Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Newell Brands: What do Creatives do in Design? (March 8, 2024 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118546 118546-21841200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us on March 8, 2024 for a Jain Industry Partnerships Program presentation by Newell Brands.

At Newell Brands, a variety of designers work in product design and innovation that is informed by consumer insights and foresights and capitalizing on consumer trends. This panel discussion with members of the Newell Brands design team will explore the topic "What do Creatives do in Design?"

About Newell BrandsNewell Brands is a leading consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands such as Graco, Coleman, Oster, Rubbermaid and Sharpie, and 28,000 talented employees around the world. We aspire to delight consumers by lighting up everyday moments. Newell Brands boasts an award-winning in-house design team, across multiple locations, that offer a specialized focus on design and innovation through diverse perspectives. Kalamazoo, Michigan is home to our global design HQ.About the Jain Industry Partnerships ProgramThe Stamps School is committed to building strategic partnerships with businesses, industry associations, and partners that align corporate social responsibility, networking, recruiting, and philanthropic goals with our numerous curricular initiatives, students, and community-supporting region. We seek to build collaborations that advance a spirit of shared learning where our students gain hands-on experiences that allow them to chart their unique pathways to success and employers gain valuable insights from a generation that will challenge them to think about their business in a whole new way.The Jain Industry Partnership program is a semester-long (January-April) opportunity to engage employers and industry partners with the Stamps School students, programs, and community through meaningful projects, connections, and initiatives to prepare Stamps students for successful and sustainable creative practice and support the strategic initiatives of the school.
Program information is available at: https://stamps.umich.edu/employers/jain-industry-partnerships-programStudents can learn more at: https://stamps.umich.edu/resources/jain-industry-partnerships-program

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Feb 2024 12:15:09 -0500 2024-03-08T13:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion A student received feedback on their portfolio
Guided Tour of the U-M Clements Library (March 8, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115520 115520-21835701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We invite you to join us on a guided tour where you can delve deeper into the rich tapestry of Clements’ early American history and culture collections. Experience the allure of our esteemed treasures, including the legendary painting “Death of General Wolfe” by Benjamin West, a remarkable trunk from the Revolutionary War era that once safeguarded General Gage’s papers, and much more!

You will have the opportunity to view the exhibit, "The Art of Resistance in Early America. " This exhibit addresses the theme of the Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: “The Arts of Resistance.” This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms.

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Tours Wed, 20 Mar 2024 11:13:40 -0400 2024-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Tours William Clements Library
Celebrating Women in Stem Movie Night (March 8, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119277 119277-21842516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Oxford Housing
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Join Oxford Hall’s MLCA Kennedy to celebrate Women’s History Month by watching the movie Hidden Figures!

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:55:59 -0500 2024-03-08T18:00:00-05:00 2024-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 Oxford Housing Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Film Screening
Igor Levit (March 8, 2024 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109639 109639-21822441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 8, 2024 7:30pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Igor Levit is like no other pianist,” proclaims The New Yorker, while The New York Times calls him “one of the most important artists of his generation.”

In this return engagement after his 2016 UMS debut, Igor Levit performs transcriptions of Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony and the Adagio from Mahler’s unfinished 10th symphony, as well as Paul Hindemith’s Suite “1922,” written for solo piano with several movements based on popular dances of the day, including the shimmy, Boston, and ragtime.

With an alert and critical mind, he places his art in the context of social events and understands it as inseparably linked to them. The Nizhny Novgorod native moved to Germany at age eight, and within a decade was the youngest participant in the International Arthur Rubinstein Competition, where he won silver, the special prize for chamber music, the audience prize, and the special prize for the best performance of contemporary pieces.

PROGRAM
Paul Hindemith Suite 1922
Gustav Mahler Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (arr. for piano by Ronald Stevenson)
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 (“Eroica”) (arr. for piano by Franz Liszt)

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Performance Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:38:07 -0500 2024-03-08T19:30:00-05:00 2024-03-08T21:00:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Igor Levit
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 9, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 9, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-09T08:00:00-05:00 2024-03-09T23:00:00-05:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
A Gathering (March 9, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 9, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-09T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 9, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 9, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-09T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 9, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 9, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-09T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 9, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 9, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-09T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 9, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 9, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-09T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 9, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 9, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-09T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Soulscape (March 9, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119870 119870-21843703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 9, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:56:38 -0500 2024-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2024-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Soulscape Poster - Woman with Butterfly
Groove Presents: The 20th Canniversary (March 9, 2024 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117943 117943-21840214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 9, 2024 7:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: University Activities Center

Our semesterly show, however, is our 20th anniversary this year!

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Performance Sun, 28 Jan 2024 17:14:45 -0500 2024-03-09T19:30:00-05:00 2024-03-09T21:00:00-05:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts University Activities Center Performance COME TO THE SHOW
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 10, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-10T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-10T23:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
A Gathering (March 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-10T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-10T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-10T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-10T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-10T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-10T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Soulscape (March 10, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119870 119870-21843704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:56:38 -0500 2024-03-10T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-10T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Soulscape Poster - Woman with Butterfly
Crafting Meeting (March 10, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118180 118180-21840615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Crochet For Conservation: VIPs Club

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

Time: 2-4pm

Location: Union

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

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

Nonprofit Website: vipsfund.org

Instagram: @vipsfund

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Meeting Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:30:47 -0400 2024-03-10T14:00:00-04:00 2024-03-10T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Crochet For Conservation: VIPs Club Meeting VIP's members in handcrafted Michigan gear
Exhibition Tour – Angkor Complex: Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia (March 10, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116317 116317-21836599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/wwerfu7.

Join Nachiket Chanchani,  Curator of Angkor Complex and Associate Professor of the History of Art, and Trent Walker, Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Thai Professor of Theravada Buddhism, on an engaging tour of the exhibition that will reflect on how Cambodia's tangible cultural heritage intersects with its living traditions of song, dance, and music.  

Trent Walker works on Buddhism, literature, and music in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. He is the author of Until Nirvana’s Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia (Shambhala Publications, 2022) and a co-editor of Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2022). Before joining U-M’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures in 2023, he taught at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. Recent publications include articles on Pali phonology, Thai literary history, Cambodian nuns, Indic-vernacular homiletics, Middle Khmer epigraphy, and Vietnamese Buddhist translation.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:43 -0500 2024-03-10T14:00:00-04:00 2024-03-10T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Isidore String Quartet (March 10, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109640 109640-21822442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

The sweeping coherence and blazing virtuosity of their narrative had the audience leaping to their feet.” (Violinist.com)

The New York City-based Isidore String Quartet was formed in 2019 with a vision to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertory. The quartet is heavily influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet — in fact, it takes its name from JSQ founder Isidore Cohen — and the idea of “approaching the established as if it were brand new, and the new as if it were firmly established.” In this program, they move seamlessly from the great musical innovator of the 18th century to a trailblazer of the 21st: Billy Childs, whose String Quartet No. 2 (“Awakening”) was composed in the wake of his wife’s emergency hospitalization 10 years ago due to a pulmonary embolism. It takes the listener through the shock and chaos of the emergency room, the disembodied sonic experience of machines during an extended hospitalization, and subsequent recovery and healing.

PROGRAM
Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2
Billy Childs String Quartet No. 2 (“Awakening”)
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 15 in a minor, Op. 132

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:40:55 -0400 2024-03-10T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-10T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Isidore String Quartet
Intersectionali-tea Party (March 10, 2024 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119280 119280-21842519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 10, 2024 5:00pm
Location: Oxford Housing
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Calling all Oxford residents! The Oxford RAs and DPE invite you to this Women's History Month kick-off event! We will be discussing intersectionality, decorating mugs, while also, enjoying complimentary tea.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:02:13 -0500 2024-03-10T17:00:00-04:00 2024-03-10T19:00:00-04:00 Oxford Housing Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 11, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-11T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 11, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-11T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-11T23:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 11, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-11T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 11, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-11T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Soulscape (March 11, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119870 119870-21843705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:56:38 -0500 2024-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-11T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Soulscape Poster - Woman with Butterfly
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (March 11, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

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

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
“Camera as a Passport” Photography Exhibit Opening + Curator Panel (March 11, 2024 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119159 119159-21842282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2024 3:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join us to celebrate this exhibit's grand opening on March 11 at 3:30 pm in Weiser Hall Room 547 on the University of Michigan's Central Campus!

Starting in 1933 when Hitler and the Nazis came to power, a cadre of European Jews—German, Polish, Hungarian, Austrian, French—discovered that a camera could be their passport, first out of Germany and then out of Europe. Some of these women and men had been planning one type of career—lawyer, journalist, painter, musician—but then realized that they needed to find another way to earn a living. Taking photographs presented a sufficiently malleable opportunity that not only allowed them to leave Germany and then Europe but also to have the means to sustain themselves in foreign countries where they did not necessarily speak the language.

They did, however, mobilize the visual language of photography. For a number of these figures, forced migration became an asset during the golden age of photojournalism wherein their portable services were employed to supply picture stories on the move and around the world. Many of these Jews became influential photographers, shaping how their contemporaries saw the world. Looking back on their work, we can see how they have influenced our understanding of the modern world even as we can recognize their photographs as a significant component of modern Jewish visual culture.

