Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Harbingers of Dreams (September 15, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110229 110229-21824581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Born in 1945, artist, educator, and mentor Teresa Tolliver has lived and worked in South Central L.A. for three decades. In 2022, she opened her first one-woman show at the prominent Sebastian Gladstone Gallery. Most recently, her work has been chosen for inclusion as part of L.A.’s Hammer Museum Biennial, which runs concurrently with her exhibition Harbingers of Dreams in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Tolliver refers to her process as “creative recycling”: forging found and thrifted materials, and repurposing them. These frenetic bundles of coils, adornments, wires, and loose ends express the artist’s feelings, perspectives, and everyday way of living.

Earlier works of the artist are on a smaller scale and doll-like. They are intimate, imaginative references to Tolliver’s own girlhood in a world lacking adequate or authentic representations of Black life.

Tolliver’s more recent figurative assemblages are life-size, larger-than-life, looming. They command space and celebrate it. There is an inherent connection between these sculptures and the long-established history of African American yard art, where plants, statuary, and artistic creations communicate themes of personal space, freedom of expression, and dreams of independence. Tolliver’s bold visual choices and material combinations are refusals of outside value judgments and hierarchies.

When visiting artist Teresa Tolliver's home studio, one expects the figures will spring to life, otherworldly. They seem to gather and congregate. There are no distractions from the outside, save the light coming through the window. Through subtle details like molding, furniture, and drawers inspired by Tolliver’s own domestic space, Harbingers of Dreams attempts to capture the resplendent and spiritual nature of such a visit, with the opportunity to sit among the artist’s creations.

Tolliver’s figurative sculptures appear as embodiments of the city of L.A. and its diverse communities and neighborhoods. They are assemblages of disparate influences, esthetics, and materials: prefab, handmade, urban, nostalgic, opulent, functional, garish, and celestial. A visual cacophony of colors, influences, designs, and forms, each figure beckons us towards futures in the making.

Teresa Tolliver is the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:14:21 -0400 2023-09-15T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Two colorful multimedia sculptures.
Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!! (September 15, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109535 109535-21822179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.
Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.
“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.

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Exhibition Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:34:42 -0400 2023-09-15T09:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Image reads: sarah buckius: !!! techn010ffspring !!! "she feels like the company is stuck in the past, clinging to old technology instead of embracing new technologies...absurd ones...
Featured Exhibits (September 15, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-09-15T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (September 15, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-09-15T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (September 15, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-09-15T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
Untold Stories, Part I (September 15, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109983 109983-21823501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Untold Stories is a three-part exhibition series featuring the work of faculty members from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Organized thematically, each group exhibition will reveal key themes and urgent questions of our time being explored through the lens of art and design at the Stamps School.
This exhibition offers glimpses into the creative research that Stamps faculty are engaged in, asking students and the public to consider the role and potential of art and design in making visible latent histories and catalyzing social movements for justice, freedom, and equity.
Untold Stories, Part I will include work by Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, Heidi Kumao, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emilia Yang.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:15:05 -0500 2023-09-15T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Jim Cogswell, Pyre, 2020: stenciled red, blue, and black hands and feet are arranged in a pile over barbed wire. The red hands appear to be flames, with white curls of smoke rising from the group.
Mesmerica (September 15, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-15T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-15T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Untold Stories, Part I: Opening Reception (September 15, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109984 109984-21823551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for the opening reception of Untold Stories, Part I: 2023 Stamps Faculty Exhibition at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition features work by Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, Heidi Kumao, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emilia Yang. The artists will be in attendance, and light refreshments will be served.
Untold Stories is a three-part exhibition series featuring the work of faculty members from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Organized thematically, each group exhibition will reveal key themes and urgent questions of our time being explored through the lens of art and design at the Stamps School.
This exhibition offers glimpses into the creative research that Stamps faculty are engaged in, asking students and the public to consider the role and potential of art and design in making visible latent histories and catalyzing social movements for justice, freedom, and equity.
Untold Stories, Part I: 2023 Stamps Faculty Exhibition is on view at Stamps Gallery from September 15-December 9, 2023.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 01 Sep 2023 12:15:14 -0400 2023-09-15T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House The family of murdered Danny Ezequiel López Morales hold his photo in this black and white image.
Mesmerica (September 15, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Open Mic Night with Shara Nova (September 15, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110199 110199-21824483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Open Mic at the Freighthouse is back by popular demand! Singer, songwriter, and composer Shara Nova (My Brightest Diamond), who spent formative childhood years in Ypsilanti, hosts this open mic night and local artist showcase. Bring yourself, your friends, and whatever creative contribution you can offer! Registration will open at 7 pm for those who wish to perform and continue on a rolling basis through 8:30pm, with names randomly selected for a starring moment on stage.

Recommended for 16+, alcohol will be available for purchase for ages 21+ with ID.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:42:52 -0400 2023-09-15T19:30:00-04:00 2023-09-15T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Social / Informal Gathering Open Mic Night at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse!
Mesmerica (September 15, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-15T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-15T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Featured Exhibits (September 16, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-09-16T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-16T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (September 16, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-09-16T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-16T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (September 16, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-09-16T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-16T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
slapslap (September 16, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110200 110200-21824484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Get ready to clap your hands, wiggle your fingers, stomp your feet, make some music, and have some fun!

What do you get when you cross DEVO with The Wiggles? Join us for a musical and theatrical adventure provided by the unique electric bassoon and percussion quartet slapslap, which brings together up-tempo dance, music, storytelling, and creative play in a unique interactive event just for families. Your family will delight in slapslap’s technical musicianship and light-hearted absurdity, with a performance that is equal parts enthralling, wacky, and fun.

After the performance, participants will learn more about improvised music by making their own slapsticks and playing along with the musicians!

Recommended for ages 3-12 and their parents or guardians.

Note: This performance is high energy for artists and audiences alike! Loud music making and movement will be highly encouraged.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:53:32 -0400 2023-09-16T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Electric bassoon and percussion quartet slapslap
Untold Stories, Part I (September 16, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109983 109983-21823502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Untold Stories is a three-part exhibition series featuring the work of faculty members from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Organized thematically, each group exhibition will reveal key themes and urgent questions of our time being explored through the lens of art and design at the Stamps School.
This exhibition offers glimpses into the creative research that Stamps faculty are engaged in, asking students and the public to consider the role and potential of art and design in making visible latent histories and catalyzing social movements for justice, freedom, and equity.
Untold Stories, Part I will include work by Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, Heidi Kumao, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emilia Yang.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:15:05 -0500 2023-09-16T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Jim Cogswell, Pyre, 2020: stenciled red, blue, and black hands and feet are arranged in a pile over barbed wire. The red hands appear to be flames, with white curls of smoke rising from the group.
"Asian Music and Its Traditions": Roundtable Discussion (September 16, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111288 111288-21826625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This roundtable will focus on the pasts and presents of various Asian music traditions through short formal introductions and open discussion with audience participation.

U-M PANELISTS

*China*
BRIGHT SHENG, Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Music--composition

*Japan*
KEISUKE YAMADA, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies--soundscapes and sound-politics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japan; shamisen making

*Korea*
SUNHONG KIM, Graduate Fellow, Center for World Performance Studies--court/folk music ensembles in South Korea; multi-wind instrumentalist (piri/ taepyeongso/ danso/ saenghwang)

*South Asia*
INDERJIT KAUR, Assistant Professor of Music--Sikh Studies and South Asian musical cultures

*Southeast Asia*
TRENT WALKER, Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies--Buddhism, literature, and music in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam

*Hosted by:*

DAVID ROLSTON, Professor of Chinese Literature--traditional Chinese fiction and drama/theater

JOSEPH GASCHO, Associate Professor of Harpsichord and Director of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments

This is the opening event for the Stearns Collection's Fall 2023 Festival of Asian Music.
https://smtd.umich.edu/asian-music-festival/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:17:09 -0400 2023-09-16T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-16T19:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion "Asian Music and Its Traditions": Roundtable Discussion
Mesmerica (September 16, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-16T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-16T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Dark Noise Collective (September 16, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109920 109920-21823232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 7:00pm
Location: GA - Mendelssohn
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Dark Noise is a nationwide, multiracial, multi-genre collective featuring some of the most dynamic and powerful poets writing today – Danez Smith, Franny Choi, Nate Marshall, Fatimah Asghar, Jamila Woods, Aaron Samuels – who find common ground in their commitment to using art as a site for radical truth-telling.  Both individually and collectively, the members of Dark Noise use art to promote resistance and change – within a variety of genres encompassing poetry, fiction, theater, music, film, and more.

This event is organized by Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts (LSWA) and sponsored by LSA and the Arts Initiative as part of the LSA "Arts and Resistance" theme semester.

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/4294/4295 for more detail.

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Performance Mon, 21 Aug 2023 08:23:33 -0400 2023-09-16T19:00:00-04:00 GA - Mendelssohn Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Dark Noise Collective at Mendelssohn Theater
Mesmerica (September 16, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-16T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 16, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-16T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-16T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Featured Exhibits (September 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-17T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (September 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-17T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (September 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-17T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
slapslap (September 17, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110200 110200-21824485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Get ready to clap your hands, wiggle your fingers, stomp your feet, make some music, and have some fun!

What do you get when you cross DEVO with The Wiggles? Join us for a musical and theatrical adventure provided by the unique electric bassoon and percussion quartet slapslap, which brings together up-tempo dance, music, storytelling, and creative play in a unique interactive event just for families. Your family will delight in slapslap’s technical musicianship and light-hearted absurdity, with a performance that is equal parts enthralling, wacky, and fun.

After the performance, participants will learn more about improvised music by making their own slapsticks and playing along with the musicians!

Recommended for ages 3-12 and their parents or guardians.

Note: This performance is high energy for artists and audiences alike! Loud music making and movement will be highly encouraged.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:53:32 -0400 2023-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-17T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Electric bassoon and percussion quartet slapslap
Mesmerica (September 17, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-17T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-17T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 17, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-17T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-17T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 17, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-17T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-17T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Harbingers of Dreams (September 18, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110229 110229-21824584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2023 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Born in 1945, artist, educator, and mentor Teresa Tolliver has lived and worked in South Central L.A. for three decades. In 2022, she opened her first one-woman show at the prominent Sebastian Gladstone Gallery. Most recently, her work has been chosen for inclusion as part of L.A.’s Hammer Museum Biennial, which runs concurrently with her exhibition Harbingers of Dreams in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Tolliver refers to her process as “creative recycling”: forging found and thrifted materials, and repurposing them. These frenetic bundles of coils, adornments, wires, and loose ends express the artist’s feelings, perspectives, and everyday way of living.

Earlier works of the artist are on a smaller scale and doll-like. They are intimate, imaginative references to Tolliver’s own girlhood in a world lacking adequate or authentic representations of Black life.

Tolliver’s more recent figurative assemblages are life-size, larger-than-life, looming. They command space and celebrate it. There is an inherent connection between these sculptures and the long-established history of African American yard art, where plants, statuary, and artistic creations communicate themes of personal space, freedom of expression, and dreams of independence. Tolliver’s bold visual choices and material combinations are refusals of outside value judgments and hierarchies.

When visiting artist Teresa Tolliver's home studio, one expects the figures will spring to life, otherworldly. They seem to gather and congregate. There are no distractions from the outside, save the light coming through the window. Through subtle details like molding, furniture, and drawers inspired by Tolliver’s own domestic space, Harbingers of Dreams attempts to capture the resplendent and spiritual nature of such a visit, with the opportunity to sit among the artist’s creations.

Tolliver’s figurative sculptures appear as embodiments of the city of L.A. and its diverse communities and neighborhoods. They are assemblages of disparate influences, esthetics, and materials: prefab, handmade, urban, nostalgic, opulent, functional, garish, and celestial. A visual cacophony of colors, influences, designs, and forms, each figure beckons us towards futures in the making.

Teresa Tolliver is the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:14:21 -0400 2023-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Two colorful multimedia sculptures.
Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!! (September 18, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109535 109535-21822182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.
Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.
“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.

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Exhibition Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:34:42 -0400 2023-09-18T09:00:00-04:00 2023-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Image reads: sarah buckius: !!! techn010ffspring !!! "she feels like the company is stuck in the past, clinging to old technology instead of embracing new technologies...absurd ones...
Harbingers of Dreams (September 19, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110229 110229-21824585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Born in 1945, artist, educator, and mentor Teresa Tolliver has lived and worked in South Central L.A. for three decades. In 2022, she opened her first one-woman show at the prominent Sebastian Gladstone Gallery. Most recently, her work has been chosen for inclusion as part of L.A.’s Hammer Museum Biennial, which runs concurrently with her exhibition Harbingers of Dreams in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Tolliver refers to her process as “creative recycling”: forging found and thrifted materials, and repurposing them. These frenetic bundles of coils, adornments, wires, and loose ends express the artist’s feelings, perspectives, and everyday way of living.

