BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121126T164337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T003000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Juried Art Competition DESCRIPTION:YOU be the judge!\n\nIn January\, the Center for Campus Involvement will be hosting a Juried Art Competition\, where art enthusiasts and passersby alike can vote on the best showcases of art at Pierpont.\n\nOn Tuesday\, January 15\, there will be a reception at 5 PM for the exhibit at Pierpont. Join us for light refreshments!\n\nAnd don’t forgot to vote all month! We’ll announce the winner online on January 31! UID:11550-1177130@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11550 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,competition,exhibit,exhibition,multicultural,north campus,visual arts LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121214T160340 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Art & Environment Gallery: Work of Sara Adlerstein DESCRIPTION:The third exhibit in the Art & Environment Gallery is \"Water Blues\,\" featuring work by Sara Adlerstein\, an associate research scientist at the School of Natural Resources and Environment.\n\nThe exhibit begins with an artist talk and public reception Thursday\, Nov. 8\, at 4 p.m.\, in the Ford Commons in the Dana Building. The public is invited.\n\n\"In my world\, art and science belong together as naturally as air and water. Both inform my work influencing my approach\,\" said Adlerstein\, an accomplished artist with many gallery showings to her credit. \"Observation\, experimentation\, improvisation\, making comparisons\, searching for patterns and answers all come together within the creative process. As such I have developed my own mixed media techniques and my research influences the subject of my paintings. The process has been magical\, nurturing and informative.\"\n\nAt the School of Natural Resources and Environment\, Adlerstein is an applied aquatic ecologist in the school's Conservation Ecology field of study. She obtained a master of science degree at the University of Concepcion Chile and a master of science and Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on environmental stressors affecting Great Lakes ecosystems.\n\nShe did not pursue academic training in the arts but she has been painting for as long as she has been a scientist.\n\nAt the University of Michigan\, she has taught courses bridging arts and sciences at the School of Art & Design and the Residential College\, and has organized and participated in events to immerse the arts within the endeavors of a research university. Her works have been published in books and magazines\; shown in galleries and museums in Chile\, Europe\, Canada and the United States\; and are part of public and private art collections.\n\nShe is a visiting artist at the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor.\n\nIn 2001\, Adlerstein moved to Ann Arbor with her husband\, Edgar Meyhofer\, a professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the U-M College of Engineering. They have two sons.\n\nArtist statement by Sara Adlerstein:\n\nI am a scientist and a visual artist\, or the other way around....\n\nIn my world\, art and science belong together as naturally”¨as air and water. Both inform my work influencing my approach. Observation\, experimentation\, improvisation\, making comparisons\, searching for patterns and answers all come together within the creative process. As such\, I have developed my own mixed media techniques and my research influences the subject of my paintings. The process has been magical\, nurturing and informative.\n\nI also view art as a vehicle that transcends academia in communicating environmental issues to wider audiences extending the reach of traditional research publications. My paintings are often environmentally based and images build on my experience as a scientist and my sensibility as an artist to communicate concerns\, dreams and emotions all emerging from a deep and relentless love for life.\n\nIn the current exhibit\, you will find images inspired by the beauty of the Great Lakes aquatic ecosystems and my research on environmental stresses threatening their health and function. These are visions of worlds that exist in a place in”¨my heart. These alternative realities develop in front of my eyes as I research interconnectivities of streams and lakes\; imperilments of species that have become endangered\; population fluctuations\; and ecosystem dynamics ever so affected by human interventions.\n\nI hope for conversation departures to raise awareness of how we can be better stewards for our environment. UID:11726-1178855@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11726 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,environmment LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources Building - Ford Commons, main floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T144458 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Brain Fitness PuzzleArt: Interactive Installation DESCRIPTION:New York artist Alli Berman had a CVA (stroke) years ago. She experimented in her studio and came up with art that is viewable\, touchable\, and movable and incorporates a therapeutic art concept. Berman now creates exciting colorful interactive art installations to help people of all ages and abilities develop stronger\, faster cognitive function as they enjoy her relaxing sensory experience. Neuroscientists and therapists use PuzzleArt in 15 countries and agree: it's secret fun therapy for developing neural plasticity. It's PuzzleArt like no puzzle you've ever done before. UID:11604-1177433@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Charley Harper by Motawi: Ceramic Art Tile DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features Motawi's new collection of tiles based on the work of beloved wildlife artist Charley Harper (1922-2007). Harper's work is modern\, sophisticated and completely charming. His minimal graphic style lends itself perfectly to Motawi's cuenca tile making technique. Nawal Motawi graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Fine Art. In 1992\, she founded Motawi Tileworks in a garage studio. Today\, Nawal employs more than 30 people and sells tile through hundreds of retailers around the county. In addition to this exhibit of newly released tiles\, the University Hospital has Motawi tile murals in the east and west Patient Elevator Lobbies on floors 1-8. UID:11607-1177583@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11607 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level B2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T142716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Garden of Eden & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings DESCRIPTION:Did you know that the Garden of Eden is also the Garden of Infancy? That the tree of life is also the life giving womb? In new work illuminating familiar favorites\, snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into the biological significance of ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. Clark's snowflake of the tree of knowledge explores the biological origins of good and evil\, shedding new light on the curves of the serpent. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 3\, 2012 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery-Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. UID:11601-1177283@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11601 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T150300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Hidden Glimpses of Nature: Photography DESCRIPTION:The photography of Charles St. Charles reveals hidden glimpses of nature that few people have witnessed or are even aware exist. His work covers a vast spectrum\, from the scale of very small while recording light passing through the natural lens of miniscule dew drops\, to the scale of the very large while recording fields of daisies and fields of stars in the same image. The briefest moments of kissing and cavorting fox kits are frozen in time\, while extraordinary long exposures taken during the night expose brilliant fall foliage surrounded by moving mist. Charles' unmanipulated images all point to the same conclusion – it is a phenomenal world that we live in. UID:11608-1177696@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11608 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Inside & Out: Fragments & Narratives in Clay DESCRIPTION:Mari Ogihara uses clay as a medium for its close resemblance to skin. Her ceramic sculptures create tension and unity between raw and ornamented surfaces and illicit feelings of sensuality and serenity. After receiving a BFA in ceramics from U-M in 2003\, Ogihara went on to study in Kyoto\, Japan to experience ceramics in her native country. Upon her return she attended Temple University of Philadelphia to receive her MFA in 2006. She is the recipient of several grants & awards including the NICHE award in 2011\, and has completed ceramic residencies in the US\, France and Brazil. She currently maintains a studio practice at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester\, New York. UID:11606-1177533@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11606 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T143920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents K-12 Student Group Show DESCRIPTION:This exhibit celebrates the emerging artistry of students from Saline public schools. Saline Area Schools are strong in visual education\, and students learn and participate in a wide range of media and processes throughout grade school. Every student develops an understanding of production\, criticism\, history\, and aesthetics within the visual arts. In this exhibition\, work from young people in grades K-12 will be displayed in both 2-D and 3-D galleries. The students explore themes as presented by seven different teachers in a variety of mediums\, from drawing and painting to ceramics and sculpture\, are included in this exhibit. UID:11603-1177383@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11603 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscape Forms: Painting Retrospective DESCRIPTION:A U-M graduate from the School of Art & Design in 1949\, Karin L. Bodycombe forged new territory in the arts. Working to pave the way for others\, she studied at Wayne State University and earned a degree in Art Education in 1952\, later inspiring many student artists. Creating in watercolor\, gouache\, pen\, acrylics and oils\, Bodycombe said of her work\, \"I paint landscape compositions reducing them to the basic areas or forms of the subject resembling the environment only through the tiles. Brush strokes express my feelings.\" Bodycombe has won many national awards and has exhibited her work in solo shows in Michigan and beyond. UID:11605-1177483@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11605 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T143506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Birthday Party: Ceramic Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Marcia Polenberg is an award winning artist whose figurative and architectonic sculptural ceramics\, drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely across the US and locally at WSG Gallery\, Ann Arbor Art Center and the Clay Gallery. Born in New York City\, Polenberg received a BA from CUNY Brooklyn College and an MFA from U-M. She has taught art at U-M\, the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and UM-Flint\, among others. Polenberg's work is in collections in the US\, England\, France\, Canada and Australia. This exhibit rejoices in childrens' birthday parties! Along with celebrating the special birthday child\, there is delight in the festive decorations\, the birthday cake\, the friends\, and even the unexpected. UID:11602-1177333@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T140801 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents: “Garden of Infancy & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings” by Dr. Thomas L. Clark DESCRIPTION: UID:11658-1178371@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, Taubman Health Center North Lobby. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T120349 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"An Exhibit of Exceptional Bindings by James W. Craven\" DESCRIPTION:The exhibit comprises a selection of Jim's favorite repair and preservation projects over the years\, including examples of his design bindings\, leatherwork\, inlays and custom designed tray-cases. Interspersed among the bindings and boxes are an assortment of bookbinding tools. UID:11936-1179521@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11936 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:bentley,bindings,exhibit,retirement LOCATION:Bentley Historical Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T132752 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T090000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit DESCRIPTION: UID:10927-1175749@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10927 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:history,law and history,law school,race LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Room 100 Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T135304 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ross Art Collection DESCRIPTION:The Ross Art Collection at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business is displayed at locations around the school and online at www.bus.umich.edu/RossArt/collection/. UID:11657-1178640@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11657 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T094637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Detroit 21 DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design\, the University of Michigan Detroit Center presents the Work: Detroit gallery exhibition\, Black Detroit 21. Curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. This exhibition kicks off with an opening reception on Friday\, January 11\, 2013 from 6 – 9p.m. The opening night performance and discussion features:\n\n7:00 p.m. - 4TheatrSake\; 25 minute performance of selections from Cell/$hips.\n7:30 p.m. - Artists and Curator Discussion: Black Detroit 21\; Moderator: Odie Rynell Cash\, Curator \nOver the course of the last five months the artists and curator from the exhibition have held discussions both in person and via the Internet around the topics presented in \"Black Detroit 21\". This final discussion will focus on the exhibition theme in relation to art and the Detroit community. A brief question and answer period with the audience will follow the discussion.\n8:30 p.m. - Satori Circus - Performance\n\"Oh Happy Day Trilogy\" (part one)\nAccording to the artists\, the goal of this performance is to “make us think...review ourselves...soul searching/identity - its loss and in search of it...and what is gained in doing so...entertainment/education/observation/simulation/and the hybrid that comes out of those. Thereby\, the audience walks away questioning...the artist\, themselves\, the world we've woven around us.”\nWith a Black population of more than 80-percent\, Detroit's African American community plays a significant role in this city's cultural identity and economic future. As Detroit moves through the 21st century\, what role will the African Americans play in Detroit's development in the community? How will this population define itself in the new century while dealing with various issues that impacts growth\, development and cultural enrichment in the city? The exhibition Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. The 11 artists in this show are from a multitude of social\, personal and generational backgrounds\, finding a common theme in their work\, which documents and/or is influenced by Detroit's African American community. The installation of the artists work in Black Detroit 21 presents a visual context to create a dialogue around these topics.\n\nBlack Detroit 21 is curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, an internationally active independent curator\, arts program organizer and artist living between Detroit\, Michigan and Antwerp\, Belgium. Cash is recognized for his wide range of artistic practices and concerns\; with the significance of avant-garde ideas and experimental mediums/media that address contemporary social and urban society.\n\nHe studied a Liberal Education curriculum at Columbia College Chicago. He has an extensive and varied background\, having curated and exhibited artworks in more than nine countries\, including projects in Antwerp\, Manila\, Rotterdam\, Paris and Toronto. Cash was the recipient of a 2007 Flemish Minister of Culture Travel Grant for research on performance theory. He has been invited by the Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos\, Nigeria to curate a group exhibition that is anticipated to open in the Fall of 2014.\n\nThe exhibition concludes on March 22\; with event performances on February 7\, February 20\, March 8\, March 12 and March 22. For more information about Black Detroit 21 events and artists\, visit: www.detroitcenter.umich.edu/news/2013/1/artist-and-event-info-black-detroit-21. \n\nFor press inquiries\, contact: DetroitCenter@umich.edu or (313) 593-3584.\n\nThe exhibition may be accessed between 11 a.m.– 4 p.m.\, Tuesday – Saturday. Work Detroit is located at the University of Michigan Detroit Center at Orchestra Place\, 3663 Woodward Avenue\, Suite 150 in Midtown Detroit. Parking is available for exhibition guests in the structure behind Orchestra Place. UID:11924-1179279@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11924 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,detroit,school of art and design LOCATION:Detroit Center - Work Detroit Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120903T182029 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T120000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Writers Unlimited–OLLI Study Group DESCRIPTION:Each week\, writers will bring in typed copies of their short stories\, plays\, poems\, novels\, essays\, or freelance magazine articles. Fellow writers will offer friendly and appreciative criticism on all aspects of writing. Participants are asked to provide copies of their essays to share with the group. For 23 years\, Joy Rome was a Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg\, South Africa.\n\nClass continues Fridays\, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon September 7 - August 30 at TSRC. UID:10131-1173267@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10131 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:lifelong learning,olli,retirement,writing LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120620T153538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:African Art and the Shape of Time DESCRIPTION:African Art and the Shape of Time explores how African art gives material form to diverse concepts of temporality\, history and memory. African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as expressions of timeless myths and rituals\, interrupted only by the colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such conventional views by considering diverse modes for reckoning time and its philosophical\, social\, and religious significance. The exhibition includes 30 works from the University of Michigan Museum of Art\, National Museum of African Art\, Fowler Museum at UCLA\, as well as several Detroit area private collections\, and is organized around five themes that explore the multiplicity of time in Africa: The Beginning of Things\, Embodied Time\, Moving Through Time\, Global Time\, and \"NOW.\"\n\nThis exhibition is generously supported by the University of Michigan Health System. Additional support provided by the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund. UID:9252-1174780@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9252 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african art,umma,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120816T113657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire DESCRIPTION:Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776) depicts the death of James Wolfe\, the British commander at the 1759 Battle of Quebec during what in this country is known as the French and Indian War. In conflating a momentous contemporary event with the genre of large-scale history painting\, West flouted the conventions of academic painting and the work became one of the most celebrated paintings in Britain. The artist went on to produce six versions of the painting\, one of which belongs to the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Through approximately 40 works from Michigan\, Canadian\, and British collections\, this ambitious and thematically focused exhibition will include the Clements canvas as well as other depictions of James Wolfe and his death on the battlefield.\n\nGenerous support for this exhibition is provided by the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation\, the University of Michigan Health System\, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Office of the Vice President for Research\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, and THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (of R. & P. Heydon).\n UID:9852-1175003@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9852 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120816T114258 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Discovering Eighteenth-Century British America through the William L. Clements Library Collection DESCRIPTION:This significant exhibition provides glimpses of British America in the 1700s and is designed to complement the Museum's concurrent exhibition \"Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire\,\" which features the Clements collection's major painting \"The Death of General Wolfe.\" William L. Clements assembled an outstanding array of primary sources on North America dating between 1492 and 1800\, with a heavy emphasis on early European exploration and discovery and the eighteenth-century wars for control of the continent. The exhibition features a mix of rare items from Mr. Clements’s original donation and pieces the Library has acquired since 1923 to complement and enhance its strength in eighteenth-century American history.\n\nGenerous support for this exhibition is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.\n UID:9853-1174902@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9853 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121108T140848 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T110000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Francis Alys: Guards DESCRIPTION:Belgian artist Francis Alys's video Guards (2005) documents sixty-four of the Queen of England's guards on a \"walk\" throughout the City of London. There is perhaps no more symbolically unemotional character than that of a bearskin-hat-wearing guard of the Queen of England. Yet even with no break in the guards' indifferent exterior\, the tale still manages to be a powerful metaphor for the human condition. Many of the elements of Guards are found throughout Alys's work: walking\, rhythm\, the use of the street and bridges are all common tropes in his oeuvre. These strategies\, evoking the poetic and sonic palette of the urban environment\, involve a sometimes loose and other times overt relationship to social resistance and to the symbolic and often political implications of these actions.\n\nGenerous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n UID:11346-1176680@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,exhibition,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120905T172812 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T125000 SUMMARY:Other:Noon Public Skate DESCRIPTION:Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!