Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. "Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (November 26, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 26, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-11-26T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-26T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 26, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 26, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-26T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-26T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
In-Between the World and Dreams (November 26, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78990 78990-20168540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 26, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this multi-venue project led by the Institute for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the U-M Museum of Art, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama explores global exchange, commerce and the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.

Mahama's artistic practice illustrates, as he explains, how art education, art and cultural opportunities "allow for people to find new ways to acquire knowledge, not only of themselves, but their histories and the places and spaces in which they find themselves."

Enveloping the contours of a museum building or wall, the blankets of jute fibers are meant to contrast with the monumentality of the institutional buildings and spaces they cover, becoming remnants and traces that reference the hands of laborers, the imprints of colonialism and the interference of Britain and the U.S. in Ghanaian history.

The project marks the first outdoor exhibition of Mahama's work in the United States. It is responsive to the present moment, offering students and the broader community the opportunity to engage with the arts in a public space at a time when gatherings inside buildings and museums are limited.

Curator's Statement:

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s installations are cumulative moments of reckoning, mending, and recycling. Things fall apart, come undone. His constructions defy any notions of permanence and longevity. They are monuments to the in-between and the upending, begging the question, “What can we do?”

Mahama incorporates jute sacks—synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana where he lives and works—as a raw material. He works collaboratively with his community to complete the extensive sewing of the sacks required in preparation for his projects. For the U-M installations, he incorporates materials from his previous seminal works over the last decade as a retrospective.

The markings, stitching, and signs of wear on the jute remind us of the many changing hands and endless labor behind international trade—the human toll of capitalism, commodification, and globalization. The fabric itself acts as metaphor for Ghana’s complicated history defined by Dutch colonialism and the Gold Coast slave trade, British rule till 1957, and a future de-railed by military coups post-independence.

Rather than grand gestures, Mahama’s installations are humble acts of endurance. They are covert art take-overs, subverting architecture and disrupting the pristine fascia of our institutional buildings. They hold us accountable for past trespasses.

Mahama is committed to offering his own country the same cultural opportunities and experiences available to those in the West. Most recently he designed and opened the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Arts in his hometown of Tamale Ghana, contributing towards the expansion of his country’s contemporary art scene. An extension of his art practice, the centre brings Mahama’s many visionary sketches to life, creating classrooms in old airplanes, a swimming pool for children’s play, and public spaces for gatherings and the exchange of ideas.

In this pivotal year defined by Covid-19, worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter, climate change, and our U.S. Presidential election in the balance, Ibrahim Mahama’s work acknowledges failures and false promises, but also the opportunities that can reveal themselves in times of crisis.

Perhaps generations emerging from crisis can learn from the ghosts of the past and generate entirely new systems, not motivated by profit or self-interest, but by a deep commitment to the hard work ahead, our willingness to do it, and to the mutual space for dreams.

–Amanda Krugliak, arts curator, Institute for the Humanities and curator of In Between the World and Dreams

In-Between the World and Dreams is a multi-venue project led by the U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, in partnership with UMMA and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit.

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further the Institute for the Humanities Gallery’s longtime mission in support of art as social practice.

Oct. 1-23; large-scale public art installation, U-M Museum of Art building facade, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor

Oct. 1-23: sidewalk gallery, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor (viewing from the gallery window only)

Oct. 12-Dec. 5: Community Gallery installation, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit

Penny Stamps Speaker Series with Ibrahim Mahama

Oct. 23, 8pm, webcast at http://pennystampsevents.org/

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Exhibition Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:17:27 -0400 2020-11-26T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-26T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Exhibition In-Between the World and Dreams
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (November 27, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 27, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-27T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 27, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 27, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-27T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
In-Between the World and Dreams (November 27, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78990 78990-20168541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 27, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this multi-venue project led by the Institute for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the U-M Museum of Art, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama explores global exchange, commerce and the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.

Mahama's artistic practice illustrates, as he explains, how art education, art and cultural opportunities "allow for people to find new ways to acquire knowledge, not only of themselves, but their histories and the places and spaces in which they find themselves."

Enveloping the contours of a museum building or wall, the blankets of jute fibers are meant to contrast with the monumentality of the institutional buildings and spaces they cover, becoming remnants and traces that reference the hands of laborers, the imprints of colonialism and the interference of Britain and the U.S. in Ghanaian history.

The project marks the first outdoor exhibition of Mahama's work in the United States. It is responsive to the present moment, offering students and the broader community the opportunity to engage with the arts in a public space at a time when gatherings inside buildings and museums are limited.

Curator's Statement:

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s installations are cumulative moments of reckoning, mending, and recycling. Things fall apart, come undone. His constructions defy any notions of permanence and longevity. They are monuments to the in-between and the upending, begging the question, “What can we do?”

Mahama incorporates jute sacks—synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana where he lives and works—as a raw material. He works collaboratively with his community to complete the extensive sewing of the sacks required in preparation for his projects. For the U-M installations, he incorporates materials from his previous seminal works over the last decade as a retrospective.

The markings, stitching, and signs of wear on the jute remind us of the many changing hands and endless labor behind international trade—the human toll of capitalism, commodification, and globalization. The fabric itself acts as metaphor for Ghana’s complicated history defined by Dutch colonialism and the Gold Coast slave trade, British rule till 1957, and a future de-railed by military coups post-independence.

Rather than grand gestures, Mahama’s installations are humble acts of endurance. They are covert art take-overs, subverting architecture and disrupting the pristine fascia of our institutional buildings. They hold us accountable for past trespasses.

Mahama is committed to offering his own country the same cultural opportunities and experiences available to those in the West. Most recently he designed and opened the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Arts in his hometown of Tamale Ghana, contributing towards the expansion of his country’s contemporary art scene. An extension of his art practice, the centre brings Mahama’s many visionary sketches to life, creating classrooms in old airplanes, a swimming pool for children’s play, and public spaces for gatherings and the exchange of ideas.

In this pivotal year defined by Covid-19, worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter, climate change, and our U.S. Presidential election in the balance, Ibrahim Mahama’s work acknowledges failures and false promises, but also the opportunities that can reveal themselves in times of crisis.

Perhaps generations emerging from crisis can learn from the ghosts of the past and generate entirely new systems, not motivated by profit or self-interest, but by a deep commitment to the hard work ahead, our willingness to do it, and to the mutual space for dreams.

–Amanda Krugliak, arts curator, Institute for the Humanities and curator of In Between the World and Dreams

In-Between the World and Dreams is a multi-venue project led by the U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, in partnership with UMMA and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit.

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further the Institute for the Humanities Gallery’s longtime mission in support of art as social practice.

Oct. 1-23; large-scale public art installation, U-M Museum of Art building facade, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor

Oct. 1-23: sidewalk gallery, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor (viewing from the gallery window only)

Oct. 12-Dec. 5: Community Gallery installation, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit

Penny Stamps Speaker Series with Ibrahim Mahama

Oct. 23, 8pm, webcast at http://pennystampsevents.org/

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Exhibition Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:17:27 -0400 2020-11-27T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Exhibition In-Between the World and Dreams
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (November 28, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 28, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-11-28T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-28T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 28, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 28, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-28T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-28T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
In-Between the World and Dreams (November 28, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78990 78990-20168542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 28, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this multi-venue project led by the Institute for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the U-M Museum of Art, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama explores global exchange, commerce and the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.

Mahama's artistic practice illustrates, as he explains, how art education, art and cultural opportunities "allow for people to find new ways to acquire knowledge, not only of themselves, but their histories and the places and spaces in which they find themselves."

Enveloping the contours of a museum building or wall, the blankets of jute fibers are meant to contrast with the monumentality of the institutional buildings and spaces they cover, becoming remnants and traces that reference the hands of laborers, the imprints of colonialism and the interference of Britain and the U.S. in Ghanaian history.

The project marks the first outdoor exhibition of Mahama's work in the United States. It is responsive to the present moment, offering students and the broader community the opportunity to engage with the arts in a public space at a time when gatherings inside buildings and museums are limited.

Curator's Statement:

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s installations are cumulative moments of reckoning, mending, and recycling. Things fall apart, come undone. His constructions defy any notions of permanence and longevity. They are monuments to the in-between and the upending, begging the question, “What can we do?”

Mahama incorporates jute sacks—synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana where he lives and works—as a raw material. He works collaboratively with his community to complete the extensive sewing of the sacks required in preparation for his projects. For the U-M installations, he incorporates materials from his previous seminal works over the last decade as a retrospective.

The markings, stitching, and signs of wear on the jute remind us of the many changing hands and endless labor behind international trade—the human toll of capitalism, commodification, and globalization. The fabric itself acts as metaphor for Ghana’s complicated history defined by Dutch colonialism and the Gold Coast slave trade, British rule till 1957, and a future de-railed by military coups post-independence.

Rather than grand gestures, Mahama’s installations are humble acts of endurance. They are covert art take-overs, subverting architecture and disrupting the pristine fascia of our institutional buildings. They hold us accountable for past trespasses.

Mahama is committed to offering his own country the same cultural opportunities and experiences available to those in the West. Most recently he designed and opened the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Arts in his hometown of Tamale Ghana, contributing towards the expansion of his country’s contemporary art scene. An extension of his art practice, the centre brings Mahama’s many visionary sketches to life, creating classrooms in old airplanes, a swimming pool for children’s play, and public spaces for gatherings and the exchange of ideas.

In this pivotal year defined by Covid-19, worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter, climate change, and our U.S. Presidential election in the balance, Ibrahim Mahama’s work acknowledges failures and false promises, but also the opportunities that can reveal themselves in times of crisis.