Earlier works of the artist are on a smaller scale and doll-like. They are intimate, imaginative references to Tolliver’s own girlhood in a world lacking adequate or authentic representations of Black life.

Tolliver’s more recent figurative assemblages are life-size, larger-than-life, looming. They command space and celebrate it. There is an inherent connection between these sculptures and the long-established history of African American yard art, where plants, statuary, and artistic creations communicate themes of personal space, freedom of expression, and dreams of independence. Tolliver’s bold visual choices and material combinations are refusals of outside value judgments and hierarchies.

When visiting artist Teresa Tolliver's home studio, one expects the figures will spring to life, otherworldly. They seem to gather and congregate. There are no distractions from the outside, save the light coming through the window. Through subtle details like molding, furniture, and drawers inspired by Tolliver’s own domestic space, Harbingers of Dreams attempts to capture the resplendent and spiritual nature of such a visit, with the opportunity to sit among the artist’s creations.

Tolliver’s figurative sculptures appear as embodiments of the city of L.A. and its diverse communities and neighborhoods. They are assemblages of disparate influences, esthetics, and materials: prefab, handmade, urban, nostalgic, opulent, functional, garish, and celestial. A visual cacophony of colors, influences, designs, and forms, each figure beckons us towards futures in the making.

Teresa Tolliver is the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:14:21 -0400 2023-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Two colorful multimedia sculptures.
Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!! (September 19, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109535 109535-21822183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.
Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.
“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.

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Exhibition Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:34:42 -0400 2023-09-19T09:00:00-04:00 2023-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Image reads: sarah buckius: !!! techn010ffspring !!! "she feels like the company is stuck in the past, clinging to old technology instead of embracing new technologies...absurd ones...
Featured Exhibits (September 19, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (September 19, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-19T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (September 19, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-19T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
Visualization in Research, Part I (September 19, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109880 109880-21823191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

Steve Alvey, graphics specialist in OVPR’s Office of Research Development, will discuss best practices for developing conceptual figures and other visualizations that communicate research in clear, compelling ways. Learn the fundamentals of design, including effective use of color and typography, that help grant proposals or presentations come together. Simple and appealing visuals also help broad audiences better understand complex data, ideas and impact. The presenter will provide examples of proposal graphics that exemplify best practices.

This is the first in a series of research visualization workshops; future sessions will include how to work with designers and how to maximize emotional impact (the "wow" factor) with research figures.

Calendar invites with a Zoom link will be sent via email after you register below.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Aug 2023 17:09:39 -0400 2023-09-19T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location OVPR Office of Research Development Livestream / Virtual U-M Research Development
Ambatana - The Afro American Minority Culture Lounge Art Gallery (September 19, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111697 111697-21827476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 4:00pm
Location: South Quad
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Michigan Housing’s Diversity and Inclusion office is excited to invite you to the Gallery Opening for Ambatana - The Afro American Minority Culture Lounge hallway. This time will be a celebration of culture, history, and community.

The reception will take place on Tuesday, September 19th from 4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. on the ground floor of South Quadrangle. It is an open house-style event and you may come by at any time between 4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP below if you plan on stopping by to walk through the space and enjoy some food.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:46:26 -0400 2023-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-19T18:30:00-04:00 South Quad Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Reception / Open House Ambatana - The Afro American Minority Culture Lounge hallway reception
Yoga at the Freighthouse (September 19, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110198 110198-21824482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

This workshop, led by yoga instructor and Ypsilanti resident Marly Spieser-Schneider, will touch on fundamental physical and philosophical elements of the Iyengar Yoga practice, accompanied by live music. This opportunity to stretch and breathe provides a unique experience for curious movers, providing a structure for developing awareness, exploring creative possibilities, and discovering new ways to move through the world. Participants will learn postures, ask questions, experiment, and play!

All levels are welcome (ages 12+), no previous yoga experience necessary. Bring your own yoga mat and a water bottle.

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Exercise / Fitness Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:37:43 -0400 2023-09-19T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-19T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Exercise / Fitness Yoga mats on a rustic wooden floor.
Harbingers of Dreams (September 20, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110229 110229-21824586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Born in 1945, artist, educator, and mentor Teresa Tolliver has lived and worked in South Central L.A. for three decades. In 2022, she opened her first one-woman show at the prominent Sebastian Gladstone Gallery. Most recently, her work has been chosen for inclusion as part of L.A.’s Hammer Museum Biennial, which runs concurrently with her exhibition Harbingers of Dreams in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Tolliver refers to her process as “creative recycling”: forging found and thrifted materials, and repurposing them. These frenetic bundles of coils, adornments, wires, and loose ends express the artist’s feelings, perspectives, and everyday way of living.

Earlier works of the artist are on a smaller scale and doll-like. They are intimate, imaginative references to Tolliver’s own girlhood in a world lacking adequate or authentic representations of Black life.

Tolliver’s more recent figurative assemblages are life-size, larger-than-life, looming. They command space and celebrate it. There is an inherent connection between these sculptures and the long-established history of African American yard art, where plants, statuary, and artistic creations communicate themes of personal space, freedom of expression, and dreams of independence. Tolliver’s bold visual choices and material combinations are refusals of outside value judgments and hierarchies.

When visiting artist Teresa Tolliver's home studio, one expects the figures will spring to life, otherworldly. They seem to gather and congregate. There are no distractions from the outside, save the light coming through the window. Through subtle details like molding, furniture, and drawers inspired by Tolliver’s own domestic space, Harbingers of Dreams attempts to capture the resplendent and spiritual nature of such a visit, with the opportunity to sit among the artist’s creations.

Tolliver’s figurative sculptures appear as embodiments of the city of L.A. and its diverse communities and neighborhoods. They are assemblages of disparate influences, esthetics, and materials: prefab, handmade, urban, nostalgic, opulent, functional, garish, and celestial. A visual cacophony of colors, influences, designs, and forms, each figure beckons us towards futures in the making.

Teresa Tolliver is the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:14:21 -0400 2023-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Two colorful multimedia sculptures.
Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!! (September 20, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109535 109535-21822184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.
Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.
“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.

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Exhibition Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:34:42 -0400 2023-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2023-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Image reads: sarah buckius: !!! techn010ffspring !!! "she feels like the company is stuck in the past, clinging to old technology instead of embracing new technologies...absurd ones...
Featured Exhibits (September 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-09-20T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (September 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-09-20T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-20T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (September 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-09-20T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-20T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
Untold Stories, Part I (September 20, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109983 109983-21823503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Untold Stories is a three-part exhibition series featuring the work of faculty members from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Organized thematically, each group exhibition will reveal key themes and urgent questions of our time being explored through the lens of art and design at the Stamps School.
This exhibition offers glimpses into the creative research that Stamps faculty are engaged in, asking students and the public to consider the role and potential of art and design in making visible latent histories and catalyzing social movements for justice, freedom, and equity.
Untold Stories, Part I will include work by Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, Heidi Kumao, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emilia Yang.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:15:05 -0500 2023-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Jim Cogswell, Pyre, 2020: stenciled red, blue, and black hands and feet are arranged in a pile over barbed wire. The red hands appear to be flames, with white curls of smoke rising from the group.
Transfer Student Info Session (September 20, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108907 108907-21820546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for an hour long virtual info session for undergraduate students interested in transferring to the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design from another school or college. The info session will include a presentation and Q&A with current students and the admissions team.Info session times are Eastern US.
Visit our Admissions Events page to learn more about additional upcoming events.

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Other Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:15:12 -0400 2023-09-20T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Other Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Wonder Walks (September 20, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112159 112159-21828525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Autumn Equinox marks the time of year when the sun's rays hit the earth equally in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. It's also a great time to find due West and due East. Join a walk to celebrate the equinox and Fall's evening light. Matthaei Botanical Gardens is hosting free guided nature walks on select Wednesdays and Sundays. These walks are FREE, and no registration is required. We recommend those joining start to gather at 5:15 pm near the front entryway steps at Matthaei Botanical Gardens.

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Well-being Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:55:47 -0400 2023-09-20T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-20T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Well-being An image showing simple graphics of fall-colored leaves. The main text says "Wonder Walks at Matthaei Botanical Gardens", and a dark blue leaf on the righthand size has yellow text reading "all welcome."
Harbingers of Dreams (September 21, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110229 110229-21824587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Born in 1945, artist, educator, and mentor Teresa Tolliver has lived and worked in South Central L.A. for three decades. In 2022, she opened her first one-woman show at the prominent Sebastian Gladstone Gallery. Most recently, her work has been chosen for inclusion as part of L.A.’s Hammer Museum Biennial, which runs concurrently with her exhibition Harbingers of Dreams in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Tolliver refers to her process as “creative recycling”: forging found and thrifted materials, and repurposing them. These frenetic bundles of coils, adornments, wires, and loose ends express the artist’s feelings, perspectives, and everyday way of living.

Earlier works of the artist are on a smaller scale and doll-like. They are intimate, imaginative references to Tolliver’s own girlhood in a world lacking adequate or authentic representations of Black life.

Tolliver’s more recent figurative assemblages are life-size, larger-than-life, looming. They command space and celebrate it. There is an inherent connection between these sculptures and the long-established history of African American yard art, where plants, statuary, and artistic creations communicate themes of personal space, freedom of expression, and dreams of independence. Tolliver’s bold visual choices and material combinations are refusals of outside value judgments and hierarchies.

When visiting artist Teresa Tolliver's home studio, one expects the figures will spring to life, otherworldly. They seem to gather and congregate. There are no distractions from the outside, save the light coming through the window. Through subtle details like molding, furniture, and drawers inspired by Tolliver’s own domestic space, Harbingers of Dreams attempts to capture the resplendent and spiritual nature of such a visit, with the opportunity to sit among the artist’s creations.

Tolliver’s figurative sculptures appear as embodiments of the city of L.A. and its diverse communities and neighborhoods. They are assemblages of disparate influences, esthetics, and materials: prefab, handmade, urban, nostalgic, opulent, functional, garish, and celestial. A visual cacophony of colors, influences, designs, and forms, each figure beckons us towards futures in the making.

Teresa Tolliver is the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:14:21 -0400 2023-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Two colorful multimedia sculptures.
Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!! (September 21, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109535 109535-21822185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.
Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.
“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.

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Exhibition Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:34:42 -0400 2023-09-21T09:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Image reads: sarah buckius: !!! techn010ffspring !!! "she feels like the company is stuck in the past, clinging to old technology instead of embracing new technologies...absurd ones...
Featured Exhibits (September 21, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (September 21, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (September 21, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
Untold Stories, Part I (September 21, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109983 109983-21823504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Untold Stories is a three-part exhibition series featuring the work of faculty members from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Organized thematically, each group exhibition will reveal key themes and urgent questions of our time being explored through the lens of art and design at the Stamps School.
This exhibition offers glimpses into the creative research that Stamps faculty are engaged in, asking students and the public to consider the role and potential of art and design in making visible latent histories and catalyzing social movements for justice, freedom, and equity.
Untold Stories, Part I will include work by Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, Heidi Kumao, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emilia Yang.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:15:05 -0500 2023-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Jim Cogswell, Pyre, 2020: stenciled red, blue, and black hands and feet are arranged in a pile over barbed wire. The red hands appear to be flames, with white curls of smoke rising from the group.
Career Exploration Day: Arts, Nonprofits & Government (September 21, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108323 108323-21819350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 3:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Are you an LSA student interested in pursuing a career in the nonprofit, government, arts, or media industries? Join the LSA Opportunity Hub for our Career Exploration Days! These mini career fairs provide students the chance to explore career opportunities with companies in these industries, engage in powerful networking opportunities, and form valuable connections with employers.

You should attend this Career Fair if you are:

-An LSA student in any year that is curious about career opportunities in nonprofit, government, arts, or media.
-Eager to connect with recruiters and explore different career pathways.
-Interested in learning valuable skills to help you excel in nonprofit, government, arts, and media recruiting.

What you’ll gain by attending:

-Discover multiple careers paths in nonprofit, government, arts, and media by getting in front of great companies in the industry.
-Gain insights on how your skills and interests may align with an organization’s available opportunities.
-Develop an understanding of next steps in the recruiting process.
-Share your résumé with recruiters in attendance.
-Form valuable connections with employers looking to hire LSA students.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event is on the first floor of a wheelchair accessible building which includes wheelchair-accessible restrooms on the first floor, a gender-inclusive and accessible restroom on the first floor, places to sit or stand during the event, and accessible parking options nearby on Maynard Street. Ramps are located at the East entrance (from State St.) and the Northwest entrance (from Maynard). Power doors are located at the Northwest entrance. To request other accommodations please contact LSA Hub Events at lsa.hubevents@umich.edu or 734-764-4920 so we can make arrangements.