Of the dozens of photographers who fled Europe, eight escaped on a single ship. The S. S. Winnipeg sailed from Marseille, France on May 7, 1941. Germany had already conquered both eastern and western Europe and was poised to invade the Soviet Union. The United States was not yet in the war. Among the 750 refugees aboard were photographers from Hungary, Belgium, France, and Germany: Ilse Bing, Josef Breitenbach, Boris Lipnitsky, Charles Leirens, Yolla Niclas, Fred Stein, Monie Tannen, and Ylla (Camilla Henriette Koffler). During lifeboat drills, they discovered each other. Some of them narrowly escaped Vichy France under the auspices of the American journalist Varian Fry and the New York-based Emergency Rescue Committee that helped so many Jewish and anti-Fascist artists get out of Europe in the nick of time.

This exhibit introduces the University of Michigan to this intrepid group as exemplary case studies of the wide range of European photographers who used their cameras as passports to other worlds. It focuses first on their European experiences pre-emigration before turning to their escape from Europe on the S. S. Winnipeg (with three of them taking photos on board the ship). The exhibit concludes with examples of some of their initial photographic reactions to the new world, seeing it through European eyes.

"Camera as a Passport" is open for public viewing from 8 am - 5 pm, Monday through Friday. The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts greatly values inclusion and access for all. We are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations to enable full participation in this event. Please contact js-event-coord@umich.edu to request disability accommodations or with any questions or concerns. Please provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet the requested accommodations.

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Exhibition Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:20:00 -0500 2024-03-11T15:30:00-04:00 2024-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Judaic Studies Exhibition Credit: Fred Stein Epicerie Volailles Antwerp 1937
Housing Works: Turning Research to Action For Equitable Housing (March 11, 2024 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117314 117314-21839161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2024 3:30pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Housing Works: Turning Research to Action for Equitable Housing

Housing Works brings together cutting-edge research and creative practices that are having a real impact in the development and provision of equitable housing. Addressing our national housing crisis requires profound changes in how we fund and build housing. These changes may involve overhauls of the existing regulatory system, significant expansion of different funding sources, and creative adoption of new design and construction methods. This symposium invites academic field-leaders to present their work toward enabling equitable housing across diverse domains and to share their experiences bridging academic institutions and public entities.

SCHEDULE
Panel: 3:30-5:30
“Enabling Equitable Housing: Examples from the field”
Dana Cuff, cityLAB, UCLA
Martha Galvez, Housing Solutions Lab, NYU Furman Center
Karla Sierralta, Hawai’i Housing Lab, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Break: 5:30-6:00

Keynote: 6:00-7:30
“Housing Research from the Ground Up: Driving Equitable Policy Change in Residential Displacement and Infill”
Karen Chapple, Director, School of Cities, University of Toronto

This talk explores how academic researchers, by working closely with communities and cities, can design and implement research projects that impact decision-making – while still building academic knowledge. Using the cases of residential displacement and infill projects in California, Chapple will discuss how the research at the Urban Displacement Project and Center for Community Innovation has driven policy change at the municipal, regional, and state level.

GUEST SPEAKERS
Karen Chapple:
Karen Chapple is the Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, where she also serves as Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning. She is Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as department chair and held the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies. Professor Chapple also leads the Downtown Recovery research project, which is a collaboration between School of Cities and the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley.

Chapple studies inequalities in the planning, development, and governance of regions in the Americas, with a focus on economic development and housing. In 2023 Chapple received the Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field from the Regional Studies Association. Her recent books include Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions: Towards More Equitable Development (Routledge, 2015), which won the John Friedmann Book Award from the American Collegiate Schools of Planning; Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (with Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, MIT Press, 2019); and Fragile Governance and Local Economic Development: Theory and Evidence from Peripheral Regions in Latin America (with Sergio Montero, Routledge, 2018). She has published recently on a broad array of subjects, including the use of big data to predict gentrification (in Environment and Planning B), the fiscalization of land use (in Landscape and Urban Planning), urban displacement (in the Journal of Planning Literature and Cityscape), competition in the electric vehicle industry (in Local Economy), job creation on industrial land (in Economic Development Quarterly), regional governance in rural Peru (in the Journal of Rural Studies), and accessory dwelling units as a smart growth policy (in the Journal of Urbanism). In Fall 2015, she co-founded the Urban Displacement Project, a research portal examining patterns of residential, commercial, and industrial displacement, as well as policy and planning solutions. In 2015, Chapple’s work on climate change and tax policy won the UC-wide competition for the Bacon Public Lectureship, which promotes evidence-based public policy and creative thinking for the public good. Chapple also received the 2017 UC-Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Research in the Public Interest.

Dana Cuff:
Dana Cuff is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Urban Planning, and Director of cityLAB at UCLA. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Architecture from Berkeley, Cuff has published and lectured widely about design and inclusion, the architectural profession, and affordable housing. She is a prolific writer, including books such as The Provisional City about postwar housing in Los Angeles, a co-authored text called Urban Humanities: New Practices for Reimagining the City, and most recently, Architectures of Spatial Justice (2023). Cuff has had greater public impact than most academics through the co-authoring of successful state housing legislation grounded in cityLAB’s research (AB 2299, 2016; AB2295, 2022). For over a decade, Dr. Cuff has led the Mellon-funded Urban Humanities Initiative at UCLA, one of the most innovative social justice curricula in the country. The significance of Cuff’s work is reflected in recent prestigious awards: Women in Architecture Activist of the Year (2019), Researcher of the Year (2020), Educator of the Year (2020), Public Impact Research Award (2022), and UCLA’s Faculty Research Lecturer (2023).

Martha Galvez:
Martha Galvez is the Executive Director of the Housing Solutions Lab. Her expertise is in housing and homelessness policy, with a focus on policies and programs that strengthen housing stability and neighborhood choice for low-income families. She has experience in mixed-methods research, and has designed and led studies involving complex administrative, survey, and qualitative data. Prior to joining the Lab, she was a Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute. She has also held policy and research positions in several state and local research organizations, including the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services’ Research and Data Analysis division, the West Coast Poverty Center at the University of Washington, the Seattle Housing Authority, the New York City Department of Small Business Services, and the New York City Citizens Housing and Planning Council. Galvez earned an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in Urban Planning and PhD in public policy and administration from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University.

Karla Sierralta:
Karla Sierralta, AIA is a Venezuelan-American architect, educator, and design advocate. Her hyphenated identity and experiences as a first-generation immigrant and member of the Venezuelan diaspora fuel her explorations on cross-cultural translations, belonging, and democracy in design.

She is an associate professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa School of Architecture, where she serves as the director of undergraduate studies. She is also a founding team member of the SoA’s UH Community Design Center platform. She co-founded the Hawai’i Housing Lab platform to document, collect, and share efforts exploring housing for all. HHL is the online home for the Holistic Housing Design Toolkit, a collection of tools and resources centered on a hyper-localized approach to creating more walkable, sustainable, and equitable communities. She has also taught at the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where she was curator of the Re-Thinking Metropolis “House” Studio.

Her practice, Strawn Sierralta has been recognized nationally and internationally, including honors from AIA, ACSA, IIDA, Graphic Design USA, Fast Company, and SEGD. They were finalists for the 9/11 Memorial, in NYC.

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Housing Works is organized and hosted by the University of Michigan’s Collective for Equitable Housing (CEH). We bring together architecture, urban design, and urban planning faculty at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning to promote housing equity within the state of Michigan and beyond. By leveraging faculty expertise, funding, and community-based partnerships, CEH pursues research questions and impact-driven projects that address housing affordability, enable equitable development, and promote sustainable building design and practices.

This event is generously supported by the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Lecture Fund at Taubman College. The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg’s. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul’s honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Mar 2024 09:33:05 -0500 2024-03-11T15:30:00-04:00 2024-03-11T19:30:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Housing Works
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 11, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-11T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 11, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-11T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 12, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-12T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 12, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-12T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T23:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 12, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-12T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 12, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-12T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
A Gathering (March 12, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 12, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 12, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 12, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 12, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 12, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Soulscape (March 12, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119870 119870-21843706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:56:38 -0500 2024-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Soulscape Poster - Woman with Butterfly
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 12, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 12, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Toward Social Change: Building a Reciprocal Relationship between Social Science and the Arts (March 12, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119263 119263-21842505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Arts Initiative

How do we come together to describe our social world? This panel will recount a set of research projects and creative practice engagements where social scientists and artists collaborate to bring insight into our social circumstances. Two projects will be described in detail– Black Wall Street Journey (https://towardcommoncause.org/partners/black-wall-street-journey/), which examines with a contemporary lens the economic well being in African American communities, and The Folded Map Project (https://www.foldedmapproject.com/interactive-maps), which facilitates understanding of structural disparities among Chicago neighborhoods. This panel will discuss potential new research projects that bring together the arts and the social sciences.
Jonathan Massey, Dean of Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning will give introductory remarks for the discussion.

Panelists: Rick Lowe, Tonika Lewis Johnson, Maria Krysan, Abigail Winograd
Moderator: Kathleen Cagney

RSVP: https://forms.gle/2R1upY1AvVjCkQP47

Reception to follow.