Perhaps generations emerging from crisis can learn from the ghosts of the past and generate entirely new systems, not motivated by profit or self-interest, but by a deep commitment to the hard work ahead, our willingness to do it, and to the mutual space for dreams.

–Amanda Krugliak, arts curator, Institute for the Humanities and curator of In Between the World and Dreams

In-Between the World and Dreams is a multi-venue project led by the U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, in partnership with UMMA and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit.

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further the Institute for the Humanities Gallery’s longtime mission in support of art as social practice.

Oct. 1-23; large-scale public art installation, U-M Museum of Art building facade, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor

Oct. 1-23: sidewalk gallery, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor (viewing from the gallery window only)

Oct. 12-Dec. 5: Community Gallery installation, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit

Penny Stamps Speaker Series with Ibrahim Mahama

Oct. 23, 8pm, webcast at http://pennystampsevents.org/

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Exhibition Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:17:27 -0400 2020-11-28T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-28T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Exhibition In-Between the World and Dreams
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (November 29, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 29, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-11-29T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-29T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 29, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 29, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-29T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-29T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
In-Between the World and Dreams (November 29, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78990 78990-20168543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 29, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this multi-venue project led by the Institute for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the U-M Museum of Art, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama explores global exchange, commerce and the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.

Mahama's artistic practice illustrates, as he explains, how art education, art and cultural opportunities "allow for people to find new ways to acquire knowledge, not only of themselves, but their histories and the places and spaces in which they find themselves."

Enveloping the contours of a museum building or wall, the blankets of jute fibers are meant to contrast with the monumentality of the institutional buildings and spaces they cover, becoming remnants and traces that reference the hands of laborers, the imprints of colonialism and the interference of Britain and the U.S. in Ghanaian history.

The project marks the first outdoor exhibition of Mahama's work in the United States. It is responsive to the present moment, offering students and the broader community the opportunity to engage with the arts in a public space at a time when gatherings inside buildings and museums are limited.

Curator's Statement:

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s installations are cumulative moments of reckoning, mending, and recycling. Things fall apart, come undone. His constructions defy any notions of permanence and longevity. They are monuments to the in-between and the upending, begging the question, “What can we do?”

Mahama incorporates jute sacks—synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana where he lives and works—as a raw material. He works collaboratively with his community to complete the extensive sewing of the sacks required in preparation for his projects. For the U-M installations, he incorporates materials from his previous seminal works over the last decade as a retrospective.

The markings, stitching, and signs of wear on the jute remind us of the many changing hands and endless labor behind international trade—the human toll of capitalism, commodification, and globalization. The fabric itself acts as metaphor for Ghana’s complicated history defined by Dutch colonialism and the Gold Coast slave trade, British rule till 1957, and a future de-railed by military coups post-independence.

Rather than grand gestures, Mahama’s installations are humble acts of endurance. They are covert art take-overs, subverting architecture and disrupting the pristine fascia of our institutional buildings. They hold us accountable for past trespasses.

Mahama is committed to offering his own country the same cultural opportunities and experiences available to those in the West. Most recently he designed and opened the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Arts in his hometown of Tamale Ghana, contributing towards the expansion of his country’s contemporary art scene. An extension of his art practice, the centre brings Mahama’s many visionary sketches to life, creating classrooms in old airplanes, a swimming pool for children’s play, and public spaces for gatherings and the exchange of ideas.

In this pivotal year defined by Covid-19, worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter, climate change, and our U.S. Presidential election in the balance, Ibrahim Mahama’s work acknowledges failures and false promises, but also the opportunities that can reveal themselves in times of crisis.

Perhaps generations emerging from crisis can learn from the ghosts of the past and generate entirely new systems, not motivated by profit or self-interest, but by a deep commitment to the hard work ahead, our willingness to do it, and to the mutual space for dreams.

–Amanda Krugliak, arts curator, Institute for the Humanities and curator of In Between the World and Dreams

In-Between the World and Dreams is a multi-venue project led by the U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, in partnership with UMMA and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit.

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further the Institute for the Humanities Gallery’s longtime mission in support of art as social practice.

Oct. 1-23; large-scale public art installation, U-M Museum of Art building facade, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor

Oct. 1-23: sidewalk gallery, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor (viewing from the gallery window only)

Oct. 12-Dec. 5: Community Gallery installation, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit

Penny Stamps Speaker Series with Ibrahim Mahama

Oct. 23, 8pm, webcast at http://pennystampsevents.org/

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Exhibition Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:17:27 -0400 2020-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Exhibition In-Between the World and Dreams
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (November 30, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-11-30T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (November 30, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-11-30T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 1, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-01T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 1, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-01T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 2, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 2, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 3, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-03T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 3, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-03T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
In-Between the World and Dreams (December 3, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78990 78990-20168547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this multi-venue project led by the Institute for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the U-M Museum of Art, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama explores global exchange, commerce and the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.

Mahama's artistic practice illustrates, as he explains, how art education, art and cultural opportunities "allow for people to find new ways to acquire knowledge, not only of themselves, but their histories and the places and spaces in which they find themselves."

Enveloping the contours of a museum building or wall, the blankets of jute fibers are meant to contrast with the monumentality of the institutional buildings and spaces they cover, becoming remnants and traces that reference the hands of laborers, the imprints of colonialism and the interference of Britain and the U.S. in Ghanaian history.

The project marks the first outdoor exhibition of Mahama's work in the United States. It is responsive to the present moment, offering students and the broader community the opportunity to engage with the arts in a public space at a time when gatherings inside buildings and museums are limited.

Curator's Statement:

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s installations are cumulative moments of reckoning, mending, and recycling. Things fall apart, come undone. His constructions defy any notions of permanence and longevity. They are monuments to the in-between and the upending, begging the question, “What can we do?”

Mahama incorporates jute sacks—synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana where he lives and works—as a raw material. He works collaboratively with his community to complete the extensive sewing of the sacks required in preparation for his projects. For the U-M installations, he incorporates materials from his previous seminal works over the last decade as a retrospective.

The markings, stitching, and signs of wear on the jute remind us of the many changing hands and endless labor behind international trade—the human toll of capitalism, commodification, and globalization. The fabric itself acts as metaphor for Ghana’s complicated history defined by Dutch colonialism and the Gold Coast slave trade, British rule till 1957, and a future de-railed by military coups post-independence.

Rather than grand gestures, Mahama’s installations are humble acts of endurance. They are covert art take-overs, subverting architecture and disrupting the pristine fascia of our institutional buildings. They hold us accountable for past trespasses.

Mahama is committed to offering his own country the same cultural opportunities and experiences available to those in the West. Most recently he designed and opened the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Arts in his hometown of Tamale Ghana, contributing towards the expansion of his country’s contemporary art scene. An extension of his art practice, the centre brings Mahama’s many visionary sketches to life, creating classrooms in old airplanes, a swimming pool for children’s play, and public spaces for gatherings and the exchange of ideas.

In this pivotal year defined by Covid-19, worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter, climate change, and our U.S. Presidential election in the balance, Ibrahim Mahama’s work acknowledges failures and false promises, but also the opportunities that can reveal themselves in times of crisis.

Perhaps generations emerging from crisis can learn from the ghosts of the past and generate entirely new systems, not motivated by profit or self-interest, but by a deep commitment to the hard work ahead, our willingness to do it, and to the mutual space for dreams.

–Amanda Krugliak, arts curator, Institute for the Humanities and curator of In Between the World and Dreams

In-Between the World and Dreams is a multi-venue project led by the U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, in partnership with UMMA and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit.

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further the Institute for the Humanities Gallery’s longtime mission in support of art as social practice.

Oct. 1-23; large-scale public art installation, U-M Museum of Art building facade, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor

Oct. 1-23: sidewalk gallery, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor (viewing from the gallery window only)

Oct. 12-Dec. 5: Community Gallery installation, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit

Penny Stamps Speaker Series with Ibrahim Mahama

Oct. 23, 8pm, webcast at http://pennystampsevents.org/

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Exhibition Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:17:27 -0400 2020-12-03T09:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Exhibition In-Between the World and Dreams
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 4, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-04T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 4, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-04T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
In-Between the World and Dreams (December 4, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78990 78990-20168548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this multi-venue project led by the Institute for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the U-M Museum of Art, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama explores global exchange, commerce and the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.

Mahama's artistic practice illustrates, as he explains, how art education, art and cultural opportunities "allow for people to find new ways to acquire knowledge, not only of themselves, but their histories and the places and spaces in which they find themselves."

Enveloping the contours of a museum building or wall, the blankets of jute fibers are meant to contrast with the monumentality of the institutional buildings and spaces they cover, becoming remnants and traces that reference the hands of laborers, the imprints of colonialism and the interference of Britain and the U.S. in Ghanaian history.

The project marks the first outdoor exhibition of Mahama's work in the United States. It is responsive to the present moment, offering students and the broader community the opportunity to engage with the arts in a public space at a time when gatherings inside buildings and museums are limited.

Curator's Statement:

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s installations are cumulative moments of reckoning, mending, and recycling. Things fall apart, come undone. His constructions defy any notions of permanence and longevity. They are monuments to the in-between and the upending, begging the question, “What can we do?”

Mahama incorporates jute sacks—synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana where he lives and works—as a raw material. He works collaboratively with his community to complete the extensive sewing of the sacks required in preparation for his projects. For the U-M installations, he incorporates materials from his previous seminal works over the last decade as a retrospective.