RSVP NOW to reserve your spot as capacity is limited.

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 24 May 2023 16:06:45 -0400 2023-09-21T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Careers / Jobs LSA Building
Sonya Clark (September 21, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109985 109985-21823552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Sonya Clark is an artist and educator who creates installations and objects rooted in craft’s legacy. She employs the language of textiles and politics of hair to celebrate Blackness, reclaim freedoms, and interrogate historical and contemporary injustices. The work is grounded in the exchange of stories and the transmission of craft techniques between individuals, communities, and generations.
“Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other,” currently on view at Cranbrook Art Museum through September 26, is a traveling mid-career survey focusing on Clark's community-centered and participatory projects created over the past 25 years. Among them are the Hair Craft Project (a collaboration with 12 hairstylists), The Healing Memorial (created with thousands from the Detroit community as a salve for pandemic grief), Monumental Cloth: the flag we should know ( a series of interactive works that bring to light the little-known cloth that ended the Civil War), and Finding Freedom (a 1500 square foot canopy created in part by incarcerated individuals). Her work has been exhibited in over 500 venues worldwide. “Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other” marks her 60th solo exhibit.
Clark is the Winifred Arms Professor of Arts and Humanities at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Previously, she held the title of Commonwealth Professor and was a Distinguished Research Fellow in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has received awards from many organizations, including United States Artists, Pollock-Krasner, Art Prize, and Anonymous Was a Woman.
Sonya's "We Are Each Other" panel discussion and reception will take place on Saturday, September 23 at Cranbrook Art Museum from 2:30-5 pm and will include a conversation with Renée Ater and Joey Quiñones with a poetry reading by Nandi Comer. The exhibition closes on Sunday, September 24.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:15:15 -0400 2023-09-21T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-21T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion A vintage Remington 7 "Noiseless" typewriter, with keys covered by circles of dark, human hair
Art and Archives: Crafting New Stories About the Past (September 21, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111642 111642-21827358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Historical sources belong to everyone. This workshop invites community members to not only engage with the archives but even reshape them! Imagine combining your own experiences with a copy of a historical photo to create art that is brand new.

During the workshop, archivists from the Bentley Historical Library will teach participants about finding and understanding archival photos.

Guest artist Avery Williamson will then lead a hands-on workshop where participants create collage art with images from the Bentley’s archival collections about the Ann Arbor area’s community life.

Avery explains, “I’m drawn to the fragments and remnants that I encounter in the archive: a sly look between two people in the corner of a photograph, a bit of handwriting in the margin of a typed document. I'm excited to work with the Bentley Historical Library and their rich collections to introduce participants to my collage practice. Together we'll look closely at the archive to craft new stories about the past.”

This workshop welcomes members of the Ann Arbor community ages 14+ as well as UM students, staff, and faculty. Dinner provided.

RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE: myumi.ch/w74Q4

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:19:33 -0400 2023-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Workshop / Seminar Artist Avery Williamson, standing, wearing yellow apron surrounded by art canvases
DESIGNING A DREAM: THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE “BLUE DREAM” HOUSE BY DS+R (September 21, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111190 111190-21826181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

As the brainchild of collectors Julie Reyes Taubman and Robert Taubman, Blue Dream is an extraordinary house designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) that sought to renew the legacy of modernist architecture and art in the Hamptons. In advance of the launch of the eponymous book published by DelMonico Books, architecture critic Paul Goldberger will discuss the complex design process behind Blue Dream with DS+R partner Charles Renfro and Associate Principal Holly Deichmann. The panel discussion will offer insights into how Blue Dream reinterprets organic architecture for the 21st century, and stands as a striking addition to the roster of architecturally ambitious modernist houses on Long Island.

Paul Goldberger is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair. From 1997 through 2011, he served as the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, where he wrote the magazine’s celebrated “Sky Line” column. He is the author of numerous books, including BALLPARK: Baseball in the American City, Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry, Building with History, Why Architecture Matters, Building Up and Tearing Down, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and DUMBO: The Making of a Neighborhood and the Rebirth of Brooklyn. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City and was formerly Dean of the Parsons School of Design at The New School.

He began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. In 2012 he received the Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum in recognition of the influence his writing has had on the public’s understanding of architecture. In 2017, he received the Award in Architecture of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which called him “the doyen of American architectural critics.”

Charles Renfro joined Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) in 1997 and became a Partner in 2004. He was the Partner-in-Charge of Blue Dream, leading the complex design process. He led the design and construction of the studio’s first concert hall outside of the US – The Tianjin Juilliard School in China – as well as the studio’s first public park outside of the US – Zaryadye Park in Moscow. Charles has also led the design of much of DS+R’s academic portfolio, with projects completed at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Brown University, the University of Chicago, and the recently completed Columbia Business School. Charles is also leading the design of two projects in his native Texas: the renovation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas, and Sarofim Hall, a new home for Rice University’s Visual Arts department in Houston. Charles is a board member of BOFFO, a nonprofit organization that supports the work of queer LGBTQ+ BIPOC artists and designers. He has twice been recognized with the “Out100” list, and also distinguished as a notable LGBTQ leader by Crain’s New York Business. He is a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts.

Holly Deichmann is an Associate Principal at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R). She was the Project Director for Blue Dream, overseeing the complex design process alongside Partner-in-Charge Charles Renfro. She was also the Project Architect of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the Project Director for the adjoining Park Union Bridge, a curved steel structure connecting the museum campus to the adjacent America the Beautiful Park. Holly was also the Project Director for the recently-completed Susan Wakil Health Building at the University of Sydney in Australia. She is currently the Project Director for the New Museum of Transport in Budapest, a new home for the museum located on the brownfield site of a former train repair facility.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:21:22 -0400 2023-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Designing a Dream
Mir veln zey iberlebn (We will outlive them): Klezmer Resistance (September 21, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112609 112609-21829178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Ann Arbor-based Klezmer band Klezmephonic plays and sings the story of the revival of Eastern European Jewish musicians.

After their near total annihilation in World War II, Klezmer and Yiddish are rising as the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors find the old melodies and wrap their tongues around the old language.

Violinist Henrik Karapetyan, clarinettist Eric Schweizer, vocalist Jennifer Goltz, bassist Dave Sharp, and percussionist Mike List perform and narrate Klezmer classics, nostalgic Yiddish ballads, and the kind of high energy dance tunes one audience member called “bright orange music.”

Amid frolicking freylekhs and sirbas, wailing clarinet and sobbing violin, Klezmephonic draws musical connections to resistance movements in Ukraine, Armenia, and across the world, tells a powerful story of tenacity, and proves that, for everyone suffering under oppression, persistence is resistance.

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Performance Mon, 18 Sep 2023 15:06:49 -0400 2023-09-21T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Performance Poster for Mir veln zey iberlebn (We will outlive them): Klezmer Resistance featuring the musicians
Harbingers of Dreams (September 22, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110229 110229-21824588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Born in 1945, artist, educator, and mentor Teresa Tolliver has lived and worked in South Central L.A. for three decades. In 2022, she opened her first one-woman show at the prominent Sebastian Gladstone Gallery. Most recently, her work has been chosen for inclusion as part of L.A.’s Hammer Museum Biennial, which runs concurrently with her exhibition Harbingers of Dreams in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Tolliver refers to her process as “creative recycling”: forging found and thrifted materials, and repurposing them. These frenetic bundles of coils, adornments, wires, and loose ends express the artist’s feelings, perspectives, and everyday way of living.

Earlier works of the artist are on a smaller scale and doll-like. They are intimate, imaginative references to Tolliver’s own girlhood in a world lacking adequate or authentic representations of Black life.

Tolliver’s more recent figurative assemblages are life-size, larger-than-life, looming. They command space and celebrate it. There is an inherent connection between these sculptures and the long-established history of African American yard art, where plants, statuary, and artistic creations communicate themes of personal space, freedom of expression, and dreams of independence. Tolliver’s bold visual choices and material combinations are refusals of outside value judgments and hierarchies.

When visiting artist Teresa Tolliver's home studio, one expects the figures will spring to life, otherworldly. They seem to gather and congregate. There are no distractions from the outside, save the light coming through the window. Through subtle details like molding, furniture, and drawers inspired by Tolliver’s own domestic space, Harbingers of Dreams attempts to capture the resplendent and spiritual nature of such a visit, with the opportunity to sit among the artist’s creations.

Tolliver’s figurative sculptures appear as embodiments of the city of L.A. and its diverse communities and neighborhoods. They are assemblages of disparate influences, esthetics, and materials: prefab, handmade, urban, nostalgic, opulent, functional, garish, and celestial. A visual cacophony of colors, influences, designs, and forms, each figure beckons us towards futures in the making.

Teresa Tolliver is the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:14:21 -0400 2023-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Two colorful multimedia sculptures.
Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!! (September 22, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109535 109535-21822186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.
Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.
“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.

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Exhibition Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:34:42 -0400 2023-09-22T09:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Image reads: sarah buckius: !!! techn010ffspring !!! "she feels like the company is stuck in the past, clinging to old technology instead of embracing new technologies...absurd ones...
Featured Exhibits (September 22, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-09-22T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (September 22, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-09-22T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (September 22, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-09-22T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
Untold Stories, Part I (September 22, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109983 109983-21823505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Untold Stories is a three-part exhibition series featuring the work of faculty members from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Organized thematically, each group exhibition will reveal key themes and urgent questions of our time being explored through the lens of art and design at the Stamps School.
This exhibition offers glimpses into the creative research that Stamps faculty are engaged in, asking students and the public to consider the role and potential of art and design in making visible latent histories and catalyzing social movements for justice, freedom, and equity.
Untold Stories, Part I will include work by Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, Heidi Kumao, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emilia Yang.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:15:05 -0500 2023-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Jim Cogswell, Pyre, 2020: stenciled red, blue, and black hands and feet are arranged in a pile over barbed wire. The red hands appear to be flames, with white curls of smoke rising from the group.
In-Person Tour (September 22, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109541 109541-21822281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Visit Stamps and join us for a one-hour tour of our facilities. Listed start times are in Eastern US time.
Visit our Admissions Events page to learn more about additional upcoming events.

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Other Fri, 28 Jul 2023 18:15:07 -0400 2023-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Other Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Mesmerica (September 22, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-22T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-22T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Feel Good Friday @ UMMA (September 22, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111859 111859-21827689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Join us for Feel Good Friday!

Open late with something to discover around every corner – join your neighbors at Feel Good Friday and experience the restorative power of a fun Friday night surrounded by art, music, and culture. Featuring:
Live DJ sets with Miss Ginger and Detroit's legendary Stacey Hotwaxx Hale Beadmaking with Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum and Heron Hill Designs Musical performances featuring the Hear Us Now Quartet Check out the unveiling of a new commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. 
Free and open to the public. 

This month’s Feel Good Friday is a celebration of the opening of UMMA’s fall season and kick-off of the Arts & Resistance Theme Semester.

Click here to see more.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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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Other Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:15:56 -0400 2023-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
FREE Comedy Show: Improv Girl Autumn (September 22, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112699 112699-21829461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Midnight Book Club

Midnight Book Club, Umich's sexiests and humblest Improv Comedy Group, Presents: Improv Girl Autumn. The show is completely free!

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Performance Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:39:53 -0400 2023-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Midnight Book Club Performance Improv Girl Autumn Show Poster. Free Improv Comedy
Mesmerica (September 22, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Sonic Contributions (September 22, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110201 110201-21824486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Detroit-based saxophonist Marcus Elliot leads a seven-piece band of musicians and artists in this special collaboration with the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County that celebrates the history of Ypsilanti as a refuge for Black Americans dating back to the 1830s.

Stories from this time, and other significant moments in the history of Ypsilanti, will inspire original music compositions that celebrate the bravery of those who sought freedom on the Underground Railroad, and honor the resilience that the African American community in Ypsilanti has shown throughout time.

Marcus Elliot, composer
Miles Lindsey, poet and narrator
Dwight Adams, trumpet
King Sophia, cello
Jordan Anderson, piano
Josef Deas, bass
Marquis Johnson, drums

This work was commissioned to celebrate Ypsilanti’s bicentennial and is presented in partnership with the African American Cultural & Historical Museum of Washtenaw County.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:59:41 -0400 2023-09-22T19:30:00-04:00 2023-09-22T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Composer Marcus Elliot with poet and narrator Miles Lindsey
Mesmerica (September 22, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-22T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-22T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Featured Exhibits (September 23, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (September 23, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (September 23, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
Untold Stories, Part I (September 23, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109983 109983-21823506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Untold Stories is a three-part exhibition series featuring the work of faculty members from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Organized thematically, each group exhibition will reveal key themes and urgent questions of our time being explored through the lens of art and design at the Stamps School.
This exhibition offers glimpses into the creative research that Stamps faculty are engaged in, asking students and the public to consider the role and potential of art and design in making visible latent histories and catalyzing social movements for justice, freedom, and equity.
Untold Stories, Part I will include work by Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, Heidi Kumao, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emilia Yang.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:15:05 -0500 2023-09-23T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Jim Cogswell, Pyre, 2020: stenciled red, blue, and black hands and feet are arranged in a pile over barbed wire. The red hands appear to be flames, with white curls of smoke rising from the group.
Artist Meet & Greet – Cannupa Hanska Luger (September 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111861 111861-21827691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No registration is required. .