Art & Architecture Building
The Commons
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
March 12, 6pm

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:20:07 -0500 2024-03-12T18:00:00-04:00 2024-03-12T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building Arts Initiative Lecture / Discussion Kathleen Cagney, Rick Lowe, Tonika Lewis Johnson, Maria Krysan, Abigail Winograd
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 13, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-13T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 13, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-13T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T23:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
Garden Repairs (March 13, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116759 116759-21837911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation:
Garden Repairs is an installation of paper textiles that loosely narrate the life cycle of plants. It considers the process of germination as a site for the cross-pollination of ideas from diverse disciplines around the future of the built environment.

About the artist:
Susan Goethel Campbell creates multi-disciplinary work that considers the contemporary landscape to be an emergent system where nature, culture, and the engineered environment are indistinguishable from one another. Central to her practice is the collection, documentation, and observation of seasonal change and ephemera in both natural and artificial environments. Her work is realized in several formats, including installation, video, prints, and drawings, as well as projects that engage communities to look at local and global environments.

Campbell earned an MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and Slovenia and nationally throughout the US, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Queens Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Drawing Center, and The International Print Center New York. In 2009 she was one of 18 artists selected for the inaugural Kresge Artist Fellowship.

Campbell has been awarded residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Flemish Center for Graphic Arts, the Jentel Foundation, Beisinghoff Print Residency, and the Print Research Institute of North Texas. She taught studio art for 15 years at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and has been a visiting artist in numerous institutions in the United States and abroad. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Toledo Museum of Art, and the University of Michigan Special Collections Library.

This project is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation as part of the Institute for the Humanities' multi-year High Stakes Art initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:54:03 -0500 2024-03-13T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition An abstract art image.
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 13, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-13T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 13, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-13T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (March 13, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

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

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-03-13T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
A Gathering (March 13, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 13, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 13, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 13, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 13, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 13, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Inspirations & Harmonies: Celebrating Women’s Impact on Soundscapes (March 13, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119282 119282-21842521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Join us for an inspiring workshop that harmonizes the tales of resilience, creativity, and influence of women in the world of music. This workshop is dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women throughout history who have shaped the musical landscape.

Zoom, Sign up here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/73405

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:07:15 -0500 2024-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 13, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 13, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Susan Goethel Campbell (March 13, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116242 116242-21836492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Susan Goethel Campbell is a multi-disciplinary artist and printmaker based in metropolitan Detroit. Her process-based work considers the dynamic qualities of the built environment to include periods of growth, decline, and dormancy. Central to Campbell’s practice are questions surrounding the integration and erasure of human agency over broader global systems. She often works with ephemeral materials intended to erode and change over time. Her work is realized in formats that include prints, drawings, artist books/objects, photographs, videos, and installations.

In tandem with Campbell’s visit to the series, the U-M Institute for the Humanities has commissioned and will exhibit her new work, Garden Repairs, drawing from the life cycle of plants as a model for repairing landscapes ravaged by war and extreme weather events. Her regenerative brick book is filled with seeds, soil, and water, a hopeful gesture toward new life when it is broken apart. The exhibit will open following the talk and be on view through May 2, 2024.

Campbell’s work has been exhibited internationally in Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Slovenia, and throughout the United States. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York Public Library, Yale University Art Gallery, Detroit Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Cranbrook Art Museum, Grand Rapids Art Museum, University of Colorado Art Museum, The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, Toledo Museum of Art, and the University of Michigan Special Collections Library. Campbell has been awarded residencies at MacDowell, Banff Centre for the Arts, Frans Masereel Centrum, Jentel Foundation, P.R.I.N.T Research Center of North Texas, Skopelos Foundation and Beisinghoff Print Residency. Campbell is the recipient of a Kresge Artist Fellowship, Creative Artist Grant, Arts Foundation of Michigan, and a grant from the Three Rivers Arts Festival in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Campbell has taught studio art at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, including on the faculty of both the Cranbrook Academy of Art and the College for Creative Studies. She has been a visiting artist in numerous institutions of higher education throughout the country. Campbell is represented by David Klein Gallery (Detroit, MI), Aspinwall Editions (Hudson, New York), and Galerie Tom Blaess (Bern, Switzerland).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:24:55 -0500 2024-03-13T17:30:00-04:00 2024-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion Susan Goethel Campbell
Argentine Tango Lessons for All (March 13, 2024 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114635 114635-21833168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 6:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Michigan Argentine Tango Club

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

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Class / Instruction Mon, 30 Oct 2023 11:17:12 -0400 2024-03-13T18:30:00-04:00 2024-03-13T21:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Michigan Argentine Tango Club Class / Instruction Moment from a MATC Class
Garden Repairs Opening Reception (March 13, 2024 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116777 116777-21837981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 6:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please join us as we celebrate the opening of Garden Repairs by Susan Goethel Campbell. The reception will take place immediately following Susan Goethel Campbell's Special Stamps Lecture (5:30pm at Rackham Amphitheatre) and will include a Q & A with the artist.

About the installation:
Garden Repairs is an installation of paper textiles that loosely narrate the life cycle of plants. It considers the process of germination as a site for the cross-pollination of ideas from diverse disciplines around the future of the built environment.

About the artist:
Susan Goethel Campbell creates multi-disciplinary work that considers the contemporary landscape to be an emergent system where nature, culture, and the engineered environment are indistinguishable from one another. Central to her practice is the collection, documentation, and observation of seasonal change and ephemera in both natural and artificial environments. Her work is realized in several formats, including installation, video, prints, and drawings, as well as projects that engage communities to look at local and global environments.

Campbell earned an MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and Slovenia and nationally throughout the US, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Queens Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Drawing Center, and The International Print Center New York. In 2009 she was one of 18 artists selected for the inaugural Kresge Artist Fellowship.

Campbell has been awarded residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Flemish Center for Graphic Arts, the Jentel Foundation, Beisinghoff Print Residency, and the Print Research Institute of North Texas. She taught studio art for 15 years at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and has been a visiting artist in numerous institutions in the United States and abroad. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Toledo Museum of Art, and the University of Michigan Special Collections Library.

This project is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation as part of the Institute for the Humanities' multi-year High Stakes Art initiative.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Jan 2024 13:00:28 -0500 2024-03-13T18:30:00-04:00 2024-03-13T20:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Reception / Open House Abstract art
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 14, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-14T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 14, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-14T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T23:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
Garden Repairs (March 14, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116759 116759-21837912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation:
Garden Repairs is an installation of paper textiles that loosely narrate the life cycle of plants. It considers the process of germination as a site for the cross-pollination of ideas from diverse disciplines around the future of the built environment.

About the artist:
Susan Goethel Campbell creates multi-disciplinary work that considers the contemporary landscape to be an emergent system where nature, culture, and the engineered environment are indistinguishable from one another. Central to her practice is the collection, documentation, and observation of seasonal change and ephemera in both natural and artificial environments. Her work is realized in several formats, including installation, video, prints, and drawings, as well as projects that engage communities to look at local and global environments.

Campbell earned an MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and Slovenia and nationally throughout the US, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Queens Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Drawing Center, and The International Print Center New York. In 2009 she was one of 18 artists selected for the inaugural Kresge Artist Fellowship.

Campbell has been awarded residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Flemish Center for Graphic Arts, the Jentel Foundation, Beisinghoff Print Residency, and the Print Research Institute of North Texas. She taught studio art for 15 years at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and has been a visiting artist in numerous institutions in the United States and abroad. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Toledo Museum of Art, and the University of Michigan Special Collections Library.

This project is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation as part of the Institute for the Humanities' multi-year High Stakes Art initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:54:03 -0500 2024-03-14T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition An abstract art image.
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 14, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-14T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 14, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-14T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
A Gathering (March 14, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-14T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 14, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-14T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 14, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-14T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 14, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-14T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 14, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-14T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 14, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-14T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 14, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 14, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
34 David W. Belin Lecture - Toward a Jewish American Art History (March 14, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116097 116097-21836160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Judaic Studies