The markings, stitching, and signs of wear on the jute remind us of the many changing hands and endless labor behind international trade—the human toll of capitalism, commodification, and globalization. The fabric itself acts as metaphor for Ghana’s complicated history defined by Dutch colonialism and the Gold Coast slave trade, British rule till 1957, and a future de-railed by military coups post-independence.

Rather than grand gestures, Mahama’s installations are humble acts of endurance. They are covert art take-overs, subverting architecture and disrupting the pristine fascia of our institutional buildings. They hold us accountable for past trespasses.

Mahama is committed to offering his own country the same cultural opportunities and experiences available to those in the West. Most recently he designed and opened the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Arts in his hometown of Tamale Ghana, contributing towards the expansion of his country’s contemporary art scene. An extension of his art practice, the centre brings Mahama’s many visionary sketches to life, creating classrooms in old airplanes, a swimming pool for children’s play, and public spaces for gatherings and the exchange of ideas.

In this pivotal year defined by Covid-19, worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter, climate change, and our U.S. Presidential election in the balance, Ibrahim Mahama’s work acknowledges failures and false promises, but also the opportunities that can reveal themselves in times of crisis.

Perhaps generations emerging from crisis can learn from the ghosts of the past and generate entirely new systems, not motivated by profit or self-interest, but by a deep commitment to the hard work ahead, our willingness to do it, and to the mutual space for dreams.

–Amanda Krugliak, arts curator, Institute for the Humanities and curator of In Between the World and Dreams

In-Between the World and Dreams is a multi-venue project led by the U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, in partnership with UMMA and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit.

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further the Institute for the Humanities Gallery’s longtime mission in support of art as social practice.

Oct. 1-23; large-scale public art installation, U-M Museum of Art building facade, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor

Oct. 1-23: sidewalk gallery, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor (viewing from the gallery window only)

Oct. 12-Dec. 5: Community Gallery installation, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit

Penny Stamps Speaker Series with Ibrahim Mahama

Oct. 23, 8pm, webcast at http://pennystampsevents.org/

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Exhibition Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:17:27 -0400 2020-12-04T09:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Exhibition In-Between the World and Dreams
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 5, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 5, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-05T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-05T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 5, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 5, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-05T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-05T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
In-Between the World and Dreams (December 5, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78990 78990-20168549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 5, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this multi-venue project led by the Institute for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the U-M Museum of Art, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama explores global exchange, commerce and the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.

Mahama's artistic practice illustrates, as he explains, how art education, art and cultural opportunities "allow for people to find new ways to acquire knowledge, not only of themselves, but their histories and the places and spaces in which they find themselves."

Enveloping the contours of a museum building or wall, the blankets of jute fibers are meant to contrast with the monumentality of the institutional buildings and spaces they cover, becoming remnants and traces that reference the hands of laborers, the imprints of colonialism and the interference of Britain and the U.S. in Ghanaian history.

The project marks the first outdoor exhibition of Mahama's work in the United States. It is responsive to the present moment, offering students and the broader community the opportunity to engage with the arts in a public space at a time when gatherings inside buildings and museums are limited.

Curator's Statement:

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s installations are cumulative moments of reckoning, mending, and recycling. Things fall apart, come undone. His constructions defy any notions of permanence and longevity. They are monuments to the in-between and the upending, begging the question, “What can we do?”

Mahama incorporates jute sacks—synonymous with the trade markets of Ghana where he lives and works—as a raw material. He works collaboratively with his community to complete the extensive sewing of the sacks required in preparation for his projects. For the U-M installations, he incorporates materials from his previous seminal works over the last decade as a retrospective.

The markings, stitching, and signs of wear on the jute remind us of the many changing hands and endless labor behind international trade—the human toll of capitalism, commodification, and globalization. The fabric itself acts as metaphor for Ghana’s complicated history defined by Dutch colonialism and the Gold Coast slave trade, British rule till 1957, and a future de-railed by military coups post-independence.

Rather than grand gestures, Mahama’s installations are humble acts of endurance. They are covert art take-overs, subverting architecture and disrupting the pristine fascia of our institutional buildings. They hold us accountable for past trespasses.

Mahama is committed to offering his own country the same cultural opportunities and experiences available to those in the West. Most recently he designed and opened the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Arts in his hometown of Tamale Ghana, contributing towards the expansion of his country’s contemporary art scene. An extension of his art practice, the centre brings Mahama’s many visionary sketches to life, creating classrooms in old airplanes, a swimming pool for children’s play, and public spaces for gatherings and the exchange of ideas.

In this pivotal year defined by Covid-19, worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter, climate change, and our U.S. Presidential election in the balance, Ibrahim Mahama’s work acknowledges failures and false promises, but also the opportunities that can reveal themselves in times of crisis.

Perhaps generations emerging from crisis can learn from the ghosts of the past and generate entirely new systems, not motivated by profit or self-interest, but by a deep commitment to the hard work ahead, our willingness to do it, and to the mutual space for dreams.

–Amanda Krugliak, arts curator, Institute for the Humanities and curator of In Between the World and Dreams

In-Between the World and Dreams is a multi-venue project led by the U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, in partnership with UMMA and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit.

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further the Institute for the Humanities Gallery’s longtime mission in support of art as social practice.

Oct. 1-23; large-scale public art installation, U-M Museum of Art building facade, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor

Oct. 1-23: sidewalk gallery, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor (viewing from the gallery window only)

Oct. 12-Dec. 5: Community Gallery installation, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit

Penny Stamps Speaker Series with Ibrahim Mahama

Oct. 23, 8pm, webcast at http://pennystampsevents.org/

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Exhibition Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:17:27 -0400 2020-12-05T09:00:00-05:00 2020-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Exhibition In-Between the World and Dreams
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 6, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 6, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-06T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-06T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 6, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 6, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-06T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-06T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 7, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-07T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 7, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-07T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-08T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-08T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
Student-Made Video Games Virtual Showcase (December 8, 2020 6:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79332 79332-20272795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 6:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

Experience 20+ new student-made video games at the EECS 494 + EMU Games Virtual Showcase! Interact with the developers, learn more about Michigan and EMU's game development programs, and vote for your favorite games!

Visit https://494showcase.com at 7pm EST on 12/08 to participate!

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Exhibition Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:45:21 -0500 2020-12-08T18:45:00-05:00 2020-12-08T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition EECS 494 Virtual Showcase
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 9, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-09T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 9, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-09T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 10, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-10T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 10, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-10T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 11, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 11, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-11T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-11T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 11, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 11, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-11T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-11T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 12, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 12, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-12T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-12T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 12, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 12, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-12T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-12T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 13, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 13, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-13T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-13T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 13, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 13, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-13T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-13T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 14, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 14, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-14T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-14T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 14, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 14, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-14T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-14T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 15, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-15T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 15, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-15T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 16, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-16T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 16, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-16T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 17, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 17, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-17T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-17T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 17, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 17, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-17T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-17T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
"Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self" (December 18, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79248 79248-20241305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 18, 2020 12:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In *Watch Me Work — Portraits of Self*, Detroit artist Sydney G. James brings to the forefront and celebrates the work of Black women. The USPS worker, the artist, the event-planning Zoom mom—the paintings in this exhibition reposition the narrative of black women’s visibility and value. Each portrait honors the individual and collective contributions and labors of Black women, persistent through the pandemics, through police violence, and whether seen or unseen.

With the Gallery closed to the public due to COVID, *Watch Me Work* will be completely visible from the street. Artwork will be hung in the Washington and Thayer-street first floor windows of the Institute for the Humanities, with two additional pieces visible through the gallery window on Thayer in a public celebration of these meaningful human relationships and connections.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:17:13 -0500 2020-12-18T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-18T23:59:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Watch Me Work
Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works (December 18, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78997 78997-20168607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 18, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the online gallery at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/humanitiesgalleries/sarah-rose-sharp/

Results or Roses: New and Assorted Works is a virtual exhibition by artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp and part of the Institute for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded "High Stakes Art" initiative. The exhibition of new and collected fiber-based art incorporates salvaged and found bits of cultural and fiber art that, as she explains, "forms a discourse that is physical rather than textual."

Thanks to the grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we supported Sharp's work on Results and Roses during the summer of 2020, but due to COVID-19 were forced to postpone the pop-up exhibition also scheduled for summer 2020. This fall we installed Results and Roses as a pop-up exhibition in the Osterman Common Room. Due to building security, it's not open to the general public, but we are thrilled to present the work online as a virtual exhibition.

About the Artist
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. Sarah was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University (State College, PA), Scarab Club (Detroit, MI), The Terhune Gallery (Toledo, OH), and The Ann Arbor Art Center (Ann Arbor, MI). Sarah has shown her own work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research into the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:58:02 -0400 2020-12-18T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-18T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Results or Roses
The Clements Bookworm: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists (December 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78709 78709-20107418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a virtual conversation with Martha Kennedy, author of *Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists* (2018), winner of the 2019 Eisner Award for the Best Comics-Related Book. She is curator of popular and applied graphic art in the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress.

Kennedy will be in conversation with Phoebe Gloeckner, Associate Professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design.

This episode was generously sponsored by Robert and Jean Julier.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Dec 2020 17:15:02 -0500 2020-12-18T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-18T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
Monday Painters (January 11, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79820 79820-20501765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 11, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Monday Painters is a flexible art group. Each week a DVD is shown about art that lasts half an hour. This group has become like family and all are welcome to join in for fun, learning, growing, and gentle critiquing.

Barb Anderson, instructor, has studied art for over thirty years and prior to that taught special education. She hopes to welcome new members to Monday Painters.

