Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Yvette Rock's Art Exhibit: Empowering Generations: Past, Present, and Future (February 17, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116988 116988-21838409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: University Unions

Come view "Empowering Generations: Past, Present, Future," hosted by Yvette Rock, in the Michigan Union between February 5-26 next to the Campus Information desk on the first floor.

Yvette Rock is a visual artist based in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated with a BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1997 and an MFA in painting from University of Michigan in 1999. She is currently pursuing a K-12 Art Education Certificate from College for Creative Studies. She has been a teaching artist in Detroit public schools since 1999 and continues to partner with organizations to bring visual arts to children. In 2012 she founded Live Coal Gallery, LLC (LCG) – a small business in Detroit. LCG was a recipient of the 2017, 2019, and 2021 Knight Arts Challenge. Rock is the Founder and Executive Director of Live Coal, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization transforming lives and neighborhoods through art, community development, and education.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:36:53 -0500 2024-02-17T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-17T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union University Unions Exhibition Michigan Union
Martha Graham Dance Company (February 17, 2024 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109637 109637-21822438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2024 7:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

As the company approaches its 100th anniversary, it continues to exemplify its founder’s timeless and uniquely American style of dance, one that has influenced generations of artists and continues to captivate audiences worldwide.

Martha Graham is recognized as a primal artistic force of the 20th century, alongside Pablo Picasso, Virginia Woolf, Igor Stravinsky, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Graham radically expanded the dance vocabulary, rooting it in social, psychological, and sexual ideas and forever altering the scope of the art form. These performances will include a new work choreographed by Jamar Roberts, resident choreographer for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and set to music by Rhiannon Giddens. The dance will be paired with Agnes de Mille’s 1942 classic Rodeo; its iconic score by Aaron Copland has been reorchestrated for a bluegrass ensemble, offering an expanded view of our cultural history and the influence of Black artists on American music and dance forms. Martha Graham’s final complete work, Maple Leaf Rag, rounds out the program.

PROGRAM
Rodeo — The Courting at Burnt Ranch (Choreography by Agnes de Mille / Music by Aaron Copland in a new bluegrass arrangement by Gabe Witcher)
New Work (Jamar Roberts / Rhiannon Giddens)
Maple Leaf Rag (Martha Graham / Scott Joplin)

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:30:05 -0400 2024-02-17T19:30:00-05:00 2024-02-17T21:00:00-05:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Martha Graham Dance Co
Arbor Falls (February 17, 2024 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113746 113746-21831536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2024 8:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

In a small town called Arbor Falls, a preacher wrestles with their faith as they try to hold onto the last vestiges of a church with barely a congregation to call its own. The sharp divide between the preacher and the residents of Arbor Falls splinters further when a strange traveler arrives in town, exposing the conflicting values of each side.

*Arbor Falls* premiered at Illinois State University in 2022.

Written by Caridad Svich
Directed by Tiffany Trent

FUN FACTS: *Arbor Falls* is part of Svich’s American Psalm seven-play cycle that began with *Red Bike*. *Arbor Falls* was a finalist for the 2020 American Blues Theater Blue Ink Playwriting Award and for the 2019 National Playwrights Conference (O'Neill Theater Center).

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Performance Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:16:22 -0500 2024-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 2024-02-17T23:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Arbor Falls
A Gathering (February 18, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 18, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 18, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 18, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Curriculum / Collection (February 18, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 18, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 18, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Yvette Rock's Art Exhibit: Empowering Generations: Past, Present, and Future (February 18, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116988 116988-21838410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: University Unions

Come view "Empowering Generations: Past, Present, Future," hosted by Yvette Rock, in the Michigan Union between February 5-26 next to the Campus Information desk on the first floor.

Yvette Rock is a visual artist based in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated with a BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1997 and an MFA in painting from University of Michigan in 1999. She is currently pursuing a K-12 Art Education Certificate from College for Creative Studies. She has been a teaching artist in Detroit public schools since 1999 and continues to partner with organizations to bring visual arts to children. In 2012 she founded Live Coal Gallery, LLC (LCG) – a small business in Detroit. LCG was a recipient of the 2017, 2019, and 2021 Knight Arts Challenge. Rock is the Founder and Executive Director of Live Coal, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization transforming lives and neighborhoods through art, community development, and education.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:36:53 -0500 2024-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union University Unions Exhibition Michigan Union
Arbor Falls (February 18, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108302 108302-21819261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

In a small town called Arbor Falls, a preacher wrestles with their faith as they try to hold onto the last vestiges of a church with barely a congregation to call its own. The sharp divide between the preacher and the residents of Arbor Falls splinters further when a strange traveler arrives in town, exposing the conflicting values of each side.

*Arbor Falls* premiered at Illinois State University in 2022.

Written by Caridad Svich
Directed by Tiffany Trent

FUN FACTS: *Arbor Falls* is part of Svich’s American Psalm seven-play cycle that began with *Red Bike*. *Arbor Falls* was a finalist for the 2020 American Blues Theater Blue Ink Playwriting Award and for the 2019 National Playwrights Conference (O'Neill Theater Center).

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Performance Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:18:19 -0400 2024-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 2024-02-15T22:30:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Arbor Falls
Arbor Falls (February 18, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113747 113747-21831537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

In a small town called Arbor Falls, a preacher wrestles with their faith as they try to hold onto the last vestiges of a church with barely a congregation to call its own. The sharp divide between the preacher and the residents of Arbor Falls splinters further when a strange traveler arrives in town, exposing the conflicting values of each side.

*Arbor Falls* premiered at Illinois State University in 2022.

Written by Caridad Svich
Directed by Tiffany Trent

FUN FACTS: *Arbor Falls* is part of Svich’s American Psalm seven-play cycle that began with *Red Bike*. *Arbor Falls* was a finalist for the 2020 American Blues Theater Blue Ink Playwriting Award and for the 2019 National Playwrights Conference (O'Neill Theater Center).

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Performance Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:16:23 -0500 2024-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 2024-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Arbor Falls
Crafting Meeting (February 18, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118180 118180-21840614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Crochet For Conservation: VIPs Club

All are welcome to join us every Sunday from 2-4 pm for our crafting meetings!
Bring your friends, work on a project, or learn how to crochet/knit!
All skills are welcome with plenty of teachers and projects to start each week.
If you have more questions, please DM us on Instagram or email our Vice President Loretta: lorettaa@umich.edu

Time: 2-4pm

Location: Union

Jan 21-Feb 18: Sophia B Jones Room, First Floor Union
Mar 10-End of Term: First Floor Pond Room

To get more updates, request us on Maize Pages or email our secretary Sasha, sashagr@umich.edu, to get added to our GroupMe or Discord

Nonprofit Website: vipsfund.org

Instagram: @vipsfund

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Meeting Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:30:47 -0400 2024-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 2024-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Crochet For Conservation: VIPs Club Meeting VIP's members in handcrafted Michigan gear
Martha Graham Dance Company (February 18, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109637 109637-21822439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

As the company approaches its 100th anniversary, it continues to exemplify its founder’s timeless and uniquely American style of dance, one that has influenced generations of artists and continues to captivate audiences worldwide.

Martha Graham is recognized as a primal artistic force of the 20th century, alongside Pablo Picasso, Virginia Woolf, Igor Stravinsky, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Graham radically expanded the dance vocabulary, rooting it in social, psychological, and sexual ideas and forever altering the scope of the art form. These performances will include a new work choreographed by Jamar Roberts, resident choreographer for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and set to music by Rhiannon Giddens. The dance will be paired with Agnes de Mille’s 1942 classic Rodeo; its iconic score by Aaron Copland has been reorchestrated for a bluegrass ensemble, offering an expanded view of our cultural history and the influence of Black artists on American music and dance forms. Martha Graham’s final complete work, Maple Leaf Rag, rounds out the program.