5:30 PM Reception | 6:00 PM Lecture | 7:30 PM Book Signing

The Frankel Center's 34 Annual Davin W. Belin Lecture with Dr. Samantha Baskind (Cleveland State University) traces the opportunities and challenges of working in a young field––Jewish American art––through a handful of case studies, with special emphasis on painter Raphael Soyer and sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel. More broadly, the canon of twentieth-century American art boasts a disproportionate number of Jewish artists as compared to the country’s population, a phenomenon only recently addressed. Artists as diverse as Abstract Expressionist Barnett Newman, fashion photographer Richard Avedon, and Photorealist Audrey Flack, among dozens of others, adopted Jewish subject matter. They sometimes did so overtly and at times that Jewishness was encoded, yet those Jewish dimensions have been largely overlooked. Simultaneously an excavation of unfairly neglected artists and an investigation of the understudied religio-cultural dimension of celebrated artists––and even an effort to accord legitimacy to a subfield of art history––Jewish American art is a subject rich in material and long overdue for exploration.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:17:37 -0500 2024-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 2024-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Artist: Raphael Soyer
Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Machine Dazzle (March 14, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116243 116243-21836493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Creative provocateur Machine Dazzle has been dazzling stages via costumes, sets, and performance since his arrival in New York in 1994. An artist, costume designer, set designer, singer/songwriter, art director, and maker, Machine describes himself as a “radical queer emotionally driven, instinct-based concept artist and thinker trapped in the role of costume designer, sometimes.” Machine designs intricate, unconventional wearable art pieces and bespoke installations.
As a stage designer, Machine has collaborated with artists from the New York downtown scene and beyond. Machine’s costumes and sets were featured in Taylor Mac’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (a documentary film about which is currently streaming on Max). In 2019, Dazzle was commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund to create Treasure, a rock and roll cabaret of original songs with an accompanying fashion show, which debuted at Joe's Pub in New York City in the fall of 2022. That same season, he opened his first solo exhibition, Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle, at New York City's Museum of Arts and Design. He won the 2017 Henry Hewes Design Award, was a 2022 United States Artists Fellow, and most recently won the 2023 Obie for sustained achievement in design.
Machine is the recipient of 2023-2024 Roman J. Witt Residency, and has been commissioned by UMMA and Stamps to create his first major museum commission, a new sculptural installation called Ouroboros. The sculpture will evolve over three chapters from March through July 2024, and use trash recovered from local waterways as its primary material to contemplate our own extravagant cycles of life, death, waste, and rebirth.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:15:07 -0400 2024-03-14T17:30:00-04:00 2024-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion Machine Dazzle
Celebrating HERstory (March 14, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119100 119100-21842189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Newberry Residence
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Join us in celebrating "HERstory" with an arts and crafts event where students can turn plain tote bags into mini masterpieces to celebrate Women's History Month! With paints, markers, and inspiration, students can decorate the totes with iconic women and feminist themes. With some chill music and snacks, it will be a laid-back celebration where everyone gets to show off their creativity and love for the incredible women who've paved history.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:29:37 -0500 2024-03-14T18:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Newberry Residence Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Social / Informal Gathering Flyer explaining the details of the event
Celebrating HERstory (March 14, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119284 119284-21842523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Newberry Residence
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

This event will consist of decorating your own totes bags with feminist themes using stencils, markers, etc!

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:11:01 -0500 2024-03-14T18:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Newberry Residence Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Social / Informal Gathering Newberry Residence
Orchestre de Paris (March 14, 2024 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109641 109641-21822443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2024 7:30pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

At 27, the young Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä already has an impressive resume: chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic, music director of the Orchestre de Paris, and artistic partner of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, a role that will turn into chief conductor when his other music directorships expire in 2027.

For his UMS debut, he conducts the orchestra in Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Stravinsky’s complete Firebird, with 2022 Van Cliburn winner Yunchan Lim performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2. The 18-year-old Lim’s ascent to international stardom has been meteoric; he is the youngest person to win gold at the Van Cliburn Competition and also won both the Audience Award and the award for Best Performance of a New Work.

PROGRAM
Claude Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in c minor, Op. 18
Igor Stravinsky The Firebird (complete version)

Join host Doyle Armbrust for “The Society of Disobedient Listeners” — a special pre-performance talk, 6:30 pm in the lower lobby of Hill Auditorium.

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Performance Mon, 19 Feb 2024 09:13:24 -0500 2024-03-14T19:30:00-04:00 2024-03-14T21:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Yunchan Lim
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 15, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-15T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 15, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-15T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T23:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
Garden Repairs (March 15, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116759 116759-21837913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation:
Garden Repairs is an installation of paper textiles that loosely narrate the life cycle of plants. It considers the process of germination as a site for the cross-pollination of ideas from diverse disciplines around the future of the built environment.

About the artist:
Susan Goethel Campbell creates multi-disciplinary work that considers the contemporary landscape to be an emergent system where nature, culture, and the engineered environment are indistinguishable from one another. Central to her practice is the collection, documentation, and observation of seasonal change and ephemera in both natural and artificial environments. Her work is realized in several formats, including installation, video, prints, and drawings, as well as projects that engage communities to look at local and global environments.

Campbell earned an MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and Slovenia and nationally throughout the US, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Queens Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Drawing Center, and The International Print Center New York. In 2009 she was one of 18 artists selected for the inaugural Kresge Artist Fellowship.

Campbell has been awarded residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Flemish Center for Graphic Arts, the Jentel Foundation, Beisinghoff Print Residency, and the Print Research Institute of North Texas. She taught studio art for 15 years at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and has been a visiting artist in numerous institutions in the United States and abroad. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Toledo Museum of Art, and the University of Michigan Special Collections Library.

This project is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation as part of the Institute for the Humanities' multi-year High Stakes Art initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:54:03 -0500 2024-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition An abstract art image.
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 15, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 15, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
A Gathering (March 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
As Far As There (March 15, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119530 119530-21842946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition entitled "As Far As There," is on view at the Stamps Gallery from March 15 - April 13, 2024. The exhibition features the work of MFA students Simranpreet Kaur Anand, Leah Crosby, Jessie Karlsberger, Abigail Lowe, Stephanie Morissette, and Krista Sheneman. An opening reception will be held on March 15 from 6 - 8 p.m. to celebrate the work of the MFA graduate students.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:15:06 -0400 2024-03-15T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition As Far As There: 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Doner Advertising: What Is An Ad Agency? (March 15, 2024 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118547 118547-21841201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us on March 15, 2024 for a Jain Industry Partnerships Program presentation by Doner Advertising.
This panel discussion will explore topics including:What is the difference between “in-house” design and design that is contracted with an agency? What are the internship programs at Doner that you can explore?
About Doner AdvertisingDoner is a collective of left and right brains alike who come together for creative good. We’re a full-service agency with offices in L.A., Detroit, Chicago and the East Coast. From strategy to creative, we have a spirit of scrappiness that asks, “What If?” And with over 80 years of heritage and forward-thinking, we have the skill to pull it off.About the Jain Industry Partnerships ProgramThe Stamps School is committed to building strategic partnerships with businesses, industry associations, and partners that align corporate social responsibility, networking, recruiting, and philanthropic goals with our numerous curricular initiatives, students, and community-supporting region. We seek to build collaborations that advance a spirit of shared learning where our students gain hands-on experiences that allow them to chart their unique pathways to success and employers gain valuable insights from a generation that will challenge them to think about their business in a whole new way.The Jain Industry Partnership program is a semester-long (January-April) opportunity to engage employers and industry partners with the Stamps School students, programs, and community through meaningful projects, connections, and initiatives to prepare Stamps students for successful and sustainable creative practice and support the strategic initiatives of the school.
Program information is available at: https://stamps.umich.edu/employers/jain-industry-partnerships-programStudents can learn more at: https://stamps.umich.edu/resources/jain-industry-partnerships-program

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Feb 2024 12:15:10 -0500 2024-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion A student received feedback on their portfolio
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 15, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Los Hijos Film Collective (March 15, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119369 119369-21842638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Film collective Los hijos was founded in 2008. Their radical forms of filmic experimentation combined video art, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to deconstruct established and hegemonic narratives about Spanish identity and history. In films like Los materiales (2009), Enero 2012 o el apoteosis de Isabel la Católica (2012) or Árboles (2013), Natalia Marín Sancho, Javier Fernández Vázquez, and Luis López Carrasco touch upon salient issues such as the Spanish colonial presence in Guinea, the legacies of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the widespread consequences of the social and economic crisis of 2008.

Please join us in a series of seminars, workshops, and lectures where Los hijos will reflect on how filmic experimentation can shed a light on colonial domination, political violence, social class discrimination, and racism in contemporary Spain. *All events will be hybrid, by RSVP, and conducted in Spanish.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:17:52 -0500 2024-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Los Hijos Poster
Opening Reception: As Far As There (March 15, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119531 119531-21842964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition entitled "As Far As There," is on view at the Stamps Gallery from March 15 - April 13, 2024. The exhibition features the work of MFA students Simranpreet Kaur Anand, Leah Crosby, Jessie Karlsberger, Abigail Lowe, Stephanie Morissette, and Krista Sheneman. An opening reception will be held on March 15 from 6 - 8 p.m. to celebrate the work of the MFA graduate students.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:15:10 -0500 2024-03-15T18:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House As Far As There: 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 16, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-16T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-16T23:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
A Gathering (March 16, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-16T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 16, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-16T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 16, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-16T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
As Far As There (March 16, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119530 119530-21842947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2024 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition entitled "As Far As There," is on view at the Stamps Gallery from March 15 - April 13, 2024. The exhibition features the work of MFA students Simranpreet Kaur Anand, Leah Crosby, Jessie Karlsberger, Abigail Lowe, Stephanie Morissette, and Krista Sheneman. An opening reception will be held on March 15 from 6 - 8 p.m. to celebrate the work of the MFA graduate students.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:15:06 -0400 2024-03-16T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition As Far As There: 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Curriculum / Collection (March 16, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-16T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 16, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-16T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 16, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-16T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Art for Earth: Free Youth Art Workshops (March 16, 2024 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119516 119516-21842924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2024 11:30am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Embark on a creative journey in nature with the “Youth Art for the Earth” series—dynamic, eco-centric art experiences crafted for middle and high school students. In these sessions, young artists are encouraged to channel their innermost reflections and establish deep connections with the natural world through the powerful language of art.

The workshops encompass outdoor exploration, indoor collage-making, and dedicated time for reflection and sharing. We believe that developing personal ties to the land fosters a sense of place, care for the environment, and mutual consideration.

