Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Shared Humanity (August 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-14T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-14T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
Shared Humanity (August 15, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 15, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-15T08:30:00-04:00 2022-08-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 15, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 15, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-15T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-15T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Shared Humanity (August 16, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-16T08:30:00-04:00 2022-08-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 16, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-16T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-16T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Shared Humanity (August 17, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-17T08:30:00-04:00 2022-08-17T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 17, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-17T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-17T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Shared Humanity (August 18, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 18, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-18T08:30:00-04:00 2022-08-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-18T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-18T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Shared Humanity (August 19, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 19, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-19T08:30:00-04:00 2022-08-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 19, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 19, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-19T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-19T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
The Clements Bookworm: The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The World of The United States' First Forgotten Celebrity (August 19, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95520 95520-21790033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 19, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was a deeply ambitious but impoverished teacher. By the time he returned to Britain in 1817, he had become a bona fide celebrity known simply as Mr. O, counting the nation’s leading politicians and intellectuals among his admirers. And then, like so many meteoric American luminaries afterward, he fell from grace.

The Strange Genius of Mr. O is at once the biography of a remarkable performer--a gaunt Scottish orator who appeared in a toga--and a story of the United States during the founding era.

Why should we care about a now-forgotten celebrity of the early 19th century? Carolyn Eastman (Associate Professor of History, Virginia Commonwealth University) examines an explosive celebrity performer who captivated audiences at a key moment in the founding era, a man whose career featured many of the hallmarks of celebrity we recognize from later eras: glamorous friends, eccentric clothing, scandalous religious views, and even a drug habit. And yet examining his career and the Americans who loved (or hated) him reveals a vivid portrait of the United States in the midst of invention.

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Presentation Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:49:33 -0400 2022-08-19T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-19T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Presentation Carolyn Eastman pictured with the cover of her book, "The Strange Genius of Mr. O"
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 20, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 20, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-20T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-20T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Shared Humanity (August 20, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 20, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-20T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-21T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-21T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Shared Humanity (August 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-21T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-21T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
Shared Humanity (August 22, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 22, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-22T08:30:00-04:00 2022-08-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 22, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 22, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-22T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-22T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Shared Humanity (August 23, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-23T08:30:00-04:00 2022-08-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 23, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-23T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-23T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Shared Humanity (August 24, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-24T08:30:00-04:00 2022-08-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 24, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-24T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-24T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 24, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-24T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-24T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Shared Humanity (August 25, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 25, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-25T08:30:00-04:00 2022-08-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (August 25, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 25, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-08-25T09:00:00-04:00 2022-08-25T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 25, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 25, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-25T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-25T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 25, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 25, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-25T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-25T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
IGDA Ann Arbor : Matthew Stone (Elder Scrolls Online / Halo / Warframe) (August 25, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96514 96514-21792611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 25, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Wolverine Soft

==Guest Lecturer==
Matthew Stone (ZeniMax Online / 343 Industries / Digital Extremes)

Step into the world of game design and studio culture as IGDA Ann Arbor welcomes Elder Scrolls Online / Halo Infinite Content Designer (and Wolverine alum) Matthew Stone!

(NOTE : Free pizza will be served).

==Special Note : Live-Streamed Event!==
Please join us at...
- https://discord.gg/AzG58HBmst
- https://www.twitch.tv/igda_annarbor

==Community Showcase ~ SIGN UP ==
https://forms.gle/qRsMBzx121Xz3ef2A
Have a project you're working on? Looking for feedback, teammates, or advice? Don't be a stranger! Register via the above form and prepare your 5-minute demo / pitch (with 5 minutes of Q&A).

== Resources ==
MI Game Studios Database : https://michigangamestudios.com
Twitter : https://twitter.com/IGDA2_Official
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/IGDA-Ann-Arbor-143150996287453/
Discord : https://discord.gg/AzG58HBmst

==IGDA Resources==
https://igda.org/resources/harassment/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Aug 2022 15:56:01 -0400 2022-08-25T19:00:00-04:00 2022-08-25T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Wolverine Soft Lecture / Discussion Matthew Stone joins IGDA Ann Arbor
Shared Humanity (August 26, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 26, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-26T08:30:00-04:00 2022-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (August 26, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 26, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-08-26T09:00:00-04:00 2022-08-26T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 26, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 26, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-26T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-26T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (August 26, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 26, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-08-26T11:00:00-04:00 2022-08-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 26, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 26, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-26T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-26T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Artscapade! (August 26, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95719 95719-21790784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 26, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan and UMMA celebrate Welcome Week by introducing students to the wide array of possibilities for arts participation on campus at an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes.

Also, we're looking for volunteers for this event-- help us make it happen (and get a free Artscapade t-shirt in the process!): http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

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Reception / Open House Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:27:46 -0400 2022-08-26T18:00:00-04:00 2022-08-26T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Reception / Open House Artscapade poster
Artscapade! (August 26, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97379 97379-21794495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 26, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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UMMA and Arts at Michigan celebrate Welcome Week by introducing new University of Michigan students to the Museum of Art for an evening of  live music, performances, dance, poetry, film, games, prize raffle, and a variety of art-making activities.  During the event, students will  have the opportunity to become familiar with the Museum and everything it has to offer, as well as experience the wide array of possibilities for arts participation across campus. 

All students, faculty and staff on the Ann Arbor (including Michigan Medicine), Dearborn and Flint campuses are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and submit their vaccination information by August 30. In addition, masks will be required in all indoor spaces and social distancing guidelines will be in place.

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

 

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Presentation Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:16:16 -0400 2022-08-26T18:00:00-04:00 2022-08-26T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 27, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 27, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-27T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-27T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Shared Humanity (August 27, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 27, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-27T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-27T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (August 27, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 27, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-08-27T11:00:00-04:00 2022-08-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 28, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 28, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-28T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-28T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Shared Humanity (August 28, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 28, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-28T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-28T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
Watershed for Families (August 28, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95920 95920-21791436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 28, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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In Watershed, fifteen contemporary artists explore the interconnected histories, present lives, and imagined futures of the Great Lakes region.

UMMA and the U-M Natural History Museum invite families with children ages 5 and up to drop in this summer to explore the artworks and learn about what we need to make a healthy environment.

Free, no registration required. Recommended age: 5 and up.

Sunday, August 28, 2022 from 1 to 4 pm: Healthy Rivers at U-M Museum of Natural History Build a river and watch what happens during a flood! You'll learn more about rivers and watersheds at this hands-on event. Dip your hands into our 10-foot model of a river and work together with others on an art activity to learn how rivers form and what it takes to keep water fresh and safe. How does pollution spread? How do we limit erosion? How do the ways people use land affect a river?   

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Susan and Richard Gutow, and the U-M Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, Graham Sustainability Institute, and the Department of English Language and Literature. Special thanks to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin.  

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:16:39 -0400 2022-08-28T13:00:00-04:00 2022-08-28T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Shared Humanity (August 29, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 29, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-29T08:30:00-04:00 2022-08-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (August 29, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 29, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-08-29T09:00:00-04:00 2022-08-29T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 29, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 29, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-29T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-29T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Shared Humanity (August 30, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-30T08:30:00-04:00 2022-08-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (August 30, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-08-30T09:00:00-04:00 2022-08-30T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 30, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-30T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Shared Humanity (August 31, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95561 95561-21790154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Shared Humanity exhibition sales pick-up

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Exhibition Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:00:10 -0400 2022-08-31T08:00:00-04:00 2022-08-31T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
Shared Humanity (August 31, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95559 95559-21792522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

July 30 - August 31, 2022
Mon-Fri from 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Gallery 100 at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118
Parking available near the main entrance. Please sign in and screen yourself in the entryway.

Additional Information: https://myumi.ch/Nmx2j

Beginning Saturday, July 30, the exhibit Shared Humanity will be featured at Silver Maples in Chelsea from the Prison Creative Arts Project’s (PCAP) private collection. The artwork is for sale and will be on display in the 100 Gallery through August 31, 2022.

According to Sarah Unrath, Curator and Arts Programming Coordinator of PCAP, “the exhibition is designed to connect viewer to artist through the wide gamut of their human experiences. We all have dreams, memories, goals, pasts. We all process emotions of anger, joy, grief, nostalgia. We have specially selected works that show a culmination of ways artists in prison have dealt with complex realities of being human.”