This study group will meet Mondays beginning January 11 through August 30. There is NO CLASS on January 4, January 18, May 31, and July 5.
Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 29 Dec 2020 09:30:02 -0500 2021-01-11T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
The Clements Bookworm: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion (January 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80391 80391-20713708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Still-life paintings of food look innocent at first sight, but were depictions of food merely delicious and pretty pictures to admire? Shana Klein's new book, "The Fruits of Empire," argues otherwise. This book talk will address Klein's research on representations of food to understand how they reflected and shaped conversations about race and national expansion in the United States. She will discuss the paintings, photographs, and silverware objects in the book and ask: Who do images of food serve? And at whose expense? The results are not always delicious.

Dr. Klein, Assistant Professor of Art History at Kent State University, is trained in the history of American art, with sub-specialties in African-American and Native-American art.

This episode was generously sponsored by Duane and Marilyn Kirking.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:05:33 -0500 2021-01-15T10:00:00-05:00 2021-01-15T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual "The Fruits of Empire" Book Cover
Ayana Evans, Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series: Persona as Social Justice (January 22, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81000 81000-20832756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Ayana Evans will talk about her trajectory of her work, including her new work of performance art for video "You Better Be Good to Me” (with performances by students from SMTD, the UM Cheer Team, and Detroit artists, and costumes by Dressing Up and Down students). "You Better Be Good to Me” will premiere as part of the program.

Ayana Evans is a NYC based performance artist who grew up on the south side of Chicago. The sensibilities of both locations heavily influence her work with the body, race relations, and gender bias.  Roberta Fallon, co-founder of Artblog, describes Ms. Evans as, “one part Wonder Woman, one part agent provocateur.” And writer Seph Rodney of Hyperallergic and the New York Times wrote: “I have seen [this] artist actually stop traffic on the Bowery in downtown Manhattan in 2016, where, in a floor-length lace gown, a dollar-store tiara and full makeup, she placed a chair in the street to do chair dips.”

Evans began her career as a painter earning her MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and her BA in Visual Arts from Brown University. During the summer of 2016 Evans completed her installment of the residency, "Back in Five Minutes" at El Museo Del Barrio in NYC. The next year she completed a endurance-based 10-hour, citywide performance and 100-person performative dinner party at the Barnes Foundation in 2017 for "A Person of the Crowd,” a major performance art survey featuring artists such as, Marina Abramovic, Tania Bruguera, and William Pope L. in Philadelphia, PA. Her international work includes participation in: FIAP performance festival in Martinique, The Pineapple Show at Tiwani Contemporary in London, and Ghana's Chale Wote festival, which drew 30,000 people. Evans has received numerous fellowships and awards including: Studio Immersion Fellowship Program at EFA’s Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (2018); Artists Alliance Inc (2018); Franklin Furnace Fund for performance art (2017-2018); New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow for Interdisciplinary Arts (2018); and an artist in resident for Art on the Vine at Martha's Vineyard (2019). In addition to her numerous guerilla street performances, Evans has performed at the Queens Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Newark Museum, and the Bronx Museum. During 2018 and 2019 Evans had three solo exhibitions with Medium Tings Gallery (Brooklyn), Cuchifritos Gallery (NYC) and the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop with New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) at Governors Island, NY. She has been featured in The New York Times, Bomb Magazine, ArtNet, The Cut, Hyperallergic, and CNN. Evans is currently an adjunct professor at Brown University.

During the Fall 2020 semester, Evans created a new work of performance art for video as part of the Stamps School’s Witt Visiting Artist program. A video of the performance "You Better Be Good to Me,” will premiere as part of the program.

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

 

Supported by the U-M Arts Initiative. This talk is part of the 2021 U-M Reverend Martin Luther King Junior Symposium. The Penny Stamps 2020-2021 Distinguished Speaker Series is brought to you with the support of our streaming partners, Detroit Public Television and PBS Books.

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Performance Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:15:43 -0500 2021-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Is Acceptance the Future of Art? (January 25, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80550 80550-20738205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Join Ayana Evans, described as “one part Wonder Woman, one part agent provocateur” (Roberta Fallon, co-founder of Artblog) for a live, virtual discussion with Reginald Jackson, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan and scholar of critical race theory’s relationship to gender.

In conjunction with her presentation as part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series premiering January 22, Ayana Evans will talk with Reginald Jackson about her work, a body of performances that comments on the effort she must put in to be taken seriously as a Black woman – often with humor and impromptu community-creation. They will also discuss issues facing art-makers today: her mid-career shift to performance, and the potential for art to promote self acceptance and wider acceptance of all selves.

Monday, January 25, 5:30-6:30 pm EST

Register here to receive Zoom information:
https://umich.formstack.com/forms/jan25_futureofart

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:36:32 -0500 2021-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 2021-01-25T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Lecture / Discussion Ayana Evans and Reginald Jackson
Performing the Moment | Performing the Movement (January 28, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80072 80072-20554879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: http://myumi.ch/0WyWG

Damon Locks will perform and speak about his work with Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project (PNAP) and the Black Monument Ensemble. The Prison and Neighborhood Art Project provides arts and humanities courses to men at the Stateville Maximum Security Prison, where Damon Locks works as an artist educator. In the Black Monument Ensemble, Damon Locks uses music and sound to connect the past and future of the civil rights movement.

Damon Locks is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he received his BFA in fine arts. Since 2014 he has been working with Prisons and Neighborhood Arts Project at Stateville Correctional Center teaching art. He is a recipient of the Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Achievement Award in the Arts and the 2016 MAKER Grant. He operated as an Artist Mentor in the Chicago Artist Coalition program FIELD/WORK. In 2017 he became a Soros Justice Media Fellow. In 2019, he became a 3Arts Awardee. Currently, he works as an artist in residence as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Arts' SPACE Program, introducing civically engaged art into the curriculum at the high school, Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy.

In this new virtual series, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. Sessions will take place over Zoom and require advance registration. You can read about the panelists, register for these events, find recommended reading and resources and/or request recordings of past events at https://lsa.umich.edu/world-performance.

If you require 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 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 08:18:25 -0500 2021-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 2021-01-28T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Damon Locks
Our National Marine Sanctuaries, Protecting America's Underwater Treasures: (January 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80998 80998-20830797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Stephanie Gandulla, Maritime Archaeologist and Research Coordinator at the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, will explore some of the nation’s best-preserved shipwrecks in the Great lakes and describe how the Sanctuary was designated and became part of the Michigan History Center’s statewide system of museums and historic sites.

Register via Zoom here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2EaxIke3RficoM9yHzHk2A

Additional details here: https://myumi.ch/WwmWZ

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:39:56 -0500 2021-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Livestream / Virtual Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Virtual open house - Museum Studies Program prospective students (February 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80651 80651-20769623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Are you a UM student who is interested in museums, collections, or heritage sites? If so, consider applying for the graduate certificate in museum studies for Fall 2021. Attend our prospective student virtual open house on February 5 at noon to find out more! Information about the program, application details, and the open house can be found here:
http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/graduate-program/

Zoom meeting ID 948 5441 6425 / passcode 584834

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:32:08 -0500 2021-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Livestream / Virtual Museum visitors
Tour and Themes of “No, not even for a picture” online exhibit (February 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81663 81663-20941448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this online presentation, Lindsey Willow Smith and Veronica Cook Williamson will provide an introductory glimpse into the Clements’ new online exhibit: 'No, not even for Picture': Re-Examining the Native Midwest and Tribes’ Relations to the History of Photography. This exhibit seeks to re-historicize and re-humanize the contexts, subjects, and circumstances leading to the production of the Richard Pohrt Jr. Collection of Native American Photography. Using examples from the exhibit to speak about their motivations and goals as co-curators, the two will touch on themes of photography as a tool of settler colonialism, photographic assertions of sovereignty and agency, and raise questions about (in)visibility and voice. They will also discuss how the transition to remote work affected the exhibit design and their approaches.

Register for the link to join at http://myumi.ch/ovD4P

Explore the exhibit at http://clements.umich.edu/pohrt

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Feb 2021 10:17:16 -0500 2021-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Unidentified Ojibwa men at White Earth Indian Reservation, Minnesota.
NCF 'Keywords' Discussion (February 12, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81348 81348-20887817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This open-ended discussion forum will center around various “keywords” of your choosing. We invite you all to contribute a keyword or theme that you are currently thinking about in relation to your own research. Our goal with this virtual event is to think collectively, form connections, and inspire creative directions.

You do not need to come prepared with a presentation, but merely an idea, thought, or question centered around your chosen word. Equally, there is no requirement that you come prepared to discuss a specific keyword if you would prefer to attend as a listener/respondent.

For inspiration, you might turn to the Victorian Literature and Culture 'Keywords' double-issue containing hundreds of mini-essays on keywords.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:24:22 -0500 2021-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Typesetting in wood
For Your Eyes Only (February 15, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-15T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 16, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-16T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-16T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 17, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-17T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Colonial Archives and Decolonial Museology (February 17, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81903 81903-20988906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

This panel will consider collections relating to Native American past, present and future. Panelists will discuss decolonizing museum practices, settler-colonialism visually presented in postcards of Native American people, and projects at the UM Matthaei Botanical Garden that have deep connections to indigenous culture and agriculture.

Details and registration information here: http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/event/colonial-archives-and-decolonial-museology-panel-1/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Feb 2021 10:55:51 -0500 2021-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Lecture / Discussion Museum Studies panel discussions
For Your Eyes Only (February 18, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-18T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 19, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-19T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Colonial Archives and Decolonial Museology (February 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81912 81912-20988918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

The panel engages with UM’s Philippine Collections, which include everything from papers of US colonial officers in the Philippines to thousands of photographs, from funerary objects in the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology to type specimens in the Museum of Zoology and plants in the Herbarium.