PROGRAM
Rodeo — The Courting at Burnt Ranch (Choreography by Agnes de Mille / Music by Aaron Copland in a new bluegrass arrangement by Gabe Witcher)
New Work (Jamar Roberts / Rhiannon Giddens)
Maple Leaf Rag (Martha Graham / Scott Joplin)

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:30:05 -0400 2024-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 2024-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Martha Graham Dance Co
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 19, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-19T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Peter Dunn Exhibition (February 19, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-02-19T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (February 19, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-02-19T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Take Your Time (February 19, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116414 116414-21836794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Artist Enrico Riley is best known for paintings that investigate violence and hope in cultural traditions in African American culture. His new work—created for his exhibition at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery—is personal and abstract. Started as an attempt to paint for himself, away from the center of things and off at the edges, they are from the spaces of private thought that slip into existence and just as easily slip away. They come from an internal conversation and contact with the world. "When I am with them," Riley explains, "I feel a tension between the spaces in the works being present but unnamed. The paintings allow me to observe myself looking. I am acutely aware of time. Maybe they are an invitation to speculate."

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:55:43 -0500 2024-02-19T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Untitled (CP7), Music, 42" x 36", oil on canvas, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (February 19, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Yvette Rock's Art Exhibit: Empowering Generations: Past, Present, and Future (February 19, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116988 116988-21838411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: University Unions

Come view "Empowering Generations: Past, Present, Future," hosted by Yvette Rock, in the Michigan Union between February 5-26 next to the Campus Information desk on the first floor.

Yvette Rock is a visual artist based in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated with a BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1997 and an MFA in painting from University of Michigan in 1999. She is currently pursuing a K-12 Art Education Certificate from College for Creative Studies. She has been a teaching artist in Detroit public schools since 1999 and continues to partner with organizations to bring visual arts to children. In 2012 she founded Live Coal Gallery, LLC (LCG) – a small business in Detroit. LCG was a recipient of the 2017, 2019, and 2021 Knight Arts Challenge. Rock is the Founder and Executive Director of Live Coal, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization transforming lives and neighborhoods through art, community development, and education.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:36:53 -0500 2024-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union University Unions Exhibition Michigan Union
Wit(h)nessing Aids (February 19, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115711 115711-21835412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Speaker: Julián Gutiérrez Albilla, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at University of Souther California. His interests include Spanish and Latin American Cinema, Visual Culture, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, Trauma and Memory. Among his books are Aesthetics, Ethics, and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar (2017) and Queering Buñuel: Sexual Dissidence and Psychoanalysis in his Mexican and Spanish Cinema (2008).

The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, this talk will reflect on Bracha L. Ettinger´s matrixial psychoanalysis´ explicit and implicit contribution to feminist and queer theory, and transgender studies by focusing on the representation and creation of affective relationships and border spaces of co-emergence and co-affection, thus creating and allegorizing trans-subjective encounters between artistic practices and spectators. This talk will present some of the aesthetic, ethical, and political implications underpinning Ettingerian psychoanalysis by emphasizing the dialogue and the productive tensions between Ettinger’s theoretical propositions and one of her most important interlocutors, namely Lacan. On the other hand, this paper focuses on finitude, mourning, and trans-subjectivity to offer a historical and theoretical account of how Spanish and Latin American visual artists and filmmakers have reflected, responded to, or remembered the AIDS epidemic since the 1980s. Drawing on Ettinger’s matrixial psychoanalysis, my talk conceives queer art and cinema of the 1980s and 1990s as a trans-subjective encounter between the spectator and the traces of individual and collective trauma that moves us beyond our individual and finite limits of ego, identity, and body. Emphasizing the transformative aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of this kind of trans-subjective mourning, my paper uses Ettinger’s term “wit(h)ness”—that is, bearing witness to and with the other—to describe how Spanish and Latin American queer artists and filmmakers of the 1980s and ‘90s used their art and cinema to engage audiences in a trans-subjective processing of the traumas associated with the loss, illness, and mortality exposed by the AIDS virus, while simultaneously gesturing towards an aesthetic, ethical, and political transformation in the way that individuals relate to each other.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Dec 2023 10:11:50 -0500 2024-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2024-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Wit(h)nessing Aids Poster
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 20, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-20T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Peter Dunn Exhibition (February 20, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-02-20T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (February 20, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-02-20T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Take Your Time (February 20, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116414 116414-21836795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Artist Enrico Riley is best known for paintings that investigate violence and hope in cultural traditions in African American culture. His new work—created for his exhibition at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery—is personal and abstract. Started as an attempt to paint for himself, away from the center of things and off at the edges, they are from the spaces of private thought that slip into existence and just as easily slip away. They come from an internal conversation and contact with the world. "When I am with them," Riley explains, "I feel a tension between the spaces in the works being present but unnamed. The paintings allow me to observe myself looking. I am acutely aware of time. Maybe they are an invitation to speculate."

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:55:43 -0500 2024-02-20T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Untitled (CP7), Music, 42" x 36", oil on canvas, 2023
A Gathering (February 20, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 20, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 20, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (February 20, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 20, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 20, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Yvette Rock's Art Exhibit: Empowering Generations: Past, Present, and Future (February 20, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116988 116988-21838412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: University Unions

Come view "Empowering Generations: Past, Present, Future," hosted by Yvette Rock, in the Michigan Union between February 5-26 next to the Campus Information desk on the first floor.

Yvette Rock is a visual artist based in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated with a BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1997 and an MFA in painting from University of Michigan in 1999. She is currently pursuing a K-12 Art Education Certificate from College for Creative Studies. She has been a teaching artist in Detroit public schools since 1999 and continues to partner with organizations to bring visual arts to children. In 2012 she founded Live Coal Gallery, LLC (LCG) – a small business in Detroit. LCG was a recipient of the 2017, 2019, and 2021 Knight Arts Challenge. Rock is the Founder and Executive Director of Live Coal, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization transforming lives and neighborhoods through art, community development, and education.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:36:53 -0500 2024-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union University Unions Exhibition Michigan Union
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 21, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-21T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Peter Dunn Exhibition (February 21, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-02-21T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (February 21, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-02-21T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Take Your Time (February 21, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116414 116414-21836796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Artist Enrico Riley is best known for paintings that investigate violence and hope in cultural traditions in African American culture. His new work—created for his exhibition at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery—is personal and abstract. Started as an attempt to paint for himself, away from the center of things and off at the edges, they are from the spaces of private thought that slip into existence and just as easily slip away. They come from an internal conversation and contact with the world. "When I am with them," Riley explains, "I feel a tension between the spaces in the works being present but unnamed. The paintings allow me to observe myself looking. I am acutely aware of time. Maybe they are an invitation to speculate."

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:55:43 -0500 2024-02-21T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Untitled (CP7), Music, 42" x 36", oil on canvas, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (February 21, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
2024 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition (February 21, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113665 113665-21831425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 9-24, 2024.
A highly anticipated Stamps School tradition, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are:
To encourage and inspire undergraduates to create high-caliber and ambitious artwork.To create an opportunity where all undergraduates can develop the experience, knowledge, and skills in preparing an application for a juried exhibition.To foster a vibrant culture of participating in exhibitions and public programs at Stamps School. Engage the broader Stamps community such as the alumni and friends to participate in the exhibition as jurors and audience members.
Jurors

Parisa Ghaderi is an Assistant Professor of Visual Communications Technology at Shoreline Community College. Born and raised in Iran, Parisa holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. Her artwork has garnered recognition and been displayed in esteemed galleries and museums, including Musée d’Art moderne de Paris, Craft and Folk Art Museum Los Angeles Museum, The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and the Grand Rapids Art Museum to name a few. Ghaderi was named the 2023 Envision: Michigan Artist Initative Award Winner at Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan . Through her art, Parisa delves into themes of identity, belonging, and social issues, employing a diverse range of mediums and techniques. Her creative vision extends beyond visual art, as she has curated thought-provoking exhibitions, directed performances, and created engaging short films and animations.