The curatorial staff at PCAP worked closely with artists who were formerly incarcerated, and the team at Silver Maples, to select works that would fit the theme of this exhibition and be of interest to the broader audience. Visitors will see works from familiar artists, including Andy Wynkoop, An ArtsyGuy, RIK, Roger (Free-Hand) Stephenson, and many others.

“This exhibition centralizes intersecting themes and multi-faceted layers of what it means to be human. Our hope is to challenge the lens through which the exhibit audience looks at people in prison. Coming out of a season that has worn us thin of human connection, this exhibit presents a unique opportunity to engage in powerful dialogue inspired by the art in Shared Humanity,” says Unrath

The 100 Gallery is open Mon-Fri are 8:30am-5pm and Sat-Sun 10am-2:30pm.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Sales will be conducted in person on Saturday, August 6 with alternative phone sale appointments available: https://myumi.ch/DJ6M5

Special Storytelling Event: Creating Art Inside
Saturday, Aug 6, 2022 @ 2:00pm
Maples Room at 100 Silver Maples Dr, Chelsea, MI 48118

In this hour, we take a look into the lives of artists that created work in the most difficult of circumstances: prison. Hear first hand about their lived experiences and the impact art-making had on their time behind the walls. Hosted by the Prison Creative Arts Project. In-person art sales will be available before and after the event.

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Exhibition Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:13:48 -0400 2022-08-31T08:30:00-04:00 2022-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Andy Wynkoop, Untitled
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (August 31, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-08-31T09:00:00-04:00 2022-08-31T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (August 31, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-08-31T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-31T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (August 31, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-08-31T11:00:00-04:00 2022-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 1, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 1, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-01T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-01T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (September 1, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 1, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-09-01T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-01T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 1, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 1, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-01T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 2, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 2, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-02T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-02T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (September 2, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 2, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-09-02T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-02T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 2, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 2, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-02T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-02T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (September 3, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 3, 2022 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-09-03T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-03T20:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 3, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 3, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-03T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-03T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (September 4, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 4, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-09-04T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-04T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (September 5, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 5, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-09-05T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-05T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 6, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-06T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-06T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (September 6, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-09-06T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-06T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 7, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-07T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-07T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 7, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-07T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 8, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-08T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (September 8, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-09-08T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 8, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-08T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 9, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-09T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
FUN (September 9, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91369 91369-21678455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

What Can ‘A Pile of Stuff’ Truly Become?

Unlike any art museum exhibition you’ve seen, FUN (working title) will transform before your very eyes as it becomes what you — our community, our students, and our visitors — make of it.

Over the course of this exhibition, UMMA’s glass-walled Stenn gallery will become a creation space. Piles of materials and supplies will form the backdrop of a collaborative, summer-long free artists’ workshop. A place to create, experiment, glue, paint, and get messy.

You’re invited to roll up your sleeves and work have fun alongside local artist Mark Tucker and his U-M students to help create this colorful, kinetic, and altogether FUN art installation. Inspired by objects in UMMA’s collection, you’ll create giant movable and interactive sculptures (AKA puppets) that will take on a life of their own. 

Along the way, you may uncover how art is made, how a museum works, and maybe even discover something about yourself.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, the UMMA Docent Program, the U-M Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts, the U-M School of Education, and the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Sep 2022 18:16:46 -0400 2022-09-09T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition FUN
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (September 9, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-09-09T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 9, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-09T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 9, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-09T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
RC Convocation & Open House 2022 (September 9, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97802 97802-21795153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 9, 2022 4:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Join the RC community for our official Fall kick-off event! Catherine Badgley, Director of the RC, will give a short welcome to the Class of 2026 followed by food, fun, and exploration.

Come for the short ceremony, stay to learn all about RC classes and majors, meet different student groups, and try your hand at improv or visual art.

ALL RC Students Welcome to Attend!!

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Rally / Mass Meeting Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:05:11 -0400 2022-09-09T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-09T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Rally / Mass Meeting RC Courtyard
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (September 10, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 10, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-09-10T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-10T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 10, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 10, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-10T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-10T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 10, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 10, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-10T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Hava Gurevich Art Exhibit (September 11, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95868 95868-21791359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 11, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Inspired by Nature: 20 Years of Art by Hava Gurevich
Hava Gurevich’s canvases pulsate with life. Bright colors and botanical motifs dance and tangle in abstract environments that bear resemblance to microscopic scans of cellular structures. “I am inspired by the elegant intricacy of patterns in nature that repeat on both small and large scales across a variety of lifeforms, from single cell amoebas to entire ecosystems.” The creative process for these works begins with drawing and photography. Images of daily encounters with nature and sketches of textures and details morph into lines, shapes and colors in acrylic paint. Patterns are abstracted and undulate across the canvas, forming the foundation of Gurevich’s visual language. Images from the imagination blend with botanical elements in vivid color combinations. These works capture the dynamics of nature and the constant state of growth and decay; the passage of death and the birth of new life.

On display, free to public from July 2 through September 11th at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Other Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:09:45 -0400 2022-09-11T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-11T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Other Hava Gurevich Art. July 2-September 11, 2022
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 11, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 11, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-11T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-11T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
SPRING AWAKENING AUDITIONS! (September 11, 2022 11:59pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96527 96527-21792623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 11, 2022 11:59pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for *SPRING AWAKENING* at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by Sunday, September 11. Callbacks will be held Tuesday, September 13 and Wednesday, September 14. Our performances will be December 2-4 in the Arthur Miller Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

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Auditions Thu, 04 Aug 2022 23:46:26 -0400 2022-09-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Spring Awakening Auditions!
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 12, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 12, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-12T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 12, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 12, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-12T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-12T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 13, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-13T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 13, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-13T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-13T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 14, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-14T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
In the Studio (September 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98427 98427-21796754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Sign up to talk to Tatyana about your experience on campus relating to racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.

Brooklyn artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is in residence on campus this month, working with Black, brown, queer, and women-identifyng students and listening to their stories about the way they experience race and gender on campus. If you'd like to share your story with her, sign up at https://myumi.ch/qA5kW.

If no times are available, please email our curator Amanda Krugliak about setting up another time, mandak@umich.edu.

Learn more about Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's project at U-M at https://myumi.ch/qA4yZ.

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Meeting Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:44:19 -0400 2022-09-14T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T12:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Meeting Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-14T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 14, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-14T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
In the Studio (September 14, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98427 98427-21796755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Sign up to talk to Tatyana about your experience on campus relating to racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.

Brooklyn artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is in residence on campus this month, working with Black, brown, queer, and women-identifyng students and listening to their stories about the way they experience race and gender on campus. If you'd like to share your story with her, sign up at https://myumi.ch/qA5kW.

If no times are available, please email our curator Amanda Krugliak about setting up another time, mandak@umich.edu.

Learn more about Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's project at U-M at https://myumi.ch/qA4yZ.

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Meeting Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:44:19 -0400 2022-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T19:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Meeting Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kittel & Co. (September 14, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96259 96259-21792182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 8:00pm
Location: ARK Reserved
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Led by acclaimed violinist Jeremy Kittel (formerly of the Grammy-winning Turtle Island Quartet), Kittel & Co. (“Kid-dle and Koh”) inhabits the space between classical and acoustic roots, Celtic and bluegrass aesthetics, and folk and jazz sensibilities. Some of the greatest musicians in the incredible acoustic scene, the members of Kittel & Co. have collaborated with Béla Fleck, Sarah Jarosz, Chris Thile, and Yo-Yo Ma. Together, Jeremy Kittel, mandolin phenom Josh Pinkham and transcendent guitarist Quinn Bachand coalesce into a singular voice that’s thrilled audiences from the Telluride Bluegrass Festival to A Prairie Home Companion. “[Kittel & Co.] takes the string band tradition to marvelously rarefied levels of collective virtuosity…. thrillingly spontaneous” – Times UK. Grammy-nominated Kittel & Co. will get your toes tapping and lift you out of your seat.

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Performance Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:29:09 -0400 2022-09-14T20:00:00-04:00 ARK Reserved Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Kittel & Co. at The Ark
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 15, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-15T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (September 15, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-09-15T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T20:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 15, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-15T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-15T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (September 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-09-15T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Fall Exhibit Opening Reception (September 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96927 96927-21793574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Join us on Thursday, September 15th in Lane Hall, home to the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, for the Opening Reception of the fall exhibit “‘I have a crisis for you’: Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War” featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Curators Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz will be present and will introduce the exhibit at 4:30pm.