Drop in and chat with artist Cannupa Hanska Luger about his exhibition You're Welcome at UMMA.

You're Welcome 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.

Click here to read more about You're Welcome.  

 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:15:55 -0400 2023-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Beading Workshop with Heron Hill Designs (September 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112740 112740-21829494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No registration required. .

Keep the good vibes going from Feel Good Friday with part two of a beading workshop with Heron Hill Designs! Drop by at any time to learn about cowrie shells, experiment with designs, and be in community with local indigenous beaders. 

Heron Hill Designs, HHD for short, is a collective started by Joey Kennedy and Daniel Beck, who are currently based in Michigan. All items produced are one-of-a-kind handmade and hand-harvested when possible or otherwise stated. Any materials that cannot be made are outsourced within indigenous communities when possible. HHD focuses on creating with sustainability, respect, and conscientious consumption in mind. Their work is a blend of contemporary styles of art and older traditional woodland floral designs. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:15:56 -0400 2023-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Hear Us Now Quartet (September 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111860 111860-21827690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No registration required. .

Gather to see two live performances by Hear Us Now, an exciting new quartet featuring Helga Davis (vocals), Ashley Jackson (harp), and Fred Cash Jr. (bass), and Justin Hicks (composer). The quartet will perform new work inspired by the exhibition Hear Me Now, The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina in which direct poetry and texts created by Edgefield potter David Drake are used to craft the composition.

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Helga Davis is a vocalist and performance artist with feet planted on the most prestigious international stages and with firm roots in the realities and concerns of her local community whose work draws out insights that illuminate how artistic leaps for an individual can offer connection among audiences. Davis was principal actor in the 25th-anniversary international revival of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s seminal opera Einstein on the Beach.

, a harpist praised for her “soulful” and “eloquent” playing (Musical America), enjoys a multifaceted career as a highly sought-after musician and collaborator in New York and beyond. As a soloist, she has performed at Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn! and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolis Ensemble, the Qatar Philharmonic, and is the principal harpist of NOVUS NY, the contemporary music orchestra of Trinity Wall Street led by Grammy-nominated conductor Julian Wachner. She is a member of the Harlem Chamber Players, with whom she has developed a number of projects, including her first film, In Song and Spirit and the Harlem Walking Tour Series.

Fred Cash, Jr. hails from Chicago and was born into soul royalty, as the son of Fred Cash Sr. of The Impressions with Curtis Mayfield. After college, Fred moved to New York where he has worked with artists such as India Arie, Toshi Reagon, Alicia Keys, Henry Butler, Elvis Costello and George Clinton.

is a Drama Desk-nominated composer, vocalist, and sound artist.  He’s worked with notable artists such as Abigail DeVille, Meshell Ndegeocello, Hilton Als, Steffani Jemison, Joan As Policewoman, Charlotte Brathwaite, Mimi Lien, and Toshi Reagon.  His work has been presented at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,  The Public,  Baryshnikov Art Center, Festival steirischer herbst (Graz, AT), Symphony Space. He recently provided music for Lynn Nottage's Clyde's on Broadway and presented his commissioned work Outside as part of The Shed's Open Call series. Hicks was a member of Kara Walker’s 6-8 Months Space and holds a culinary diploma from ICE in New York City.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Performance Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:15:55 -0400 2023-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T14:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Saturday Sampler Tour | Ancient Portraiture at the Kelsey (September 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110314 110314-21824767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join us for a tour of the sculptural and two-dimensional ancient portraiture at the Kelsey. We will explore multiple art mediums of portraiture including mosaic, fresco, and marble sculptures.

This event is free and open to all visitors. If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event, please visit our accessibility page at https://myumi.ch/zwPkd or contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Tours Wed, 16 Aug 2023 16:55:59 -0400 2023-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Tours Front-facing marble head of Bacchus, whose nose is broken off.
Amal Walks Across America (September 23, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111225 111225-21826302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Little Amal, the internationally celebrated 12-foot-tall puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl who visited New York City last fall, will stop by Ann Arbor this September as part of an epic 6,000-mile journey across the United States. An international symbol of human rights, especially those of refugees, Amal is walking across the United States to learn firsthand about a country that has long been a refuge for those seeking safety and opportunity – but is simultaneously struggling with how to manage long-standing issues related to immigration. Amal’s engagement with hundreds of communities across the country will help spark meaningful conversations to help us better understand who we are and where we come from.

Along her epic cross-country 6,000-mile journey, she will meet with a wide range of displaced and disenfranchised people, including North American Indigenous people, communities of color whose contributions to the story of America have historically been overlooked, recent migrants, and the ancestors of earlier immigrants, to learn more about the stories of the American people who established roots in these communities over the last hundred-plus years.

Locations/Times:
The afternoon gathering begins on the south side of N. University at Thayer Street at 3PM, and the walk commences at 3:30PM.

The evening gathering begins at 6:30PM at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market in Kerrytown, and the walk commences at 7PM.

*Amal Walks Across America in Ann Arbor is produced by A2SF in partnership with the U-M Arts Initiative, UMMA, School of Music,Theater & Dance, and the Ann Arbor District Library.

The national tour of Amal Walks Across America is produced by The Walk Productions in association with the Handspring Puppet Company. U.S. Producing Partner THE OFFICE performing arts+film. Impact + Outreach The Soze Agency. Marketing Cause Lab. PR + Communications DKC.a*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SVOftdCuwc

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Meeting Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:16:56 -0400 2023-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Meeting Amal Walks Across America
Hear Us Now Quartet (September 23, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111862 111862-21827692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No registration required. .

Gather to see two live performances by Hear Us Now, an exciting new quartet featuring Helga Davis (vocals), Ashley Jackson (harp), and Fred Cash Jr. (bass), and Justin Hicks (composer). The quartet will perform new work inspired by the exhibition Hear Me Now, The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina in which direct poetry and texts created by Edgefield potter David Drake are used to craft the composition.

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Helga Davis is a vocalist and performance artist with feet planted on the most prestigious international stages and with firm roots in the realities and concerns of her local community whose work draws out insights that illuminate how artistic leaps for an individual can offer connection among audiences. Davis was principal actor in the 25th-anniversary international revival of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s seminal opera Einstein on the Beach.

, a harpist praised for her “soulful” and “eloquent” playing (Musical America), enjoys a multifaceted career as a highly sought-after musician and collaborator in New York and beyond. As a soloist, she has performed at Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn! and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolis Ensemble, the Qatar Philharmonic, and is the principal harpist of NOVUS NY, the contemporary music orchestra of Trinity Wall Street led by Grammy-nominated conductor Julian Wachner. She is a member of the Harlem Chamber Players, with whom she has developed a number of projects, including her first film, In Song and Spirit and the Harlem Walking Tour Series.

Fred Cash, Jr. hails from Chicago and was born into soul royalty, as the son of Fred Cash Sr. of The Impressions with Curtis Mayfield. After college, Fred moved to New York where he has worked with artists such as India Arie, Toshi Reagon, Alicia Keys, Henry Butler, Elvis Costello and George Clinton.

is a Drama Desk-nominated composer, vocalist, and sound artist.  He’s worked with notable artists such as Abigail DeVille, Meshell Ndegeocello, Hilton Als, Steffani Jemison, Joan As Policewoman, Charlotte Brathwaite, Mimi Lien, and Toshi Reagon.  His work has been presented at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,  The Public,  Baryshnikov Art Center, Festival steirischer herbst (Graz, AT), Symphony Space. He recently provided music for Lynn Nottage's Clyde's on Broadway and presented his commissioned work Outside as part of The Shed's Open Call series. Hicks was a member of Kara Walker’s 6-8 Months Space and holds a culinary diploma from ICE in New York City.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Performance Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:15:55 -0400 2023-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Mesmerica (September 23, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-23T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-23T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Black Homecoming Gala (September 23, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112077 112077-21828405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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The annual Black Homecoming Gala at the University of Michigan is a cultural event that unites students of African descent within the campus community. Hosted by Sister 2 Sister (S2s) and Here Earning a Destiny Through Honesty, Eagerness, and Determination of Self (H.E.A.D.S.) and in partnership with the UMMA, this event celebrates the achievements and diversity of our black student body. Every year, Michigan students, faculty, staff, and alumni gather to honor each other’s accomplishments, show their school spirit, and appreciate one another in a festive and formal environment that allows students to embody their creativity and style through fashion. The event serves a valuable role in creating meaningful and life-long connections between past, present, and future classes of University of Michigan students. Find more info @heads_um and @s2s_um on Instagram! 

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Presentation Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:15:57 -0400 2023-09-23T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Amal Walks Across America (September 23, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111226 111226-21826303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Little Amal, the internationally celebrated 12-foot-tall puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl who visited New York City last fall, will stop by Ann Arbor this September as part of an epic 6,000-mile journey across the United States. An international symbol of human rights, especially those of refugees, Amal is walking across the United States to learn firsthand about a country that has long been a refuge for those seeking safety and opportunity – but is simultaneously struggling with how to manage long-standing issues related to immigration. Amal’s engagement with hundreds of communities across the country will help spark meaningful conversations to help us better understand who we are and where we come from.

Along her epic cross-country 6,000-mile journey, she will meet with a wide range of displaced and disenfranchised people, including North American Indigenous people, communities of color whose contributions to the story of America have historically been overlooked, recent migrants, and the ancestors of earlier immigrants, to learn more about the stories of the American people who established roots in these communities over the last hundred-plus years.

Locations/Times:
The afternoon gathering begins on the south side of N. University at Thayer Street at 3PM, and the walk commences at 3:30PM.

The evening gathering begins at 6:30PM at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market in Kerrytown, and the walk commences at 7PM.

*Amal Walks Across America in Ann Arbor is produced by A2SF in partnership with the U-M Arts Initiative, UMMA, School of Music,Theater & Dance, and the Ann Arbor District Library.

The national tour of Amal Walks Across America is produced by The Walk Productions in association with the Handspring Puppet Company. U.S. Producing Partner THE OFFICE performing arts+film. Impact + Outreach The Soze Agency. Marketing Cause Lab. PR + Communications DKC.a*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SVOftdCuwc

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Meeting Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:16:57 -0400 2023-09-23T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Meeting Amal Walks Across America
Mesmerica (September 23, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
WET: A DACAmented Journey (September 23, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112210 112210-21828601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

The story of what it means to be an American in every sense of the word except for one: on paper. This 85-minute, solo performance piece chronicles the story of Anner Cividanis’ journey of living his whole life in the United States as an undocumented American. The play captures the desperation that DACAmented individuals feel when considering the very limited options of adjustment of status, by being forced to navigate through a broken U.S. Immigration System. The play examines the mental, emotional, and psychological hardship one man has to endure in order to secure his livelihood in the only home he has known: Los Angeles.

This event is free and open to the public. Reserve your seats here: https://mutotix.umich.edu/4347/4348

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Performance Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:44:22 -0400 2023-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T20:30:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Latina/o Studies Performance Event Poster
Sonic Contributions (September 23, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110201 110201-21824487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Detroit-based saxophonist Marcus Elliot leads a seven-piece band of musicians and artists in this special collaboration with the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County that celebrates the history of Ypsilanti as a refuge for Black Americans dating back to the 1830s.

Stories from this time, and other significant moments in the history of Ypsilanti, will inspire original music compositions that celebrate the bravery of those who sought freedom on the Underground Railroad, and honor the resilience that the African American community in Ypsilanti has shown throughout time.

Marcus Elliot, composer
Miles Lindsey, poet and narrator
Dwight Adams, trumpet
King Sophia, cello
Jordan Anderson, piano
Josef Deas, bass
Marquis Johnson, drums

This work was commissioned to celebrate Ypsilanti’s bicentennial and is presented in partnership with the African American Cultural & Historical Museum of Washtenaw County.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:59:41 -0400 2023-09-23T19:30:00-04:00 2023-09-23T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Composer Marcus Elliot with poet and narrator Miles Lindsey
Mesmerica (September 23, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-23T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-23T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Featured Exhibits (September 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (September 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-24T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (September 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-24T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
You're Welcome – Curator Tour with Ozi Uduma (September 24, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111863 111863-21827693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 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=a07ejylq4b1cdadbcf4.

Please join Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art, for an introduction to You’re Welcome–from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. 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. The project 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. 