Additional details and registration information here: http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/event/colonial-archives-and-decolonial-museology-panel-2/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:44:23 -0500 2021-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Lecture / Discussion Museum Studies panel discussions
For Your Eyes Only (February 20, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-20T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-20T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 21, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-21T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 22, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-22T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Future of Art Institutions: Repair or Rebuild? (February 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81575 81575-20927563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Arts institutions, such as museums, were founded on colonialist ideas – white Europeans collected the rest of the world during their conquests and travels, establishing places to promote one set of cultural ideals at the expense of others. Though many have reexamined their history and practices, shifting their missions toward education and visitor experience, museums and other arts institutions carry the baggage of these historic origins. For our arts institutions to matter and fulfill their mission to BiPOC and future publics can we rethink and repair them? Or, should we knock them all down and rebuild new institutions? Or something in between? Our panel considers these questions in a wide-ranging discussion on the future of art institutions.

Moderated by Christina Olsen, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art; with Maurita Poole, Director and curator of the museum at Clark Atlanta University; Terence Washington, Program Director at NXTHVN, a model to advance the careers of artists and curators of color through mentorship and professional development; and Anya Sirota, Associate Dean of Academic Initiatives at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Monday, February 22, 4:00-5:10.

Register to receive Zoom information:
https://umich.formstack.com/forms/feb22_futureofart

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:52:23 -0500 2021-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T17:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Lecture / Discussion Maurita Poole, Terence Washington, Anya Sirota
For Your Eyes Only (February 23, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-23T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 24, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-24T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 25, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-25T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts (February 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82040 82040-21012672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Professor Emerita Shelley Perlove, History of Art (UM-Dearborn), will give a Zoom lecture on February 25, 2021, at 7 PM. Her talk, “Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts,” is sponsored by the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (MCECS), the Department of Middle East Studies, and the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program of the University of Michigan.

The presentation focuses upon the diverse and ever-changing interpretations of Christ and his mother Mary from the 13th through the 17th c. in Italy, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Selected works will be discussed in terms of their meaning and cultural context, including Catholic and Protestant controversies. Also of interest are the varied techniques in wood, marble, gold, and paint, as well as issues of museum display. In many cases an attempt will be made to “reconstruct” the original functions of these works created for ecclesiastical and domestic settings.

Registration is required: https://forms.gle/3L1yGa7JF2GCxdiA7
*We recommend registration at least two days before the event, although registration will remain open until the night of the event.*

Additional information is available on the MCECS website: https://mcecs.org/christian-art-at-the-dia/

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:26:19 -0500 2021-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts
For Your Eyes Only (February 26, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-26T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Science as Art Faculty Panel Discussion & Awards Ceremony (February 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82385 82385-21090310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Join a panel of faculty in this discussion of the intersection of science and art. Immediately following the panel, award winners will be announced for the 2021 Science as Art competition. You can view submissions and vote for peoples' choice award through 2:15pm on Friday, February 26, 2021.

Eleni Gourgou, Assistant Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
Brad Smith, Associate Dean for Academic Programs; Professor, School of Art & Design; Research Professor, Department of Radiology
Matthew Thompson, Assistant Professor of Music; Associate Faculty, UM Center for Japanese Studies
Moderated by Deb Mexicotte, Managing Director, ArtsEngine

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:46:00 -0500 2021-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location ArtsEngine Livestream / Virtual Science as Art
For Your Eyes Only (February 27, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-27T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (February 28, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 28, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-02-28T08:00:00-05:00 2021-02-28T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 1, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-01T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 2, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-02T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 3, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-03T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Michigan's Got Talent! (March 3, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82157 82157-21044622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MUSIC Matters

MUSIC Matters presents Michigan's Got Talent: A Talent Show Celebrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Arts! Tune in to watch U-M students from across campus show off their unique talents. Following the event, YOU will have a chance to vote for your favorite acts to receive various superlative rewards and cash/prizes!

MUSIC Matters also wishes to address the lack of diversity and equitable representation in the performing arts and entertainment industries through our event. We will do this not only through the performances themselves, but also from appearances by our event host and various cameos from well-respected members of the entertainment industry and U-M community.

We are excited to announce that the event will feature appearances from the music group Two Friends, Vice President of Student Life Martino Harmon, two-time Olympic athlete Tiffany Porter, and more!

Tune in to Michigan's Got Talent on YouTube March 3rd at 8pm EST. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to parniam@umich.edu.

tinyurl.com/michigansgottalent

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Performance Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:09:20 -0500 2021-03-03T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location MUSIC Matters Performance Flyer for Michigan's Got Talent on March 3rd at 8pm
For Your Eyes Only (March 4, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-04T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 5, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-05T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 6, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-06T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 7, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-07T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-07T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 8, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 9, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-09T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 10, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-10T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust (March 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82401 82401-21092284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Can inanimate objects store and communicate traumatic memory that cannot be directly expressed? This talk examines 'folk art' made by non-professional Polish artists – many of them village laborers – documenting the German Nazi occupation of Poland and the Holocaust. Made largely in the 1960s and 70s, these objects are uncanny: at times deeply moving, at others grotesque, they can also be disturbing for the ways they impose Catholic idioms on Jewish suffering, or upend accepted roles of victim, perpetrator, and bystander.

Zoom webinar - please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6-Sy-1p-TFaoBD7VbWgcMA

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Presentation Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:03:59 -0500 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Presentation Slawomir Kosiniak, Untitled, ca. 1948, Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, photo by Wojciech Wilczyk
For Your Eyes Only (March 11, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-11T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 12, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-12T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 13, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-13T08:00:00-05:00 2021-03-13T23:00:00-05:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
THE G—RAY AREA (March 13, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82199 82199-21052532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 4:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

These performances by Ava Ansari are part of the Institute for the Humanities exhibition "For Your Eyes Only." Intended to activate the space, the performances bring to life the installation by further exploring the positioning of the body and the viewer.

Both the exhibition and the performances are designed to be viewed from the Thayer St. windows of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Performance Times: March 13: 4:30-5pm, 6-6:30pm, 7:30-8pm.

From the artist:
"If you come by, make it soft and slow, don’t break my glassy agility."*

The G—ray Area is the isolation and expansion of skin-depth in close proximity celebrations. Working with The G—ray Area, prepares us for removing and releasing public pains accumulated through insensitive norms of togetherness. The heterotopic transmedia space is an open journal of personal and familial celebrations of the sensual body by Ava Ansari. It chooses Yasmine Diaz’s For Your Eyes Only as a safe space for revisiting Ava’s somatic, sonic, and scenic celebratory memories from the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) airstrikes, bedroom shadow dances, underground rules of thumb, a party arrest in Tehran, her planet IranUS, and a recent visit to Saturn. Borderline Knowledge will be the guardians.

1. Ava Ansari’s interpretation of an exerpt from a Persian poem by Sohrab Sepehri (1928-80, Iran). The poem is carved on Sepehri’s gravestone: به سراغ من اگر می آیید, نرم و آهسته بیایید, مبادا که ترک بردارد, چینی نازک تنهائی من

Ava Ansari is a transmedia poet, transcultural curator, and yogi (She/They). Ava is the Founding Director of Poetic Societies Global Network for the Somatic, Sonic, and Scenic Liberation in Detroit.

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Performance Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:04:30 -0500 2021-03-13T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-13T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Performance The Grey Area
THE G—RAY AREA (March 13, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82199 82199-21052533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 6:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

These performances by Ava Ansari are part of the Institute for the Humanities exhibition "For Your Eyes Only." Intended to activate the space, the performances bring to life the installation by further exploring the positioning of the body and the viewer.

Both the exhibition and the performances are designed to be viewed from the Thayer St. windows of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Performance Times: March 13: 4:30-5pm, 6-6:30pm, 7:30-8pm.

From the artist:
"If you come by, make it soft and slow, don’t break my glassy agility."*

The G—ray Area is the isolation and expansion of skin-depth in close proximity celebrations. Working with The G—ray Area, prepares us for removing and releasing public pains accumulated through insensitive norms of togetherness. The heterotopic transmedia space is an open journal of personal and familial celebrations of the sensual body by Ava Ansari. It chooses Yasmine Diaz’s For Your Eyes Only as a safe space for revisiting Ava’s somatic, sonic, and scenic celebratory memories from the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) airstrikes, bedroom shadow dances, underground rules of thumb, a party arrest in Tehran, her planet IranUS, and a recent visit to Saturn. Borderline Knowledge will be the guardians.

1. Ava Ansari’s interpretation of an exerpt from a Persian poem by Sohrab Sepehri (1928-80, Iran). The poem is carved on Sepehri’s gravestone: به سراغ من اگر می آیید, نرم و آهسته بیایید, مبادا که ترک بردارد, چینی نازک تنهائی من

Ava Ansari is a transmedia poet, transcultural curator, and yogi (She/They). Ava is the Founding Director of Poetic Societies Global Network for the Somatic, Sonic, and Scenic Liberation in Detroit.

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Performance Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:04:30 -0500 2021-03-13T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-13T18:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Performance The Grey Area
THE G—RAY AREA (March 13, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82199 82199-21052534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 7:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

These performances by Ava Ansari are part of the Institute for the Humanities exhibition "For Your Eyes Only." Intended to activate the space, the performances bring to life the installation by further exploring the positioning of the body and the viewer.

Both the exhibition and the performances are designed to be viewed from the Thayer St. windows of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Performance Times: March 13: 4:30-5pm, 6-6:30pm, 7:30-8pm.