Refreshments will be served.

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

The exhibit runs from August 25—December 16, 2022 in the Lane Hall Exhibit Space (204 South State Street).

Related Events:
Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

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Reception / Open House Wed, 07 Sep 2022 09:41:35 -0400 2022-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T18:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Reception / Open House Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Creative Arts and Food Justice (September 15, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98236 98236-21795775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Betsy Barbour House
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

Interested in food sustainability or social justice initiatives? Want to engage in zine issuing, editorial meetings, planning of launch parties and more? Come join one of our biweekly meetings to get involved with The University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program. We have four different groups to join, all with different themes. Fill out the interest form and come to a meeting to get involved! Questions? Email us at umsfp.core@umich.edu

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Meeting Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:12:54 -0500 2022-09-15T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-15T18:30:00-04:00 Betsy Barbour House University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Meeting Students collaborating at the first Behind the Zines meeting
LaToya Ruby Frazier (September 15, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96584 96584-21792910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s artistic practice spans a range of media, including photography, video, performance, installation art and books, and centers on the nexus of social justice, cultural change, and commentary on the American experience. In various interconnected bodies of work, Frazier uses collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her artwork to address topics of industrialism, Rust Belt revitalization, environmental justice, access to healthcare, access to clean water, workers’ rights, human rights, family, and communal history. This builds on her commitment to the legacy of 1930’s social documentary work and 1960’s and1970’s conceptual photography that address urgent social and political issues of everyday life.
In 2016, Frazier spent five months in Flint visiting with three generations of women – the poet Shea Cobb, Shea’s Daughter, Zion, and her mother Reneé Cobb – documenting their day-to-day lives as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in US History. Frazier’s “Flint Is Family In Three Acts” chronicles the man-made water crisis in Flint, Michigan, from the perspective of this family affected by the crisis who fought for their right to access free, clean water. Featuring written word, photographs, poems, and interviews made in collaboration with Flint’s own residents, Frazier’s body of work serves as an exposure of this political, economic, and racial injustice.
Frazier’s work is held in numerous public and private collections including Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Art Gallery of Toronto, and Centre Georges Pompidou. She is the recipient of many honors and awards including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s MacArthur Fellows Program, and from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she currently lives and works.
Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, the Stamps Gallery initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. Flint is Family: Act I (2016–2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017–2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery, where Flint Is Family In Three Acts is on view until January 14, 2022. Frazier’s work can also be seen at the University of Michigan Museum of Art as part of the Watershed exhibition.
Join us for a Flint Is Family In Three Acts exhibition reception and book signing directly following this event at Stamps Gallery (201 South Division Street).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:15:20 -0400 2022-09-15T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion Two black women drinking from a garden hoes
Opening Reception and Book Signing for LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts at Stamps Gallery (September 15, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96247 96247-21792171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for the opening reception for
Act III of LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three
Acts and a book signing with the
artist, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan. Light refreshments will be served.
The exhi­bi­tion LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts brings together photographs from five years of research and
collaboration between LaToya Ruby Frazier and two poets, activists, mothers and
residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan. Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) was developed by Frazier to
advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race,
religion and economic status.

The Acts in LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three
Acts are being shown across three venues: Stamps Gallery (Act III) at University of Michigan, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at
Michigan State University (Act II), and Flint Institute of Arts (Act I), for the first time in Michigan and the U.S.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts is on view at Stamps Gallery from August 26, 2022 – January 14, 2023.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:15:13 -0400 2022-09-15T18:30:00-04:00 2022-09-15T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House LaToya Ruby Frazier, "Moses West Holding a “Free Water” Sign on North Saginaw Street Between East Marengo Avenue and East Pulaski Avenue, Flint, Michigan", 2019/2020.
To Be Heard Opening Reception (September 15, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97703 97703-21794973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 6:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Please join us as we kick off Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's residency at U-M. Her exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be open in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, and Fazlalizadeh will join our curator Amanda Krugliak for a conversation about the exhibition, the public mural project, and her art and activism. Free and open to all!


*To Be Heard* at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:43:26 -0400 2022-09-15T18:30:00-04:00 2022-09-15T20:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Reception / Open House Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 16, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-16T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (September 16, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-09-16T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 16, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-16T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 16, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-16T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (September 16, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-09-16T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Exhibition walkthrough with the Artist, Shea Cobb, and Amber Hasan (September 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96248 96248-21792172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for a walkthrough of LaToya Ruby Frazier:
Flint is Family in Three Acts led by artist LaToya Ruby Frazier in
conversation with Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan as they discuss their experience
collaborating together to create the work on view.
The exhi­bi­tion LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts brings together photographs from five years of research and
collaboration between LaToya Ruby Frazier and two poets, activists, mothers and
residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan. Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) was developed by Frazier to
advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race,
religion and economic status.
The Acts in LaToya Ruby Frazier:
Flint is Family in Three Acts are being shown across three venues: Stamps Gallery (Act III) at University of Michigan, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at
Michigan State University (Act II), and Flint Institute of Arts (Act I), for the first time in Michigan and the U.S.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts is on view at Stamps Gallery from August 26, 2022 – January 14, 2023.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:15:13 -0400 2022-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion LaToya Ruby Frazier, "Moses West Holding a “Free Water” Sign on North Saginaw Street Between East Marengo Avenue and East Pulaski Avenue, Flint, Michigan", 2019/2020.
FAM Fridays (September 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98376 98376-21796574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

This series will celebrate culture through Food, Art, & Music each 2nd Friday of the month. Our first event will be Friday, September 16th from 12-1:30 PM on the outside lawn of Trotter Multicultural Center. Where we will have a guest painting instructor, U-M student Victor Garcia. Come relax, have fun, and build community with us! Painting supplies and food will be available.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:31:01 -0400 2022-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T13:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Workshop / Seminar FAM Fridays Flyer
In the Studio (September 16, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98427 98427-21796642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 2:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Sign up to talk to Tatyana about your experience on campus relating to racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.

Brooklyn artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is in residence on campus this month, working with Black, brown, queer, and women-identifyng students and listening to their stories about the way they experience race and gender on campus. If you'd like to share your story with her, sign up at https://myumi.ch/qA5kW.

If no times are available, please email our curator Amanda Krugliak about setting up another time, mandak@umich.edu.

Learn more about Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's project at U-M at https://myumi.ch/qA4yZ.

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Meeting Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:44:19 -0400 2022-09-16T14:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Meeting Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
The Breath of Every Living Thing: Zoocephali and the Limits of Alterity (September 16, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97970 97970-21795408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: History of Art

Abstract: This paper focuses on the woefully understudied Hammelburg Mahzor (Darmstadt, HLH Cod. Or. 13), a Jewish festival book completed in Lower Franconia in the middle of the fourteenth century. The book’s most remarkable feature is perhaps the inclusion of carefully curated zoocephalic, or theriomorphic, figures: humans with beastly and bestial heads. By virtue of their alterity, the zoocephali call attention to themselves with emphatic force. The purpose of this talk is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this alterity, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language, philosophy, poetry, and history. In the Hammelburg Mahzor this visual idiom also signals distinction, albeit in a way that, conspicuously, collapses temporalities, tests the limits of alterity, and makes an argument about likeness and difference. By foregrounding linguistic elisions between words, images, and the celebrants, such an idiom establishes visceral connections with the community of the book’s users. Ultimately, theriomorphs stand as a fitting metaphor for medieval Jewish art as it has been viewed in mainstream scholarship.