Jova Lynne is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator artist born and raised in New York City, of Jamaican and Colombian heritage. She is interested in the cognitive dissonance one experiences when navigating material, text, and media-based archives specifically as it relates to Black culture. Lynne completed a Bachelor’s degree at Hampshire College and obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2017. Lynne was appointed the inaugural Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) in 2022. She joined the organization in 2017 as a Ford Foundation curatorial fellow, and in 2019, she became the Susanne Feld Hillberry senior curator. Lynne has curated several notable exhibitions at MOCAD, including Nep Sidhu: Paradox of Harmonics, Dream Hampton’s Fresh Water, 2+2=8: Thirty Years Heidelberg, Dual Vision, Amna Asghar: Well Wishes, and many more. She has also worked at the Museum of Moving Image in Queens, New York, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California.
Dalia Reyes is a curator and an interdisciplinary artist from southwest Detroit. She is currently the Gallery Director for the historic Scarab Club located in Midtown Detroit. She received a BA in Fine Arts Studies from College for Creative Studies in 2010. Dalia has been in the arts sector for 19 years; working in mostly arts and culture based non-profit organizations ranging from local galleries, arts fellowship organizations and museums. Dalia has exhibited her own work and has curated exhibitions in and around the city of Detroit and Mexico. Her work is cosmic, meditative and focuses on a metaphysical curiosity as well as surreal imagery.



Timeline
Deadline for Submissions: November 26, 2023Juror Decisions Announced: December 18, 2023Award Recipients Notified: February 2, 2024Exhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 9, 2024Exhibition Dates: February 9-24, 2024
For more information, contact stamps-gallery@umich.edu.

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Exhibition Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:04:21 -0500 2024-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition A student gives a talk on her work at the 2023 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
A Gathering (February 21, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 21, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 21, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (February 21, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 21, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 21, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Yvette Rock's Art Exhibit: Empowering Generations: Past, Present, and Future (February 21, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116988 116988-21838413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: University Unions

Come view "Empowering Generations: Past, Present, Future," hosted by Yvette Rock, in the Michigan Union between February 5-26 next to the Campus Information desk on the first floor.

Yvette Rock is a visual artist based in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated with a BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1997 and an MFA in painting from University of Michigan in 1999. She is currently pursuing a K-12 Art Education Certificate from College for Creative Studies. She has been a teaching artist in Detroit public schools since 1999 and continues to partner with organizations to bring visual arts to children. In 2012 she founded Live Coal Gallery, LLC (LCG) – a small business in Detroit. LCG was a recipient of the 2017, 2019, and 2021 Knight Arts Challenge. Rock is the Founder and Executive Director of Live Coal, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization transforming lives and neighborhoods through art, community development, and education.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:36:53 -0500 2024-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union University Unions Exhibition Michigan Union
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 22, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-22T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Peter Dunn Exhibition (February 22, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-02-22T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (February 22, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-02-22T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Take Your Time (February 22, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116414 116414-21836797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Artist Enrico Riley is best known for paintings that investigate violence and hope in cultural traditions in African American culture. His new work—created for his exhibition at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery—is personal and abstract. Started as an attempt to paint for himself, away from the center of things and off at the edges, they are from the spaces of private thought that slip into existence and just as easily slip away. They come from an internal conversation and contact with the world. "When I am with them," Riley explains, "I feel a tension between the spaces in the works being present but unnamed. The paintings allow me to observe myself looking. I am acutely aware of time. Maybe they are an invitation to speculate."

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:55:43 -0500 2024-02-22T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Untitled (CP7), Music, 42" x 36", oil on canvas, 2023
A Gathering (February 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-22T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-22T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-22T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (February 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-22T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-22T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-22T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
2024 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition (February 22, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113665 113665-21831426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 9-24, 2024.
A highly anticipated Stamps School tradition, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are:
To encourage and inspire undergraduates to create high-caliber and ambitious artwork.To create an opportunity where all undergraduates can develop the experience, knowledge, and skills in preparing an application for a juried exhibition.To foster a vibrant culture of participating in exhibitions and public programs at Stamps School. Engage the broader Stamps community such as the alumni and friends to participate in the exhibition as jurors and audience members.
Jurors

Parisa Ghaderi is an Assistant Professor of Visual Communications Technology at Shoreline Community College. Born and raised in Iran, Parisa holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. Her artwork has garnered recognition and been displayed in esteemed galleries and museums, including Musée d’Art moderne de Paris, Craft and Folk Art Museum Los Angeles Museum, The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and the Grand Rapids Art Museum to name a few. Ghaderi was named the 2023 Envision: Michigan Artist Initative Award Winner at Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan . Through her art, Parisa delves into themes of identity, belonging, and social issues, employing a diverse range of mediums and techniques. Her creative vision extends beyond visual art, as she has curated thought-provoking exhibitions, directed performances, and created engaging short films and animations.

Jova Lynne is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator artist born and raised in New York City, of Jamaican and Colombian heritage. She is interested in the cognitive dissonance one experiences when navigating material, text, and media-based archives specifically as it relates to Black culture. Lynne completed a Bachelor’s degree at Hampshire College and obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2017. Lynne was appointed the inaugural Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) in 2022. She joined the organization in 2017 as a Ford Foundation curatorial fellow, and in 2019, she became the Susanne Feld Hillberry senior curator. Lynne has curated several notable exhibitions at MOCAD, including Nep Sidhu: Paradox of Harmonics, Dream Hampton’s Fresh Water, 2+2=8: Thirty Years Heidelberg, Dual Vision, Amna Asghar: Well Wishes, and many more. She has also worked at the Museum of Moving Image in Queens, New York, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California.
Dalia Reyes is a curator and an interdisciplinary artist from southwest Detroit. She is currently the Gallery Director for the historic Scarab Club located in Midtown Detroit. She received a BA in Fine Arts Studies from College for Creative Studies in 2010. Dalia has been in the arts sector for 19 years; working in mostly arts and culture based non-profit organizations ranging from local galleries, arts fellowship organizations and museums. Dalia has exhibited her own work and has curated exhibitions in and around the city of Detroit and Mexico. Her work is cosmic, meditative and focuses on a metaphysical curiosity as well as surreal imagery.



Timeline
Deadline for Submissions: November 26, 2023Juror Decisions Announced: December 18, 2023Award Recipients Notified: February 2, 2024Exhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 9, 2024Exhibition Dates: February 9-24, 2024
For more information, contact stamps-gallery@umich.edu.

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Exhibition Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:04:21 -0500 2024-02-22T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition A student gives a talk on her work at the 2023 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Yvette Rock's Art Exhibit: Empowering Generations: Past, Present, and Future (February 22, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116988 116988-21838414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: University Unions

Come view "Empowering Generations: Past, Present, Future," hosted by Yvette Rock, in the Michigan Union between February 5-26 next to the Campus Information desk on the first floor.