Middle and high school youth are invited to participate in one of four Youth Art for the Earth workshops, the completed artworks of which will be displayed during MBGNA’s Youth Art exhibition. These workshops will be offered at no cost, with all necessary materials provided. Please note that registration is required.

The completed artworks will be on display during MBGNA’s Youth Art exhibit, running from Saturday, April 20, to Sunday, June 2, 2024. A reception for artists, families, and friends is scheduled for Sunday, June 2, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM in the west lobby.

Free to attend, please register at: myumi.ch/1bmng

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Mar 2024 07:28:26 -0500 2024-03-16T11:30:00-04:00 2024-03-16T14:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Workshop / Seminar Artwork featuring a tree crafted from nature parts such as leaves and flowers, as well as craft gems
Saturday Sampler Tour | Art and Ceramics (March 16, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118771 118771-21841585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This Saturday Sampler Tour will take a close look at a selection of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman ceramics and decorations found in the Kelsey Museum’s collection—allowing us to see how such objects served utilitarian and aesthetic purposes in the ancient world. Learn how past societies used clay to shape all manner of everyday and artistic objects, ranging from small drinking cups to grand vessels covered with detailed painted scenes. Moving from three dimensions to two, this tour will also delve into the art of Roman mural painting by exploring the four Pompeian styles of wall decoration.

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 Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:43:29 -0500 2024-03-16T14:00:00-04:00 2024-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Tours Pyxis with a lid made from buff clay and slip with brown-black glaze. The lid is decorated with concentric circles, while the box has varied patterns of dots and lines.
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 17, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 17, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-17T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-17T23:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
A Gathering (March 17, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 17, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 17, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 17, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 17, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 17, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 17, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 17, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 17, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 17, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 17, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 17, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
Crafting Meeting (March 17, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118180 118180-21840616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 17, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Crochet For Conservation: VIPs Club

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

Time: 2-4pm

Location: Union

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

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

Nonprofit Website: vipsfund.org

Instagram: @vipsfund

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Meeting Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:30:47 -0400 2024-03-17T14:00:00-04:00 2024-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Crochet For Conservation: VIPs Club Meeting VIP's members in handcrafted Michigan gear
The Resonant Power of (Con)texts: (March 17, 2024 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119704 119704-21843430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 17, 2024 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Through both pathbreaking scholarship and mentorship of generations of students around the world, Nancy K. Florida’s work has reimagined diverse fields ranging from Islamic and gender studies to Javanology and philology. This symposium will give colleagues who have engaged with Florida’s work across a variety of fields and disciplines, including many of her former students, the opportunity to present papers in her honor. Join us as we celebrate Professor Florida and her work!

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:01:22 -0500 2024-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 2024-03-17T21:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Conference / Symposium Nancy Florida Poster
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 18, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-18T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 18, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-18T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-18T23:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
The Resonant Power of (Con)texts: (March 18, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119704 119704-21843431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2024 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Through both pathbreaking scholarship and mentorship of generations of students around the world, Nancy K. Florida’s work has reimagined diverse fields ranging from Islamic and gender studies to Javanology and philology. This symposium will give colleagues who have engaged with Florida’s work across a variety of fields and disciplines, including many of her former students, the opportunity to present papers in her honor. Join us as we celebrate Professor Florida and her work!

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:01:22 -0500 2024-03-18T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-18T18:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Asian Languages and Cultures Conference / Symposium Nancy Florida Poster
Garden Repairs (March 18, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116759 116759-21837916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation:
Garden Repairs is an installation of paper textiles that loosely narrate the life cycle of plants. It considers the process of germination as a site for the cross-pollination of ideas from diverse disciplines around the future of the built environment.

About the artist:
Susan Goethel Campbell creates multi-disciplinary work that considers the contemporary landscape to be an emergent system where nature, culture, and the engineered environment are indistinguishable from one another. Central to her practice is the collection, documentation, and observation of seasonal change and ephemera in both natural and artificial environments. Her work is realized in several formats, including installation, video, prints, and drawings, as well as projects that engage communities to look at local and global environments.

Campbell earned an MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and Slovenia and nationally throughout the US, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Queens Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Drawing Center, and The International Print Center New York. In 2009 she was one of 18 artists selected for the inaugural Kresge Artist Fellowship.

Campbell has been awarded residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Flemish Center for Graphic Arts, the Jentel Foundation, Beisinghoff Print Residency, and the Print Research Institute of North Texas. She taught studio art for 15 years at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and has been a visiting artist in numerous institutions in the United States and abroad. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Toledo Museum of Art, and the University of Michigan Special Collections Library.

This project is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation as part of the Institute for the Humanities' multi-year High Stakes Art initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:54:03 -0500 2024-03-18T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition An abstract art image.
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 18, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-18T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 18, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-18T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
L’assemblage (March 18, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119888 119888-21843736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

L’assemblage is the inaugural exhibition by the newly formed Student Exhibition Committee. A collection of student work across media and discipline; the street gallery hosts a multitude of pieces arranged in a salon-style aesthetic. We aim to increase exhibition opportunities for artists on the University of Michigan campus, and here we start.
The exhibition opens with a reception on Monday, March 18 from 4:30 - 6 pm, and will be on view through March 27 in the Stamps Street Gallery at the Art & Architecture Building.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:15:08 -0400 2024-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Poster for L’assemblage exhibition shows colorful works hung on a wall.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (March 18, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

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

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
“My Gender States”: Using Artistic Research for Social Justice and Self-Healing (March 18, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119398 119398-21842676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2024 3:00pm
Location: 2239 Lane Hall
Organized By: Sessions @ Michigan

Currently featured in the exhibit space of Lane Hall is My Gender States, a visual art presentation conceived and brought to life by Professor Rogério M. Pinto (Social Work). The exhibit comprises photographs of assemblage sculptures from The Realm of the Dead, a site-specific installation performance by Pinto, with text from his related one-person play, Marília. These works explore the intersecting and shaping layers of Pinto’s childhood traumas, gender states, and life experience—a story of the struggles, fears, and accomplishments he experienced as an immigrant to the United States. 

A blend of social work and arts research, this project incorporates practice-led, engagement, and design research – visual and performance art practices actively involving both research collaborators and audiences. 

During this in-person talk, Professor Pinto will discuss his ongoing artistic research and practices, emphasizing how artistic research can be used to advance social justice and self-healing. He will also talk about how he has been teaching these concepts to undergraduate and graduate social work and art students. 

About the speaker:
Rogério M. Pinto (Brazilian, American, b. 1965, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is a University Diversity Social Transformation Professor; Berit Ingersoll-Dayton Collegiate Professor of Social Work; and Professor of Theatre and Drama, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, at the University of Michigan. Pinto uses art-based methods to conduct community-engaged research in the United States and Brazil.

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:23:18 -0400 2024-03-18T15:00:00-04:00 2024-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2239 Lane Hall Sessions @ Michigan Presentation A photo of Professor Pinto with the words "My Gender States"
Opening Reception: L’assemblage (March 18, 2024 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120240 120240-21844458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2024 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

L’assemblage is the inaugural exhibition by the newly formed Student Exhibition Committee. A collection of student work across media and discipline; the street gallery hosts a multitude of pieces arranged in a salon-style aesthetic. We aim to increase exhibition opportunities for artists on the University of Michigan campus, and here we start.
The exhibition opens with a reception on Monday, March 18 from 4:30 - 6 pm, and will be on view through March 27 in the Stamps Street Gallery at the Art & Architecture Building.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:15:09 -0400 2024-03-18T16:30:00-04:00 2024-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House Poster for L’assemblage exhibition shows colorful works hung on a wall.
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 19, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 19, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T23:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
Garden Repairs (March 19, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116759 116759-21837917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation:
Garden Repairs is an installation of paper textiles that loosely narrate the life cycle of plants. It considers the process of germination as a site for the cross-pollination of ideas from diverse disciplines around the future of the built environment.

About the artist:
Susan Goethel Campbell creates multi-disciplinary work that considers the contemporary landscape to be an emergent system where nature, culture, and the engineered environment are indistinguishable from one another. Central to her practice is the collection, documentation, and observation of seasonal change and ephemera in both natural and artificial environments. Her work is realized in several formats, including installation, video, prints, and drawings, as well as projects that engage communities to look at local and global environments.

Campbell earned an MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and Slovenia and nationally throughout the US, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Queens Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Drawing Center, and The International Print Center New York. In 2009 she was one of 18 artists selected for the inaugural Kresge Artist Fellowship.

Campbell has been awarded residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Flemish Center for Graphic Arts, the Jentel Foundation, Beisinghoff Print Residency, and the Print Research Institute of North Texas. She taught studio art for 15 years at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and has been a visiting artist in numerous institutions in the United States and abroad. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Toledo Museum of Art, and the University of Michigan Special Collections Library.