Bio: Elina Gertsman, Professor of Medieval Art at Case Western Reserve University (where she is Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II), has authored an extensive series of field-changing, prize-winning publications. Her many books include The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (2010), Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna (2015), and most recently The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books (2021), winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Prize. Her work has been supported by the Guggenheim, Kress, Mellon, and Franco-American Cultural Exchange Foundations as well as by the American Council for Learned Societies. In 2022 she was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:17:51 -0400 2022-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union History of Art Lecture / Discussion Haman and His Sons Hanging from a Tree, The Hammelburg Mahzor, Hammelburg, 1347-1348. Darmstadt, HLH Cod. Or. 13, fol. 53v.
Opening Reception for LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts at MSU Broad Art Museum (September 16, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96249 96249-21792173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for the opening reception for Act II of LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three
Acts with the artist and Mr. Douglas R. Smiley.
The exhi­bi­tion LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts brings together photographs from five years of research and
collaboration between LaToya Ruby Frazier and two poets, activists, mothers and
residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan. Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) was developed by Frazier to
advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race,
religion and economic status.
The Acts in LaToya Ruby Frazier:
Flint is Family in Three Acts are being shown across three venues: Stamps Gallery (Act III) at University of Michigan, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at
Michigan State University (Act II), and Flint Institute of Arts (Act I), for the first time in Michigan and the U.S.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts is on view at Stamps Gallery from August 26, 2022 – January 14,
2023. For a complete list of public programs visit: https://stamps.umich.edu/events/latoya-ruby-frazier-flint-is-family-in-three-acts.

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Auditions Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:15:14 -0400 2022-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions a black man holding a sign that reads FREE WATER in red text
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 17, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 17, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-17T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 17, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 17, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (September 17, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 17, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-09-17T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Opening Reception, Panel Discussion, and Book Signing for LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts at Flint Institute of Arts (September 17, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96250 96250-21792174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 17, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for the opening reception for Act I of LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three
Acts with the artist. Light refreshments will be served. The reception will be followed by
a panel discussion featuring LaToya Ruby Frazier, Shea Cobb,
Amber Hasan, and Mr. Douglas R. Smiley, moderated by Niecole
Middleton. Visitors are invited to submit questions for the participants the
day of the panel and prior to the event on the museum’s website or through a
form located at the FIA’s Visitor Services Desk. A book signing will follow
the discussion.
[1 - 2pm: Opening reception with light refreshments; 2–3pm: Panel
Discussion; 3-4pm: Book signing.]
The exhi­bi­tion LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts brings together photographs from five years of research and
collaboration between LaToya Ruby Frazier and two poets, activists, mothers and
residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan. Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) was developed by Frazier to
advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race,
religion and economic status.
The Acts in LaToya Ruby Frazier:
Flint is Family in Three Acts are being shown across three venues: Stamps Gallery (Act III) at University of Michigan, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at
Michigan State University (Act II), and Flint Institute of Arts (Act I), for the first time in Michigan and the U.S.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts is on view at Stamps Gallery from August 26, 2022 – January 14,
2023. For a complete list of public programs visit: https://stamps.umich.edu/events/latoya-ruby-frazier-flint-is-family-in-three-acts.

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Exhibition Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:15:15 -0400 2022-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 2022-09-17T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition LaToya Ruby Frazier, "Moses West Holding a “Free Water” Sign on North Saginaw Street Between East Marengo Avenue and East Pulaski Avenue, Flint, Michigan", 2019/2020.
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-18T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-18T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 19, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 19, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-19T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (September 19, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 19, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-09-19T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 19, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 19, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-19T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
Journey of Self-Discovery (September 19, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96939 96939-21793587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 19, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

To experience an interesting piece of art is to feel ALIVE. It propels one out of reality (for a moment) and transcends the spirit to a special place much like a spiritual awakening.

I am interested in the creative process even more than the final product. The process of art making is therapeutic and one of self-discovery. It is a chance to play like a child and to allay fears/worries and to lose the confines of the world around you. It offers you a chance to dream, dance and explore unknown worlds.

This exhibit is mainly focused on this creative process which I call the ‘Journey of Self-Discovery. Each painting has been created according to this process. Mindfulness is the goal.

We all see things from different angles based on our own individual experiences. I encourage you to look at things from your own perspective – each piece invites you to consider your own viewpoint, a chance to let go and experience some unique personal other-worldly environments. Enjoy.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:21:39 -0400 2022-09-19T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-19T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Moizio Exhibition Poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 20, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (September 20, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 20, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-20T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
Journey of Self-Discovery (September 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96939 96939-21793588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

To experience an interesting piece of art is to feel ALIVE. It propels one out of reality (for a moment) and transcends the spirit to a special place much like a spiritual awakening.

I am interested in the creative process even more than the final product. The process of art making is therapeutic and one of self-discovery. It is a chance to play like a child and to allay fears/worries and to lose the confines of the world around you. It offers you a chance to dream, dance and explore unknown worlds.

This exhibit is mainly focused on this creative process which I call the ‘Journey of Self-Discovery. Each painting has been created according to this process. Mindfulness is the goal.

We all see things from different angles based on our own individual experiences. I encourage you to look at things from your own perspective – each piece invites you to consider your own viewpoint, a chance to let go and experience some unique personal other-worldly environments. Enjoy.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:21:39 -0400 2022-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Moizio Exhibition Poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 21, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-21T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (September 21, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-09-21T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 21, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (September 21, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-09-21T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Journey of Self-Discovery (September 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96939 96939-21793589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

To experience an interesting piece of art is to feel ALIVE. It propels one out of reality (for a moment) and transcends the spirit to a special place much like a spiritual awakening.

I am interested in the creative process even more than the final product. The process of art making is therapeutic and one of self-discovery. It is a chance to play like a child and to allay fears/worries and to lose the confines of the world around you. It offers you a chance to dream, dance and explore unknown worlds.

This exhibit is mainly focused on this creative process which I call the ‘Journey of Self-Discovery. Each painting has been created according to this process. Mindfulness is the goal.

We all see things from different angles based on our own individual experiences. I encourage you to look at things from your own perspective – each piece invites you to consider your own viewpoint, a chance to let go and experience some unique personal other-worldly environments. Enjoy.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:21:39 -0400 2022-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Moizio Exhibition Poster
Michigan Meetups: Design Your Own Michigan Bucket List (September 21, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98902 98902-21797330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

Come make some friends and create your own Michigan Bucket List! We will provide a variety of arts & crafts to help you do so!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 19 Sep 2022 19:04:58 -0400 2022-09-21T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall First Year Experience Programs Social / Informal Gathering Michigan Meetups
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 22, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-22T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (September 22, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-09-22T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 22, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-22T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 22, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (September 22, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-09-22T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Journey of Self-Discovery (September 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96939 96939-21793590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

To experience an interesting piece of art is to feel ALIVE. It propels one out of reality (for a moment) and transcends the spirit to a special place much like a spiritual awakening.

I am interested in the creative process even more than the final product. The process of art making is therapeutic and one of self-discovery. It is a chance to play like a child and to allay fears/worries and to lose the confines of the world around you. It offers you a chance to dream, dance and explore unknown worlds.

This exhibit is mainly focused on this creative process which I call the ‘Journey of Self-Discovery. Each painting has been created according to this process. Mindfulness is the goal.

We all see things from different angles based on our own individual experiences. I encourage you to look at things from your own perspective – each piece invites you to consider your own viewpoint, a chance to let go and experience some unique personal other-worldly environments. Enjoy.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:21:39 -0400 2022-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Moizio Exhibition Poster
LHS Collaboratory (September 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96027 96027-21791723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

LHS Collaboratory Kickoff Poster Session Showcasing LHS Work at the University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:55:57 -0400 2022-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (September 22, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21790159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-09-22T16:15:00-04:00 2022-09-22T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Michele Oka Doner (September 22, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96585 96585-21792911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Michele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans six decades. Her work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world, from which she derives her formal vocabulary. The breadth of her artistic production encompasses sculpture, drawing, public art, functional objects, video, artist books, and costume and set design. She is well known for creating numerous permanent art installations throughout the United States, including Flight at Reagan International Airport, Arlington, VA, Radiant Site at the Herald Square MTA station, New York and the mile and quarter bronze and terrazzo concourse, A Walk on the Beach at Miami International Airport, seen by 40 million travelers annually.
Oka Doner’s work is found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Detroit Institute of Arts, The Louvre’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Victoria & Albert, London, and the University of Michigan, Oxford, Yale and Harvard university art museums, among others. She has received numerous awards, including those given by United Nations Society of Writers and Artists, Pratt Institute, New York State Council of the Arts and the Knight Foundation. She was first Artist in Residence at the New York Botanical Garden. In 2016 she received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from The University of Michigan, where she earned her undergraduate and MFA degrees. Oka Doner is the author or subject of numerous books, including Everything Is Alive (2017) from Regan Arts press and Intuitive Alphabet (2017), TRA Publishing. Born and raised in Miami Beach, Michele Oka Doner was made Guardian of the City of Miami Beach’s Centennial Banyan Tree and represents Miami Beach as Ambassador for Arts and Culture in 2021. She maintains a home and studio in New York City.
This event is a part of the 10th Naming Anniversary Celebration of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. September 20, 2022 marks ten years since the naming of the school in honor of Penny W. Stamps for the remarkable gift she and her husband E. Roe Stamps made to support art and design education at the University of Michigan. The event will celebrate this milestone and reflect on the legacy of the school.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:15:21 -0400 2022-09-22T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion a woman stands with her eyes closed with a dark satin fabric rapid around her.
IGDA Ann Arbor : Chris Monteferrante (Spellbound AR) (September 22, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98658 98658-21797036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Wolverine Soft

==Guest Lecturer==
Christopher Monteferrante (Spellbound AR)

Step into the world of augmented reality and Michigan technology startups as IGDA Ann Arbor welcomes Spellbound Lead AR Developer (and Wolverine alum) Christopher Monteferrante!