Yvette Rock is a visual artist based in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated with a BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1997 and an MFA in painting from University of Michigan in 1999. She is currently pursuing a K-12 Art Education Certificate from College for Creative Studies. She has been a teaching artist in Detroit public schools since 1999 and continues to partner with organizations to bring visual arts to children. In 2012 she founded Live Coal Gallery, LLC (LCG) – a small business in Detroit. LCG was a recipient of the 2017, 2019, and 2021 Knight Arts Challenge. Rock is the Founder and Executive Director of Live Coal, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization transforming lives and neighborhoods through art, community development, and education.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:36:53 -0500 2024-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union University Unions Exhibition Michigan Union
Linda L. Newman 2024 Community Art Project (February 22, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119244 119244-21842465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 6:00pm
Location: West Quadrangle
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

The Linda L. Newman Community Art Project is an annual program through Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion in which students reflect upon, and create artistic expressions inspired by, a commonly read book or theme. This project reflects the vision of Linda L. Newman (Director of University Housing, 2009-2015) to create multicultural spaces on campus where community members can engage with the diverse ideas, perspectives, and stories of individuals and communities through participation in various programs and activities.

This year's program will explore the themes of storytelling, belonging, and identity.

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Other Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:03:36 -0500 2024-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 West Quadrangle Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Other flyer with description of event
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 23, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-23T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Peter Dunn Exhibition (February 23, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-02-23T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (February 23, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-02-23T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Take Your Time (February 23, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116414 116414-21836798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Artist Enrico Riley is best known for paintings that investigate violence and hope in cultural traditions in African American culture. His new work—created for his exhibition at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery—is personal and abstract. Started as an attempt to paint for himself, away from the center of things and off at the edges, they are from the spaces of private thought that slip into existence and just as easily slip away. They come from an internal conversation and contact with the world. "When I am with them," Riley explains, "I feel a tension between the spaces in the works being present but unnamed. The paintings allow me to observe myself looking. I am acutely aware of time. Maybe they are an invitation to speculate."

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:55:43 -0500 2024-02-23T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Untitled (CP7), Music, 42" x 36", oil on canvas, 2023
A Gathering (February 23, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-23T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 23, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-23T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 23, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-23T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (February 23, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-23T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 23, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-23T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 23, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-23T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
2024 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition (February 23, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113665 113665-21831427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 9-24, 2024.
A highly anticipated Stamps School tradition, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are:
To encourage and inspire undergraduates to create high-caliber and ambitious artwork.To create an opportunity where all undergraduates can develop the experience, knowledge, and skills in preparing an application for a juried exhibition.To foster a vibrant culture of participating in exhibitions and public programs at Stamps School. Engage the broader Stamps community such as the alumni and friends to participate in the exhibition as jurors and audience members.
Jurors

Parisa Ghaderi is an Assistant Professor of Visual Communications Technology at Shoreline Community College. Born and raised in Iran, Parisa holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. Her artwork has garnered recognition and been displayed in esteemed galleries and museums, including Musée d’Art moderne de Paris, Craft and Folk Art Museum Los Angeles Museum, The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and the Grand Rapids Art Museum to name a few. Ghaderi was named the 2023 Envision: Michigan Artist Initative Award Winner at Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan . Through her art, Parisa delves into themes of identity, belonging, and social issues, employing a diverse range of mediums and techniques. Her creative vision extends beyond visual art, as she has curated thought-provoking exhibitions, directed performances, and created engaging short films and animations.

Jova Lynne is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator artist born and raised in New York City, of Jamaican and Colombian heritage. She is interested in the cognitive dissonance one experiences when navigating material, text, and media-based archives specifically as it relates to Black culture. Lynne completed a Bachelor’s degree at Hampshire College and obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2017. Lynne was appointed the inaugural Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) in 2022. She joined the organization in 2017 as a Ford Foundation curatorial fellow, and in 2019, she became the Susanne Feld Hillberry senior curator. Lynne has curated several notable exhibitions at MOCAD, including Nep Sidhu: Paradox of Harmonics, Dream Hampton’s Fresh Water, 2+2=8: Thirty Years Heidelberg, Dual Vision, Amna Asghar: Well Wishes, and many more. She has also worked at the Museum of Moving Image in Queens, New York, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California.
Dalia Reyes is a curator and an interdisciplinary artist from southwest Detroit. She is currently the Gallery Director for the historic Scarab Club located in Midtown Detroit. She received a BA in Fine Arts Studies from College for Creative Studies in 2010. Dalia has been in the arts sector for 19 years; working in mostly arts and culture based non-profit organizations ranging from local galleries, arts fellowship organizations and museums. Dalia has exhibited her own work and has curated exhibitions in and around the city of Detroit and Mexico. Her work is cosmic, meditative and focuses on a metaphysical curiosity as well as surreal imagery.



Timeline
Deadline for Submissions: November 26, 2023Juror Decisions Announced: December 18, 2023Award Recipients Notified: February 2, 2024Exhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 9, 2024Exhibition Dates: February 9-24, 2024
For more information, contact stamps-gallery@umich.edu.

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Exhibition Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:04:21 -0500 2024-02-23T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition A student gives a talk on her work at the 2023 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Yvette Rock's Art Exhibit: Empowering Generations: Past, Present, and Future (February 23, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116988 116988-21838415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: University Unions

Come view "Empowering Generations: Past, Present, Future," hosted by Yvette Rock, in the Michigan Union between February 5-26 next to the Campus Information desk on the first floor.

Yvette Rock is a visual artist based in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated with a BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1997 and an MFA in painting from University of Michigan in 1999. She is currently pursuing a K-12 Art Education Certificate from College for Creative Studies. She has been a teaching artist in Detroit public schools since 1999 and continues to partner with organizations to bring visual arts to children. In 2012 she founded Live Coal Gallery, LLC (LCG) – a small business in Detroit. LCG was a recipient of the 2017, 2019, and 2021 Knight Arts Challenge. Rock is the Founder and Executive Director of Live Coal, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization transforming lives and neighborhoods through art, community development, and education.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:36:53 -0500 2024-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union University Unions Exhibition Michigan Union
Argentine Tango Lessons for All (February 23, 2024 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114635 114635-21833165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Michigan Argentine Tango Club

Every Wednesday night Michigan Argentine Tango Club (MATC) holds tango lessons. No experience or partner is required! Check out or website or social media for more information.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 30 Oct 2023 11:17:12 -0400 2024-02-23T19:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Michigan Argentine Tango Club Class / Instruction Moment from a MATC Class
2024 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition (February 24, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113665 113665-21831428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 24, 2024 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition is a showcase of outstanding work produced by Stamps undergraduate students taking place at Stamps Gallery from February 9-24, 2024.
A highly anticipated Stamps School tradition, the objectives of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition are:
To encourage and inspire undergraduates to create high-caliber and ambitious artwork.To create an opportunity where all undergraduates can develop the experience, knowledge, and skills in preparing an application for a juried exhibition.To foster a vibrant culture of participating in exhibitions and public programs at Stamps School. Engage the broader Stamps community such as the alumni and friends to participate in the exhibition as jurors and audience members.
Jurors

Parisa Ghaderi is an Assistant Professor of Visual Communications Technology at Shoreline Community College. Born and raised in Iran, Parisa holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. Her artwork has garnered recognition and been displayed in esteemed galleries and museums, including Musée d’Art moderne de Paris, Craft and Folk Art Museum Los Angeles Museum, The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and the Grand Rapids Art Museum to name a few. Ghaderi was named the 2023 Envision: Michigan Artist Initative Award Winner at Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan . Through her art, Parisa delves into themes of identity, belonging, and social issues, employing a diverse range of mediums and techniques. Her creative vision extends beyond visual art, as she has curated thought-provoking exhibitions, directed performances, and created engaging short films and animations.