We will gather in UMMA’s Forum before the tour begins (directly through the doors next to the large white sculpture).

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 24 Sep 2023 18:15:58 -0400 2023-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Mesmerica (September 24, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-24T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-24T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 24, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 24, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-24T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-24T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Harbingers of Dreams (September 25, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110229 110229-21824591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2023 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Born in 1945, artist, educator, and mentor Teresa Tolliver has lived and worked in South Central L.A. for three decades. In 2022, she opened her first one-woman show at the prominent Sebastian Gladstone Gallery. Most recently, her work has been chosen for inclusion as part of L.A.’s Hammer Museum Biennial, which runs concurrently with her exhibition Harbingers of Dreams in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Tolliver refers to her process as “creative recycling”: forging found and thrifted materials, and repurposing them. These frenetic bundles of coils, adornments, wires, and loose ends express the artist’s feelings, perspectives, and everyday way of living.

Earlier works of the artist are on a smaller scale and doll-like. They are intimate, imaginative references to Tolliver’s own girlhood in a world lacking adequate or authentic representations of Black life.

Tolliver’s more recent figurative assemblages are life-size, larger-than-life, looming. They command space and celebrate it. There is an inherent connection between these sculptures and the long-established history of African American yard art, where plants, statuary, and artistic creations communicate themes of personal space, freedom of expression, and dreams of independence. Tolliver’s bold visual choices and material combinations are refusals of outside value judgments and hierarchies.

When visiting artist Teresa Tolliver's home studio, one expects the figures will spring to life, otherworldly. They seem to gather and congregate. There are no distractions from the outside, save the light coming through the window. Through subtle details like molding, furniture, and drawers inspired by Tolliver’s own domestic space, Harbingers of Dreams attempts to capture the resplendent and spiritual nature of such a visit, with the opportunity to sit among the artist’s creations.

Tolliver’s figurative sculptures appear as embodiments of the city of L.A. and its diverse communities and neighborhoods. They are assemblages of disparate influences, esthetics, and materials: prefab, handmade, urban, nostalgic, opulent, functional, garish, and celestial. A visual cacophony of colors, influences, designs, and forms, each figure beckons us towards futures in the making.

Teresa Tolliver is the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:14:21 -0400 2023-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Two colorful multimedia sculptures.
Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!! (September 25, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109535 109535-21822189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.
Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.
“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.

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Exhibition Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:34:42 -0400 2023-09-25T09:00:00-04:00 2023-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Image reads: sarah buckius: !!! techn010ffspring !!! "she feels like the company is stuck in the past, clinging to old technology instead of embracing new technologies...absurd ones...
Women and Revolutionary Art in Iran (September 25, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110462 110462-21824947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Iranian women have been protagonists in revolutionary movements from the Constitutional Revolution (1905) to the Iranian Revolution (1979), the civil rights movements of 2009 (Green Movement), and more recently the 2022 Woman, Life, and Freedom Movement. They have been fighting for voting rights, gender and ethnic equality, freedom of assembly and of expression as well as the right to a dignified life. Using the media of the arts, the three panelists will discuss the visual and performative language of activism to think about the role of gender and the visual arts in revolutionary Iran.

About the panelists:
Orkideh Torabi was born in Tehran and earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and she received her MA and BFA from The University of Art in Tehran. Through her vibrant and intricate paintings, Torabi challenges traditional notions of femininity, power dynamics, and identity. Her unique artistic style blends elements of Persian miniature painting with contemporary imagery, blurring the boundaries between the past and the present.

Nahid Siamdoust is an assistant professor of Middle East Studies at the University of Texas. She is the author of Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran.

Niloofar Sarlati is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature at U-M. Her publications include “Suspicious Gifts, Skeptical Words, and Speculative Translations: Colonial and Semicolonial Encounters Between English and Persian” forthcoming in Comparative Literature .

Kathryn Babayan, moderator, is a professor in Middle East Studies and History at U-M. She is the author of The City as Anthology: Visualizing Cultures of Literacy in Early Modern Isfahan.

Orkideh Torabi is the 2023 Jean Yokes Woodhead Visting Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:10:43 -0400 2023-09-25T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-25T20:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion “Woman, life, freedom” – bilingual English-Persian billboard display, Piccadilly Circus, London (Image credit: Xanyar)
Harbingers of Dreams (September 26, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110229 110229-21824592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Born in 1945, artist, educator, and mentor Teresa Tolliver has lived and worked in South Central L.A. for three decades. In 2022, she opened her first one-woman show at the prominent Sebastian Gladstone Gallery. Most recently, her work has been chosen for inclusion as part of L.A.’s Hammer Museum Biennial, which runs concurrently with her exhibition Harbingers of Dreams in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Tolliver refers to her process as “creative recycling”: forging found and thrifted materials, and repurposing them. These frenetic bundles of coils, adornments, wires, and loose ends express the artist’s feelings, perspectives, and everyday way of living.

Earlier works of the artist are on a smaller scale and doll-like. They are intimate, imaginative references to Tolliver’s own girlhood in a world lacking adequate or authentic representations of Black life.

Tolliver’s more recent figurative assemblages are life-size, larger-than-life, looming. They command space and celebrate it. There is an inherent connection between these sculptures and the long-established history of African American yard art, where plants, statuary, and artistic creations communicate themes of personal space, freedom of expression, and dreams of independence. Tolliver’s bold visual choices and material combinations are refusals of outside value judgments and hierarchies.

When visiting artist Teresa Tolliver's home studio, one expects the figures will spring to life, otherworldly. They seem to gather and congregate. There are no distractions from the outside, save the light coming through the window. Through subtle details like molding, furniture, and drawers inspired by Tolliver’s own domestic space, Harbingers of Dreams attempts to capture the resplendent and spiritual nature of such a visit, with the opportunity to sit among the artist’s creations.

Tolliver’s figurative sculptures appear as embodiments of the city of L.A. and its diverse communities and neighborhoods. They are assemblages of disparate influences, esthetics, and materials: prefab, handmade, urban, nostalgic, opulent, functional, garish, and celestial. A visual cacophony of colors, influences, designs, and forms, each figure beckons us towards futures in the making.

Teresa Tolliver is the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:14:21 -0400 2023-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Two colorful multimedia sculptures.
Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!! (September 26, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109535 109535-21822190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.
Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.
“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.

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Exhibition Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:34:42 -0400 2023-09-26T09:00:00-04:00 2023-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Image reads: sarah buckius: !!! techn010ffspring !!! "she feels like the company is stuck in the past, clinging to old technology instead of embracing new technologies...absurd ones...
Featured Exhibits (September 26, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-09-26T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (September 26, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-09-26T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-26T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (September 26, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-09-26T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-26T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
Orkideh Torabi (September 26, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109986 109986-21823553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Iranian artist Orkideh Torabi’s work is a captivating exploration of the intersection of personal narratives, cultural heritage, and societal norms. Through her vibrant and intricate paintings, Torabi challenges traditional notions of femininity, power dynamics, and identity. Her unique artistic style blends elements of Persian miniature painting with contemporary imagery, blurring the boundaries between the past and the present.
Drawing inspiration from her Iranian heritage, Torabi explores themes of cultural identity, diaspora, and the tension between tradition and modernity.In her artistic practice, she embraces the role of a storyteller, recognizing the integral role that narration plays in her paintings. For her, the canvas becomes a stage, and her paintings take on the essence of a captivating play or theatrical scene, with these characters serving as the ensemble cast, each playing their distinct role.
Torabi obtained her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in graphic design and illustration from the University of Art in Tehran and served as a faculty member there before making the decision to relocate to the United States. In pursuit of this goal, she completed her second MFA degree in 2016 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Presently, Torabi resides and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Torabi’s work has been featured in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, and Chicago Reader Magazine, showcased her works through various solo exhibitions and group shows including Nino Mier Gallery in Germany, Richard Heller in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago Cultural Center, Nino Mier Gallery in Los Angeles, Fredericks & Freiser in New York, and Spurs Gallery in China, among others.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:15:16 -0400 2023-09-26T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-26T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion Inspired by traditional Persian miniature paintings, this large-scale depicts the rooms a vividly-detailed bathhouse in a split-scene style, filled with illustrations of men. .
Orkideh Torabi Residency: Welcome Reception (September 26, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109918 109918-21823230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 6:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Join us as we welcome artist Orkideh Torabi to campus, immediately following her 5:30pm Special Stamps Lecture at Rackham Amphitheatre.

Orkideh Torabi was born in Tehran and earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and she received her MA and BFA from The University of Art in Tehran. Through her vibrant and intricate paintings, Torabi challenges traditional notions of femininity, power dynamics, and identity. Her unique artistic style blends elements of Persian miniature painting with contemporary imagery, blurring the boundaries between the past and the present.

*Orkideh Torabi is the 2023 Jean Yokes Woodhead Visting Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.*

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Reception / Open House Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:07:55 -0400 2023-09-26T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Reception / Open House Painting by Orkideh Torabi
Square Dance at the Freighthouse (September 26, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110202 110202-21824488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Join us for an evening of Square Dancing with the Detroit Square Dance Society. We’ll start with light refreshments before heading to the dance floor as we bring the Southern Square Dancing tradition to the Ypsilanti Freighthouse, with live music, non-gender calling, and line dances for anyone and everyone to enjoy. Each dance will be taught, rehearsed, and then danced to live music.

Recommended for 18+, no experience or partner necessary. Alcohol will be available for purchase for ages 21+ with ID. Doors open at 6:30 for light refreshments.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:33:43 -0400 2023-09-26T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Social / Informal Gathering Detroit Square Dance Society
Harbingers of Dreams (September 27, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110229 110229-21824593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Born in 1945, artist, educator, and mentor Teresa Tolliver has lived and worked in South Central L.A. for three decades. In 2022, she opened her first one-woman show at the prominent Sebastian Gladstone Gallery. Most recently, her work has been chosen for inclusion as part of L.A.’s Hammer Museum Biennial, which runs concurrently with her exhibition Harbingers of Dreams in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Tolliver refers to her process as “creative recycling”: forging found and thrifted materials, and repurposing them. These frenetic bundles of coils, adornments, wires, and loose ends express the artist’s feelings, perspectives, and everyday way of living.

Earlier works of the artist are on a smaller scale and doll-like. They are intimate, imaginative references to Tolliver’s own girlhood in a world lacking adequate or authentic representations of Black life.

Tolliver’s more recent figurative assemblages are life-size, larger-than-life, looming. They command space and celebrate it. There is an inherent connection between these sculptures and the long-established history of African American yard art, where plants, statuary, and artistic creations communicate themes of personal space, freedom of expression, and dreams of independence. Tolliver’s bold visual choices and material combinations are refusals of outside value judgments and hierarchies.

When visiting artist Teresa Tolliver's home studio, one expects the figures will spring to life, otherworldly. They seem to gather and congregate. There are no distractions from the outside, save the light coming through the window. Through subtle details like molding, furniture, and drawers inspired by Tolliver’s own domestic space, Harbingers of Dreams attempts to capture the resplendent and spiritual nature of such a visit, with the opportunity to sit among the artist’s creations.

Tolliver’s figurative sculptures appear as embodiments of the city of L.A. and its diverse communities and neighborhoods. They are assemblages of disparate influences, esthetics, and materials: prefab, handmade, urban, nostalgic, opulent, functional, garish, and celestial. A visual cacophony of colors, influences, designs, and forms, each figure beckons us towards futures in the making.

Teresa Tolliver is the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:14:21 -0400 2023-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Two colorful multimedia sculptures.
Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!! (September 27, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109535 109535-21822191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.
Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.
“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.

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Exhibition Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:34:42 -0400 2023-09-27T09:00:00-04:00 2023-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Image reads: sarah buckius: !!! techn010ffspring !!! "she feels like the company is stuck in the past, clinging to old technology instead of embracing new technologies...absurd ones...
Featured Exhibits (September 27, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-09-27T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (September 27, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-09-27T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-27T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (September 27, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-09-27T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-27T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
Untold Stories, Part I (September 27, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109983 109983-21823507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Untold Stories is a three-part exhibition series featuring the work of faculty members from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Organized thematically, each group exhibition will reveal key themes and urgent questions of our time being explored through the lens of art and design at the Stamps School.
This exhibition offers glimpses into the creative research that Stamps faculty are engaged in, asking students and the public to consider the role and potential of art and design in making visible latent histories and catalyzing social movements for justice, freedom, and equity.
Untold Stories, Part I will include work by Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, Heidi Kumao, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emilia Yang.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:15:05 -0500 2023-09-27T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Jim Cogswell, Pyre, 2020: stenciled red, blue, and black hands and feet are arranged in a pile over barbed wire. The red hands appear to be flames, with white curls of smoke rising from the group.
Panel Discussion: Renée Fleming’s Music and Mind (September 27, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110203 110203-21824490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Soprano superstar Renée Fleming is a leading advocate for the study of powerful connections between the arts and health, and has worked with the National Institutes of Health and other leading organizations to bring attention to research and practice at the intersection of music, health, and neuroscience. The day before her performance in Ann Arbor, she will be joined by local researchers and medical practitioners for a public conversation exploring these important topics.