This project is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation as part of the Institute for the Humanities' multi-year High Stakes Art initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:54:03 -0500 2024-03-19T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition An abstract art image.
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 19, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-19T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 19, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-19T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
A Gathering (March 19, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 19, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 19, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 19, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 19, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 19, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
L’assemblage (March 19, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119888 119888-21844449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

L’assemblage is the inaugural exhibition by the newly formed Student Exhibition Committee. A collection of student work across media and discipline; the street gallery hosts a multitude of pieces arranged in a salon-style aesthetic. We aim to increase exhibition opportunities for artists on the University of Michigan campus, and here we start.
The exhibition opens with a reception on Monday, March 18 from 4:30 - 6 pm, and will be on view through March 27 in the Stamps Street Gallery at the Art & Architecture Building.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:15:08 -0400 2024-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Poster for L’assemblage exhibition shows colorful works hung on a wall.
"Too Jewish or not Jewish Enough" Book Launch (March 19, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117625 117625-21839716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join Larry Silver (University of Pennsylvania) and Deirdre Hennebury (Michigan Museum Studies) as they discuss Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough: Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York with author Jeffrey Abt (Frankel Institute). An exploration of the museum’s origins and early history, this book focuses on the period when it evolved from displaying Jewish ritual objects, to Jewish art, to avant-garde art devoid of Jewish content, created by non-Jews. Established within a rabbinic seminary, the museum’s story reflects changes in Jewish society over the twentieth century as it struggled to balance competing values of religion and secularism, particularism and universalism, and ethnic pride and assimilation.

Jeffrey Abt is a Professor Emeritus at Wayne State University. He earned BFA and MFA degrees in painting at Drake University, working primarily with Jules Kirschenbaum; and he subsequently studied at the Jerusalem campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Prior to Wayne State, he worked at the Wichita Art Museum; the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago; and Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art. An artist and writer, he has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad; and his artwork is in several museum and corporate collections. His books include American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute (University of Chicago Press), Valuing Detroit's Art Museum: A History of Fiscal Abandonment and Rescue (Palgrave Macmillan), and Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough: Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York (Berghahn).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:27:47 -0500 2024-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough: Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 19, 2024 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 5:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 2024-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
We Start with the Things We Find (March 19, 2024 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119602 119602-21843059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 6:30pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND: a LOT-EK film screening and talk-back event with director Thomas Piper and designers Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano.

Look at things differently. LOT-EK’s inspirational art and architectural work reconsiders our modern economy through the icon of globalization, the shipping container.

If we pay enough attention to the ordinary, we see the extraordinary. The shipping container is an accidental icon of our modern age: the eight-foot-by-forty-foot corrugated steel box that brings the world to our doorstep. It brings all our hearts’ desires’, available for purchase. And it brings us complicity in the global supply chains, and all the economic, ecological, technological, and political systems that forge those chains, as those great container ships link maker and user, buyer and seller, China and America together across the vast distances of the lawless sea. The design studio LOT-EK is a visionary practice at the intersection of art and architecture, that specializes in upcycling, which is the art and science of repurposing, remaking, rethinking, reimagining. Of using old things in new ways. The shipping container is the thing that has captured their imagination for over a quarter-century: they have remade containers into homes, schools, galleries, libraries, and more. With hundreds of millions of obsolete and unused containers around the world, this is a new and necessary architecture of the future, that repairs and regenerates the unnatural environment that we have inherited from the past.

WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND is a feature-length documentary of this vision, and of the soulful lifelong partnership of the people, designers Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, behind it. WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND shows us a way to be radically optimistic, creative, and construc-tive during times that can feel the opposite of all that. Director Thomas Piper’s acclaimed documentary feature Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf showed how wild and unfavored plants could encourage audiences to live more responsibly with nature, and now he looks at living more smartly and sweetly with the effects of industry, infrastructure, and technology. Taking us from spark-filled workshops to a container ship sea voyage over a shimmering sea; and explaining all the prosaic and poetic design thinking behind how LOT-EK brings the container to life, the film shows how all we have can become all we need, how resourceful subsistence can feel like beautiful abundance, and how to keep going when we now know there is no such thing as a fresh start. The film is a humanist essay not only about a new kind of design thinking, but about a new design for life.

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Film Screening Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:07:41 -0400 2024-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 2024-03-19T20:30:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Film Screening Image
Writer to Writer with Petra Kuppers (March 19, 2024 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119215 119215-21842340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Sweetland's Writer to Writer series lets you hear directly from University of Michigan professors about their challenges, processes, and expectations as writers and also as readers of student writing. Each semester, Writer to Writer pairs one esteemed University professor with a Sweetland faculty member for a conversation about writing.

These conversations offer students a rare glimpse into the writing that professors do outside the classroom. You can hear instructors from various disciplines describe how they handle the same challenges student writers face, from finding a thesis to managing deadlines. Professors will also discuss what they want from student writers in their courses, and will take questions put forth by students and by other members of the University community. If there's anything you've ever wanted to ask a professor about writing, Writer to Writer gives you the chance.

This month Writer to Writer presents a conversation with Petra Kuppers via Zoom.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsduitpzoiH9fAB_BfTFnX1emQ0SbZKthg

Petra Kuppers (she/her) is a community performance artist and a disability culture activist. She uses social somatics, performance, and speculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. Petra is the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture at the University of Michigan.

Her artistry is grounded in the twin experiences of pain and joy. She has lived with chronic pain all her life, but her love of movement expresses itself in multiple ways: pushing against established definitions of what dance can be, and realigning connections between movement and writing. Her experimentation in creative somatics have allowed her to create community projects of embodied dreaming.

Her third performance poetry collection, Gut Botany (Wayne State University Press, 2020), won the 2022 Creative Book Award by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Her fourth collection, Diver Beneath the Street – true crime meets ecopoetry at the level of the soil – appears with Wayne State University Press in February 2024. Kuppers also writes academic books. Her latest, Eco Soma: Joy and Pain in Speculative Performance Encounters (University of Minnesota Press, 2022, open access), has received honorable mentions by the National Dance Educators' Organization’s Ruth Murray Book Award, the British Theatre and Performance Research Association’s’ David Bradby Monograph Award, and was shortlisted for the de la Torre Bueno Prize by the Dance Studies Association.

Petra was a 2022/2023 Dance/USA Fellow and is a 2023/24 Guggenheim Fellow.

She is Artistic Director of The Olimpias, an international disability culture collective, and co-creates Turtle Disco, a somatic writing studio, with her wife, poet and dancer Stephanie Heit.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Feb 2024 13:42:15 -0500 2024-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 2024-03-19T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Lecture / Discussion Writer to Writer flyer
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 20, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 20, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T23:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
Garden Repairs (March 20, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116759 116759-21837918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation:
Garden Repairs is an installation of paper textiles that loosely narrate the life cycle of plants. It considers the process of germination as a site for the cross-pollination of ideas from diverse disciplines around the future of the built environment.

About the artist:
Susan Goethel Campbell creates multi-disciplinary work that considers the contemporary landscape to be an emergent system where nature, culture, and the engineered environment are indistinguishable from one another. Central to her practice is the collection, documentation, and observation of seasonal change and ephemera in both natural and artificial environments. Her work is realized in several formats, including installation, video, prints, and drawings, as well as projects that engage communities to look at local and global environments.

Campbell earned an MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and Slovenia and nationally throughout the US, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Queens Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Drawing Center, and The International Print Center New York. In 2009 she was one of 18 artists selected for the inaugural Kresge Artist Fellowship.

Campbell has been awarded residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Flemish Center for Graphic Arts, the Jentel Foundation, Beisinghoff Print Residency, and the Print Research Institute of North Texas. She taught studio art for 15 years at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and has been a visiting artist in numerous institutions in the United States and abroad. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Toledo Museum of Art, and the University of Michigan Special Collections Library.

This project is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation as part of the Institute for the Humanities' multi-year High Stakes Art initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:54:03 -0500 2024-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition An abstract art image.
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 20, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 20, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 20, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (March 20, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

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

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Barriers Beyond Roe (March 20, 2024 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/120185 120185-21844203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

"Barriers Beyond Roe" is an interdisciplinary workshop tackling the obstacles abortion providers encounter within the built environment. Join Lori A. Brown, Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University School of Architecture, and Dr. Sarah Wallet, Chief Medical Operating Officer for Planned Parenthood of Michigan, as we unite across disciplines to drive meaningful change. Let's collaborate, exchange ideas, and take action together to make a tangible impact.

Link for registration: https://www.dogoodwork.org/barriersbeyondroe

Format: Interdisciplinary workshop (spots limited) + panel (hybrid/open to public)

Please note: Registration is required for both segments. The workshop operates on a first-come, first-served basis. In the event of reaching maximum capacity, you will receive a link to join the panel virtually.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:12:51 -0400 2024-03-20T10:30:00-04:00 2024-03-20T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Workshop / Seminar image
A Gathering (March 20, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 20, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 20, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
As Far As There (March 20, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119530 119530-21842948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition entitled "As Far As There," is on view at the Stamps Gallery from March 15 - April 13, 2024. The exhibition features the work of MFA students Simranpreet Kaur Anand, Leah Crosby, Jessie Karlsberger, Abigail Lowe, Stephanie Morissette, and Krista Sheneman. An opening reception will be held on March 15 from 6 - 8 p.m. to celebrate the work of the MFA graduate students.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:15:06 -0400 2024-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition As Far As There: 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Curriculum / Collection (March 20, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 20, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 20, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
L’assemblage (March 20, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119888 119888-21844450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

L’assemblage is the inaugural exhibition by the newly formed Student Exhibition Committee. A collection of student work across media and discipline; the street gallery hosts a multitude of pieces arranged in a salon-style aesthetic. We aim to increase exhibition opportunities for artists on the University of Michigan campus, and here we start.
The exhibition opens with a reception on Monday, March 18 from 4:30 - 6 pm, and will be on view through March 27 in the Stamps Street Gallery at the Art & Architecture Building.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:15:08 -0400 2024-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-20T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Poster for L’assemblage exhibition shows colorful works hung on a wall.
Argentine Tango Lessons for All (March 20, 2024 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114635 114635-21833169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 6:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Michigan Argentine Tango Club

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

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Class / Instruction Mon, 30 Oct 2023 11:17:12 -0400 2024-03-20T18:30:00-04:00 2024-03-20T21:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Michigan Argentine Tango Club Class / Instruction Moment from a MATC Class
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 21, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 21, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T23:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
Garden Repairs (March 21, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116759 116759-21837919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation:
Garden Repairs is an installation of paper textiles that loosely narrate the life cycle of plants. It considers the process of germination as a site for the cross-pollination of ideas from diverse disciplines around the future of the built environment.