\n\nOpen to the Public\n\nCost: $3 ($2 additional cost for skate rental) UID:10183-1175471@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10183 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:hockey,ice skating,public,skate,yost ice arena LOCATION:Yost Ice Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130107T143315 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Preparing Women for Leadership in Higher Education (Lecture) DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Victoria Budson\, Director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard University's J.F. Kennedy School of Government\n\nVictoria Budson will facilitate a lunch discussion on how women can navigate successful careers in academia including strategies and tools for advancement. She will also share research on the importance of cultivating a diverse faculty for organizational excellence and contributions to student experience. \n\nPre-registration is required. \n\nCo-sponsored by the Center for the Education of Women\, and Women in Science and Engineering. \n\nRegister by clicking on the following link: http://www.rackham.umich.edu/calendar/events/2143/ UID:11868-1179112@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11868 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:center for the education of women,higher education,women in science and engineering,women leaders LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Assembly Hall, 4th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T132154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T164500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Geometry of War: Fortification Plans for 18th Century America DESCRIPTION:Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm UID:10926-1175625@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10926 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:cartography,geography,history LOCATION:William Clements Library - Great Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121105T170046 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:Fiddler on the Roof DESCRIPTION: UID:11243-1176551@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11243 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:family,fiddler on the roof,musical,theater,young peoples theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121002T133737 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Seth Glier DESCRIPTION:\"The greatest pop songwriting since Billy Joel\"–Livington Taylor\n\nSeth Glier compels attention with his powerful falsetto\, melodic prowess\, and what Performer Magazine calls his “intoxicating groove.” This 22-year-old singer\, pianist\, and guitarist\, who abandoned studies at the Berklee College of Music after one year because he “decided I should be playing for people and not for grades\,\" aims straight for the gut and has quickly established himself on the national scene\, performing more than 200 shows a year. Seth has shared stages with such diverse artists as James Taylor\, Mark Knopfler\, The Verve Pipe\, and Ellis Paul\, who raves\, \"Talent like Seth Glier's brings out the psychic in all of us . . . He's gonna be huge.\" Seth was raised on the music of Joni Mitchell\, Martin Sexton and Randy Newman\, but considers his brother to be his greatest influence. “My brother is autistic and non-verbal. I learned to communicate with words better once I realized how to communicate to someone without them\,\" he says. Seth's soaring opening set was one of the highlights of the 2012 Ann Arbor Folk Festival. UID:10655-1174388@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10655 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music,seth glier,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130111T000007 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Third Dissertation Recital: Moon Kyoung Kim\, piano DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Gershwin - Prelude I\; Melody\, no. 17\; Rubato\; Prelude II (“Blue Lullaby”)\; Novelette in Fourths\; Prelude III (“Spanish Prelude”)\; Beach - Dreaming\, no. 3 from Four Sketches\, op. 15\; Cage - Dream\; Anderson - Forgotten Dreams\; Crumb - Dream Images (Love-Death Music)\, no. 11 from Makrokosmos\, Volume I\; Bolcom - Hymne à l’amour\, no. 12 from Twelve New Etudes for Piano\; Barber - Nocturne\, op. 33\; Copland - Rodeo UID:11914-1179162@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11914 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130102T110031 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130111T220000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:UMix: Better Late than Never DESCRIPTION:Start 2013 by crossing some items off your bucket list at \"UMix: Better Late than Never!\"\n\nGet a tattoo\nBe on a Game Show\nPaint \"The Rock\"\nEat at some of Ann Arbor's famous local restaurants\nMuch more!\n\nAs always\, free food at midnight. Feature presentation: \"Perks of Being a Wallflower.\" Friday January 11th at the Michigan Union!\n\nDoors open at 10pm\, valid MCard required for entry. UID:11807-1179044@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11807 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:alcohol-free,free food,late night,movie,umix LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121126T164337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T003000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Juried Art Competition DESCRIPTION:YOU be the judge!\n\nIn January\, the Center for Campus Involvement will be hosting a Juried Art Competition\, where art enthusiasts and passersby alike can vote on the best showcases of art at Pierpont.\n\nOn Tuesday\, January 15\, there will be a reception at 5 PM for the exhibit at Pierpont. Join us for light refreshments!\n\nAnd don’t forgot to vote all month! We’ll announce the winner online on January 31! UID:11550-1177131@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11550 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,competition,exhibit,exhibition,multicultural,north campus,visual arts LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T144458 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Brain Fitness PuzzleArt: Interactive Installation DESCRIPTION:New York artist Alli Berman had a CVA (stroke) years ago. She experimented in her studio and came up with art that is viewable\, touchable\, and movable and incorporates a therapeutic art concept. Berman now creates exciting colorful interactive art installations to help people of all ages and abilities develop stronger\, faster cognitive function as they enjoy her relaxing sensory experience. Neuroscientists and therapists use PuzzleArt in 15 countries and agree: it's secret fun therapy for developing neural plasticity. It's PuzzleArt like no puzzle you've ever done before. UID:11604-1177434@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T142716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Garden of Eden & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings DESCRIPTION:Did you know that the Garden of Eden is also the Garden of Infancy? That the tree of life is also the life giving womb? In new work illuminating familiar favorites\, snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into the biological significance of ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. Clark's snowflake of the tree of knowledge explores the biological origins of good and evil\, shedding new light on the curves of the serpent. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 3\, 2012 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery-Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. UID:11601-1177284@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11601 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Inside & Out: Fragments & Narratives in Clay DESCRIPTION:Mari Ogihara uses clay as a medium for its close resemblance to skin. Her ceramic sculptures create tension and unity between raw and ornamented surfaces and illicit feelings of sensuality and serenity. After receiving a BFA in ceramics from U-M in 2003\, Ogihara went on to study in Kyoto\, Japan to experience ceramics in her native country. Upon her return she attended Temple University of Philadelphia to receive her MFA in 2006. She is the recipient of several grants & awards including the NICHE award in 2011\, and has completed ceramic residencies in the US\, France and Brazil. She currently maintains a studio practice at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester\, New York. UID:11606-1177534@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11606 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T143920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents K-12 Student Group Show DESCRIPTION:This exhibit celebrates the emerging artistry of students from Saline public schools. Saline Area Schools are strong in visual education\, and students learn and participate in a wide range of media and processes throughout grade school. Every student develops an understanding of production\, criticism\, history\, and aesthetics within the visual arts. In this exhibition\, work from young people in grades K-12 will be displayed in both 2-D and 3-D galleries. The students explore themes as presented by seven different teachers in a variety of mediums\, from drawing and painting to ceramics and sculpture\, are included in this exhibit. UID:11603-1177384@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11603 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscape Forms: Painting Retrospective DESCRIPTION:A U-M graduate from the School of Art & Design in 1949\, Karin L. Bodycombe forged new territory in the arts. Working to pave the way for others\, she studied at Wayne State University and earned a degree in Art Education in 1952\, later inspiring many student artists. Creating in watercolor\, gouache\, pen\, acrylics and oils\, Bodycombe said of her work\, \"I paint landscape compositions reducing them to the basic areas or forms of the subject resembling the environment only through the tiles. Brush strokes express my feelings.\" Bodycombe has won many national awards and has exhibited her work in solo shows in Michigan and beyond. UID:11605-1177484@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11605 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T143506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Birthday Party: Ceramic Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Marcia Polenberg is an award winning artist whose figurative and architectonic sculptural ceramics\, drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely across the US and locally at WSG Gallery\, Ann Arbor Art Center and the Clay Gallery. Born in New York City\, Polenberg received a BA from CUNY Brooklyn College and an MFA from U-M. She has taught art at U-M\, the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and UM-Flint\, among others. Polenberg's work is in collections in the US\, England\, France\, Canada and Australia. This exhibit rejoices in childrens' birthday parties! Along with celebrating the special birthday child\, there is delight in the festive decorations\, the birthday cake\, the friends\, and even the unexpected. UID:11602-1177334@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T140801 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents: “Garden of Infancy & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings” by Dr. Thomas L. Clark DESCRIPTION: UID:11658-1178372@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, Taubman Health Center North Lobby. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T120349 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"An Exhibit of Exceptional Bindings by James W. Craven\" DESCRIPTION:The exhibit comprises a selection of Jim's favorite repair and preservation projects over the years\, including examples of his design bindings\, leatherwork\, inlays and custom designed tray-cases. Interspersed among the bindings and boxes are an assortment of bookbinding tools. UID:11936-1179522@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11936 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:bentley,bindings,exhibit,retirement LOCATION:Bentley Historical Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121128T103528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T120000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Eco-Restoration Workdays – Nichols Arboretum DESCRIPTION:Enjoy and learn about the beautiful natural areas at Nichols Arboretum as you contribute to restoration efforts there. Education and tools provided. Individuals welcome to drop-in\; groups register in advance. Volunteers under age 18 must submit a permission form prior to participation\; those under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. For more information call (734) 647-8528 or email the volunteer coordinator: tgriffit@umich.edu. UID:11572-1177176@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11572 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:arb,arboretum,environmental,nichols,volunteer LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T132752 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T090000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit DESCRIPTION: UID:10927-1175750@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10927 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:history,law and history,law school,race LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Room 100 Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T094637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Detroit 21 DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design\, the University of Michigan Detroit Center presents the Work: Detroit gallery exhibition\, Black Detroit 21. Curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. This exhibition kicks off with an opening reception on Friday\, January 11\, 2013 from 6 – 9p.m. The opening night performance and discussion features:\n\n7:00 p.m. - 4TheatrSake\; 25 minute performance of selections from Cell/$hips.\n7:30 p.m. - Artists and Curator Discussion: Black Detroit 21\; Moderator: Odie Rynell Cash\, Curator \nOver the course of the last five months the artists and curator from the exhibition have held discussions both in person and via the Internet around the topics presented in \"Black Detroit 21\". This final discussion will focus on the exhibition theme in relation to art and the Detroit community. A brief question and answer period with the audience will follow the discussion.\n8:30 p.m. - Satori Circus - Performance\n\"Oh Happy Day Trilogy\" (part one)\nAccording to the artists\, the goal of this performance is to “make us think...review ourselves...soul searching/identity - its loss and in search of it...and what is gained in doing so...entertainment/education/observation/simulation/and the hybrid that comes out of those. Thereby\, the audience walks away questioning...the artist\, themselves\, the world we've woven around us.”\nWith a Black population of more than 80-percent\, Detroit's African American community plays a significant role in this city's cultural identity and economic future. As Detroit moves through the 21st century\, what role will the African Americans play in Detroit's development in the community? How will this population define itself in the new century while dealing with various issues that impacts growth\, development and cultural enrichment in the city? The exhibition Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. The 11 artists in this show are from a multitude of social\, personal and generational backgrounds\, finding a common theme in their work\, which documents and/or is influenced by Detroit's African American community. The installation of the artists work in Black Detroit 21 presents a visual context to create a dialogue around these topics.\n\nBlack Detroit 21 is curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, an internationally active independent curator\, arts program organizer and artist living between Detroit\, Michigan and Antwerp\, Belgium. Cash is recognized for his wide range of artistic practices and concerns\; with the significance of avant-garde ideas and experimental mediums/media that address contemporary social and urban society.\n\nHe studied a Liberal Education curriculum at Columbia College Chicago. He has an extensive and varied background\, having curated and exhibited artworks in more than nine countries\, including projects in Antwerp\, Manila\, Rotterdam\, Paris and Toronto. Cash was the recipient of a 2007 Flemish Minister of Culture Travel Grant for research on performance theory. He has been invited by the Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos\, Nigeria to curate a group exhibition that is anticipated to open in the Fall of 2014.\n\nThe exhibition concludes on March 22\; with event performances on February 7\, February 20\, March 8\, March 12 and March 22. For more information about Black Detroit 21 events and artists\, visit: www.detroitcenter.umich.edu/news/2013/1/artist-and-event-info-black-detroit-21. \n\nFor press inquiries\, contact: DetroitCenter@umich.edu or (313) 593-3584.\n\nThe exhibition may be accessed between 11 a.m.– 4 p.m.\, Tuesday – Saturday. Work Detroit is located at the University of Michigan Detroit Center at Orchestra Place\, 3663 Woodward Avenue\, Suite 150 in Midtown Detroit. Parking is available for exhibition guests in the structure behind Orchestra Place. UID:11924-1179280@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11924 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,detroit,school of art and design LOCATION:Detroit Center - Work Detroit Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120620T153538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:African Art and the Shape of Time DESCRIPTION:African Art and the Shape of Time explores how African art gives material form to diverse concepts of temporality\, history and memory. African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as expressions of timeless myths and rituals\, interrupted only by the colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such conventional views by considering diverse modes for reckoning time and its philosophical\, social\, and religious significance. The exhibition includes 30 works from the University of Michigan Museum of Art\, National Museum of African Art\, Fowler Museum at UCLA\, as well as several Detroit area private collections\, and is organized around five themes that explore the multiplicity of time in Africa: The Beginning of Things\, Embodied Time\, Moving Through Time\, Global Time\, and \"NOW.\"\n\nThis exhibition is generously supported by the University of Michigan Health System. Additional support provided by the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund. UID:9252-1174781@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9252 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african art,umma,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120816T113657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire DESCRIPTION:Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776) depicts the death of James Wolfe\, the British commander at the 1759 Battle of Quebec during what in this country is known as the French and Indian War. In conflating a momentous contemporary event with the genre of large-scale history painting\, West flouted the conventions of academic painting and the work became one of the most celebrated paintings in Britain. The artist went on to produce six versions of the painting\, one of which belongs to the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Through approximately 40 works from Michigan\, Canadian\, and British collections\, this ambitious and thematically focused exhibition will include the Clements canvas as well as other depictions of James Wolfe and his death on the battlefield.\n\nGenerous support for this exhibition is provided by the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation\, the University of Michigan Health System\, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Office of the Vice President for Research\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, and THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (of R. & P. Heydon).\n UID:9852-1175004@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9852 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120816T114258 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Discovering Eighteenth-Century British America through the William L. Clements Library Collection DESCRIPTION:This significant exhibition provides glimpses of British America in the 1700s and is designed to complement the Museum's concurrent exhibition \"Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire\,\" which features the Clements collection's major painting \"The Death of General Wolfe.\" William L. Clements assembled an outstanding array of primary sources on North America dating between 1492 and 1800\, with a heavy emphasis on early European exploration and discovery and the eighteenth-century wars for control of the continent. The exhibition features a mix of rare items from Mr. Clements’s original donation and pieces the Library has acquired since 1923 to complement and enhance its strength in eighteenth-century American history.\n\nGenerous support for this exhibition is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.\n UID:9853-1174903@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9853 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121108T140848 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T110000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Francis Alys: Guards DESCRIPTION:Belgian artist Francis Alys's video Guards (2005) documents sixty-four of the Queen of England's guards on a \"walk\" throughout the City of London. There is perhaps no more symbolically unemotional character than that of a bearskin-hat-wearing guard of the Queen of England. Yet even with no break in the guards' indifferent exterior\, the tale still manages to be a powerful metaphor for the human condition. Many of the elements of Guards are found throughout Alys's work: walking\, rhythm\, the use of the street and bridges are all common tropes in his oeuvre. These strategies\, evoking the poetic and sonic palette of the urban environment\, involve a sometimes loose and other times overt relationship to social resistance and to the symbolic and often political implications of these actions.\n\nGenerous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n UID:11346-1176681@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,exhibition,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120809T161147 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T160000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:CJS's 9th Annual Mochitsuki DESCRIPTION:(FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)\n\nThe Center for Japanese Studies will be hosting its annual celebration of Mochitsuki (a Japanese New Year's event) with demonstrations of traditional mochi-making techniques and will also provide games\, live music\, snacks and refreshing beverages\, and many more fun cultural activities for everyone. UID:9614-1171456@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9614 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:festival,japan,multicultural LOCATION:East Hall - Math and Psych Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T150607 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Explore the Art and Culture of Southeast Asia DESCRIPTION:Visit the Museum’s South and Southeast Asian galleries with UMMA docent and Art Center instructor Susan Clinthorne\, and then create an artwork based on the folk arts from that area of the world. Art will be created using soft pastels or acrylic paint. All levels welcome\; no experience necessary. UID:11666-1178550@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11666 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,visual arts,workshop LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121105T170738 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Fiddler on the Roof DESCRIPTION: UID:11244-1176552@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11244 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:family,fiddler on the roof,musical,theater,young peoples theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T132154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T164500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Geometry of War: Fortification Plans for 18th Century America DESCRIPTION:Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm UID:10926-1175626@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10926 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:cartography,geography,history LOCATION:William Clements Library - Great Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121218T102547 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:WISE RP - Workshop on telling your story through an effective resume DESCRIPTION:This workshop\, led by Career Advisor Josh Mackey\, one of the advisors at the Career Center\, will heavily focus on presenting one's story through resume. We will discuss formatting\, ways to present certain information\, what to/not to include\, and any other questions that you may have with your resume. This workshop will be more interactive-based\, so bring your resume so that you can come ready to work on it together with your peers and start creating a successful resume that you will later be able to use when applying to internship\, student groups\, jobs\, or schools in the future. UID:11741-1178871@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11741 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:iplan: presentation,resume,workshop LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121218T101022 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T203000 SUMMARY:Performance:Poetry Slam -- The Grand Slam and Workshop DESCRIPTION:UM student poets will compete for a spot on the poetry slam team which will represent the University of Michigan at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in New York. Come to watch or participate. This event will also feature Mike Rosen (see bio at campusinvolvement.umich.edu).