From the artist:
"If you come by, make it soft and slow, don’t break my glassy agility."*

The G—ray Area is the isolation and expansion of skin-depth in close proximity celebrations. Working with The G—ray Area, prepares us for removing and releasing public pains accumulated through insensitive norms of togetherness. The heterotopic transmedia space is an open journal of personal and familial celebrations of the sensual body by Ava Ansari. It chooses Yasmine Diaz’s For Your Eyes Only as a safe space for revisiting Ava’s somatic, sonic, and scenic celebratory memories from the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) airstrikes, bedroom shadow dances, underground rules of thumb, a party arrest in Tehran, her planet IranUS, and a recent visit to Saturn. Borderline Knowledge will be the guardians.

1. Ava Ansari’s interpretation of an exerpt from a Persian poem by Sohrab Sepehri (1928-80, Iran). The poem is carved on Sepehri’s gravestone: به سراغ من اگر می آیید, نرم و آهسته بیایید, مبادا که ترک بردارد, چینی نازک تنهائی من

Ava Ansari is a transmedia poet, transcultural curator, and yogi (She/They). Ava is the Founding Director of Poetic Societies Global Network for the Somatic, Sonic, and Scenic Liberation in Detroit.

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Performance Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:04:30 -0500 2021-03-13T19:30:00-05:00 2021-03-13T20:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Performance The Grey Area
For Your Eyes Only (March 14, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 14, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-14T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-14T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (March 15, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-15T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 16, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 16, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-16T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Opening Celebration: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 16, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82427 82427-21100198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join us for our opening celebration on YouTube with presentations from curators and exhibition artists who have returned from prison.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Presentation Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:23:14 -0500 2021-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T19:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Presentation Event Flyer
Opening Reception: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 16, 2021 7:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82487 82487-21108122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 7:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join us on Zoom for an informal virtual gathering with PCAP curators and artists.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Reception / Open House Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:45:10 -0500 2021-03-16T19:45:00-04:00 2021-03-16T20:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Reception / Open House Event Flyer
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 17, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-17T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 17, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-17T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Public Tour: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82488 82488-21108123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join PCAP curators for a tour of the exhibit.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:50:58 -0500 2021-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Event Flyer
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 18, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-18T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 18, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-18T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
RC Intros: Interested in learning more about the Residential College? (March 18, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81793 81793-20959284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

RC Intros: Interested in learning more about the Residential College?

Curious what an RC class is like? Hear directly from RC faculty and ask questions about the RC academic experience!

Thursday, March 18, 5-6pm
Register at myumi.ch/zxXEx

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Reception / Open House Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:44:15 -0500 2021-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Reception / Open House RC Intros flier
CJS Lecture Series | An Introduction to Ishinomaki Kokeshi (March 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79777 79777-20491897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that this lecture will begin at 7pm, and all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

In this lecture, Takatoshi Hayashi will explain the origins of his "Ishinomaki Kokeshi" concept, reflect on its development over the past six years, and discuss its future. He will also demonstrate how to carve an Ishinomaki Kokeshi from his home workshop.

Takatoshi Hayashi was born and raised in Ishinomaki. After graduating from university, he spent ten years working as a quasi-civil servant in various capacities. In 2009, he returned home to help run his family's kimono shop, Hayashi Gofuku-ten. He became the official head of Hayashi Gofuku-ten in 2019.

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

Zoom registration required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9ro5btsbQA2HAY0D9rcGMQ

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:20:01 -0500 2021-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Takatoshi Hayashi, Maker of Kokeshi dolls
Keynote: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82490 82490-21108124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Janie Paul, Annual Exhibition Senior Curator and Co-Founder, discusses the exhibit and her forthcoming book on artmaking in prison.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:58:54 -0500 2021-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 19, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 19, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 20, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 20, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-20T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-20T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 20, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 20, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-20T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Public Tour: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82491 82491-21110098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join PCAP curators for a tour of the exhibit.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Feb 2021 18:02:48 -0500 2021-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Event Flyer
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 21, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 21, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-21T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-21T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 21, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 21, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-21T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 22, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-22T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 22, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 23, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-23T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 23, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 24, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-24T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 24, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Public Tour: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82499 82499-21110105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join PCAP curators for a tour of the exhibit.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:03:05 -0500 2021-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Event Flyer
Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | Recovering an Art: David Ohannessian and the Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem (March 24, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80218 80218-20601994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance for the webinar here: http://myumi.ch/AxDMx

After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.

Along the cobbled streets and golden walls of Jerusalem, brilliantly glazed tiles catch the light and beckon the eye. These colorful wares—known as Armenian ceramics—are iconic features of the Holy City. Silently, these works of ceramic art—an art that graces homes and museums around the world—also represent a riveting story of resilience and survival. In 1919, David Ohannessian founded the art of Armenian ceramics in Jerusalem, where his work and that of his followers is now celebrated as a local treasure. Born in an isolated Anatolian mountain village, Ohannessian mastered a centuries-old art form in Kütahya, witnessed the rise of violent nationalism in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, endured arrest and deportation in the Armenian Genocide, founded a new tradition in Jerusalem under the British Mandate, and spent his final years, uprooted once again, in Cairo and Beirut. Ms. Moughalian will detail the lineage of her grandfather David Ohannessian’s ceramic tradition and document the critical roles his deportation and his own agency played in its transfer—aspects of the story obscured in the art historical narrative. She will speak about the process of coming to terms with her family’s past, the ways in which that served as an impetus to excavate and reconstruct her grandfather’s history through archival research, and the importance of preserving the stories of peoples displaced through migration.

Sato Moughalian is the author of “Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian” (Redwood Press/ Stanford University Press, 2019). She is also an award winning flutist in New York City and Artistic Director of Perspectives Ensemble, founded in 1993 at Columbia University to explore and contextualize works of composers and visual artists. She serves as principal flutist of the American Modern Ensemble and Gotham Chamber Opera; guest flutist with groups including Imani Winds, American Ballet Theatre, American Symphony Orchestras, and the Orquestra Sinfonico do Estado São Paulo, Brazil. She can be heard on more than thirty chamber music recordings for Sony Classics, BIS, Naxos, as well as on YouTube, Spotify, and other major music platforms. Since 2007, Ms. Moughalian has traveled to Turkey, England, Israel, Palestine, and France to uncover her grandfather’s traces, has published articles, and gives talks on the genesis of Jerusalem’s Armenian ceramic art.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 10:32:40 -0500 2021-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Sato Moughalian, award-winning flutist and author of “Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian"
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 25, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-25T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 25, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Artists Panel: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82500 82500-21110106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Artists from previous PCAP exhibitions share their stories and answer questions about life as an artist living in prison. Moderated by Janie Paul, Senior Curator.

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and registration links for the events listed below.

March 16: Opening Celebration, 7:00 pm
March 16: Opening Reception, 7:45 pm
March 17: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 18: Keynote, Janie Paul, 7:00 pm
March 20: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 23: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Launch Party, 7:00 pm
March 24: Public Tour, 12:00 pm
March 25: Artists Panel, 7:00 pm

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:08:41 -0500 2021-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 26, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 26, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
CWPS 20th // Alumni *in Conversation* (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82314 82314-21066624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: https://myumi.ch/lxAoG

In March 2001, the University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies celebrated its grand opening, inviting the community to participate in an evening of lectures, performances and food at the International Institute. This month, the Center begins the celebration of the 20th anniversary with a virtual panel discussion featuring three alumni of our graduate programs, who represent the diverse disciplinary fields, research interests and life work of our community. Each panelist will speak briefly about their current work, including fresh insights into the field of Performance Studies and ethnography, and then there will be a Q&A.

Mike Rahfaldt (PhD, Ethnomusicology ‘07) is the Executive Director of Children’s Radio Foundation, where he oversees the international operations from Cape Town, South Africa. Before joining the Children’s Radio Foundation in 2006, Michal taught media and anthropology at the University of Cape Town. As a journalist, he has contributed to Public Radio International, BBC World Service, NPR, and the New York Times.

Lani Teves (PhD, American Culture ‘12) is an Associate Professor in Women’s Studies at University of Hawaiʻi. She has written about Hawaiian hip-hop, film, and sexuality in the Pacific. She specializes in theorizing alternate forms of Kanaka Maoli gender performance and recognition politics. Her approach is informed by Indigenous feminist methodologies and ʻŌiwi epistemologies. Teves is the author of *Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance *(UNC Press 2018).

Masimba Hwati (MFA, Art, ‘19) is a multidisciplinary artist working in the intersections of sculpture video performance and sound. Hwati explores the transformation and evolution of knowledge systems that are indigenous to his own background whilst experimenting with the symbolism and perceptions attached to cultural objects, expressed as an art movement known as "The Energy of Objects". His work has been shown in Germany, France, Canada, London, the US, Australia, and Southern Africa. In 2015, he represented Zimbabwe at the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale in Italy.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:47:57 -0500 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion CWPS Alumni Flyer
Interdisciplinary Partnerships and Community Collaborations in Museum Practice – Two Perspectives (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83123 83123-21274900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Christina DiFabio and Shannon Ness, PhD candidates from the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology, will share their museum studies internship experiences. Christina will discuss interdisciplinary partnerships at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Shannon will examine community collaborations at a heritage center in El Kurro, Sudan.