About the artist:
Susan Goethel Campbell creates multi-disciplinary work that considers the contemporary landscape to be an emergent system where nature, culture, and the engineered environment are indistinguishable from one another. Central to her practice is the collection, documentation, and observation of seasonal change and ephemera in both natural and artificial environments. Her work is realized in several formats, including installation, video, prints, and drawings, as well as projects that engage communities to look at local and global environments.

Campbell earned an MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and Slovenia and nationally throughout the US, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Queens Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Drawing Center, and The International Print Center New York. In 2009 she was one of 18 artists selected for the inaugural Kresge Artist Fellowship.

Campbell has been awarded residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Flemish Center for Graphic Arts, the Jentel Foundation, Beisinghoff Print Residency, and the Print Research Institute of North Texas. She taught studio art for 15 years at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and has been a visiting artist in numerous institutions in the United States and abroad. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Toledo Museum of Art, and the University of Michigan Special Collections Library.

This project is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation as part of the Institute for the Humanities' multi-year High Stakes Art initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:54:03 -0500 2024-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition An abstract art image.
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 21, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 21, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 21, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
A Gathering (March 21, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 21, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 21, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 21, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 21, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 21, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
As Far As There (March 21, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119530 119530-21842949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition entitled "As Far As There," is on view at the Stamps Gallery from March 15 - April 13, 2024. The exhibition features the work of MFA students Simranpreet Kaur Anand, Leah Crosby, Jessie Karlsberger, Abigail Lowe, Stephanie Morissette, and Krista Sheneman. An opening reception will be held on March 15 from 6 - 8 p.m. to celebrate the work of the MFA graduate students.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:15:06 -0400 2024-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition As Far As There: 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition
L’assemblage (March 21, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119888 119888-21844451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

L’assemblage is the inaugural exhibition by the newly formed Student Exhibition Committee. A collection of student work across media and discipline; the street gallery hosts a multitude of pieces arranged in a salon-style aesthetic. We aim to increase exhibition opportunities for artists on the University of Michigan campus, and here we start.
The exhibition opens with a reception on Monday, March 18 from 4:30 - 6 pm, and will be on view through March 27 in the Stamps Street Gallery at the Art & Architecture Building.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:15:08 -0400 2024-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Poster for L’assemblage exhibition shows colorful works hung on a wall.
Susan Goethel Campbell's Artists' Books (March 21, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119275 119275-21842515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Drop in during this open house to view books in our collection by artist Susan Goethel Campbell. Campbell is currently featured in the Institute for the Humanities exhibition, Garden Repairs, an installation of paper textiles that loosely narrate the life cycle of plants. Campbell creates multi-disciplinary work that considers the contemporary landscape to be an emergent system where nature, culture, and the engineered environment are indistinguishable from one another. Light refreshments will be served.

Join us for this Third Thursdays at the Library series, where curators share highlights from the library's vast collections.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:02:10 -0500 2024-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2024-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Reception / Open House Artist book by Susan Goethel Campbell.
Penny Stamps Speaker Series - CW&T (March 21, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116244 116244-21836494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

CW&T is the recipient of the 2022 National Design Award for Product Design from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. CW&T started as and remains the two-person design practice of Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy. With backgrounds in Architecture, Film and Computer Science, the duo met at NYU ITP where they began their scale- and medium-agnostic approach to design.

Since 2009, CW&T’s work has spanned from interactive software to human-scaled tools that enhance their relationships to work, life, and time. Their practice centers around an iterative process of sketching, prototyping, testing, writing code, machining parts, and building each edition themselves to assess their intuitions around improving their everyday experiences. Their projects have included devices that alter our perception of time, an electronics curriculum for artists, an astrological compass for space travelers, and objects engineered to last multiple generations.

Sharing their process with their community is essential to their practice. CW&T cultivates an ethos of openness through teaching and open source software and hardware. Their pedagogy extends into the home/studio where they host office hours to lend a hand, or offer insight to anyone interested in figuring out how to make something themselves.

Wang and Levy speak extensively on design and technology as a creative medium. They have taught courses on time, electronics, hardware, programming, inflatables, and morphology at Pratt Institute, New York University, and the School for Poetic Computation. CW&T live and work in their Brooklyn-based studio and prototyping shop.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:43:08 -0500 2024-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 2024-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion CW&T
Elizabeth Cree (March 21, 2024 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108308 108308-21819267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 7:30pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

A one-act chamber opera based on Peter Ackroyd's "downright exhilarating" (*LA Times*) novel, *The Trial of Elizabeth Cree*.

Set in London in the 1880s, this highly suspenseful and theatrical opera interweaves several narratives: the trial of the titular heroine for the poisoning of her husband; a series of brutal murders committed by a Jack the Ripper-style killer; the spirited world of an English music hall; and, finally, some “guest appearances” by luminaries from the Victorian Age. *Elizabeth Cree* is a work that combines the factual with the fictional and the historical with the imaginary.

Originally produced by Opera Philadelphia in September 2017

Composed by Kevin Puts
Libretto by Mark Campbell
Sung in English
Directed by Gregory Keller
Conducted by Kirk Severtson

FUN FACTS: Composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell previously teamed up on the Pulitzer Prize-winning *Silent Night*.

*For ages 17+. This opera contains depictions of murder and execution.*

Watch a brief preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD1m69fiOiQ

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Performance Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:16:32 -0400 2024-03-21T19:30:00-04:00 2024-03-21T22:30:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Elizabeth Cree
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 22, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
DigiPaint 2023 Zine Exhibition: Dreams and Nightmares (March 22, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119649 119649-21843228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 8:00am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit, created by the student organization DigiPaint, showcases 22 illustrations created by participating club members. Each year, DigiPaint produces a zine featuring art created in response to a thematic prompt. The pieces on display have been printed from the 2023 zine, "Dreams and Nightmares."

DigiPaint is the University of Michigan’s first student organization dedicated to digital painting. Founded in 2021, it has sought to create a community for digital artists from all backgrounds, regardless of major, level of skill, and experience.

Sponsored by U-M Arts Initiative and hosted in partnership with U-M Library.

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Exhibition Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:51:16 -0500 2024-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T23:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Exhibition Cover created by Mari Kamidoi, productions officer for DigiPaint.
Garden Repairs (March 22, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116759 116759-21837920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation:
Garden Repairs is an installation of paper textiles that loosely narrate the life cycle of plants. It considers the process of germination as a site for the cross-pollination of ideas from diverse disciplines around the future of the built environment.

About the artist:
Susan Goethel Campbell creates multi-disciplinary work that considers the contemporary landscape to be an emergent system where nature, culture, and the engineered environment are indistinguishable from one another. Central to her practice is the collection, documentation, and observation of seasonal change and ephemera in both natural and artificial environments. Her work is realized in several formats, including installation, video, prints, and drawings, as well as projects that engage communities to look at local and global environments.

Campbell earned an MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and Slovenia and nationally throughout the US, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Queens Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Drawing Center, and The International Print Center New York. In 2009 she was one of 18 artists selected for the inaugural Kresge Artist Fellowship.

Campbell has been awarded residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Flemish Center for Graphic Arts, the Jentel Foundation, Beisinghoff Print Residency, and the Print Research Institute of North Texas. She taught studio art for 15 years at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and has been a visiting artist in numerous institutions in the United States and abroad. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Toledo Museum of Art, and the University of Michigan Special Collections Library.

This project is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation as part of the Institute for the Humanities' multi-year High Stakes Art initiative.

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Exhibition Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:54:03 -0500 2024-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition An abstract art image.
Peter Dunn Exhibition (March 22, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116532 116532-21837344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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

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Exhibition Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:13:39 -0500 2024-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Peter Dunn Exhibition
Stamps School of Art and Design Staff Exhibition (March 22, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116536 116536-21837503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

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

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:11:45 -0500 2024-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition North Campus Research Complex Building 18
28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (March 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/115481 115481-21834882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The *28th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons* (March 19 - April 2, 2024) showcases the hard work and talents of artists incarcerated in Michigan prisons.

The work is by men and women from all 25 state prisons in both the upper and the lower peninsulas: 24 men’s prisons and 1 women’s prison.

This year there are hundreds of works in two and three dimensions, including portraits, tattoo imagery, landscapes, fantasy, and wildlife as well as images about incarceration and visions that are entirely new.