(NOTE : Free pizza will be served).

==Special Note : Live-Streamed Event!==
Please join us at...
- https://discord.gg/AzG58HBmst
- https://www.twitch.tv/igda_annarbor

==Community Showcase ~ SIGN UP ==
https://forms.gle/qRsMBzx121Xz3ef2A
Have a project you're working on? Looking for feedback, teammates, or advice? Don't be a stranger! Register via the above form and prepare your 5-minute demo / pitch (with 5 minutes of Q&A).

== Resources ==
MI Game Studios Database : https://michigangamestudios.com
Twitter : https://twitter.com/IGDA2_Official
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/IGDA-Ann-Arbor-143150996287453/
Discord : https://discord.gg/AzG58HBmst

==IGDA Resources==
https://igda.org/resources/harassment/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Sep 2022 12:48:03 -0400 2022-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T22:00:00-04:00 Wolverine Soft Lecture / Discussion Chris Monteferrante joins IGDA Ann Arbor
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 23, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (September 23, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 23, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 23, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-23T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (September 23, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-09-23T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Journey of Self-Discovery (September 23, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96939 96939-21793591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

To experience an interesting piece of art is to feel ALIVE. It propels one out of reality (for a moment) and transcends the spirit to a special place much like a spiritual awakening.

I am interested in the creative process even more than the final product. The process of art making is therapeutic and one of self-discovery. It is a chance to play like a child and to allay fears/worries and to lose the confines of the world around you. It offers you a chance to dream, dance and explore unknown worlds.

This exhibit is mainly focused on this creative process which I call the ‘Journey of Self-Discovery. Each painting has been created according to this process. Mindfulness is the goal.

We all see things from different angles based on our own individual experiences. I encourage you to look at things from your own perspective – each piece invites you to consider your own viewpoint, a chance to let go and experience some unique personal other-worldly environments. Enjoy.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:21:39 -0400 2022-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Moizio Exhibition Poster
Stamps 10th Anniversary Celebration (September 23, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97001 97001-21793678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design is excited to welcome you to our 10th Anniversary Celebration, which coincides with U‑M’s 2022 Homecoming and Parents and Family Weekend.
September 20, 2022 marks ten years since the naming of our school in honor of Penny W. Stamps for the remarkable gift she and her husband, E. Roe Stamps made to support art and design education at the University of Michigan. We are excited to celebrate this milestone and reflect on the legacy of the school with Dean Carlos Francisco Jackson, who will share his vision for amplifying the impact of art and design in our communities.
On Friday, September 23, RSVP to join us for a special series of 10th Anniversary Celebration events, including a guided building tour, performances by faculty, current students and alumni, remarks by Stamps Dean Carlos Jackson and the President of the University of Michigan, and an outdoor reception.
Additional weekend events (no registration required) will include a Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series presentation by acclaimed artist Michele Oka Doner, and tours of current exhibitions LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts and Respond/​Resist/​Rethink at Stamps Gallery.
For full details, visit: https://stamps.umich.edu/alumni/10th-anniversary

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Sporting Event Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:15:28 -0400 2022-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Sporting Event Text reads 10th Naming Anniversary Celebration, with Stamps logo on colorful background
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (September 23, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21790160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-09-23T16:15:00-04:00 2022-09-23T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Michigan Meetups: Watercolors (September 23, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98904 98904-21797333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

Paint away your stress with watercolors! Bring a friend and learn some techniques for painting with watercolors and designing your own piece of painted art.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 19 Sep 2022 19:08:09 -0400 2022-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T18:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall First Year Experience Programs Social / Informal Gathering Michigan Meetups
Ancestral Haiku (September 23, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96830 96830-21793381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Friday, September 23 | 8:00 PM
Dance Building, Studio 1
1000 Baits Dr.
Free and open to the public

Seating is limited. To reserve your seat in advance, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/mLt2CFEBgUMGtLci9
or email cwps.information@umich.edu

SMTD+CWPS, a new partnership between the School of Music, Theatre & Dance and the Center for World Performance Studies will present an interactive performance that weaves together live original music, dance, video projection and original artwork. Part performance, meditation, and ritual, *Ancestral Haiku* explores Black Ancestry, the Middle Passage, and engages the work of poet/scholar Mursalata Muhammad. Detroit jazz legend Marion Hayden and Legacy join dance artist and U-M faculty Robin Wilson, with artwork and video installation by M. Saffell Gardner.

*Ancestral Haiku* also considers spiritual restitution as a way to alleviate spiritual suffering and begin the process of community healing. In particular, the use of buttons in visual media, soundscape and as interactive objects reflect West African religious practices carried over to African-American slave culture. Seen as objects of ritual and meaning, buttons connect the ancestral world with our own.

The Bass speaks in the hands of Marion Hayden. Mentored by master trumpeter Marcus Belgrave; Hayden began performing jazz at the age of 15. She has performed with such diverse luminaries as Bobby McFerrin, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Geri Allen, Regina Carter, Steve Turre, David Allen Grier, James Carter and Nancy Wilson.

Her creative practice centers around her ensemble Legacy which performs original and narrative driven compositional works within the framework of improvised music with an emphasis on African diasporic music and Detroit composers. She is a co-founder of the Grammy nominated ensemble Straight Ahead- the first all-woman jazz ensemble signed to Atlantic Records.

Widely recognized as an advocate for the preservation of cultural and artistic legacy, Hayden was honored with the prestigious Kresge Artist Fellowship, the Spirit of Detroit Award and the 2022 Ron Brooks Award from the Southeast Michigan Jazz Assoc. She has served as Panelist or Consultant for Chamber Music America, the McKnight Foundation, Charles Wright Museum of African American History and South Arts. A passionate educator, Hayden holds jazz faculty positions at University of Michigan, Oakland University and the Geri Allen Jazz Camp- the first all-woman jazz residency.

Robin Wilson sees teaching, artmaking, and activism as easy companions – giving voice to untold stories and giving tools for others to speak their truth. She sees no contradiction between making art, teaching others to discover the artist within, teaching others to understand their history and connection to the greater good and being an advocate for the arts and communities. A founding member of New York’s Urban Bush Women, Robin is a Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan with an MFA in Choreography from Temple University. Her work explores the influences of the African Diaspora in historical and contemporary dance/culture, public scholarship and social justice through community engagement, and most recently, documenting the oral histories of black dancers in Harlem during the Black Arts Movement of the early 1970s.

Her recent collaborations include What We Ask Of Flesh with INSPIRIT: A Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Shattered Globes: For Tamara 2020 at the Detroit Dance City Festival and the Midwest RAD Festival and Ancestral Haiku with Detroit bassist Marion Hayden and visual artist Saffell Gardner at the Sidewalk Detroit Festival.

In 1992, Wilson received a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award as a former member of Urban Bush Women for her collective work on the company’s dances River Songs (1984) and Praise House (1990). She continues to perform and collaborate with artists across cultures, bridging communities through dance and scholarship and activism.