Online via Zoom (Meeting ID: 910 0130 8478 / Passcode: 617448)

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Mar 2021 09:20:48 -0400 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Lecture / Discussion Art Institute of Chicago and heritage center at El Kurro, Sudan
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 27, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-27T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-27T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 27, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-27T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 28, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 28, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-28T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 28, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 28, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-28T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 29, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-29T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 29, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 30, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-30T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 30, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 31, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82486 82486-21108120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

The pandemic halted the 25th Annual Exhibition days before it was scheduled to open in March 2020. PCAP is excited to bring you the 2020 show in a new digital gallery. Visit https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D for a link to the exhibit and a full calendar of online events.

Artwork sales appointments will be available March 17–March 31, 2021. Visitors can book sales appointments on the exhibit website. Sales will be made by phone, and all artwork will be shipped to customers. Artists set their own prices and receive 100% of net sales revenue.

This exhibit and events are presented with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:30:32 -0400 2021-03-31T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition 25 and Counting (Self-Portrait) by Moses Whitepig
For Your Eyes Only (March 31, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 1, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 2, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 3, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-03T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 4, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 4, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-04T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 5, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 6, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 7, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 8, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-08T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
CJS Lecture Series | Unseen Artists in a Theater of Timeless Pace: Iconic *Bonsai* Inspire Iconoclastic Futures (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79854 79854-20509612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

The University of Michigan's emergence as a steward of nationally significant bonsai marks an inflexion point in the Academy for engagement with this international art form. While exhibited specimens are inherently focused on both this moment and change, the discipline itself is undergoing renewal in the United States. Today's presentation places this emergent collection in icontemporary academic and cultural contexts, including the necessity of exhibiting outstanding canonical specimens reflective of bonsai's Japanese heritage.

David Michener is the Curator at the UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. After receiving his PhD in Botany from the Claremont Graduate School he was at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum before coming to the University of Michigan. He is most widely known for his work on historic peonies. He has been active in the reinterpretation of the Freer House's Garden at Wayne State University.

Carmen Leskoviansky has been caring for the UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum's Bonsai and Penjing collection since 2011. Her degree in horticulture is from MIchigan State University. Carmen began studying with American bonsai artist Michael Hagedorn, of Crataegus Bonsai, in 2018 and will begin a 3-year apprenticeship in May 2021.

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

Registration for this Zoom event is required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_v-ukyjuuQs2zDUR7MsshEg

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:52:36 -0500 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | Unseen Artists in a Theater of Timeless Pace: Iconic Bonsai Inspire Iconoclastic Futures
For Your Eyes Only (April 9, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 10, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 10, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-10T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 11, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 11, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-11T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-11T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 12, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 13, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 14, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only (April 15, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-15T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Mapping without Boundaries: A collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and U-M (April 15, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83546 83546-21420817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Maps are used to represent physical topographies of land or borders between nations, and to assist with directing us to a desired destination. But can they also be used to represent emotions? To make unseen connections? Or to understand the past or move forward into a new future? Can the arts help to shape a new kind of map?

International performing artist Yo-Yo Ma will be joined by U-M President Mark Schlissel and a newly formed Steering Committee of U-M students and Michigan-based artists to kick-off a 6-month artist residency project that explores these questions. They will reflect on the challenges of the past year, and how the pandemic has radically altered educational modes and dispersed the university's students, faculty and staff on all three campuses. The event will also incorporate performance and outline ways the audience can get involved in the residency project as it develops.

Registration required to attend the event:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YOx3HPGiSbyspNS29bH-gw

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Performance Mon, 05 Apr 2021 10:26:32 -0400 2021-04-15T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Performance Mapping without Boundaries
Lyric Swap (April 15, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83334 83334-21344235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts Engage!, a group of staff and faculty at U-M dedicated to student engagement in the arts, is organizing the event Lyric Swap for the series Something Silly. This events will combine the arts and humor for an evening of creativity and laughter!

Lyric Swap
Thursday, April 15, 8pm EST

This event will be hosted by Arts at Michigan's Arts Ambassadors and will feature student performers singing popular songs with new lyrics taken from the live audience!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Apr 2021 14:59:42 -0400 2021-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Livestream / Virtual Something Silly - Lyric Swap
For Your Eyes Only (April 16, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82066 82066-21014840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please Note: This exhibition is designed to be viewed through the gallery window on Thayer St.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is the 2021 Efroymson Emerging Artist at the Institute for the Humanities.

For Your Eyes Only is the latest iteration of multidisciplinary artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s bedroom installation. At first glance, the constructed space is a shimmering homage to the bedroom disco—a sanctuary for uninhibited dance and self-expression. It has also become the setting from which many personal videos are made and shared widely on social media, where platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have blurred the boundary between public and private. Projected into the space is a montage of casual videos shared by female-identifying and non-binary persons of SWANA* origin dancing solo in their rooms. To some, the videos may seem innocent and innocuous, but they can also be seen as acts of defiance that assert the autonomy of bodies that have been surveilled, scrutinized, and censored throughout history. Alongside these intimate moments is a separate reel showing political figures and protest movements from the SWANA region. The images demonstrate the fluctuating attitudes and regulations impacting human rights and freedoms based on gender, and exemplify how—whether we are physically at a protest or sharing our physicality in virtual spaces—our bodies are engaged in some level of risk.
*Southwest Asian/North African

This project is supported by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:31:37 -0500 2021-04-16T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition For Your Eyes Only
Technology and the Future of Art (April 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83641 83641-21446271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Join American Artist and Salome Asega, artists whose work explores themes of art, technology, and activism in conversation with Marisa Olson, a fellow practitioner and Executive Director of the Digital Studies Institute. They will discuss the role of the arts in framing and producing social justice commentary and the ways in which they use technology to both critique and intervene in the problematics often posed by technology. How can the arts model critiques of technological utopianism? How can the arts lead the way to a better future, which will inevitably be shaped by the technologies we use?

Register to receive the event Zoom link: https://umich.formstack.com/forms/apr19_futureofart

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 10 Apr 2021 14:37:07 -0400 2021-04-19T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T17:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Lecture / Discussion American Artist, Salome Asega, Marisa Olson
Student-Made Video Games Virtual Showcase (April 21, 2021 6:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83460 83460-21381639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 6:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

Experience 20+ new student-made video games at the EECS 494 + EMU Games Virtual Showcase! Interact with the developers, learn more about Michigan and EMU's game development programs, and vote for your favorite games!

Visit https://494showcase.com at 7pm EST on 12/08 to participate!

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:45:31 -0400 2021-04-21T18:45:00-04:00 2021-04-21T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition EECS 494 Virtual Showcase
The Premodern Colloquium. Why Did Public Infrastructure Appear in Song Court Landscape Painting? (April 23, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82183 82183-21050550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 23, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This essay examines the public infrastructure depicted in Northern Song (960-1127) court landscape paintings, which includes roads, waterways, bridges, and river ports. These paintings not only depict the public works but also portray people from all social strata utilizing these public resources. This new development in the landscape genre coincided with the political and social thought of the period, which held that the state should spend tax revenues collected from the population to improve the wellbeing of the people.

The reading investigates visual materials ranging from court landscape painting, administrative maps in local gazetteers, as well as steles. The legal basis for the emergence of such landscape paintings in the 11th century was the separation of the emperor’s private treasury from the public treasury of the state. That separation was a factor in numerous policy debates from the period and was systematically documented in an early thirteenth-century book.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:35:20 -0400 2021-04-23T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Attributed to Qu Ding (Chinese, active ca. 1023–ca. 1056), Summer Mountains, ca.1050, China, ink and color on silk, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the 19th Century (May 5, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83554 83554-21422778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The fight for racial equality in the 19th century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated throughout the United States by African Americans. Advances in visual technologies—daguerreotypes, lithographs, cartes de visite, and steam printing presses—enabled people to see and participate in social reform movements in new ways. African American activists seized these opportunities and produced images that advanced campaigns for black rights.

In this talk based on his book "Visualizing Identity," (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) Aston Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they helped build the world they envisioned. Understudied artists such as Robert Douglass Jr., Patrick Henry Reason, James Presley Ball, and Augustus Washington produced images to persuade viewers of the necessity for racial equality, black political leadership, and freedom from slavery. Moreover, these activist artists’ networks of transatlantic patronage and travels to Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa reveal their extensive involvement in the most pressing concerns for black people in the Atlantic world. Their work demonstrates how images became central to the ways that people developed ideas about race, citizenship, and politics during the 19th century.

Register at myumi.ch/0WEk3

Aston Gonzalez is a historian of African American culture and politics during the long 19th century. He is an Associate Professor of History at Salisbury University. Gonzalez earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 05 Apr 2021 15:51:18 -0400 2021-05-05T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-05T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Visualizing Equality Book Cover
Race - The Power of an Illusion (May 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-05-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-06T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 19, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-19T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Opening Reception, Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 19, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84018 84018-21619595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join exhibit curators and formerly incarcerated artists for a virtual opening reception. Registration is required for this free event.

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 May 2021 13:53:32 -0400 2021-05-19T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 20, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-20T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Race - The Power of an Illusion (May 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
Public Tour, Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 20, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84019 84019-21619596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join exhibit curators for a virtual tour. Registration is required for this free event.

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 May 2021 13:58:27 -0400 2021-05-20T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 21, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 21, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-21T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-21T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 22, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 22, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-22T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-22T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 23, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 23, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-23T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-23T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 24, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 24, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-24T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-24T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 25, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-25T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-25T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 26, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-26T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-26T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Miniatures 2021: Resisting the Confines of Quarantine (May 27, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84015 84015-21619593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 27, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The pandemic halted the in-person artwork selection typical of Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) exhibits. As an adaptation, PCAP invited artists incarcerated in Michigan state prisons to create small-scale artwork and send their entries by mail.