\n\nSaturday\, January 12th\nMichigan Union\, U-Club\nDoors open at 5:30 pm\, program begins at 6:00 pm\nCost is $3 to support the UM Poetry Team\n\nMike Rosen will also host a workshop to help a small group of students perfect their writing. Come take advantage of this opportunity to learn from a national champion.\n\nSunday\, January 13th\nMichigan Union\, Welker Room\n11:00 am - 12:30 pm\nFREE to attend but space is limited\; register at https://campusinvolvement.umich.edu/content/poetry-workshop-mike-rosen UID:11740-1178870@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11740 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:competition,performance,poetry,poetry slam,workshop,writing LOCATION:Michigan Union - U-Club CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130108T125248 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Poetry Slam! DESCRIPTION:Come out and join us as your fellow wolverines compete for spots on the UMPoetry Slam Team that will represent UofM at CUPSI (Poetry Slam Nationals). Our competitors will be sure to bring the funny and the drama!It is sure to be entertaining the audience will play a key role in who grabs a spot!\n\nThere will also be a guess preformance by Mike Rosen award winning poet! UID:11892-1179138@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11892 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:competition,entertainment,performing arts,poetry,poetry slam,umpoetry slam LOCATION:Michigan Union - U-Club CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121105T171407 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:Fiddler on the Roof DESCRIPTION: UID:11245-1176553@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11245 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:family,fiddler on the roof,musical,theater,young peoples theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120802T114757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130112T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Jill Jack Birthday Bash DESCRIPTION:\"There's a lot of soul in what she does\"–Billboard\n\nJill Jack’s magical connection to her audience is the result of her generous artistry. By combining her gifts as a conceptual visionary with a warm gathering of musical influences\, Jill touches that secret heart of ours with her melodies and lyrics. In her hometown of Detroit\, Jill needs no further explanation. She’s been lauded in equal measure to her talents: Since 1997 she’s won 30 Detroit Music Awards in every conceivable category that applies to a singer-songwriter. Much of this provincial success is due to her charming stage presence and emotive songwriting. It’s simply called connecting\, and it’s the bounty of a true songwriter open to all of life: her own defeats\, victories\, hopes dashed\, dreams fulfilled\, her muse\, her loneliness\, her misplaced love and her romantic successes.\n\nJill has built her audience with her whimsical\, genuine live performances. Genuine is the defining term here. Propelled by her musical exemplars Joni Mitchell and Emmy Lou Harris\, there are few performers with less conflict between who they are on stage and off than Jill. She extends the tradition of the confessional (i.e. achingly open\, unafraid of intimacy) singer-songwriter\, and is proud of that style and its continuation.\nYou get all of Jill Jack in a performance–her blend of folk and rock traditions\, her open humor\, her fine band. Jill harbors little of her process from her audience–each performance is about opening a window and shining a light into her songwriting\, leading inevitably to the intense relationship with her fans. Her career is founded on folk’s best idea–that there’s a shared knowing between artist and audience\, a conversation that flows both ways during a show. Plus she’s a strong woman who’s won over the toughest town in a man’s world–she’s a bandleader\, the principal songwriter in a large group bearing her own name\, an employer and automatic arbiter of musicians' issues. UID:9463-1140124@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9463 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:contemporary songwriters,jill jack,music,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121126T164337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T003000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Juried Art Competition DESCRIPTION:YOU be the judge!\n\nIn January\, the Center for Campus Involvement will be hosting a Juried Art Competition\, where art enthusiasts and passersby alike can vote on the best showcases of art at Pierpont.\n\nOn Tuesday\, January 15\, there will be a reception at 5 PM for the exhibit at Pierpont. Join us for light refreshments!\n\nAnd don’t forgot to vote all month! We’ll announce the winner online on January 31! UID:11550-1177132@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11550 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,competition,exhibit,exhibition,multicultural,north campus,visual arts LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T144458 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Brain Fitness PuzzleArt: Interactive Installation DESCRIPTION:New York artist Alli Berman had a CVA (stroke) years ago. She experimented in her studio and came up with art that is viewable\, touchable\, and movable and incorporates a therapeutic art concept. Berman now creates exciting colorful interactive art installations to help people of all ages and abilities develop stronger\, faster cognitive function as they enjoy her relaxing sensory experience. Neuroscientists and therapists use PuzzleArt in 15 countries and agree: it's secret fun therapy for developing neural plasticity. It's PuzzleArt like no puzzle you've ever done before. UID:11604-1177435@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T142716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Garden of Eden & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings DESCRIPTION:Did you know that the Garden of Eden is also the Garden of Infancy? That the tree of life is also the life giving womb? In new work illuminating familiar favorites\, snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into the biological significance of ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. Clark's snowflake of the tree of knowledge explores the biological origins of good and evil\, shedding new light on the curves of the serpent. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 3\, 2012 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery-Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. UID:11601-1177285@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11601 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Inside & Out: Fragments & Narratives in Clay DESCRIPTION:Mari Ogihara uses clay as a medium for its close resemblance to skin. Her ceramic sculptures create tension and unity between raw and ornamented surfaces and illicit feelings of sensuality and serenity. After receiving a BFA in ceramics from U-M in 2003\, Ogihara went on to study in Kyoto\, Japan to experience ceramics in her native country. Upon her return she attended Temple University of Philadelphia to receive her MFA in 2006. She is the recipient of several grants & awards including the NICHE award in 2011\, and has completed ceramic residencies in the US\, France and Brazil. She currently maintains a studio practice at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester\, New York. UID:11606-1177535@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11606 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T143920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents K-12 Student Group Show DESCRIPTION:This exhibit celebrates the emerging artistry of students from Saline public schools. Saline Area Schools are strong in visual education\, and students learn and participate in a wide range of media and processes throughout grade school. Every student develops an understanding of production\, criticism\, history\, and aesthetics within the visual arts. In this exhibition\, work from young people in grades K-12 will be displayed in both 2-D and 3-D galleries. The students explore themes as presented by seven different teachers in a variety of mediums\, from drawing and painting to ceramics and sculpture\, are included in this exhibit. UID:11603-1177385@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11603 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscape Forms: Painting Retrospective DESCRIPTION:A U-M graduate from the School of Art & Design in 1949\, Karin L. Bodycombe forged new territory in the arts. Working to pave the way for others\, she studied at Wayne State University and earned a degree in Art Education in 1952\, later inspiring many student artists. Creating in watercolor\, gouache\, pen\, acrylics and oils\, Bodycombe said of her work\, \"I paint landscape compositions reducing them to the basic areas or forms of the subject resembling the environment only through the tiles. Brush strokes express my feelings.\" Bodycombe has won many national awards and has exhibited her work in solo shows in Michigan and beyond. UID:11605-1177485@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11605 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T143506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Birthday Party: Ceramic Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Marcia Polenberg is an award winning artist whose figurative and architectonic sculptural ceramics\, drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely across the US and locally at WSG Gallery\, Ann Arbor Art Center and the Clay Gallery. Born in New York City\, Polenberg received a BA from CUNY Brooklyn College and an MFA from U-M. She has taught art at U-M\, the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and UM-Flint\, among others. Polenberg's work is in collections in the US\, England\, France\, Canada and Australia. This exhibit rejoices in childrens' birthday parties! Along with celebrating the special birthday child\, there is delight in the festive decorations\, the birthday cake\, the friends\, and even the unexpected. UID:11602-1177335@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T140801 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents: “Garden of Infancy & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings” by Dr. Thomas L. Clark DESCRIPTION: UID:11658-1178373@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, Taubman Health Center North Lobby. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T120349 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"An Exhibit of Exceptional Bindings by James W. Craven\" DESCRIPTION:The exhibit comprises a selection of Jim's favorite repair and preservation projects over the years\, including examples of his design bindings\, leatherwork\, inlays and custom designed tray-cases. Interspersed among the bindings and boxes are an assortment of bookbinding tools. UID:11936-1179523@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11936 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:bentley,bindings,exhibit,retirement LOCATION:Bentley Historical Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T132752 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T090000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit DESCRIPTION: UID:10927-1175751@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10927 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:history,law and history,law school,race LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Room 100 Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T094637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Detroit 21 DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design\, the University of Michigan Detroit Center presents the Work: Detroit gallery exhibition\, Black Detroit 21. Curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. This exhibition kicks off with an opening reception on Friday\, January 11\, 2013 from 6 – 9p.m. The opening night performance and discussion features:\n\n7:00 p.m. - 4TheatrSake\; 25 minute performance of selections from Cell/$hips.\n7:30 p.m. - Artists and Curator Discussion: Black Detroit 21\; Moderator: Odie Rynell Cash\, Curator \nOver the course of the last five months the artists and curator from the exhibition have held discussions both in person and via the Internet around the topics presented in \"Black Detroit 21\". This final discussion will focus on the exhibition theme in relation to art and the Detroit community. A brief question and answer period with the audience will follow the discussion.\n8:30 p.m. - Satori Circus - Performance\n\"Oh Happy Day Trilogy\" (part one)\nAccording to the artists\, the goal of this performance is to “make us think...review ourselves...soul searching/identity - its loss and in search of it...and what is gained in doing so...entertainment/education/observation/simulation/and the hybrid that comes out of those. Thereby\, the audience walks away questioning...the artist\, themselves\, the world we've woven around us.”\nWith a Black population of more than 80-percent\, Detroit's African American community plays a significant role in this city's cultural identity and economic future. As Detroit moves through the 21st century\, what role will the African Americans play in Detroit's development in the community? How will this population define itself in the new century while dealing with various issues that impacts growth\, development and cultural enrichment in the city? The exhibition Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. The 11 artists in this show are from a multitude of social\, personal and generational backgrounds\, finding a common theme in their work\, which documents and/or is influenced by Detroit's African American community. The installation of the artists work in Black Detroit 21 presents a visual context to create a dialogue around these topics.\n\nBlack Detroit 21 is curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, an internationally active independent curator\, arts program organizer and artist living between Detroit\, Michigan and Antwerp\, Belgium. Cash is recognized for his wide range of artistic practices and concerns\; with the significance of avant-garde ideas and experimental mediums/media that address contemporary social and urban society.\n\nHe studied a Liberal Education curriculum at Columbia College Chicago. He has an extensive and varied background\, having curated and exhibited artworks in more than nine countries\, including projects in Antwerp\, Manila\, Rotterdam\, Paris and Toronto. Cash was the recipient of a 2007 Flemish Minister of Culture Travel Grant for research on performance theory. He has been invited by the Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos\, Nigeria to curate a group exhibition that is anticipated to open in the Fall of 2014.\n\nThe exhibition concludes on March 22\; with event performances on February 7\, February 20\, March 8\, March 12 and March 22. For more information about Black Detroit 21 events and artists\, visit: www.detroitcenter.umich.edu/news/2013/1/artist-and-event-info-black-detroit-21. \n\nFor press inquiries\, contact: DetroitCenter@umich.edu or (313) 593-3584.\n\nThe exhibition may be accessed between 11 a.m.– 4 p.m.\, Tuesday – Saturday. Work Detroit is located at the University of Michigan Detroit Center at Orchestra Place\, 3663 Woodward Avenue\, Suite 150 in Midtown Detroit. Parking is available for exhibition guests in the structure behind Orchestra Place. UID:11924-1179281@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11924 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,detroit,school of art and design LOCATION:Detroit Center - Work Detroit Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120620T153538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:African Art and the Shape of Time DESCRIPTION:African Art and the Shape of Time explores how African art gives material form to diverse concepts of temporality\, history and memory. African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as expressions of timeless myths and rituals\, interrupted only by the colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such conventional views by considering diverse modes for reckoning time and its philosophical\, social\, and religious significance. The exhibition includes 30 works from the University of Michigan Museum of Art\, National Museum of African Art\, Fowler Museum at UCLA\, as well as several Detroit area private collections\, and is organized around five themes that explore the multiplicity of time in Africa: The Beginning of Things\, Embodied Time\, Moving Through Time\, Global Time\, and \"NOW.\"\n\nThis exhibition is generously supported by the University of Michigan Health System. Additional support provided by the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund. UID:9252-1174782@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9252 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african art,umma,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120816T113657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire DESCRIPTION:Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776) depicts the death of James Wolfe\, the British commander at the 1759 Battle of Quebec during what in this country is known as the French and Indian War. In conflating a momentous contemporary event with the genre of large-scale history painting\, West flouted the conventions of academic painting and the work became one of the most celebrated paintings in Britain. The artist went on to produce six versions of the painting\, one of which belongs to the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Through approximately 40 works from Michigan\, Canadian\, and British collections\, this ambitious and thematically focused exhibition will include the Clements canvas as well as other depictions of James Wolfe and his death on the battlefield.\n\nGenerous support for this exhibition is provided by the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation\, the University of Michigan Health System\, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Office of the Vice President for Research\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, and THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (of R. & P. Heydon).\n UID:9852-1175005@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9852 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120816T114258 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Discovering Eighteenth-Century British America through the William L. Clements Library Collection DESCRIPTION:This significant exhibition provides glimpses of British America in the 1700s and is designed to complement the Museum's concurrent exhibition \"Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire\,\" which features the Clements collection's major painting \"The Death of General Wolfe.\" William L. Clements assembled an outstanding array of primary sources on North America dating between 1492 and 1800\, with a heavy emphasis on early European exploration and discovery and the eighteenth-century wars for control of the continent. The exhibition features a mix of rare items from Mr. Clements’s original donation and pieces the Library has acquired since 1923 to complement and enhance its strength in eighteenth-century American history.\n\nGenerous support for this exhibition is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.\n UID:9853-1174904@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9853 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121108T140848 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T110000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Francis Alys: Guards DESCRIPTION:Belgian artist Francis Alys's video Guards (2005) documents sixty-four of the Queen of England's guards on a \"walk\" throughout the City of London. There is perhaps no more symbolically unemotional character than that of a bearskin-hat-wearing guard of the Queen of England. Yet even with no break in the guards' indifferent exterior\, the tale still manages to be a powerful metaphor for the human condition. Many of the elements of Guards are found throughout Alys's work: walking\, rhythm\, the use of the street and bridges are all common tropes in his oeuvre. These strategies\, evoking the poetic and sonic palette of the urban environment\, involve a sometimes loose and other times overt relationship to social resistance and to the symbolic and often political implications of these actions.\n\nGenerous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n UID:11346-1176682@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,exhibition,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121218T101022 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:Poetry Slam -- The Grand Slam and Workshop DESCRIPTION:UM student poets will compete for a spot on the poetry slam team which will represent the University of Michigan at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in New York. Come to watch or participate. This event will also feature Mike Rosen (see bio at campusinvolvement.umich.edu).\n\nSaturday\, January 12th\nMichigan Union\, U-Club\nDoors open at 5:30 pm\, program begins at 6:00 pm\nCost is $3 to support the UM Poetry Team\n\nMike Rosen will also host a workshop to help a small group of students perfect their writing. Come take advantage of this opportunity to learn from a national champion.\n\nSunday\, January 13th\nMichigan Union\, Welker Room\n11:00 am - 12:30 pm\nFREE to attend but space is limited\; register at https://campusinvolvement.umich.edu/content/poetry-workshop-mike-rosen UID:11740-1178869@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11740 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:competition,performance,poetry,poetry slam,workshop,writing LOCATION:Michigan Union - Welker CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T151744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Engaging with Art DESCRIPTION:UMMA's award-winning docents will guide visitors to experience art through active looking at selected highlights of the collections. These general tours provide a good introduction to the collection and to strategies for looking at art through lively and engaging conversation. UID:11674-1178560@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11674 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:museum,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T132154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T164500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Geometry of War: Fortification Plans for 18th Century America DESCRIPTION:Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm UID:10926-1175627@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10926 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:cartography,geography,history LOCATION:William Clements Library - Great Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130113T000010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Masters Recital: Saya Callner\, conductor and Third Dissertation Recital: Elliot Moore\, conductor DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Mozart - Ballet Music from Idomeneo\, K. 367\; Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915\; Mahler - Symphony no. 4 UID:11916-1179164@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11916 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120905T173515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T145000 SUMMARY:Other:Public Skate DESCRIPTION:Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!