The artwork you see at the exhibit is a testament to the resilience of artists and the life-giving power of art under the most difficult of circumstances–incarceration, isolation, and unimaginable loss. It is an important reminder of the connections that sustain us all, in the free world and behind the walls.

We invite you to enjoy the work and, if you like, make a purchase. All proceeds, minus necessary taxes and fees, go directly to the artists.

The exhibition opens March 19th:
5:00 PM Gallery/sales open
5:30 PM Reception & light refreshments
6:30 PM Celebration program begins
*Free accessible shuttle service available on opening night*
*4:30 - 8:30 PM, running every half-hour*
*Loops to the exhibit from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd., right off of US-23)*

March 20th to April 1st, gallery hours for the exhibit are:
Sunday–Monday: 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 AM–7:00 PM

April 2nd gallery is open until 5:00 PM. Art Pick-Up begins at 5:00 PM

Presented with support from U-M Residential College and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council

*The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. Live captioning will be available at all events surrounding the exhibition. We are pleased to provide additional reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please contact Sarah Unrath at pcapexhibits@umich or 734.615.5643 if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations.*

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Exhibition Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:49:35 -0400 2024-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Jason Daniels, Memory, 2022
A Gathering (March 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 107870-21817761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:50 -0500 2024-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Suchitra Mattai, Bodies and souls, 2021, fabric (salwar kameez and saris), metallic thread, and sequins on vintage frame. Museum Purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2022, 2022/1.55E. © Suchitra Mattai  
Andrea Carlson Future Cache (March 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95387 95387-21789310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:48 -0500 2024-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Andrea Carlson, "Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia. (March 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114750 114750-21833457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Care in Uncertain Times

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:49 -0500 2024-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Pete Pin, Shorty, 28, shows his Killing Fields tattoo, Philadelphia, PA, 2011, photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Pete Pin
Curriculum / Collection (March 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86001 86001-21795842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:47 -0500 2024-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?, 1965–70, photolithograph on paper. Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick, 2000/2.14.15  
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
We Write To You About Africa (March 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84304 84304-21622097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:52 -0500 2024-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Lamidi Fakeye, Flute Player, before 1967, carved wood. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Lynn and Warren Tacha, 2019/2.80 © Lamidi Fakeye
As Far As There (March 22, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119530 119530-21842950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition entitled "As Far As There," is on view at the Stamps Gallery from March 15 - April 13, 2024. The exhibition features the work of MFA students Simranpreet Kaur Anand, Leah Crosby, Jessie Karlsberger, Abigail Lowe, Stephanie Morissette, and Krista Sheneman. An opening reception will be held on March 15 from 6 - 8 p.m. to celebrate the work of the MFA graduate students.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:15:06 -0400 2024-03-22T11:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition As Far As There: 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Anedged: 2024 MFA First Year Exhibition (March 22, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119889 119889-21843737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

This annual celebration of the work of Stamps MFA in Art candidates features work by first-year students:
Hannah BuchananSam GriffithLaura MackieAndy MaticorenaCharlie ReynoldsDarren SpirkCress Thibodeaux
The 2024 MFA First Year Exhibition takes place March 22 - April 29, 2024 at the Stamps Graduate/Faculty Studios, 1919 Green Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
Join us at the public exhibition reception on Friday, March 22 from 6-8pm (no RSVP required). Viewings March 23-April 29 are available by appointment only; please contact Hannah Buchanan to arrange a visit.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:15:07 -0400 2024-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Image shows equal vertical selections of work by first year Stamps MFA students.
L’assemblage (March 22, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119888 119888-21844452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

L’assemblage is the inaugural exhibition by the newly formed Student Exhibition Committee. A collection of student work across media and discipline; the street gallery hosts a multitude of pieces arranged in a salon-style aesthetic. We aim to increase exhibition opportunities for artists on the University of Michigan campus, and here we start.
The exhibition opens with a reception on Monday, March 18 from 4:30 - 6 pm, and will be on view through March 27 in the Stamps Street Gallery at the Art & Architecture Building.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:15:08 -0400 2024-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Poster for L’assemblage exhibition shows colorful works hung on a wall.
Bombas: Blending Mission with Design (March 22, 2024 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118548 118548-21841202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us on March 15, 2024 for a Jain Industry Partnerships Program presentation by Aaron Wolk, Bombas co-founder, chief creative officer, and Stamps alum, on the personal journey in design that led him to create the mission-driven company.

About BombasBombas is a comfort focused apparel brand with a mission to help those in need. We make the things that you live in, the things you move in, the elevated versions of the things you wear closest to your body every day. Socks, underwear and tees, but with premium materials and a big focus on fit for real bodies. Our mission since day one has been to help those experiencing homelessness. That’s why for every item purchased, we donate one to those in need. We’ve donated more than 100 million items to more than 3,500 community organizations to date.About the Jain Industry Partnerships ProgramThe Stamps School is committed to building strategic partnerships with businesses, industry associations, and partners that align corporate social responsibility, networking, recruiting, and philanthropic goals with our numerous curricular initiatives, students, and community-supporting region. We seek to build collaborations that advance a spirit of shared learning where our students gain hands-on experiences that allow them to chart their unique pathways to success and employers gain valuable insights from a generation that will challenge them to think about their business in a whole new way.The Jain Industry Partnership program is a semester-long (January-April) opportunity to engage employers and industry partners with the Stamps School students, programs, and community through meaningful projects, connections, and initiatives to prepare Stamps students for successful and sustainable creative practice and support the strategic initiatives of the school.
Program information is available at: https://stamps.umich.edu/employers/jain-industry-partnerships-programStudents can learn more at: https://stamps.umich.edu/resources/jain-industry-partnerships-program

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Feb 2024 12:15:11 -0500 2024-03-22T13:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion A student received feedback on their portfolio
Opening Reception: 2024 MFA First Year Exhibition (March 22, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119890 119890-21843776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

This annual celebration of the work of Stamps MFA in Art candidates features work by first-year students:
Hannah BuchananSam GriffithLaura MackieAndy MaticorenaCharlie ReynoldsDarren SpirkCress Thibodeaux
The 2024 MFA First Year Exhibition takes place March 22 - April 29, 2024 at the Stamps Graduate/Faculty Studios, 1919 Green Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
Join us at the public exhibition reception on Friday, March 22 from 6-8pm (no RSVP required). Viewings March 23-April 29 are available by appointment only; please contact Hannah Buchanan to arrange a visit.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:15:09 -0400 2024-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House Image shows equal vertical selections of work by first year Stamps MFA students.
Michigan Gayly Crafts Night (March 22, 2024 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120137 120137-21844111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Michigan Gayly: LGBT Issues

Come join us Friday March 22nd 7-8:30pm for a night full of arts, crafts, and cool vibes! There will be a crochet demo led by our very own, Atticus and supplies will be provided.

Cannot wait to see everyone at the Spectrum Center <3

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:55:05 -0400 2024-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union The Michigan Gayly: LGBT Issues Social / Informal Gathering Flyer for Michigan Gayly's Craft Night March 22nd at 7pm in the Spectrum Center
Sullivan Fortner and Ambrose Akinmusire (March 22, 2024 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109642 109642-21822444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 7:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and pianist Sullivan Fortner join forces for a concert at the intersection of jazz and Western European chamber music.

During his 15-year career, Akinmusire has paradoxically situated himself in both the center and the periphery of jazz, most recently emerging in both classical and hip-hop circles. He masterfully weaves inspiration from other genres, arts, and life in general into compositions that are as poetic and graceful as they are bold and unflinching. Sullivan Fortner, who has performed in Hill Auditorium as part of Joshua Redman’s MoodSwing Reunion tour (filling in for Brad Mehldau) and with Cécile McLorin Salvant, has been stretching his deep-rooted talents as a pianist for the past decade.

The longtime collaborators are preparing a concert program unique to UMS that will overlap the sonic exploration of composers and textures related to both chamber music and creative improvisation. Their duet program will consist of songs and materials inspired by the collaboration between Louis Armstrong and Earl “Fatha” Hines.

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:47:03 -0400 2024-03-22T19:30:00-04:00 2024-03-22T21:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Fortner and Akinmusire
Elizabeth Cree (March 22, 2024 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113748 113748-21831538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 8:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

A one-act chamber opera based on Peter Ackroyd's "downright exhilarating" (*LA Times*) novel, *The Trial of Elizabeth Cree*.

Set in London in the 1880s, this highly suspenseful and theatrical opera interweaves several narratives: the trial of the titular heroine for the poisoning of her husband; a series of brutal murders committed by a Jack the Ripper-style killer; the spirited world of an English music hall; and, finally, some “guest appearances” by luminaries from the Victorian Age. *Elizabeth Cree* is a work that combines the factual with the fictional and the historical with the imaginary.

Originally produced by Opera Philadelphia in September 2017

Composed by Kevin Puts
Libretto by Mark Campbell
Sung in English
Directed by Gregory Keller
Conducted by Kirk Severtson

FUN FACTS: Composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell previously teamed up on the Pulitzer Prize-winning *Silent Night*.

*For ages 17+. This opera contains depictions of murder and execution.*

Watch a brief preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD1m69fiOiQ

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Performance Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:16:33 -0400 2024-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 2024-03-22T23:00:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Elizabeth Cree