M. Saffell Gardner was born in Detroit, Michigan and holds BFA and MFA degrees in painting from Wayne State University. A sculptor, painter and educator, Gardner’s work uses bold forms and personal iconography in centering themes of African American identity, ritual and ancestry. In recognition of his artistic creativity and originality, Gardner was honored with the Kresge Artist Fellowship, a prestigious award to a distinguished group of visual and performing artists.

As a sculptor, Gardner’s work has been described as “visually stunning” and “regal”. “Sankofa” a 12’ sculpture celebrating the Ghanaian concept of “bringing the knowledge of the past forward” has been exhibited at the Chelsea Art Walk, Chelsea, MI, 2020-21 and the Krasl Biennial at the Box Factory in St. Joseph, MI, 2022-23. His sculpture “Lost Kings” was included in the 2021 Regional Biennial at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

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

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Performance Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:54:52 -0400 2022-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 2022-09-23T21:30:00-04:00 Dance Building Center for World Performance Studies Performance Ancestral Haiku
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 24, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 24, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-24T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 24, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 24, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (September 24, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 24, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Exhibition tour led by Stamps Students: Alexandra Collins (BFA ‘24) and Ikalanni Jahi (BFA ‘24) (September 24, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96251 96251-21792175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 24, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for an exhi­bi­tion tour of LaToya Ruby Frazier:
Flint is Family in Three Acts at Stamps Gallery led by Stamps Students Alexandra Collins (BFA
‘24) and Ikalanni Jahi (BFA ‘24).
The exhi­bi­tion brings together photographs from five years of
research and collaboration between LaToya Ruby Frazier and two poets, activists,
mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan.
Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) was developed by Frazier to
advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race,
religion and economic status. We will discuss the artworks on view and look
forward to hearing your thoughts.

The Acts in LaToya Ruby Frazier:
Flint is Family in Three Acts are being shown across three venues: Stamps Gallery (Act III) at University of Michigan, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at
Michigan State University (Act II), and Flint Institute of Arts (Act I), for the first time in Michigan and the U.S.
This event is being held in conjunction with U-M Parents & Family Weekend, September 23 - 25, 2022. LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts is on view at Stamps Gallery from August 26, 2022 – January 14,

2023. For a complete list of public programs visit: https://stamps.umich.edu/events/latoya-ruby-frazier-flint-is-family-in-three-acts.

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Auditions Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:15:16 -0400 2022-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 2022-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Auditions LaToya Ruby Frazier, "Moses West Holding a “Free Water” Sign on North Saginaw Street Between East Marengo Avenue and East Pulaski Avenue, Flint, Michigan", 2019/2020.
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 25, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 25, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-25T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-25T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 26, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 26, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-26T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (September 26, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 26, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-09-26T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 26, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 26, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-26T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-26T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
Journey of Self-Discovery (September 26, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96939 96939-21793594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 26, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

To experience an interesting piece of art is to feel ALIVE. It propels one out of reality (for a moment) and transcends the spirit to a special place much like a spiritual awakening.

I am interested in the creative process even more than the final product. The process of art making is therapeutic and one of self-discovery. It is a chance to play like a child and to allay fears/worries and to lose the confines of the world around you. It offers you a chance to dream, dance and explore unknown worlds.

This exhibit is mainly focused on this creative process which I call the ‘Journey of Self-Discovery. Each painting has been created according to this process. Mindfulness is the goal.

We all see things from different angles based on our own individual experiences. I encourage you to look at things from your own perspective – each piece invites you to consider your own viewpoint, a chance to let go and experience some unique personal other-worldly environments. Enjoy.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:21:39 -0400 2022-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Moizio Exhibition Poster
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 27, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-27T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (September 27, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-09-27T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 27, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-27T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-27T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
Journey of Self-Discovery (September 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96939 96939-21793595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

To experience an interesting piece of art is to feel ALIVE. It propels one out of reality (for a moment) and transcends the spirit to a special place much like a spiritual awakening.

I am interested in the creative process even more than the final product. The process of art making is therapeutic and one of self-discovery. It is a chance to play like a child and to allay fears/worries and to lose the confines of the world around you. It offers you a chance to dream, dance and explore unknown worlds.

This exhibit is mainly focused on this creative process which I call the ‘Journey of Self-Discovery. Each painting has been created according to this process. Mindfulness is the goal.

We all see things from different angles based on our own individual experiences. I encourage you to look at things from your own perspective – each piece invites you to consider your own viewpoint, a chance to let go and experience some unique personal other-worldly environments. Enjoy.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:21:39 -0400 2022-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Moizio Exhibition Poster
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (September 28, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-09-28T00:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 28, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-28T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (September 28, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-09-28T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 28, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-28T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 28, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (September 28, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Journey of Self-Discovery (September 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96939 96939-21793596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

To experience an interesting piece of art is to feel ALIVE. It propels one out of reality (for a moment) and transcends the spirit to a special place much like a spiritual awakening.

I am interested in the creative process even more than the final product. The process of art making is therapeutic and one of self-discovery. It is a chance to play like a child and to allay fears/worries and to lose the confines of the world around you. It offers you a chance to dream, dance and explore unknown worlds.

This exhibit is mainly focused on this creative process which I call the ‘Journey of Self-Discovery. Each painting has been created according to this process. Mindfulness is the goal.

We all see things from different angles based on our own individual experiences. I encourage you to look at things from your own perspective – each piece invites you to consider your own viewpoint, a chance to let go and experience some unique personal other-worldly environments. Enjoy.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:21:39 -0400 2022-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Moizio Exhibition Poster
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (September 28, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96586 96586-21792912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn based artist working primarily in oil painting, public art and multimedia installations. Her work is rooted in community engagement and the public sphere. She makes site specific work that considers how people, particularly women, queer folks, and Black and brown people, experience race and gender within their surrounding environments – from the sidewalk to retail stores, and from church to college campuses.
Currently, Fazlalizadeh is Artist in Residence at the UM Institute for the Humanities where her exhibition Pressed Against My Own Glass is on view. During her residency, she will produce a public mural To Be Heard as a community engagement project in order to hear and amplify the voices of marginalized groups on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how others engage with them based upon their identities.
Fazlalizadeh will discuss her methodology and cover her most well known works such as Stop Telling Women to Smile, the international street art series addressing gender based street harassment, and America is Black, a series of portrait and text pieces that explore and amplify the stories of non-White people in the United States.
Fazlalizadeh is from Oklahoma City, born to a Black mother and Iranian father. In 2018, she became the inaugural Public Artist in Residence for the New York City Commission on Human Rights. The impact of Fazlalizadeh's work spread to popular culture when she collaborated with director Spike Lee to base all of the artwork featured in his Netflix series, She's Gotta Have It, on her work. She also served as the show's art consultant. In 2020, Tatyana's debut book, Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We're Taking Back Our Power, was released by Seal Press. She has appeared in the New York Times, NPR, the New Yorker, and Time Magazine and has lectured about her work at Brooklyn Museum, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, as well as several schools including Brown, Pratt, Stanford, and The New School. Her work has been exhibited at museums such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and is in the collection of institutions including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Pressed Against My Own Glass is on view at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery from September 15 - October , 2022

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:15:22 -0400 2022-09-28T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-28T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion large mural on a red brick wall of 4 black women in black and white
Michigan Meetups: Friendship Bracelets (September 28, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99158 99158-21797643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

Come meet other students and make friendship bracelets! We will provide the materials and directions on how to make them!

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 21 Sep 2022 13:13:38 -0400 2022-09-28T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-28T20:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall First Year Experience Programs Social / Informal Gathering First Year Experience
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (September 29, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-09-29T00:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 29, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-29T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (September 29, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-09-29T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 29, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-29T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 29, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (September 29, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Journey of Self-Discovery (September 29, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96939 96939-21793597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

To experience an interesting piece of art is to feel ALIVE. It propels one out of reality (for a moment) and transcends the spirit to a special place much like a spiritual awakening.

I am interested in the creative process even more than the final product. The process of art making is therapeutic and one of self-discovery. It is a chance to play like a child and to allay fears/worries and to lose the confines of the world around you. It offers you a chance to dream, dance and explore unknown worlds.

This exhibit is mainly focused on this creative process which I call the ‘Journey of Self-Discovery. Each painting has been created according to this process. Mindfulness is the goal.