\n\nOpen to the public!\n\nCost: $6 (Adults) $4 (UM Faculty and Staff\, Students\, Youth and Seniors)\n($2 additional cost for skate rental) UID:10184-1175380@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10184 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:ice hockey,public,skating,yost ice arena LOCATION:Yost Ice Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T151342 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire DESCRIPTION:How is it that an American painter came to define the British Empire? Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776) depicts the death of James Wolfe\, the British commander at the 1759 Battle of Quebec\, one of Great Britain's most famous military victories\, during what in this country is known as the French and Indian War. The artist went on to produce six versions of the painting\, one of which belongs to the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan\, on display with approximately forty other works\, from Michigan\, Canadian\, and British collections. Docents will introduce the history and art historical significance of this ambitious exhibition. UID:11671-1178556@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11671 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:museum,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121105T172200 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T140000 SUMMARY:Performance:Fiddler on the Roof DESCRIPTION: UID:11246-1176554@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11246 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:family,fiddler on the roof,musical,theater,young peoples theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121126T124628 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Landscaping with Roses DESCRIPTION:A video about landscaping with roses plus Q&A and refreshments. Program open to all those interested in growing roses. UID:11491-1177004@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11491 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:landscaping,roses LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130113T000009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T140000 SUMMARY:Performance:Second Dissertation Recital: Phillip Bloomer\, tuba DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Telemann - Sonata in F Major TWV 41:F3\; Grant - Three Furies for Solo Tuba\; Schumann - Three Romances for Oboe and Piano\, op. 94\; Scott - Deep Blue\; Szentpali - Concerto UID:11915-1179163@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11915 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121002T134532 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Robin & Linda Williams DESCRIPTION:\"Top-drawer songwriting skills\"–Iowa City Press-Citizen\n\nRobin and Linda Williams offer a unique homespu blend of bluegrass\, folk\, acoustic country\, and old-time music that has stayed fresh and often profound for four decades now\, as a dozen musical trends have come and gone. Their songs are startlingly detailed and insightful\; their live shows are second to none\; and if you've heard their frequent guest appearances on the \"Prairie Home Companion\" radio show you owe it to yourself to check out their whole show. \"This is music that is both comfortable and thoughtful\,\" says No Depression. \"They don't play at being country–they are country.\" They're coming to Michigan with a new release\, \"These Old Dark Hills\,\" produced by Jim Rooney (Iris DeMent\, John Prine) and featuring some of the finest songwriting of their career. UID:10656-1174389@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10656 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music,robin and linda williams,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130113T000010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130113T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Senior Recital: Heather Quillen\, mezzo-soprano DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Morley - When lo! by breake of morning\; Purcell - Evening Hymn\; Britten - Evening\, Morning\, Night\; Schubert - Im Frühling\; Franz - Im Sommer\; Im Herbst\; Strauss - Winternacht\; Barber - Must the Winter Come so Soon?\; Leoncavallo - Mattinata\; Respighi - La Sera\; Notte\; Fauré - Automne\; Berlioz - Villanelle from Les Nuits d\&##39\;été\; Bizet - Chanson d\&##39\;avril\; Bolcom - At the Last Lousy Moments of Love\; Toothbrush Time UID:12008-1180010@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12008 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121126T164337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T003000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Juried Art Competition DESCRIPTION:YOU be the judge!\n\nIn January\, the Center for Campus Involvement will be hosting a Juried Art Competition\, where art enthusiasts and passersby alike can vote on the best showcases of art at Pierpont.\n\nOn Tuesday\, January 15\, there will be a reception at 5 PM for the exhibit at Pierpont. Join us for light refreshments!\n\nAnd don’t forgot to vote all month! We’ll announce the winner online on January 31! UID:11550-1177133@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11550 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,competition,exhibit,exhibition,multicultural,north campus,visual arts LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T144458 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Brain Fitness PuzzleArt: Interactive Installation DESCRIPTION:New York artist Alli Berman had a CVA (stroke) years ago. She experimented in her studio and came up with art that is viewable\, touchable\, and movable and incorporates a therapeutic art concept. Berman now creates exciting colorful interactive art installations to help people of all ages and abilities develop stronger\, faster cognitive function as they enjoy her relaxing sensory experience. Neuroscientists and therapists use PuzzleArt in 15 countries and agree: it's secret fun therapy for developing neural plasticity. It's PuzzleArt like no puzzle you've ever done before. UID:11604-1177436@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Charley Harper by Motawi: Ceramic Art Tile DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features Motawi's new collection of tiles based on the work of beloved wildlife artist Charley Harper (1922-2007). Harper's work is modern\, sophisticated and completely charming. His minimal graphic style lends itself perfectly to Motawi's cuenca tile making technique. Nawal Motawi graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Fine Art. In 1992\, she founded Motawi Tileworks in a garage studio. Today\, Nawal employs more than 30 people and sells tile through hundreds of retailers around the county. In addition to this exhibit of newly released tiles\, the University Hospital has Motawi tile murals in the east and west Patient Elevator Lobbies on floors 1-8. UID:11607-1177586@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11607 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level B2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T142716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Garden of Eden & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings DESCRIPTION:Did you know that the Garden of Eden is also the Garden of Infancy? That the tree of life is also the life giving womb? In new work illuminating familiar favorites\, snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into the biological significance of ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. Clark's snowflake of the tree of knowledge explores the biological origins of good and evil\, shedding new light on the curves of the serpent. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 3\, 2012 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery-Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. UID:11601-1177286@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11601 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T150300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Hidden Glimpses of Nature: Photography DESCRIPTION:The photography of Charles St. Charles reveals hidden glimpses of nature that few people have witnessed or are even aware exist. His work covers a vast spectrum\, from the scale of very small while recording light passing through the natural lens of miniscule dew drops\, to the scale of the very large while recording fields of daisies and fields of stars in the same image. The briefest moments of kissing and cavorting fox kits are frozen in time\, while extraordinary long exposures taken during the night expose brilliant fall foliage surrounded by moving mist. Charles' unmanipulated images all point to the same conclusion – it is a phenomenal world that we live in. UID:11608-1177699@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11608 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Inside & Out: Fragments & Narratives in Clay DESCRIPTION:Mari Ogihara uses clay as a medium for its close resemblance to skin. Her ceramic sculptures create tension and unity between raw and ornamented surfaces and illicit feelings of sensuality and serenity. After receiving a BFA in ceramics from U-M in 2003\, Ogihara went on to study in Kyoto\, Japan to experience ceramics in her native country. Upon her return she attended Temple University of Philadelphia to receive her MFA in 2006. She is the recipient of several grants & awards including the NICHE award in 2011\, and has completed ceramic residencies in the US\, France and Brazil. She currently maintains a studio practice at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester\, New York. UID:11606-1177536@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11606 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T143920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents K-12 Student Group Show DESCRIPTION:This exhibit celebrates the emerging artistry of students from Saline public schools. Saline Area Schools are strong in visual education\, and students learn and participate in a wide range of media and processes throughout grade school. Every student develops an understanding of production\, criticism\, history\, and aesthetics within the visual arts. In this exhibition\, work from young people in grades K-12 will be displayed in both 2-D and 3-D galleries. The students explore themes as presented by seven different teachers in a variety of mediums\, from drawing and painting to ceramics and sculpture\, are included in this exhibit. UID:11603-1177386@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11603 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscape Forms: Painting Retrospective DESCRIPTION:A U-M graduate from the School of Art & Design in 1949\, Karin L. Bodycombe forged new territory in the arts. Working to pave the way for others\, she studied at Wayne State University and earned a degree in Art Education in 1952\, later inspiring many student artists. Creating in watercolor\, gouache\, pen\, acrylics and oils\, Bodycombe said of her work\, \"I paint landscape compositions reducing them to the basic areas or forms of the subject resembling the environment only through the tiles. Brush strokes express my feelings.