Jova Lynne is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator artist born and raised in New York City, of Jamaican and Colombian heritage. She is interested in the cognitive dissonance one experiences when navigating material, text, and media-based archives specifically as it relates to Black culture. Lynne completed a Bachelor’s degree at Hampshire College and obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2017. Lynne was appointed the inaugural Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) in 2022. She joined the organization in 2017 as a Ford Foundation curatorial fellow, and in 2019, she became the Susanne Feld Hillberry senior curator. Lynne has curated several notable exhibitions at MOCAD, including Nep Sidhu: Paradox of Harmonics, Dream Hampton’s Fresh Water, 2+2=8: Thirty Years Heidelberg, Dual Vision, Amna Asghar: Well Wishes, and many more. She has also worked at the Museum of Moving Image in Queens, New York, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California.
Dalia Reyes is a curator and an interdisciplinary artist from southwest Detroit. She is currently the Gallery Director for the historic Scarab Club located in Midtown Detroit. She received a BA in Fine Arts Studies from College for Creative Studies in 2010. Dalia has been in the arts sector for 19 years; working in mostly arts and culture based non-profit organizations ranging from local galleries, arts fellowship organizations and museums. Dalia has exhibited her own work and has curated exhibitions in and around the city of Detroit and Mexico. Her work is cosmic, meditative and focuses on a metaphysical curiosity as well as surreal imagery.



Timeline
Deadline for Submissions: November 26, 2023Juror Decisions Announced: December 18, 2023Award Recipients Notified: February 2, 2024Exhibition Opening Reception at Stamps Gallery: February 9, 2024Exhibition Dates: February 9-24, 2024
For more information, contact stamps-gallery@umich.edu.

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Exhibition Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:04:21 -0500 2024-02-24T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition A student gives a talk on her work at the 2023 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
A Gathering (February 24, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 24, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-24T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-24T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 24, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 24, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-24T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-24T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 24, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 24, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-24T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-24T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (February 24, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 24, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-24T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-24T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 24, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 24, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-24T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-24T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 24, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 24, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-24T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-24T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Yvette Rock's Art Exhibit: Empowering Generations: Past, Present, and Future (February 24, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116988 116988-21838416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 24, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: University Unions

Come view "Empowering Generations: Past, Present, Future," hosted by Yvette Rock, in the Michigan Union between February 5-26 next to the Campus Information desk on the first floor.

Yvette Rock is a visual artist based in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated with a BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1997 and an MFA in painting from University of Michigan in 1999. She is currently pursuing a K-12 Art Education Certificate from College for Creative Studies. She has been a teaching artist in Detroit public schools since 1999 and continues to partner with organizations to bring visual arts to children. In 2012 she founded Live Coal Gallery, LLC (LCG) – a small business in Detroit. LCG was a recipient of the 2017, 2019, and 2021 Knight Arts Challenge. Rock is the Founder and Executive Director of Live Coal, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization transforming lives and neighborhoods through art, community development, and education.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:36:53 -0500 2024-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union University Unions Exhibition Michigan Union
A Gathering (February 25, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 25, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 25, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 25, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 25, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 25, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (February 25, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 25, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 25, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 25, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 25, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 25, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Yvette Rock's Art Exhibit: Empowering Generations: Past, Present, and Future (February 25, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116988 116988-21838417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 25, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: University Unions

Come view "Empowering Generations: Past, Present, Future," hosted by Yvette Rock, in the Michigan Union between February 5-26 next to the Campus Information desk on the first floor.

Yvette Rock is a visual artist based in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated with a BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1997 and an MFA in painting from University of Michigan in 1999. She is currently pursuing a K-12 Art Education Certificate from College for Creative Studies. She has been a teaching artist in Detroit public schools since 1999 and continues to partner with organizations to bring visual arts to children. In 2012 she founded Live Coal Gallery, LLC (LCG) – a small business in Detroit. LCG was a recipient of the 2017, 2019, and 2021 Knight Arts Challenge. Rock is the Founder and Executive Director of Live Coal, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization transforming lives and neighborhoods through art, community development, and education.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:36:53 -0500 2024-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union University Unions Exhibition Michigan Union
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 26, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 26, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-26T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-26T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Peter Dunn Exhibition (February 26, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 26, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-02-26T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-26T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (February 26, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 26, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-02-26T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-26T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Take Your Time (February 26, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116414 116414-21836801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 26, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Artist Enrico Riley is best known for paintings that investigate violence and hope in cultural traditions in African American culture. His new work—created for his exhibition at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery—is personal and abstract. Started as an attempt to paint for himself, away from the center of things and off at the edges, they are from the spaces of private thought that slip into existence and just as easily slip away. They come from an internal conversation and contact with the world. "When I am with them," Riley explains, "I feel a tension between the spaces in the works being present but unnamed. The paintings allow me to observe myself looking. I am acutely aware of time. Maybe they are an invitation to speculate."

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:55:43 -0500 2024-02-26T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-26T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Untitled (CP7), Music, 42" x 36", oil on canvas, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (February 26, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 26, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Yvette Rock's Art Exhibit: Empowering Generations: Past, Present, and Future (February 26, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116988 116988-21838418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 26, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: University Unions

Come view "Empowering Generations: Past, Present, Future," hosted by Yvette Rock, in the Michigan Union between February 5-26 next to the Campus Information desk on the first floor.

Yvette Rock is a visual artist based in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated with a BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1997 and an MFA in painting from University of Michigan in 1999. She is currently pursuing a K-12 Art Education Certificate from College for Creative Studies. She has been a teaching artist in Detroit public schools since 1999 and continues to partner with organizations to bring visual arts to children. In 2012 she founded Live Coal Gallery, LLC (LCG) – a small business in Detroit. LCG was a recipient of the 2017, 2019, and 2021 Knight Arts Challenge. Rock is the Founder and Executive Director of Live Coal, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization transforming lives and neighborhoods through art, community development, and education.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:36:53 -0500 2024-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union University Unions Exhibition Michigan Union
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 27, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-27T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Peter Dunn Exhibition (February 27, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-02-27T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (February 27, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-02-27T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Take Your Time (February 27, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116414 116414-21836802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Artist Enrico Riley is best known for paintings that investigate violence and hope in cultural traditions in African American culture. His new work—created for his exhibition at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery—is personal and abstract. Started as an attempt to paint for himself, away from the center of things and off at the edges, they are from the spaces of private thought that slip into existence and just as easily slip away. They come from an internal conversation and contact with the world. "When I am with them," Riley explains, "I feel a tension between the spaces in the works being present but unnamed. The paintings allow me to observe myself looking. I am acutely aware of time. Maybe they are an invitation to speculate."

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:55:43 -0500 2024-02-27T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Untitled (CP7), Music, 42" x 36", oil on canvas, 2023
A Gathering (February 27, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-27T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 27, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-27T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 27, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-27T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (February 27, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-27T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 27, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-27T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 27, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-27T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 28, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-28T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Peter Dunn Exhibition (February 28, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-02-28T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (February 28, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-02-28T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Take Your Time (February 28, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116414 116414-21836803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Artist Enrico Riley is best known for paintings that investigate violence and hope in cultural traditions in African American culture. His new work—created for his exhibition at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery—is personal and abstract. Started as an attempt to paint for himself, away from the center of things and off at the edges, they are from the spaces of private thought that slip into existence and just as easily slip away. They come from an internal conversation and contact with the world. "When I am with them," Riley explains, "I feel a tension between the spaces in the works being present but unnamed. The paintings allow me to observe myself looking. I am acutely aware of time. Maybe they are an invitation to speculate."