We all see things from different angles based on our own individual experiences. I encourage you to look at things from your own perspective – each piece invites you to consider your own viewpoint, a chance to let go and experience some unique personal other-worldly environments. Enjoy.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:21:39 -0400 2022-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Moizio Exhibition Poster
Creative Arts and Food Justice (September 29, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98236 98236-21795776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Betsy Barbour House
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

Interested in food sustainability or social justice initiatives? Want to engage in zine issuing, editorial meetings, planning of launch parties and more? Come join one of our biweekly meetings to get involved with The University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program. We have four different groups to join, all with different themes. Fill out the interest form and come to a meeting to get involved! Questions? Email us at umsfp.core@umich.edu

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Meeting Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:12:54 -0500 2022-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Betsy Barbour House University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Meeting Students collaborating at the first Behind the Zines meeting
Legendary Drag Queens (September 29, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89846 89846-21665959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design


This program presents a rare coming together of five legendary Drag Queens from two notoriously fabulous nightclubs in the gritty epicenters of Detroit and San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. This series event brings the San Francisco Aunt Charlie’s Queens together with Detroit’s own reigning Queens from Gigi’s Cabaret, home of the longest running drag pageant in the United States. Appearing from Detroit are Maxi Chanel (House of Chanel), Nickki Stevens, and Lady T Tempest, and hailing from San Francisco are Olivia Hart and Donna Personna. The five artists come together to discuss the history of their legacies and artform, the role of lineage and queer community building, and how drag has changed the world through activism, glamour and celebratory inclusion.
The evening will be hosted by Ben Johnson, currently the Arts and Culture Manager for the City of Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. Previously he was the Director of Performing Arts of the City of Los Angeles and Director of Education and Audience Development at the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan (1996-2008). While in Michigan, he was steeped in Detroit’s history and lore, and it is through this lens which he centers drag heritage and history as an important and unique cultural contribution to the vitality of Michigan performing arts history, aligning it with the equally important and vital history of Aunt Charlies, the last remaining stronghold of queer and trans-centered cultural space in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district.
Postponed due to Covid and inspired by the Institute for Humanities exhibition of photographer and filmmaker James Hosking’s multimedia project Beautiful by Night, an examination of class, labor, and identity among aging drag performers, featuring the two San Francisco Queens presented here. The film follows the San Francisco Drag Artists over the course of one night at Aunt Charlie’s, the last gay bar in the famed San Francisco Tenderloin district, an area in the process of being completely re-defined by gentrification and the dot-com takeover. James Hosking supports his subjects by sharing their stories and hopes to work towards ironclad non-discrimination laws protecting employment and housing, and the more truthful representation of this community in both news and entertainment.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:15:23 -0400 2022-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion A drag queen in sunglasses dancing in a nightclub.
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (September 30, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-09-30T00:00:00-04:00 2022-09-30T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (September 30, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
To Be Heard: "Pressed Against My Own Glass" Exhibition (September 30, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97669 97669-21794897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The exhibition* Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

About the Public Mural Project:

*To Be Heard*, public mural project, September 28-October 16, 2022. Locations: Angell Hall, Trotter Multicultural Center, Modern Languages Building, Shapiro Library.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:44:43 -0400 2022-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (September 30, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-09-30T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-30T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (September 30, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-09-30T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (September 30, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-09-30T11:00:00-04:00 2022-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Journey of Self-Discovery (September 30, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96939 96939-21793598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

To experience an interesting piece of art is to feel ALIVE. It propels one out of reality (for a moment) and transcends the spirit to a special place much like a spiritual awakening.

I am interested in the creative process even more than the final product. The process of art making is therapeutic and one of self-discovery. It is a chance to play like a child and to allay fears/worries and to lose the confines of the world around you. It offers you a chance to dream, dance and explore unknown worlds.

This exhibit is mainly focused on this creative process which I call the ‘Journey of Self-Discovery. Each painting has been created according to this process. Mindfulness is the goal.

We all see things from different angles based on our own individual experiences. I encourage you to look at things from your own perspective – each piece invites you to consider your own viewpoint, a chance to let go and experience some unique personal other-worldly environments. Enjoy.

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Exhibition Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:21:39 -0400 2022-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-30T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Exhibition Moizio Exhibition Poster
In Process: A Symposium in Honor of Ray Silverman (September 30, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98302 98302-21796462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: History of Art

We invite colleagues, students, and members of the community to join us in celebrating Ray Silverman’s retirement from his position as Professor of History of Art, African Studies, and Museum Studies with a two-day symposium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Inspired by Dr. Silverman’s seminal volume, Museums as Process: Translating Local and Global Knowledges (Routledge 2014), the symposium invites discussion about methodologies, challenges, and benefits of undertaking scholarship, museum work, and creative production through collaboration and community engagement. We ask, what does it mean for the process of collaboration to be an end in itself, and how might this perspective shift values in the academy and beyond?

The program will begin on the afternoon of Friday, September 30 and end late-afternoon on Saturday, October 1, 2022. It will be an in-person event taking place in the Helmut Stern Auditorium at the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA).


Speakers:

Kelly Askew, University of Michigan
Daniel Berhanemeskel, artist
Donald Buaku, City of Houston
Geoff Emberling, University of Michigan
Robert Glew, Michigan State University
Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Montreal
Allison Martino, Indiana University
Prita Meier, New York University
Derek Peterson, University of Michigan
Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, University of Michigan
Heran Sereke-Brhan, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities
Carla Sinopoli, University of New Mexico
Neal Sobania, Pacific Lutheran University

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:47:05 -0400 2022-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 2022-09-30T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art History of Art Conference / Symposium Photo of Ray Silverman
Michigan Meetups: Zine Making (September 30, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99160 99160-21797645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

Join us for a fun Friday evening of relaxed collaging and zine-making! We'll start out with a quick intro to zines and their history then provide materials and a tips on how to create your own. You may bring along some magazines and/or pals and and you will leave with a one-of-a-kind creation and even MORE pals.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 21 Sep 2022 13:17:53 -0400 2022-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 2022-09-30T18:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall First Year Experience Programs Social / Informal Gathering Michigan Meetups
Panel Discussion and Book Launch for “Heidi Kumao: Real and Imagined” with special guests Marilyn Chin, Lynn Love, and Wendy Vogel (September 30, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96302 96302-21792249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 30, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for a conversation with artist and U-M Stamps Professor Heidi
Kumao, Stamps Gallery Director, Srimoyee Mitra, and special guests: poet Marilyn
Chin, writer Lynn Love, and art critic Wendy Vogel as they discuss Kumao’s
narrative fabric works and animations and the future of feminist praxis in art
and contemporary culture. A public Q&A and book-signing will follow the
discussion.

The book “Heidi Kumao: Real and Imagined” features narrative
fabric works and animations from a solo exhibition that was held at the Stamps
Gallery in Fall 2020. The exhibition was inspired by the courage, testimony,
and experiences of women (like Christine Blasey Ford) who publicly report
assault, harassment, or misconduct. The #MeToo movement gave voice to
thousands of women to tell their personal stories, but also exposed a hostile
backlash meant to silence them. The title, “Real and Imagined,” is a
deliberate contradiction: both terms are used to reference a woman’s testimony
and determine how it is publicly interpreted. Her account is accepted as
truthful by many and simultaneously dismissed as imaginary by the court of
public opinion: “her memory is wrong,” “she imagined
it.”
Copies of the book “Heidi Kumao: Real and Imagined” will be
available for purchase at the event. Virtual options for event attendance are
available. Please contact Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan at jenjkhan@umich.edu for more information.


The book “Heidi Kumao: Real and Imagined” is designed by Franc
Nunoo-Quarcoo.

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Sporting Event Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:15:18 -0400 2022-09-30T17:30:00-04:00 2022-09-30T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Sporting Event Heidi Kumao, “The Hearing,” 2020, Fabric and wool on industrial felt, w 54” x h 39.5”
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 1, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 1, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-01T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-01T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
In Process: A Symposium in Honor of Ray Silverman (October 1, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98302 98302-21796463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 1, 2022 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: History of Art

We invite colleagues, students, and members of the community to join us in celebrating Ray Silverman’s retirement from his position as Professor of History of Art, African Studies, and Museum Studies with a two-day symposium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Inspired by Dr. Silverman’s seminal volume, Museums as Process: Translating Local and Global Knowledges (Routledge 2014), the symposium invites discussion about methodologies, challenges, and benefits of undertaking scholarship, museum work, and creative production through collaboration and community engagement. We ask, what does it mean for the process of collaboration to be an end in itself, and how might this perspective shift values in the academy and beyond?