Presented in partnership with Michigan Medicine.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:38:58 -0400 2023-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-27T19:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building University Musical Society (UMS) Lecture / Discussion Renée Fleming
Harbingers of Dreams (September 28, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110229 110229-21824594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Born in 1945, artist, educator, and mentor Teresa Tolliver has lived and worked in South Central L.A. for three decades. In 2022, she opened her first one-woman show at the prominent Sebastian Gladstone Gallery. Most recently, her work has been chosen for inclusion as part of L.A.’s Hammer Museum Biennial, which runs concurrently with her exhibition Harbingers of Dreams in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Tolliver refers to her process as “creative recycling”: forging found and thrifted materials, and repurposing them. These frenetic bundles of coils, adornments, wires, and loose ends express the artist’s feelings, perspectives, and everyday way of living.

Earlier works of the artist are on a smaller scale and doll-like. They are intimate, imaginative references to Tolliver’s own girlhood in a world lacking adequate or authentic representations of Black life.

Tolliver’s more recent figurative assemblages are life-size, larger-than-life, looming. They command space and celebrate it. There is an inherent connection between these sculptures and the long-established history of African American yard art, where plants, statuary, and artistic creations communicate themes of personal space, freedom of expression, and dreams of independence. Tolliver’s bold visual choices and material combinations are refusals of outside value judgments and hierarchies.

When visiting artist Teresa Tolliver's home studio, one expects the figures will spring to life, otherworldly. They seem to gather and congregate. There are no distractions from the outside, save the light coming through the window. Through subtle details like molding, furniture, and drawers inspired by Tolliver’s own domestic space, Harbingers of Dreams attempts to capture the resplendent and spiritual nature of such a visit, with the opportunity to sit among the artist’s creations.

Tolliver’s figurative sculptures appear as embodiments of the city of L.A. and its diverse communities and neighborhoods. They are assemblages of disparate influences, esthetics, and materials: prefab, handmade, urban, nostalgic, opulent, functional, garish, and celestial. A visual cacophony of colors, influences, designs, and forms, each figure beckons us towards futures in the making.

Teresa Tolliver is the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:14:21 -0400 2023-09-28T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Two colorful multimedia sculptures.
Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!! (September 28, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109535 109535-21822192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.
Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.
“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.

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Exhibition Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:34:42 -0400 2023-09-28T09:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Image reads: sarah buckius: !!! techn010ffspring !!! "she feels like the company is stuck in the past, clinging to old technology instead of embracing new technologies...absurd ones...
Featured Exhibits (September 28, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-09-28T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (September 28, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-09-28T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (September 28, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-09-28T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 28, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/112387 112387-21830594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Join "Afterthought" editor Mark Juergens and technical producer Lydia Robertson for a career talk and coffee hour. Juergens and Robertson each have decades-long careers in film, news, and television, and they invite students to ask questions about their educational and professional pathways.

September 30, 1pm
Rackham Graduate School East Conference Room
915 E Washington St
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:32:44 -0400 2023-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 Department of American Culture Careers / Jobs Event Poster
The Blessings of the Mystery (September 28, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109235 109235-21821250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Blessings of the Mystery examines themes of socio-economic, environmental activism, encounters between history and memory, Indigenous rights, and the formation and distribution of knowledge. The exhibition examines the Amistad Dam in Del Rio, the largest dam in Rio Grande that is jointly managed by the United States and Mexico and other contested sites in the region to unravel layered histories, connections, and tensions present in West Texas through film, sculpture, installation, collage, and drawing.
The experimental documentary film Teaching of the Hands is the center point of the exhibition - as it combines oral histories, reenactments, and archival footage to narrate a complex history of colonization, migration, and ecological precarity, Told from the perspective of Juan Mancias, Chairman of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, scenes from the present day are woven together with those from 4,000 years in the past to investigate the transformation of Somi Se’k* by way of industry, infrastructure, and private property.
Emerging from the research to create the film, the exhibition includes an immersive installation of surveying flags and tools, series of drawings and collages, and a collection of original watercolors from the 1930s by artists and amateur archaeologists Forrest and Lula Kirkland that depict the ancient rock art of the Lower Pecos,that expand on concepts in The Teachings of the Hands. The watercolors, rarely seen plein air paintings, are on loan from the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas, and document the original forms and vibrant colors of murals that were still visible in the 1930s before flooding, erosion, and human interaction damaged or destroyed them. This exhibition has been shown in various iterations at Ballroom Marfa, the University of Texas at Austin, the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and University of California, Santa Barbara, and will be shown in Michigan and the midwest for the first time. The Blessings of the Mystery brings together an expansive body of work that sheds light on vital histories, living memories and Indigenous knowledge-systems embedded within the land well before the colonial boundaries between Mexico and the US were established - advocating for environmental justice and recognition of Indigenous rights and cosmologies.

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:15:14 -0400 2023-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Side by side collaged images show a cactus with a flower on the left, and billowing black smoke above a house on the right
Untold Stories, Part I (September 28, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109983 109983-21823508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Untold Stories is a three-part exhibition series featuring the work of faculty members from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Organized thematically, each group exhibition will reveal key themes and urgent questions of our time being explored through the lens of art and design at the Stamps School.
This exhibition offers glimpses into the creative research that Stamps faculty are engaged in, asking students and the public to consider the role and potential of art and design in making visible latent histories and catalyzing social movements for justice, freedom, and equity.
Untold Stories, Part I will include work by Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, Heidi Kumao, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emilia Yang.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:15:05 -0500 2023-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Jim Cogswell, Pyre, 2020: stenciled red, blue, and black hands and feet are arranged in a pile over barbed wire. The red hands appear to be flames, with white curls of smoke rising from the group.
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 28, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Carolina Caycedo, David de Rozas, and Juan Mancias (September 28, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109987 109987-21823554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Somi Se’k (The Land of the Sun-La tierra del Sol) is how the Estok Gna, the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, refer to the lands on both sides of the River of Spirits (Rio Grande), comprising the Chihuahuan Desert, the Rio Grande Valley, and its delta. Somi Se’k, is not just a name, nor a neutral place, but a multilayered net of universes where the region's present, past, and future are still in conversation. Caycedo, de Rozas, and Mancias’s talk will focus on Texas' native people’s philosophy, their profound knowledge and relationship to the land, and their continuous struggle to maintain their culture and lifeways against ongoing forms of colonization, erasure, and extraction.
Carolina Caycedo is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her practice and research focus on the future of shared resources, environmental justice, energy transition and bio-cultural diversity. Through contributing to community-based construction of environmental and historical memory, Caycedo seeks ways of preventing violence against humans and nature. Caycedo is a 2023 Artes Mundi Prize Nominee, and a 2023-2024 Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute.
David de Rozas is an artist-filmmaker and educator based in Los Angeles. His research and practice explore the politics of memory as an embodied method and effective medium to conjure forms of collective resistance and restitution against a history of both cultural amnesia and physical violence. His award-winning films have been screened in festivals and film-curated series worldwide. David is currently a PHD student at the USC School of Cinematic Arts Media Arts and Practice.
Juan Mancias is the Tribal Chair of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas. Born in Dimmitt, TX, and raised in Plainview, Juan is the eldest born to a lineage of hereditary chiefs of the Carrizo Comecrudo. Juan has worked alongside the Sierra Club, protecting prairie dogs, organized marches against the Dos Republicos Coal mine, and initiated two inter-tribal organizations that are still viable and thriving today. Currently, he is building resistance to the fossil fuel industry and border wall construction, organizing efforts to assist asylum refugees, and reclaiming and protecting his tribe’s ancestral lands. Juan considers himself a protector of the true Texas people’s lifeways. He speaks from what he knows. His work today focuses on decolonizing both tribal people and others.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:15:15 -0400 2023-09-28T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-28T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion A man wearing a multicolored, patterned bandana over his long, grey hair in front of a desert landscape, photographed from the chest up.
"Orkideh's Comical Character Parade" (September 28, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110359 110359-21824817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As part of her residency at the Institute for the Humanities, Orkideh Torabi is heading to the U-M Dearborn campus. In this talk, she will delve into the transition of her focus from gender-segregated spaces to the exploration of power dynamics and governance while taking a broader perspective on society. She will focus on two paintings that embody this societal paradox and explore how her art challenges conventional notions of femininity, power, and identity, achieved by blending Persian miniature art with contemporary imagery.

The talk will be followed by a strolling reception and the opportunity to talk to the artist and view her work.

About Orkideh Torabi:
Orkideh Torabi, a native of Tehran, Iran, began her artistic journey in her hometown. She obtained an MFA in graphic design and illustration from the University of Art in Tehran and served as a faculty member there for seven years. Eager to explore new horizons, Torabi made the bold decision to relocate to the United States, driven by her passion to advance her artistic career. She completed her second MFA in 2016 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Presently, Torabi resides and works in Brooklyn, New York, channeling her artistic vision and enriching the cultural landscape of her new home.

Through her vibrant and intricate paintings, Torabi challenges traditional notions of femininity, power dynamics, and identity. Her unique artistic style blends elements of Persian miniature painting with contemporary imagery, blurring the boundaries between the past and the present.

In her artistic practice, she embraces the role of a storyteller, recognizing the integral role that narration plays in her paintings. Within her work, she has crafted a diverse array of whimsical characters, each with their own unique backstory and personality. For her, the canvas becomes a stage, and her paintings take on the essence of a captivating play or theatrical scene, with these characters serving as the ensemble cast, each playing their distinct role.

*Orkideh Torabi is the 2023 Jean Yokes Woodhead Visting Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.*

*Many thanks to the following units at UM- Dearborn for their support of this event: Arabic Studies, Art History, Center for Arab American Studies, Honors Program, the Art Collections and Exhibitions Department/ Stamelos Gallery Center, Middle East Studies, Women and Gender Studies.*

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:14:18 -0400 2023-09-28T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Orkideh Torabi
The Blessings of the Mystery Opening Reception (September 28, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109313 109313-21821398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for the opening reception of The Blessings of the Mystery at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition features work by Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas. Artist David de Rozas and special guest Elder Juan Mancias, Chairman of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, will be in attendance. Light refreshments will be served.
This event immediately follows the Penny Stamps Speaker Series presentation Carolina Caycedo, David de Rozas, and Juan Macias: Somi Se’k, The Land of the Sun and the River of Spirits, taking place at the Michigan Theater from 5:30-7 pm.
The Blessings of the Mystery examines themes of socio-economic, environmental activism, encounters between history and memory, Indigenous rights, and the formation and distribution of knowledge. The exhibition examines the Amistad Dam in Del Rio, the largest dam in Rio Grande that is jointly managed by the United States and Mexico and other contested sites in the region to unravel layered histories, connections, and tensions present in West Texas through film, sculpture, installation, collage, and drawing.
The Blessings of the Mystery is on view at Stamps Gallery from September 28—December 15, 2023.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:15:15 -0400 2023-09-28T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-28T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House Image showing an overhead view of a mountain
Intimate Apparel (September 28, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108177 108177-21819083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Esther, a gifted Black seamstress in 1905 New York City, lives in a boarding house for women, where she makes a good living sewing intimate apparel (and keeping intimate secrets) for her clients. As she saves for the kind of future with a husband and family that she can’t have with the Hasidic shopkeeper who has captured her heart, she begins a deeply personal correspondence with a mysterious suitor laboring on the Panama Canal.

Steeped in evocative historical detail, *Intimate Apparel* delves into the inner lives of characters in search of connection.

Written by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Judith Moreland

FUN FACTS: Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage wrote *Intimate Apparel* as a tribute to her great-grandmother, a seamstress in early-20th-century New York.

In its initial run, *Intimate Apparel* won the 2004 New York Drama Critics’ Circle and the Outer Critics Circle Awards.

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Performance Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:17:08 -0400 2023-09-28T19:30:00-04:00 2023-09-28T22:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Intimate Apparel
Renée Fleming (September 28, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109612 109612-21822401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Renée Fleming’s interests and accomplishments are so wide-ranging that her biography reads like a mashup of several different overachievers all rolled into one.

One of the most highly acclaimed singers of our time, she is a National Medal of Arts recipient who has sung for momentous occasions ranging from the memorial service at Ground Zero after 9/11 and the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the soundtrack for The Lord of the Rings and the Super Bowl, where she was the first classical artist ever to sing the National Anthem.