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:55:43 -0500 2024-02-28T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Untitled (CP7), Music, 42" x 36", oil on canvas, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (February 28, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-02-28T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-28T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
A Gathering (February 28, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-28T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 28, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-28T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 28, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-28T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (February 28, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-28T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 28, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-28T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 28, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-28T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 29, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 29, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-29T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-29T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Peter Dunn Exhibition (February 29, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 29, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-02-29T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-29T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (February 29, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 29, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-02-29T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-29T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Take Your Time (February 29, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116414 116414-21836804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 29, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Artist Enrico Riley is best known for paintings that investigate violence and hope in cultural traditions in African American culture. His new work—created for his exhibition at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery—is personal and abstract. Started as an attempt to paint for himself, away from the center of things and off at the edges, they are from the spaces of private thought that slip into existence and just as easily slip away. They come from an internal conversation and contact with the world. "When I am with them," Riley explains, "I feel a tension between the spaces in the works being present but unnamed. The paintings allow me to observe myself looking. I am acutely aware of time. Maybe they are an invitation to speculate."

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:55:43 -0500 2024-02-29T09:00:00-05:00 2024-02-29T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Untitled (CP7), Music, 42" x 36", oil on canvas, 2023
A Gathering (February 29, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 29, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-02-29T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-29T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (February 29, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 29, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-02-29T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-29T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (February 29, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 29, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-02-29T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-29T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (February 29, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 29, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-02-29T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-29T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 29, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 29, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-29T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-29T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (February 29, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 29, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-02-29T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-29T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 1, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-01T08:00:00-05:00 2024-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 1, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-01T09:00:00-05:00 2024-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 1, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-01T09:00:00-05:00 2024-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Take Your Time (March 1, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116414 116414-21836805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Artist Enrico Riley is best known for paintings that investigate violence and hope in cultural traditions in African American culture. His new work—created for his exhibition at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery—is personal and abstract. Started as an attempt to paint for himself, away from the center of things and off at the edges, they are from the spaces of private thought that slip into existence and just as easily slip away. They come from an internal conversation and contact with the world. "When I am with them," Riley explains, "I feel a tension between the spaces in the works being present but unnamed. The paintings allow me to observe myself looking. I am acutely aware of time. Maybe they are an invitation to speculate."

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:55:43 -0500 2024-03-01T09:00:00-05:00 2024-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Untitled (CP7), Music, 42" x 36", oil on canvas, 2023
A Gathering (March 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (March 2, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 2, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-02T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 2, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 2, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-02T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 2, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 2, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-02T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 2, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 2, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-02T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 2, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 2, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-02T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 2, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 2, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-02T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering (March 3, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 3, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-03T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 3, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 3, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-03T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 3, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 3, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-03T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 3, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 3, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-03T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 3, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 3, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-03T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 3, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 3, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-03T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
A Gathering Exhibition Tour — with Curator Felix Zamora Gomez (March 3, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116316 116316-21836598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 3, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ek4wriqz5fdf035a.

Join exhibition curator Felix Zamora Gomez for an exploration of A Gathering, an exhibition of the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. In addition, new works of art were added to this exhibition in December 2023. As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:42 -0500 2024-03-03T14:00:00-05:00 2024-03-03T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 4, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 4, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-04T08:00:00-05:00 2024-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 4, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 4, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-04T09:00:00-05:00 2024-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 4, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 4, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-04T09:00:00-05:00 2024-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (March 4, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 4, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-03-04T12:00:00-05:00 2024-03-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture with Catherine Filloux, Playwright/Librettist/Activitst (March 4, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117466 117466-21839352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 4, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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The Role of an Activist Artist, Playwright/Librettist, in Post-Genocide Cambodia and in Human Rights

Featured Speaker: Catherine Filloux, Playwright/Librettist/Activist  Moderator: Dr. Nachiket Chanchani, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art. 

The role of activist artists (broadly conceived to include theater actors and librettists) in bearing witness, nurturing empathy, and peacebuilding in post-genocide Cambodia where severe human rights violations and other grievous injustices are rampant. The talk is in conjunction with UMMA Exhibition: Angkor Complex: Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. Attendees will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition following the event. 

CATHERINE FILLOUX is an award-winning French Algerian American playwright and librettist who has been writing about human rights for many decades. Filloux’s new play “How to Eat an Orange” was commissioned by INTAR and is premiering at La MaMa in New York City. Her new musical “Welcome to the Big Dipper” (composer Jimmy Roberts, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change”) premieres Off-Broadway at the York Theatre in New York City; it is a National Alliance for Musical Theatre finalist and received a workshop at the Redhouse Arts Center in Syracuse, NY (Hunter Foster, AD). Catherine’s new play “White Savior” was nominated for The Venturous Play List. Her plays have been produced nationally, internationally and have been widely anthologized and written about. Filloux is the librettist for four produced operas: “Orlando” (composer Olga Neuwirth) is the first opera by a woman composer-librettist team in the history of the Vienna State Opera and is the 2022 Grawemeyer Award winner. Catherine has traveled for her plays to conflict-zones including Bosnia, Cambodia, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Morocco, and to Sudan and South Sudan on an overseas reading tour with the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. 

Filloux’s plays include: her livestream web drama “turning your body into a compass” at CultureHub, NYC; “whatdoesfreemean?” at Nora’s Playhouse, NYC; “Kidnap Road”, La MaMa, NYC; “Selma ‘65”, NYC and U.S. tour; “Luz”, La MaMa and Looking for Lilith in Louisville, KY. “Dog and Wolf” (59E59 Theaters/Watson Arts, NYC and “Dog and Wolf” Community Outreach Project.); “Killing the Boss” (Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC); “Lemkin’s House” (Rideau de Bruxelles, Belgium; McGinn-Cazale Theatre & 78th Street Theatre Lab, NYC; Kamerni teatar 55, Sarajevo, Bosnia); “The Beauty Inside” (New Georges, NYC and InterAct, Philadelphia; also translated into Arabic for a workshop at ISADAC in Rabat, Morocco; and produced in Iraq, in Kurdish by ArtRole.) “Eyes of the Heart” (National Asian American Theatre Co., NYC); “Silence of God” (Contemporary American Theater Festival [CATF], WV); “Mary and Myra” (CATF and Todd Mountain Theater, NY); “Arthur’s War” (commissioned by Theatreworks/ USA, NYC); “Photographs From S-21”, a short play produced throughout the world; “Escuela del Mundo” (commissioned by The Ohio State University, Columbus and Ohio tour.) 

Other opera productions: “New Arrivals” (Houston Grand Opera, composer John Glover); “Where Elephants Weep” (Chenla Theatre, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, composer Him Sophy) broadcast on Cambodian national television and Broadway on Demand; “The Floating Box” (Asia Society, NYC, composer Jason Kao Hwang) an Opera News Critic’s Choice and released by New World Records. Filloux is the librettist for the new operas “Blued Trees” (producer Aviva Rahmani; composer Julia Schwartz) and Thresh’s “L’Orient” (composer Kamala Sankaram; choreographer Preeti Vasudevan.) 