The program will begin on the afternoon of Friday, September 30 and end late-afternoon on Saturday, October 1, 2022. It will be an in-person event taking place in the Helmut Stern Auditorium at the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA).


Speakers:

Kelly Askew, University of Michigan
Daniel Berhanemeskel, artist
Donald Buaku, City of Houston
Geoff Emberling, University of Michigan
Robert Glew, Michigan State University
Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Montreal
Allison Martino, Indiana University
Prita Meier, New York University
Derek Peterson, University of Michigan
Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, University of Michigan
Heran Sereke-Brhan, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities
Carla Sinopoli, University of New Mexico
Neal Sobania, Pacific Lutheran University

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:47:05 -0400 2022-10-01T09:00:00-04:00 2022-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art History of Art Conference / Symposium Photo of Ray Silverman
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (October 1, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 1, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-01T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (October 1, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95590 95590-21790382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 1, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
“No matter how dark a situation may be, a camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive. In creating Flint Is Family In Three Acts, I see the role of photographs as empowering and enacting visible change: in Act I, the photographs bear witness and reclaim history; in Act II, the photographs reveal a hidden narrative; in Act III, the photographs are a catalyst for obtaining resources.”
—LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a multi-part exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, as they endured one of the most devastating ecological crises in U.S. history. Resulting in a monumental oeuvre of photographs, video, and texts Frazier developed Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2016-2021) to advocate for access to clean and safe drinking water for all regardless of race, religion and economic status. The series records stories of surviving and thriving, especially within racialized and marginalized neighborhoods in Flint, to ensure that they remained visible in national debates concerning environmental justice. Drawing inspiration from the urgency in Frazier’s work, which also sheds light on building equitable and inclusive futures, Stamps Gallery, part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, initiated a partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University to bring this important exhibition together for the first time in Michigan. As co-presenters of this landmark exhibition, our goal is to offer a creative pedagogical platform that reaches broader audiences across Michigan and beyond - Flint is Family: Act I (2016-2017) will take place at the Flint Institute of Arts, Act II (2017-2019) at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and Act III (2019) at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition served as a catalyst to bring three disparate institutions together to deepen our understanding of individual and institutional agency in advocating for equity, transparency and environmental justice in our respective communities, while also highlighting the role of the artist as an agent for enacting positive social change.

Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Tracee Glab, and Steven L. Bridges with the assistance of Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan, Rachel Winter, and Rachael Holstege.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:15:06 -0500 2022-10-01T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Photograph of a group of people in a grassy lot playing in water that is being sprayed from a large truck with solar panels
Respond/ Resist/ Rethink 2022 (October 1, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96386 96386-21792389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 1, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Water is the lifeblood of civilizations, the center of cities, the foundation of creation stories and the connective tissue of culture. Water is a life force, without it humanity will cease to exist. Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms on Earth. The human body is made up of over 60% water and humanity cannot survive without it. Water is a vital life source that holds (and generates) power. It is nourishing, quenching, and refreshing but has also been commodified, polluted, and politicized. From the Standing Rock, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations, to the straits of Mackinac where oil pipelines threaten important waterways, to the polluted Mississippi River and drying Colorado River Basin, to water shutoffs in Detroit, PFAs in Ann Arbor, and the Flint Water crisis (to name just a few), ensuring access to clean water (and the sustainable ecologies it supports) is an ongoing struggle that requires intersectional, intergenerational, and collective knowledge sharing, discussion and action to protect.
Call for Work
Stamps Gallery invites the undergraduate and graduate students of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design to participate in a poster and video exhibition that responds to the prompt: The care, sustainability, and access to free and clean water is arguably one of the most urgent and challenging issues of our time “What can you do to spread awareness of water issues and conservation measures?”
Eligible students: submit your work using our online form by Friday, August 19, 2022 →
Eligibility
Must be a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate major in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.Eligible students may submit one work (poster or video).Time-based work must be submitted as a YouTube/Vimeo link.Timeline
The deadline for submitting work is Friday, August 19, 2022, 5pm, EST. A selection committee composed of students, faculty, and Stamps Gallery staff will review submitted work in the weeks following the deadline.Students whose works are selected will be notified by September 2, 2022. The exhibition will take place from September 15, 2022 - January 14, 2023.Why posters & videos?
Posters can function as catalysts for change. For generations, posters have served as an effective tool to circulate ideas and messages to the public. Visually striking, and designed to draw attention from passersby, posters can be conversation starters, invite people to pause, reflect, spread the word, get involved. They have been a powerful medium for many conceptual artists and graphic designers to create powerful images and messages that could respond to immediate issues and be distributed widely. Similarly, video art was another exciting immediate medium for conceptual artists in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology became more accessible to the masses. Video art provided an alternative to the dominant broadcasting corporations. Artists made experimental films, recorded performances, and first-person narratives that were then exhibited and screened at galleries, museums, and events. Posters and videos continue to be salient features in the 21st Century to respond to urgent issues and questions facing the present moment.
Context
Stamps Gallery is an incubator and lab for contemporary artists and designers to explore ideas and projects that catalyze positive social change. As the pandemic grips our nation it has exposed the social, political, and economic disparities that have disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The world witnessed in horror and sadness the meaningless loss of African American lives with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among many others that we will never know. National and international outcries brought people together from multiple races, genders, and generations - on social media and in the streets - to publicly demand an end to police brutality, structural racism, and emphasizing that Black Lives Matter. What is the role of a university gallery in this time of crisis? How can we foster an inclusive platform for the students in our community to voice their ideas and foster a community based on equality, belonging, respect? We launched Respond/ Resist/ Rethink in the fall 2020 to kick off the fall semester with student work paired with the work of leading artists exhibiting at the Gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:15:26 -0400 2022-10-01T11:00:00-04:00 2022-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 2, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 2, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-02T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-02T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Kristina Sheufelt: Here Nor There (October 2, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97342 97342-21794364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 2, 2022 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Reception: Friday, September 9th, 5-7 pm. ALL ARE WELCOME!

September 9 - October 14, 2022

Here Nor There is a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist Kristina Sheufelt. Sheufelt is based in Detroit, Michigan, and recently received her MFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt uses a variety of media to blur the lines between land and body.

For the past several years, Sheufelt has spent her summers living in remote backcountry locations throughout the United States working on research projects ranging from self-directed study of emotional psychology in the wilderness to monitoring marine wildlife populations. In Here Nor There, Sheufelt processes the emotional and ecological implications of returning to life in the city between reunions with the wild.


Kristina Sheufelt received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2022.

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Exhibition Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:19:22 -0400 2022-10-02T10:00:00-04:00 2022-10-02T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Here Nor There
To Be Heard: Public Mural Project (October 3, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97676 97676-21794930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 3, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

To Be Heard at the University of Michigan is a public mural project and exhibition by Brooklyn-based street artist, painter, and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

The public murals will be displayed on Angell Hall, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Trotter Multicultural Center, and MLB.

The public mural component utilizes community engagement, public art, and social practice to listen to and amplify the voices of marginalized groups, particularly women and non-white students at the University of Michigan. Through class workshops and interviews, Fazlalizadeh will engage with Black and brown, queer, and women-identified students on the ways that they experience race and gender on campus, exploring how students are treated based on their identities. The engagement will culminate in public art installation across campus using drawings and photos to present the experiences and stories from these students back to the public.

About the Exhibition
*Pressed Against My Own Glass*, exhibition, September 15-October 21, 2022. Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.

The exhibition *Pressed Against My Own Glass* will be installed in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. In this multimedia installation on Black womanhood within the home space, Fazlalizadeh explores her childhood and adulthood within the domestic space and how it connects to the experiences of other Black women and those who had a girlhood. Using paintings, drawings, video, and reappropriated home objects, she examines her experiences of joy, rest, sadness, and fellowship in the home. While doing so, she makes connections to her Black women peers, even those like Breonna Taylor and Atatiana Jefferson who show how racist violence is a threat to Black women even in their homes.

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Exhibition Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:23:32 -0400 2022-10-03T00:00:00-04:00 2022-10-03T23:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mural by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh