Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu or call (734) 763-9044.

When: Starting 04-01-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 May 2020 10:14:00 -0400 2020-04-22T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour
MESA SPRING OPEN OFFICE HOURS (April 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73982 73982-18487537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Need to connect? MESA is available for our community members. Please join us during MESA open office hours virtually via Zoom every Friday from 12 pm - 1 pm.

Join Zoom Meeting at:

https://umich.zoom.us/j/544097674

Meeting ID: 544 097 674

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:31:56 -0400 2020-04-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Spring Virtual Hours
[Remote] Ramadan 2020 (April 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74234 74234-18601133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Please visit this website for programming details and to sign up for the Ramadan 2020 listserv: http://bit.ly/ramadan-umich

The International Institute's Islamophobia Working Group and the Muslim Students' Association have transformed our planned in-person Ramadan iftars into completely remote events and resources! Our website (http://bit.ly/ramadan-umich) contains information, activities, and programming, including “Zoom Into Ramadan” gatherings every Monday and Thursday from 7-7:30pm during the month of Ramadan (approximately April 23 to May 23, 2020). As with our in-person iftars, the programming is open to all, both Muslims and non-Muslims. We hope that our iftars and allyship initiatives will establish an enduring tradition of community and inclusion, creating a model for other universities and inspiring similar community educational initiatives during the holidays of other U-M religious minorities.

Please contact Jumanah Saadeh (jumanahs@umich.edu) with any event questions or to share accommodation needs.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 13 Apr 2020 16:49:46 -0400 2020-04-27T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-27T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual [Remote] Ramadan 2020
Join MESA for an online coffee break for Wellness Wednesday! (April 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73972 73972-18452028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join MESA every Wednesday between 11:00 am - 1:00 pm for Wellness Wednesday lunch, coffee, tea, and conversation. We are prepared for social listening and new ways to bring students and the community together. We would love to hear what's happening in your world. You can email us at mesa.uofm@umich.edu or call (734) 763-9044.

When: Starting 04-01-2020 (EDT)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://umich.zoom.us/j/923271660

Meeting ID: 923 271 660

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 May 2020 10:14:00 -0400 2020-04-29T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Wellness Wednesday Coffee Hour