Her most recent recording, which focused on nature as both inspiration and casualty of humans, was awarded the 2023 Grammy for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. Outside of her singing career, she has become a leading advocate for research at the intersection of arts, health, and neuroscience, launching a collaboration between the Kennedy Center and the National Institutes for Health and exploring the power of music as it relates to health and the brain. She is an advocate for literacy, designed her own fragrance, and is the eponym for both a dessert created by master chef Daniel Boulud and an iris.

At the center of it all is her stunning voice, on display in Hill Auditorium for the first time since 2011 in a recital with pianist Inon Barnatan, who will also perform at UMS with the Jerusalem Quartet a week later. “Fleming has consistent mastery over the entire range, yet each part has its own distinctive color, like a river that gleams differently when the sun catches different parts of it.” (The Sydney Morning Herald)

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Performance Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:50:21 -0400 2023-09-28T19:30:00-04:00 2023-09-28T21:30:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Renée Fleming, soprano
Harbingers of Dreams (September 29, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110229 110229-21824595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Born in 1945, artist, educator, and mentor Teresa Tolliver has lived and worked in South Central L.A. for three decades. In 2022, she opened her first one-woman show at the prominent Sebastian Gladstone Gallery. Most recently, her work has been chosen for inclusion as part of L.A.’s Hammer Museum Biennial, which runs concurrently with her exhibition Harbingers of Dreams in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Tolliver refers to her process as “creative recycling”: forging found and thrifted materials, and repurposing them. These frenetic bundles of coils, adornments, wires, and loose ends express the artist’s feelings, perspectives, and everyday way of living.

Earlier works of the artist are on a smaller scale and doll-like. They are intimate, imaginative references to Tolliver’s own girlhood in a world lacking adequate or authentic representations of Black life.

Tolliver’s more recent figurative assemblages are life-size, larger-than-life, looming. They command space and celebrate it. There is an inherent connection between these sculptures and the long-established history of African American yard art, where plants, statuary, and artistic creations communicate themes of personal space, freedom of expression, and dreams of independence. Tolliver’s bold visual choices and material combinations are refusals of outside value judgments and hierarchies.

When visiting artist Teresa Tolliver's home studio, one expects the figures will spring to life, otherworldly. They seem to gather and congregate. There are no distractions from the outside, save the light coming through the window. Through subtle details like molding, furniture, and drawers inspired by Tolliver’s own domestic space, Harbingers of Dreams attempts to capture the resplendent and spiritual nature of such a visit, with the opportunity to sit among the artist’s creations.

Tolliver’s figurative sculptures appear as embodiments of the city of L.A. and its diverse communities and neighborhoods. They are assemblages of disparate influences, esthetics, and materials: prefab, handmade, urban, nostalgic, opulent, functional, garish, and celestial. A visual cacophony of colors, influences, designs, and forms, each figure beckons us towards futures in the making.

Teresa Tolliver is the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:14:21 -0400 2023-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Two colorful multimedia sculptures.
Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!! (September 29, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109535 109535-21822193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.
Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.
“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.

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Exhibition Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:34:42 -0400 2023-09-29T09:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Image reads: sarah buckius: !!! techn010ffspring !!! "she feels like the company is stuck in the past, clinging to old technology instead of embracing new technologies...absurd ones...
Featured Exhibits (September 29, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-09-29T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (September 29, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-09-29T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (September 29, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-09-29T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
Paint OUT (September 29, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109473 109473-21822072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 11:00am
Location: Ingalls Mall
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join us for an IMMERSIVE public art-making workshop to explore the power of arts and send goodwill to the thousands of people incarcerated in Michigan.

Free & open to the public. All ages & abilities welcome!
Food tickets & SWAG bags available to the first 200 guests.

Ingalls Mall North
881 N University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Presented in collaboration with American Friends Service Committee & Nation Outside

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:46:22 -0400 2023-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 Ingalls Mall Prison Creative Arts Project, The Social / Informal Gathering Neon green hand print over pink dripping spray paint on black background.
The Blessings of the Mystery (September 29, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109235 109235-21821251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Blessings of the Mystery examines themes of socio-economic, environmental activism, encounters between history and memory, Indigenous rights, and the formation and distribution of knowledge. The exhibition examines the Amistad Dam in Del Rio, the largest dam in Rio Grande that is jointly managed by the United States and Mexico and other contested sites in the region to unravel layered histories, connections, and tensions present in West Texas through film, sculpture, installation, collage, and drawing.
The experimental documentary film Teaching of the Hands is the center point of the exhibition - as it combines oral histories, reenactments, and archival footage to narrate a complex history of colonization, migration, and ecological precarity, Told from the perspective of Juan Mancias, Chairman of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, scenes from the present day are woven together with those from 4,000 years in the past to investigate the transformation of Somi Se’k* by way of industry, infrastructure, and private property.
Emerging from the research to create the film, the exhibition includes an immersive installation of surveying flags and tools, series of drawings and collages, and a collection of original watercolors from the 1930s by artists and amateur archaeologists Forrest and Lula Kirkland that depict the ancient rock art of the Lower Pecos,that expand on concepts in The Teachings of the Hands. The watercolors, rarely seen plein air paintings, are on loan from the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas, and document the original forms and vibrant colors of murals that were still visible in the 1930s before flooding, erosion, and human interaction damaged or destroyed them. This exhibition has been shown in various iterations at Ballroom Marfa, the University of Texas at Austin, the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and University of California, Santa Barbara, and will be shown in Michigan and the midwest for the first time. The Blessings of the Mystery brings together an expansive body of work that sheds light on vital histories, living memories and Indigenous knowledge-systems embedded within the land well before the colonial boundaries between Mexico and the US were established - advocating for environmental justice and recognition of Indigenous rights and cosmologies.

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:15:14 -0400 2023-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Side by side collaged images show a cactus with a flower on the left, and billowing black smoke above a house on the right
Untold Stories, Part I (September 29, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109983 109983-21823509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Untold Stories is a three-part exhibition series featuring the work of faculty members from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Organized thematically, each group exhibition will reveal key themes and urgent questions of our time being explored through the lens of art and design at the Stamps School.
This exhibition offers glimpses into the creative research that Stamps faculty are engaged in, asking students and the public to consider the role and potential of art and design in making visible latent histories and catalyzing social movements for justice, freedom, and equity.
Untold Stories, Part I will include work by Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, Heidi Kumao, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emilia Yang.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:15:05 -0500 2023-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Jim Cogswell, Pyre, 2020: stenciled red, blue, and black hands and feet are arranged in a pile over barbed wire. The red hands appear to be flames, with white curls of smoke rising from the group.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (September 29, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 29, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Mesmerica (September 29, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (September 29, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109622 109622-21822415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:16:01 -0400 2023-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
LIGHTNING: A One-of-a-Kind Drag Show Extravaganza (September 29, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110204 110204-21824491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Lightning rarely strikes in the same place twice, but UMS is delighted to collaborate with Heads Over Heels Productions and Chroma Productions for two different sets in this drag show extravaganza. This action-packed, special night celebrates queer performance art at the historic Ypsilanti Freighthouse.

Must be 18+ to attend; alcohol will be available for purchase for ages 21+ with ID.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:43:43 -0400 2023-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Heads Over Heels Productions and Chroma Productions
Mesmerica (September 29, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Intimate Apparel (September 29, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108176 108176-21819082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Esther, a gifted Black seamstress in 1905 New York City, lives in a boarding house for women, where she makes a good living sewing intimate apparel (and keeping intimate secrets) for her clients. As she saves for the kind of future with a husband and family that she can’t have with the Hasidic shopkeeper who has captured her heart, she begins a deeply personal correspondence with a mysterious suitor laboring on the Panama Canal.

Steeped in evocative historical detail, *Intimate Apparel* delves into the inner lives of characters in search of connection.

Written by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Judith Moreland

There will be a 30 minute post-show discussion after the performance on Friday 9/29. This will be an opportunity for our guest director, creative team, and cast to join in a conversation with the audience about the process.

FUN FACTS: Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage wrote *Intimate Apparel* as a tribute to her great-grandmother, a seamstress in early-20th-century New York.

In its initial run, *Intimate Apparel* won the 2004 New York Drama Critics’ Circle and the Outer Critics Circle Awards.

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Performance Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:20:21 -0400 2023-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T23:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Intimate Apparel
Mesmerica (September 29, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-29T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-29T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (September 30, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109705 109705-21822717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:15:55 -0400 2023-09-30T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Featured Exhibits (September 30, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-09-30T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (September 30, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-09-30T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (September 30, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-09-30T10:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 30, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/112385 112385-21828855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 11:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of American Culture

This workshop invites graduate students to consider film as a modality for presenting research. It explores art as a pathway for resisting the centrality of text in academic expression. “Afterthought" director and University of Michigan Ph.D. student Charlotte Juergens will share clips from three academic film projects, discuss the possibilities and challenges of film as a research methodology, and work with attendees to troubleshoot next steps for integrating film into their academic practices. This event will include a continental breakfast.

September 30, 11am
Rackham Graduate School East Conference Room
915 E Washington St
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:28:03 -0400 2023-09-30T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of American Culture Workshop / Seminar Event Poster
Moving to the Beat: West African Dance and Visual Art (September 30, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110205 110205-21824492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Get ready to feel the heat, listen to the beat, and move your feet. Created especially for families, participants in this workshop will experience traditional West African Dance as well as contemporary AfroBeat dance moves! Afterward, families will participate in an art-making workshop that connects movement to visual art.

Recommended for ages 3-17 and their parents or guardians.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:48:14 -0400 2023-09-30T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Class / Instruction Heather Mitchell, African Diasporic Dance performing artist in the Kalamazoo community.
The Blessings of the Mystery (September 30, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109235 109235-21821252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Blessings of the Mystery examines themes of socio-economic, environmental activism, encounters between history and memory, Indigenous rights, and the formation and distribution of knowledge. The exhibition examines the Amistad Dam in Del Rio, the largest dam in Rio Grande that is jointly managed by the United States and Mexico and other contested sites in the region to unravel layered histories, connections, and tensions present in West Texas through film, sculpture, installation, collage, and drawing.
The experimental documentary film Teaching of the Hands is the center point of the exhibition - as it combines oral histories, reenactments, and archival footage to narrate a complex history of colonization, migration, and ecological precarity, Told from the perspective of Juan Mancias, Chairman of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, scenes from the present day are woven together with those from 4,000 years in the past to investigate the transformation of Somi Se’k* by way of industry, infrastructure, and private property.
Emerging from the research to create the film, the exhibition includes an immersive installation of surveying flags and tools, series of drawings and collages, and a collection of original watercolors from the 1930s by artists and amateur archaeologists Forrest and Lula Kirkland that depict the ancient rock art of the Lower Pecos,that expand on concepts in The Teachings of the Hands. The watercolors, rarely seen plein air paintings, are on loan from the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas, and document the original forms and vibrant colors of murals that were still visible in the 1930s before flooding, erosion, and human interaction damaged or destroyed them. This exhibition has been shown in various iterations at Ballroom Marfa, the University of Texas at Austin, the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and University of California, Santa Barbara, and will be shown in Michigan and the midwest for the first time. The Blessings of the Mystery brings together an expansive body of work that sheds light on vital histories, living memories and Indigenous knowledge-systems embedded within the land well before the colonial boundaries between Mexico and the US were established - advocating for environmental justice and recognition of Indigenous rights and cosmologies.

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:15:14 -0400 2023-09-30T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Side by side collaged images show a cactus with a flower on the left, and billowing black smoke above a house on the right
Untold Stories, Part I (September 30, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109983 109983-21823510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Untold Stories is a three-part exhibition series featuring the work of faculty members from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Organized thematically, each group exhibition will reveal key themes and urgent questions of our time being explored through the lens of art and design at the Stamps School.
This exhibition offers glimpses into the creative research that Stamps faculty are engaged in, asking students and the public to consider the role and potential of art and design in making visible latent histories and catalyzing social movements for justice, freedom, and equity.
Untold Stories, Part I will include work by Jim Cogswell, Carlos F. Jackson, Heidi Kumao, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, and Emilia Yang.

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Exhibition Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:15:05 -0500 2023-09-30T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Jim Cogswell, Pyre, 2020: stenciled red, blue, and black hands and feet are arranged in a pile over barbed wire. The red hands appear to be flames, with white curls of smoke rising from the group.
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 30, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 30, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112387 112387-21830593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Join "Afterthought" editor Mark Juergens and technical producer Lydia Robertson for a career talk and coffee hour. Juergens and Robertson each have decades-long careers in film, news, and television, and they invite students to ask questions about their educational and professional pathways.

September 30, 1pm
Rackham Graduate School East Conference Room
915 E Washington St
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:32:44 -0400 2023-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T15:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of American Culture Careers / Jobs Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 30, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112389 112389-21828862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Collaborators from the memorials featured in the documentary “Afterthought” will participate in a panel discussion. Participants include: Laura Taylor (creator of “Half-Built House”), Laura Mott (Chief Curator for the Cranbrook Art Museum and curator for the Detroit Healing Memorial), and Rachel Frierson (Director of Programming for the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy and organizer for the Detroit Healing Memorial). Panelists will discuss the role of art in individual and community healing after mass-trauma events like COVID-19.