A link to the exhibit will be posted at https://myumi.ch/kxZ1D on May 19, 2021.

The exhibit includes 141 artworks, featuring a diversity of both artists and artistic choices. All the 2D artworks measure 4 in. x 6 in. and the 3D artworks no more than 4 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.

Artwork sales appointments are available May 20–27, 2021. Book your appointment on the exhibit website. Artwork will remain available for view after the sales period closes.

This exhibit is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Om of Medicine, and hundreds of individual donors. Thank you to everyone who made this show possible!

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Exhibition Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:52 -0400 2021-05-27T00:00:00-04:00 2021-05-27T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Serge Tkachenko, "Mad World," acrylic on paper
Race - The Power of an Illusion (June 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-03T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
"Daisy Chain" Video Zine Premiere (June 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84320 84320-21623291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

View the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hegNRPuO9KQ.

From the creators of House Calls, *Daisy Chain* is a series of short vignettes documenting the candid and illuminating perspectives of 9 national and regional artists during this time of re-emergence. The name refers to the traditional string of daisies threaded together by their stems, as well as the contemporary wiring scheme by the same name used in electronics and engineering.

For this *Daisy Chain*, nine regional and national artists with diverse experiences, perspectives, and practices were each interviewed by Institute for the Humanities Curator Amanda Krugliak. Each of them was asked the same series of questions: How do you feel you are emerging from the past year? What kind of world are you trying to build for the future? How are you thinking about responsiveness and responsibility? Are there any creative strategies you have identified moving forward?

Their answers—along with images of their work—have been “strung together” visually in video format, one artist connecting to another in sequence.

In this time of re-entry, when we are cautiously emerging from a year in isolation, and also merging back into action at breakneck speed, *Daisy Chain *offers the opportunity for contemplation in its assemblage of artists, art, and ideas. It explores the ties that bind us, the past and the future, and the loose ends. Perhaps as important, it alludes to surprising and new combinations, and a renewed capacity to find joy.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Ruth Leonela Buentello
Ruth Leonela Buentello is a visual artist and arts educator from San Antonio, TX. Her artistic practice is rooted in painting and often bridges other media, including community-arts and collaborative installations. Her work centers on representations from her Xicanx identity, class, gender and family relationships. Buentello received her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is working on her masters from Maine College of Arts. She is also a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors grant.

Abigail DeVille
Abigail DeVille is best known for her large scale installations. Often incorporating found materials from the neighborhoods around the exhibition venues, DeVille's sculptures and installations often explore the history of racist violence, gentrification and lost regional history. Her work also incorporates performance elements that brings the artwork out of its exhibition space and into the streets; DeVille has organized these public events, which she calls "processionals," in several US cities, including Washington, D.C., Baltimore and New York City. DeVille earned a BFA at the Fashion Institute of Technology and an MFA at Yale. She also attended the Pratt Institute and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Hubert Massey
Hubert Massey is a Michigan artist whose distinctive fresco murals grace the halls of such visible Michigan destinations as the Detroit TCF Center, Flint Institute of the Arts, Detroit Athletic Club, and his alma mater, Grand Valley State University, where he earned an honorary doctorate of fine arts in 2012. Hubert studied at the University of London’s Slade Institute of Fine Arts and later learned the centuries-old fresco technique from former assistants of legendary artist Diego Rivera. He is one of only a few African American artists painting in the true buon fresco style.

Shanna Merola
Shanna Merola is a visual artist, photojournalist, and legal worker. In addition to her studio practice, she has been a human rights observer during political uprisings across the country—from the struggle for water rights in Detroit and Flint, MI to the frontlines of Ferguson, MO and Standing Rock, ND. Her collages and constructed landscapes are informed by these events. Merola lives in Detroit, where she facilitates Know-Your-Rights workshops and coordinates legal support for grassroots organizations through the National Lawyers Guild. Merola holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Scott Northrup
Scott Northrup is a multimedia artist, writer, curator, and educator who has exhibited with museums, galleries, film and design festivals, and alternative spaces in North America and Europe. Northrup is an associate professor and chair of the film and photography programs at College for Creative Studies, and is on the advisory board for the AAFF and the curatorial team for the next installment of Dlectricity. He earned an MA in media studies from The New School, and a BFA from Center for Creative Studies.

David Opdyke
David Opdyke is a draughtsman, sculptor, and animator known for his trenchant political send-ups of American culture. Born in Schenectady, NY in 1969, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in painting and sculpture. His work is informed by the massive industrial and corporate restructuring he witnessed growing up, namely the abandonment of the city center by manufacturing giants General Electric and ALCO. For 20 years Opdyke worked as a scenic painter and architectural model-maker. Ranging from intricate miniature constructions to room-sized installations, his artwork explores globalization, consumerism, and civilization’s abusive relationship with the environment.

Shani Peters
Shani Peters is a multi-disciplinary artist based in New Orleans, LA. She holds a BA from Michigan State University and an MFA from the City College of New York. Her practice encompasses activism histories, community building, media subversion, and the creation of accessible imaginative experiences. Informed by historical research, Peters’ prints, collages, installations, and videos consistently welcome viewers to involve themselves with the work. Her studio practice overlaps with her public, project-based, and collaborative work, in which she pushes to create environments and experiences that offer respite from painful realities—opportunities for collective momentum, learning and joy.

Sheida Soleimani
Sheida Soleimani resides in Providence, RI and is a professor of studio art at Brandeis University. Soleimani makes work that melds sculpture, performance, film and photography to highlight her critical perspectives on historical and contemporary sociopolitical events across the Middle East. The daughter of political refugees who were persecuted by the Iranian government, Soleimani focuses on media trends and the dissemination of information in the news, adapting images from popular press and social media leaks to exist within alternative scenarios. She received a BFA from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Jeffrey Augustine Songco
Jeffrey Augustine Songco is a multidisciplinary artist whose artwork explores the complexity of self-portraiture. As a gay American man of Filipino ethnicity, Songco’s artwork is a place of representation—an opportunity to perform and playfully cast himself as the protagonist of a postcolonial queer narrative. Born and raised in New Jersey to devout Catholic Filipino immigrants, his artistic identity developed at a young age with training in classical ballet, voice, and musical theater. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. After living in Pittsburgh, Bushwick, and San Francisco, he currently lives and works in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:47:48 -0400 2021-06-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-30T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Daisy Chain
Artscapade! (August 28, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84654 84654-21624391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 28, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan and UMMA celebrate Welcome Week by introducing students to the wide array of possibilities for arts participation on campus at an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes.

Also, we're looking for volunteers for this event-- help us make it happen (and get a free Artscapade t-shirt in the process!): http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

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Reception / Open House Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:17:58 -0400 2021-08-28T18:00:00-04:00 2021-08-28T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Reception / Open House Artscapade poster graphic
Talking Hearts Conversation Spaces (September 10, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86537 86537-21634784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 10, 2021 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Students and the U-M community are invited to visit the Talking Hearts Conversations Spaces where they can reflect on the past 18 months using the Conversation Guide or the Drawing Guide, which will help people to get in touch with their emotional journeys from throughout the pandemic.

What must we remember about this past year?
What must we forget?
What does joy look/sound/feel like?

Responses can take a variety of forms depending on what feels best to participants – spoken, written, drawn, or even just thought. These discussions are intended to normalize connecting with and caring for the people around us.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:52:06 -0400 2021-09-10T11:00:00-04:00 2021-09-10T13:00:00-04:00 Arts Initiative Social / Informal Gathering A Travel Guide for Talking Hearts
Never Free to Rest (September 13, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-13T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 13, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-13T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Never Free to Rest (September 14, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-14T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 14, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-14T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-14T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Never Free to Rest (September 15, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-15T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 15, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-15T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Never Free to Rest (September 16, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-16T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 16, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Never Free to Rest (September 17, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87037 87037-21638161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker's "Never Free to Rest" (Sept 13 - Oct 15) compares the life and origins of the rock pigeon to the stereotypes and myths of the constructed identities of Black men in the United States of America. Complete exhibition info at https://myumi.ch/7ZQwY.

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Exhibition Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:50:55 -0400 2021-09-17T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition A Troubled Rest
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 17, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Talking Hearts Conversation Spaces (September 17, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86537 86537-21634785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Students and the U-M community are invited to visit the Talking Hearts Conversations Spaces where they can reflect on the past 18 months using the Conversation Guide or the Drawing Guide, which will help people to get in touch with their emotional journeys from throughout the pandemic.

What must we remember about this past year?
What must we forget?
What does joy look/sound/feel like?

Responses can take a variety of forms depending on what feels best to participants – spoken, written, drawn, or even just thought. These discussions are intended to normalize connecting with and caring for the people around us.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:52:06 -0400 2021-09-17T14:30:00-04:00 2021-09-17T16:30:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Arts Initiative Social / Informal Gathering A Travel Guide for Talking Hearts
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 18, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 18, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!
Sign up for Art Outta Town: Dlectricity (September 19, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86871 86871-21637048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 19, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from DLECTRICITY! DLECTRICITY is a light-based art and technology festival in Midtown Detroit! This trip is open to all current U-M students, but seating is limited, so register today!

DLECTRICITY, inspired by Nuit Blanche arts festivals from around the world, has presented three major light-based art + technology festivals in 2012, 2014 and 2017. Produced by Midtown Detroit, Inc. (MDI), the spectacular outdoor visual light + art celebration takes place in Detroit’s Cultural Center and DTE’s Beacon Park. Attendees are immersed in a landscape of light through groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design and engineering, and captivating performance.

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-09-19T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-19T14:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Exhibition Art Outta Town trip to Dlectricity on September 25!