Filloux was invited to Belfast, Northern Ireland for the Henry Smith Artist in Residence Programme with The Derry Playhouse and served as a Juror for Sarajevo’s MES International Theater Festival in Bosnia. She developed the Oral History Project “A Circle of Grace” with the Cambodian Women's Group at St. Rita’s Refugee Center in Bronx, NY. Filloux was Playwright Facilitator for the International Playwright Retreat at La MaMa Umbria in Italy and is a Fulbright Senior Specialist. She received her French Baccalaureate in Philosophy with Honors in Toulon, France, and her M.F.A. at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, NYC. Catherine is featured in the documentary film “Acting Together on the World Stage" and is the co-founder/co-director of Theatre Without Borders. www.catherinefilloux.com

Organized and presented by the U-M Donia Human Rights Center in connection with the UMMA exhibition Angkor Complex: Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia 

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

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, U-M Ross School of Business, U-M Department of History of Art, Mark and Julie Phillips, U-M Center for Southeast Asian Studies, US Department of Education Title VI grant, and an anonymous donor. Additional generous support is provided by the U-M Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:43 -0500 2024-03-04T17:30:00-05:00 2024-03-04T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 5, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-05T08:00:00-05:00 2024-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 5, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-05T09:00:00-05:00 2024-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 5, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-05T09:00:00-05:00 2024-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Technology Meets Creativity: Exploring the Potential of Artificial Intelligence for the Arts (March 5, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115760 115760-21835472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

What does it mean to make art (music, poetry, painting, design) in a world in which human creativity is being mined by generative artificial intelligence?

How can A.I. expand our creative horizons? How are artists experimenting with artificial intelligence today? Can art help us define what it truly means to be human? How might research and creative practice at the University of Michigan help answer these questions and more? Join us on March 5, 2024 to add your voice to the discussion

The University of Michigan Arts Initiative, the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), Arts Research Incubation and Acceleration (ARIA), and the Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics (MCAIM) jointly offer this symposium, bringing together writers, poets, visual artists and designers, and other creatives alongside scientists, engineers, humanists, philosophers, and other thinkers to investigate the process and products of the collaboration of AI and human artists, to showcase ongoing arts research efforts at the University of Michigan, and to explore research partnerships and other collaborative opportunities going forward.

U-M faculty members who are working or planning to work on projects / ideas related to AI for creative arts are also cordially invited to join our research discussion session (lunch and right after). We will facilitate the exchange of ideas, collaboration, and connecting projects with funding sources.

Please visit our event page for more information on sessions and speakers.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 29 Feb 2024 09:14:43 -0500 2024-03-05T09:00:00-05:00 2024-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar AI-generated image, blue and orange geometric abstract mural
A Gathering (March 5, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 5, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 5, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 5, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 5, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 5, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-05T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Soulscape (March 5, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119870 119870-21843699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

In Soulscape, DSU’s solo photography exhibition, the art of portrait photography is reimagined as a journey into the soul, where each image serves as a window into the intricate landscapes of human essence. This collection emerges from a profound exploration conducted over a year and a half in an unfamiliar land, where encounters with diverse individuals have woven a rich mosaic of perspectives and stories.

Through the lens, DSU captures not merely faces but the myriad souls behind them, crafting a visual landscape that mirrors the complexity and beauty of the human condition. Each photograph in “Soulscape” is an invitation to gaze deeply into the authentic spirit of its subjects, offering a rare glimpse into the unguarded moments that define our shared humanity.

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:56:38 -0500 2024-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 2024-03-05T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Soulscape Poster - Woman with Butterfly
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 6, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-06T08:00:00-05:00 2024-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 6, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-06T09:00:00-05:00 2024-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 6, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-06T09:00:00-05:00 2024-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (March 6, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-03-06T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-06T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
A Gathering (March 6, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-06T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 6, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-06T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 6, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-06T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 6, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-06T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 6, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-06T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 6, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-06T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Soulscape (March 6, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119870 119870-21843700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

In Soulscape, DSU’s solo photography exhibition, the art of portrait photography is reimagined as a journey into the soul, where each image serves as a window into the intricate landscapes of human essence. This collection emerges from a profound exploration conducted over a year and a half in an unfamiliar land, where encounters with diverse individuals have woven a rich mosaic of perspectives and stories.

Through the lens, DSU captures not merely faces but the myriad souls behind them, crafting a visual landscape that mirrors the complexity and beauty of the human condition. Each photograph in “Soulscape” is an invitation to gaze deeply into the authentic spirit of its subjects, offering a rare glimpse into the unguarded moments that define our shared humanity.

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:56:38 -0500 2024-03-06T12:00:00-05:00 2024-03-06T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Soulscape Poster - Woman with Butterfly
Art for Earth: Free Youth Art Workshops (March 6, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119516 119516-21842923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Embark on a creative journey in nature with the “Youth Art for the Earth” series—dynamic, eco-centric art experiences crafted for middle and high school students. In these sessions, young artists are encouraged to channel their innermost reflections and establish deep connections with the natural world through the powerful language of art.

The workshops encompass outdoor exploration, indoor collage-making, and dedicated time for reflection and sharing. We believe that developing personal ties to the land fosters a sense of place, care for the environment, and mutual consideration.

Middle and high school youth are invited to participate in one of four Youth Art for the Earth workshops, the completed artworks of which will be displayed during MBGNA’s Youth Art exhibition. These workshops will be offered at no cost, with all necessary materials provided. Please note that registration is required.

The completed artworks will be on display during MBGNA’s Youth Art exhibit, running from Saturday, April 20, to Sunday, June 2, 2024. A reception for artists, families, and friends is scheduled for Sunday, June 2, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM in the west lobby.

Free to attend, please register at: myumi.ch/1bmng

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Mar 2024 07:28:26 -0500 2024-03-06T17:30:00-05:00 2024-03-06T20:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Workshop / Seminar Artwork featuring a tree crafted from nature parts such as leaves and flowers, as well as craft gems
Argentine Tango Lessons for All (March 6, 2024 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114635 114635-21833167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 6:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Michigan Argentine Tango Club

Every Wednesday night Michigan Argentine Tango Club (MATC) holds tango lessons. No experience or partner is required! Check out or website or social media for more information.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 30 Oct 2023 11:17:12 -0400 2024-03-06T18:30:00-05:00 2024-03-06T21:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union Michigan Argentine Tango Club Class / Instruction Moment from a MATC Class
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 7, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-07T08:00:00-05:00 2024-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 7, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-07T08:00:00-05:00 2024-03-07T23:00:00-05:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 7, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-07T09:00:00-05:00 2024-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 7, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-07T09:00:00-05:00 2024-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
A Gathering (March 7, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-07T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 7, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-07T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 7, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-07T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 7, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-07T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 7, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-07T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 7, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-07T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Kelbaugh Lecture: Emmanuel Pratt (March 7, 2024 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117074 117074-21838597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 11:30am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

RE-MAPPING THE PUBLICS:
Emmanuel’s talk offers a critical examination of how cities utilize public resources, labor, land, and materials to address challenges and plan for the future of the built environment. The conversation explores SWF’s practice of re-mapping cities’ resources at its Communiversity to create true Common Wealth – the spaces, structures, networks, resources, and opportunities essential to mending the urban fabric, healing communities, and equipping our neighborhoods to thrive, rather than merely survive. The talk invites us to imagine: “What if??? What if…. neighborhood development took place on a human scale, fueled by the critical connections that cultivate the relationships and collective commitment to do the necessary work?”

About Emmanuel Pratt
Emmanuel Pratt is an Urban Designer, Artist, and MacArthur Fellow. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of Sweet Water Foundation. Emmanuel’s praxis is rooted in decades of work that interrogates the cross-sectionality of architecture, urban planning, agroecology, and human development. His work builds upon and moves beyond the theory of Communicative Action towards the creation of a new paradigm of Regenerative Neighborhood Development (RND). Emmanuel was a Harvard GSD Loeb Fellow in 2017, a 2019 Joyce Award recipient, and a 2019 MacArthur Fellow.