September 30, 3pm
Rackham Graduate School East Conference Room
915 E Washington St
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of
Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:55:20 -0400 2023-09-30T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
West African Dance at the Freighthouse (September 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110206 110206-21824494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Originating from the Malinke people of West Africa, Moribayassa is a traditional practice in which participants are invited to relieve their burdens through movement and music. The practice uses dance and live drumming as a way to offer thanks for overcoming obstacles or adversities within the context of community support. Participants will be invited to write, sing, and dance as a healing modality for their struggles.

Recommended for ages 14+, no experience necessary.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:50:58 -0400 2023-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Class / Instruction Heather Mitchell, African Diasporic Dance performing artist in the Kalamazoo community.
Mesmerica (September 30, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-30T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-30T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 30, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-30T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Intimate Apparel (September 30, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108175 108175-21819081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Esther, a gifted Black seamstress in 1905 New York City, lives in a boarding house for women, where she makes a good living sewing intimate apparel (and keeping intimate secrets) for her clients. As she saves for the kind of future with a husband and family that she can’t have with the Hasidic shopkeeper who has captured her heart, she begins a deeply personal correspondence with a mysterious suitor laboring on the Panama Canal.

Steeped in evocative historical detail, *Intimate Apparel* delves into the inner lives of characters in search of connection.

Written by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Judith Moreland

FUN FACTS: Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage wrote *Intimate Apparel* as a tribute to her great-grandmother, a seamstress in early-20th-century New York.

In its initial run, *Intimate Apparel* won the 2004 New York Drama Critics’ Circle and the Outer Critics Circle Awards.

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Performance Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:17:10 -0400 2023-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T23:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Intimate Apparel
Mesmerica (September 30, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-30T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-30T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (October 1, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109706 109706-21822718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:15:55 -0400 2023-10-01T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Featured Exhibits (October 1, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105200 105200-21811357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 10:00am
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Featuring work by Gina Gibson, UN/EARTH explores science and art from a mile underground. Located in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) houses experiments that give us a better understanding of the universe. The location—deep underground—provides a near-perfect environment for experiments that need to escape the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation, which can interfere with the detection of rare physics events. Built in collaboration with the University of Michigan, the LUX-Zeplin is the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. SURF also hosts experiments in biology, geology and engineering.

Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Gibson's work celebrates the search deep below the surface for beauty in the old and new, the light and dark, and the known and unknown.

UN/EARTH was developed in collaboration with the U-M Department of Physics, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and Black Hills State University.

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:12:04 -0500 2023-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Exhibition "Gina Gibson at SURF – Gina Gibson is an internationally exhibiting artist and professor of Graphic Design at Black Hills State University. In 2019, Gibson became the first artist in residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Photo courtesy of the Sanford Underground Research Facility/Photographer Matt Kapust"
Great Lakes Garden Celebration (October 1, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113175 113175-21830306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

The Great Lakes Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will celebrate its 10th year in 2023! Join us throughout the summer and fall seasons for native plant and pollinator-focused events including a symposium, native plant sale, family-friendly activities, and more!

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:31:24 -0400 2023-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition an image showing a field of black eyed susans.
There’s more to bees than honey (October 1, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113189 113189-21830433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

What are native bees?
Native bees are diverse.
Native bees are large.
Native bees are small, Native bees are metallic.
Native bees wear masks. Native bees are specialists.
Native bees are super pollinators.
When we talk about supporting bees, many people naturally think of honey bees. Honey bees can help pollinate crops, especially on farms where there might not be enough native pollinators around. Plus, they are the only bees that produce honey, so you can thank them for that delicious treat. However, when we consider bees’ impacts to society and the environment, it’s essential to consider their natural history.
Honey bees were introduced to the Americas from Eurasia and Africa by humans, which means they haven’t co-evolved with our native plants and animals. Since honey bees have not been a part of Michigan’s ecosystems until relatively recently, their impacts on Michigan’s ecosystems and native plant communities are not as large as their agricultural value. While honey bees are thriving in managed hives, it’s not the same story for our native bee species.
These wonderful creatures are facing challenges due to habitat loss, as their natural homes and food sources are being replaced by agricultural fields, urban areas, and non-native plants. It’s essential to give some attention to our often-overlooked native bees. They come in many different shapes and sizes, and you might not even recognize them as bees at first glance!
This exhibit aims to raise awareness about Michigan’s native bees, their appearance, behavior, and interactions with plants. By understanding and appreciating them better, we hope to inspire everyone to think about how we can support and protect these vital pollinators too.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:42:03 -0400 2023-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Exhibition A photo with a bumblebee sitting on a goldenrod flower.
Moving to the Beat: West African Dance and Visual Art (October 1, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110205 110205-21824493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Get ready to feel the heat, listen to the beat, and move your feet. Created especially for families, participants in this workshop will experience traditional West African Dance as well as contemporary AfroBeat dance moves! Afterward, families will participate in an art-making workshop that connects movement to visual art.

Recommended for ages 3-17 and their parents or guardians.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:48:14 -0400 2023-10-01T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Class / Instruction Heather Mitchell, African Diasporic Dance performing artist in the Kalamazoo community.
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 1, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina: Exhibition Tour with GUEST TBD (October 1, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110483 110483-21824973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Join exhibition co-curator and U-M Associate Professor of History Jason Young for an exploration of the dynamic exhibition Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield South Carolina. Hear Me Now centers around the complicated history and continuing legacy of an African American ceramic tradition that emerged out of the plantation economies of Edgefield, South Carolina. As an artistic tradition rooted in the history of American slavery, the exhibition highlights the tangled histories of race, slavery and art in this country. The exhibition features historic work including monumental storage jars by the enslaved and literate potter and poet Dave, later recorded as David Drake as well as leading contemporary Black artists who have responded to or whose practice resonates with the Edgefield story. Established figures like Theaster Gates and Simone Leigh, as well as younger, emerging artists like Adebunmi Gbadebo, Woody De Othello, and Robert Pruitt, have contributed to the show. Working primarily in clay, these artists respond to the legacy of the Edgefield potters and consider the resonance of this history for audiences today.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Other Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:15:54 -0400 2023-10-01T14:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Intimate Apparel (October 1, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108174 108174-21819080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Esther, a gifted Black seamstress in 1905 New York City, lives in a boarding house for women, where she makes a good living sewing intimate apparel (and keeping intimate secrets) for her clients. As she saves for the kind of future with a husband and family that she can’t have with the Hasidic shopkeeper who has captured her heart, she begins a deeply personal correspondence with a mysterious suitor laboring on the Panama Canal.

Steeped in evocative historical detail, *Intimate Apparel* delves into the inner lives of characters in search of connection.

Written by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Judith Moreland

FUN FACTS: Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage wrote *Intimate Apparel* as a tribute to her great-grandmother, a seamstress in early-20th-century New York.

In its initial run, *Intimate Apparel* won the 2004 New York Drama Critics’ Circle and the Outer Critics Circle Awards.

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Performance Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:17:11 -0400 2023-10-01T14:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Intimate Apparel
Harbingers of Dreams (October 2, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110229 110229-21824598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Born in 1945, artist, educator, and mentor Teresa Tolliver has lived and worked in South Central L.A. for three decades. In 2022, she opened her first one-woman show at the prominent Sebastian Gladstone Gallery. Most recently, her work has been chosen for inclusion as part of L.A.’s Hammer Museum Biennial, which runs concurrently with her exhibition Harbingers of Dreams in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

Tolliver refers to her process as “creative recycling”: forging found and thrifted materials, and repurposing them. These frenetic bundles of coils, adornments, wires, and loose ends express the artist’s feelings, perspectives, and everyday way of living.

Earlier works of the artist are on a smaller scale and doll-like. They are intimate, imaginative references to Tolliver’s own girlhood in a world lacking adequate or authentic representations of Black life.

Tolliver’s more recent figurative assemblages are life-size, larger-than-life, looming. They command space and celebrate it. There is an inherent connection between these sculptures and the long-established history of African American yard art, where plants, statuary, and artistic creations communicate themes of personal space, freedom of expression, and dreams of independence. Tolliver’s bold visual choices and material combinations are refusals of outside value judgments and hierarchies.

When visiting artist Teresa Tolliver's home studio, one expects the figures will spring to life, otherworldly. They seem to gather and congregate. There are no distractions from the outside, save the light coming through the window. Through subtle details like molding, furniture, and drawers inspired by Tolliver’s own domestic space, Harbingers of Dreams attempts to capture the resplendent and spiritual nature of such a visit, with the opportunity to sit among the artist’s creations.

Tolliver’s figurative sculptures appear as embodiments of the city of L.A. and its diverse communities and neighborhoods. They are assemblages of disparate influences, esthetics, and materials: prefab, handmade, urban, nostalgic, opulent, functional, garish, and celestial. A visual cacophony of colors, influences, designs, and forms, each figure beckons us towards futures in the making.

Teresa Tolliver is the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Exhibition Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:14:21 -0400 2023-10-02T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Two colorful multimedia sculptures.
Sarah Buckius: !!!techn010ffspring!!! (October 2, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109535 109535-21822196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Come explore the intricate and interlocking world of Sarah Buckius’ “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” where feminist art meets science and the history of invention. On view at Lane Hall as part of U-M Arts Initiative’s themed semester on Arts & Resistance, “!!!techn010ffspring!!!” critiques the patriarchal paradigms of the STEM field by highlighting the history of women inventors. This exhibition brings conceptual invention in fine art and performance to the disciplines of information technology, robotics, and engineering. Buckius creates “technoffsprings”: complex machines that weave together the history of inventions related to the gendered labor of women, especially regarding women’s social roles as caregivers and subjects of care themselves.
Trained as an engineer and an artist, Buckius’ machines are intentionally complex, layered, and illogical or absurdly logical. In the nature of women’s caregiving, they teeter between order and chaos. Her “digital tinkerings” tell epic tales of motherhood, technology, female bodies, and commerce—both personal and externalized through women’s inventions and early forays that bridged caregiving and commerce. Buckius' work proposes improvisation as a form of absurdist resistance to, and alternative to, patriarchal, capitalist, production-based, and seemingly rational, useful, logical systems.
“!!!techn010ffspring!!!” is open for viewing M-F, 9am-4pm or by appointment. University of Michigan instructors can email LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu to request a group tour or schedule a class visit.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan and co-sponsored by U-M’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender with support from the Santa Cruz County Arts Council.

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Exhibition Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:34:42 -0400 2023-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Image reads: sarah buckius: !!! techn010ffspring !!! "she feels like the company is stuck in the past, clinging to old technology instead of embracing new technologies...absurd ones...
Pottery as Poetry: Learning from The Black Potters of Old Edgefield Ceramic Workshop with Ebitenyefa Baralaye (October 2, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/112320 112320-21828787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Detroit based artist and educator Ebitenyefa Baralaye will lead a hands-on workshop on ceramic techniques and glazing methods inspired by the Black Potters of Old Edgefield. Clay and tools will be provided.
This event is co-presented by Stamps Gallery, The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), and the Ann Arbor District Library (AADL) in conjunction with the exhibition Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, on view at UMMA from August 26, 2023 - January 7, 2024. This event series is sponsored by the U-M Arts Initiative.
Spaces are limited. Registration is required. For more information contact Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan at jenjkhan@umich.edu.Related EventsPottery as Poetry: Learning from The Black Potters of Old Edgefield Ceramic Workshop with Ebitenyefa Baralaye - October 6, 2023The Vessel as a Metaphor: An Artist Talk by Ebitenyefa Baralaye - October 21, 2023

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:15:15 -0400 2023-10-02T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Workshop / Seminar Ebitenyefa Baralaye, All My Relation II
Pottery as Poetry: Learning from The Black Potters of Old Edgefield Ceramic Workshop with Ebitenyefa Baralaye (October 2, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113302 113302-21830695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pottery-as-poetry-learning-from-the-black-potters-of-old-edgefield-tickets-718433031537?aff=oddtdtcreator.

Detroit based artist and educator Ebitenyefa Baralaye will lead a hands-on workshop on ceramic techniques and glazing methods inspired by the Black Potters of Old Edgefield. Clay and tools will be provided. This event is co-presented by Stamps Gallery, UMMA, and AADL in conjunction with the exhibition  currently on view at UMMA through Jan 7, 2024.

This event series is sponsored by the U-M Arts Initiative.  This program is organized by the Stamps Gallery, for more information contact Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan at jenjkhan@​umich.​edu.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Oct 2023 12:15:56 -0400 2023-10-02T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T13:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 2, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-02T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 2, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-02T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-02T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!