The Douglas S. Kelbaugh Lecture is generously funded through an endowed fund given by Douglas Kelbaugh and Kathleen Nolan to support an annual public lecture on the topic of urban design. The contributions of Douglas Kelbaugh, FAIA, FCNU, professor emeritus of architecture and urban and regional planning and dean emeritus of Taubman College, to the field of sustainable architecture and urban planning, the Taubman College community, cities, and the education of students will continue to create a positive impact in the world for years to come, including through the annual Kelbaugh Lecture.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:35:00 -0500 2024-03-07T11:30:00-05:00 2024-03-07T13:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion 2024 Kelbaugh Lecture
Soulscape (March 7, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119870 119870-21843701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

In Soulscape, DSU’s solo photography exhibition, the art of portrait photography is reimagined as a journey into the soul, where each image serves as a window into the intricate landscapes of human essence. This collection emerges from a profound exploration conducted over a year and a half in an unfamiliar land, where encounters with diverse individuals have woven a rich mosaic of perspectives and stories.

Through the lens, DSU captures not merely faces but the myriad souls behind them, crafting a visual landscape that mirrors the complexity and beauty of the human condition. Each photograph in “Soulscape” is an invitation to gaze deeply into the authentic spirit of its subjects, offering a rare glimpse into the unguarded moments that define our shared humanity.

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:56:38 -0500 2024-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 2024-03-07T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Soulscape Poster - Woman with Butterfly
Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Artemio Rodríguez (March 7, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116241 116241-21836491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 7, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Artemio Rodríguez is a Mexican artist who was born in Tacámbaro, Michoacán. He began his career as a printer’s apprentice with Juan Pascoe at his renowned letterpress studio Taller Martin Pescador (Kingfisher Workshop) in Tacámbaro, Michoacán. At the age of 21, Rodríguez immigrated to Los Angeles and became a printmaker at Self Help Graphics. He co-founded La Mano Press in 2002 in Los Angeles before relocating to Michoacán in 2008, where he co-founded La Mano Gráfica, a gallery and craft store. Rodríguez directs the Library of Illustrated Books (Biblioteca del Libro Ilustrado, BLI), where his many public projects include The Bibliográfico, a 1977 Toyota converted into a traveling library, and the Graficomovil, a 1948 delivery truck converted into a gallery and printmaking studio.
Rodríguez is known for his linocut prints as well as his mural-sized prints and for his vehicles. Influenced by both European medieval woodcuts and Mexican cultural symbolism developed by artists like José Guadalupe Posada, Rodríguez’s style emphasizes simplicity, clarity, and imbued with a personal narrative. His images come from contemporary icons like American cartoons and Mexican culture, mythology and surrealism. A poet at heart, Rodríguez uses the physicality of the printmaking process to write stories in images. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of many public institutions, including the Seattle Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, Petersen Automotive Museum, Library of Congress, Phoenix Art Museum and Museo José Guadalupe Posada. A retrospective look of his works can be seen in the book American Dream.
"Rodríguez’s new works emphasize some of his best-loved figures – skeletons, devils, animals, children, and the royalty of Michoacán – in acts of celebration, seduction, and play. He captures a multitude of experiences within one moment and one image. Entire scenes of a play, entire poems, unfold in stark black lines." - Paige McCray, Davidson Galleries
Rodriguez’s talk will cover his journey from his beginnings in rural Mexico to his experience crossing the US border, becoming part of the Chicano Art and Mexican printmaking scene, his rise to recognition and giving back to his community.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Jan 2024 18:15:10 -0500 2024-03-07T17:30:00-05:00 2024-03-07T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion Artemio Rodriguez
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 8, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 8, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T23:00:00-05:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 8, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Peter Dunn has historically been an object maker as a designer and sculptor. Whether designing furniture or developing the ideas for sculpture, the process has always been the same. Ideas begin as
scribbled images that are then stretched and refined with CAD software. At its core, much of the work studies the manipulation of simple geometry. Dunn looks at the form from different forced perspectives – exploding, augmenting, slicing, repeating, and lighting. This body of work is a study of perception, sympathy, hierarchy, and reality. The “We Are Virus” series is an adaptation from an initial design where it continued to evolve and adapt through manipulation of parts and scale.

Peter Dunn received his BFA from Wayne State University and MFA from University of Michigan. He currently serves on faculty at College for Creative Studies

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-08T09:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 8, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

January 26-April 12, 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
contact: serrag@med.umich.edu

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-08T09:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
A Gathering (March 8, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. 

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 8, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”  

Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 8, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

As crises of public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice, and climate change spread around the globe, millions are experiencing distress, conflict, uncertainty, and vulnerability. This troubling combination of experiences is nothing new for Cambodians. Between 1975-1979, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, about a quarter of the country’s populations died of infectious diseases, weapon wounds, and malnutrition.

This exhibition brings together more than 80 works of art spanning a millennium to present how the visual culture of Cambodia and its diaspora has evolved in the face of cultural upheaval. Showcasing works from worldwide collections, including those from some of the foremost members of the Cambodian contemporary art scene, Angkor Complex allows viewers to encounter the still-fresh scars of a genocide and critically appreciate the strategies evolved to nurture resilience in trying times.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, U-M Office of the President, National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and U-M Ross School of Business.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 8, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Curriculum / Collection, an incredible variety of University of Michigan courses take material form. Collected for each course are objects that address the nature of materiality, time, and human interaction in relation to our environments, our wars, our relationships, and our eccentricities. 

Working in collaboration with University faculty, the works in this exhibition were selected for their capacity to provoke engagement with the guiding questions and themes of their specific courses, while also offering students inspiration for research and art projects in their areas of study. The exhibition demonstrates some of the diverse and creative ways art plays a central role in learning across the disciplines. It also asks us to consider what we can learn from art objects across an infinite variety of specialties and subject matter.

As classes begin in Fall of 2021, you’ll be able to use these pages to explore the collections designed for each course, dive into the works themselves, and hear from the professors and students about how they are engaging with art and objects in new ways. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something surprising along the way, too.

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 8, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 8, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, We Write To You About Africa is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. 

Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

Art collections, by their very nature, can not be anything other than subjective. With I Write To You About Africa, we examine the subjective ways UMMA and the University of Michigan as a whole have collected and presented art from and connected to the African diaspora.

Drawn from art collections across the U-M campus, a special section of the exhibition highlights how the founding of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the African Studies Center (ASC) impacted U–M’s collecting practices. This section includes an exciting and ongoing project—contemporary African artists, scholars, and curators will be asked to write about their work on postcards, in their first language, and mail them to UMMA where they will be displayed alongside their works. 

We Write To You About Africa will be a reinstallation of the Museum’s Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery of African art and the connected Alfred A Taubman Gallery II. It is slated to open in 2021 and will be on view indefinitely.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Soulscape (March 8, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119870 119870-21843702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

In Soulscape, DSU’s solo photography exhibition, the art of portrait photography is reimagined as a journey into the soul, where each image serves as a window into the intricate landscapes of human essence. This collection emerges from a profound exploration conducted over a year and a half in an unfamiliar land, where encounters with diverse individuals have woven a rich mosaic of perspectives and stories.

Through the lens, DSU captures not merely faces but the myriad souls behind them, crafting a visual landscape that mirrors the complexity and beauty of the human condition. Each photograph in “Soulscape” is an invitation to gaze deeply into the authentic spirit of its subjects, offering a rare glimpse into the unguarded moments that define our shared humanity.

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:56:38 -0500 2024-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Soulscape Poster - Woman with Butterfly