\" Bodycombe has won many national awards and has exhibited her work in solo shows in Michigan and beyond. UID:11605-1177486@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11605 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T143506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Birthday Party: Ceramic Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Marcia Polenberg is an award winning artist whose figurative and architectonic sculptural ceramics\, drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely across the US and locally at WSG Gallery\, Ann Arbor Art Center and the Clay Gallery. Born in New York City\, Polenberg received a BA from CUNY Brooklyn College and an MFA from U-M. She has taught art at U-M\, the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and UM-Flint\, among others. Polenberg's work is in collections in the US\, England\, France\, Canada and Australia. This exhibit rejoices in childrens' birthday parties! Along with celebrating the special birthday child\, there is delight in the festive decorations\, the birthday cake\, the friends\, and even the unexpected. UID:11602-1177336@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T140801 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents: “Garden of Infancy & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings” by Dr. Thomas L. Clark DESCRIPTION: UID:11658-1178374@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, Taubman Health Center North Lobby. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130110T134616 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T081000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T052000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:UM/SJTU Symposium on Nanotechnology DESCRIPTION:A joint symposium with Shanghai Jiao Tong University on nanotechnology\nin energy and medicine. UID:11969-1179709@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11969 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:china,research symposium LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Fourth Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T120349 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"An Exhibit of Exceptional Bindings by James W. Craven\" DESCRIPTION:The exhibit comprises a selection of Jim's favorite repair and preservation projects over the years\, including examples of his design bindings\, leatherwork\, inlays and custom designed tray-cases. Interspersed among the bindings and boxes are an assortment of bookbinding tools. UID:11936-1179524@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11936 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:bentley,bindings,exhibit,retirement LOCATION:Bentley Historical Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T132752 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T090000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit DESCRIPTION: UID:10927-1175752@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10927 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:history,law and history,law school,race LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Room 100 Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T135304 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ross Art Collection DESCRIPTION:The Ross Art Collection at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business is displayed at locations around the school and online at www.bus.umich.edu/RossArt/collection/. UID:11657-1178643@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11657 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T094637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Detroit 21 DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design\, the University of Michigan Detroit Center presents the Work: Detroit gallery exhibition\, Black Detroit 21. Curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. This exhibition kicks off with an opening reception on Friday\, January 11\, 2013 from 6 – 9p.m. The opening night performance and discussion features:\n\n7:00 p.m. - 4TheatrSake\; 25 minute performance of selections from Cell/$hips.\n7:30 p.m. - Artists and Curator Discussion: Black Detroit 21\; Moderator: Odie Rynell Cash\, Curator \nOver the course of the last five months the artists and curator from the exhibition have held discussions both in person and via the Internet around the topics presented in \"Black Detroit 21\". This final discussion will focus on the exhibition theme in relation to art and the Detroit community. A brief question and answer period with the audience will follow the discussion.\n8:30 p.m. - Satori Circus - Performance\n\"Oh Happy Day Trilogy\" (part one)\nAccording to the artists\, the goal of this performance is to “make us think...review ourselves...soul searching/identity - its loss and in search of it...and what is gained in doing so...entertainment/education/observation/simulation/and the hybrid that comes out of those. Thereby\, the audience walks away questioning...the artist\, themselves\, the world we've woven around us.”\nWith a Black population of more than 80-percent\, Detroit's African American community plays a significant role in this city's cultural identity and economic future. As Detroit moves through the 21st century\, what role will the African Americans play in Detroit's development in the community? How will this population define itself in the new century while dealing with various issues that impacts growth\, development and cultural enrichment in the city? The exhibition Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. The 11 artists in this show are from a multitude of social\, personal and generational backgrounds\, finding a common theme in their work\, which documents and/or is influenced by Detroit's African American community. The installation of the artists work in Black Detroit 21 presents a visual context to create a dialogue around these topics.\n\nBlack Detroit 21 is curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, an internationally active independent curator\, arts program organizer and artist living between Detroit\, Michigan and Antwerp\, Belgium. Cash is recognized for his wide range of artistic practices and concerns\; with the significance of avant-garde ideas and experimental mediums/media that address contemporary social and urban society.\n\nHe studied a Liberal Education curriculum at Columbia College Chicago. He has an extensive and varied background\, having curated and exhibited artworks in more than nine countries\, including projects in Antwerp\, Manila\, Rotterdam\, Paris and Toronto. Cash was the recipient of a 2007 Flemish Minister of Culture Travel Grant for research on performance theory. He has been invited by the Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos\, Nigeria to curate a group exhibition that is anticipated to open in the Fall of 2014.\n\nThe exhibition concludes on March 22\; with event performances on February 7\, February 20\, March 8\, March 12 and March 22. For more information about Black Detroit 21 events and artists\, visit: www.detroitcenter.umich.edu/news/2013/1/artist-and-event-info-black-detroit-21. \n\nFor press inquiries\, contact: DetroitCenter@umich.edu or (313) 593-3584.\n\nThe exhibition may be accessed between 11 a.m.– 4 p.m.\, Tuesday – Saturday. Work Detroit is located at the University of Michigan Detroit Center at Orchestra Place\, 3663 Woodward Avenue\, Suite 150 in Midtown Detroit. Parking is available for exhibition guests in the structure behind Orchestra Place. UID:11924-1179282@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11924 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,detroit,school of art and design LOCATION:Detroit Center - Work Detroit Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130110T133329 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T190000 SUMMARY:Other:The Biggest Poster Sale DESCRIPTION:Are your walls looking a little bare? The start of the semester is a perfect time to add some color! Check out the Biggest Poster Sale and choose from over 2000 different images. \n\nFINE ART\, MUSIC\, MOVIES\, MODELS\, HUMOR\, ANIMALS\, PERSONALITIES\,\nLANDSCAPES\, MOTIVATIONALS\, PHOTOGRAPHY.\n\nMOST IMAGES ONLY $7\, $8\, AND $9.\n\nSEE US AT The Michigan Union Ground Floor ON Monday Jan. 14th thru Friday Jan.18th\, 2013. 10AM-7PM. \n\nTHIS SALE IS SPONSORED BY Center for Campus Involvement. UID:11968-1179704@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11968 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,poster sale,posters,sale LOCATION:Michigan Union - Ground Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120620T153538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:African Art and the Shape of Time DESCRIPTION:African Art and the Shape of Time explores how African art gives material form to diverse concepts of temporality\, history and memory. African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as expressions of timeless myths and rituals\, interrupted only by the colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such conventional views by considering diverse modes for reckoning time and its philosophical\, social\, and religious significance. The exhibition includes 30 works from the University of Michigan Museum of Art\, National Museum of African Art\, Fowler Museum at UCLA\, as well as several Detroit area private collections\, and is organized around five themes that explore the multiplicity of time in Africa: The Beginning of Things\, Embodied Time\, Moving Through Time\, Global Time\, and \"NOW.\"\n\nThis exhibition is generously supported by the University of Michigan Health System. Additional support provided by the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund. UID:9252-1174783@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9252 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african art,umma,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121108T140848 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T110000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Francis Alys: Guards DESCRIPTION:Belgian artist Francis Alys's video Guards (2005) documents sixty-four of the Queen of England's guards on a \"walk\" throughout the City of London. There is perhaps no more symbolically unemotional character than that of a bearskin-hat-wearing guard of the Queen of England. Yet even with no break in the guards' indifferent exterior\, the tale still manages to be a powerful metaphor for the human condition. Many of the elements of Guards are found throughout Alys's work: walking\, rhythm\, the use of the street and bridges are all common tropes in his oeuvre. These strategies\, evoking the poetic and sonic palette of the urban environment\, involve a sometimes loose and other times overt relationship to social resistance and to the symbolic and often political implications of these actions.\n\nGenerous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n UID:11346-1176683@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,exhibition,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120905T172812 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T125000 SUMMARY:Other:Noon Public Skate DESCRIPTION:Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!\n\nOpen to the Public\n\nCost: $3 ($2 additional cost for skate rental) UID:10183-1175474@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10183 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:hockey,ice skating,public,skate,yost ice arena LOCATION:Yost Ice Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T122842 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Write-In for the Dream DESCRIPTION:The Sweetland Center for Writing\, in keeping with the MLK Symposium theme of (R)Evolution of the Dream\, invites the campus community to a virtual write-in on its website. \n\nNarrate how MLK's dream has been (r)evolutionary in your life. Write about a time that sharpened your understanding of justice\, civic engagement or some other value articulated by MLK\, or submit an original photo with your caption. \n\nOr\, post an original image and a caption that exemplifies Dr. King’s dream. Go to www.lsa.umich.edu/sweetland. UID:11938-1179570@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11938 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:mlk,mlk symposium,sweetland,the dream,write-in LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Online CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T132154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T164500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Geometry of War: Fortification Plans for 18th Century America DESCRIPTION:Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm UID:10926-1175628@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10926 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:cartography,geography,history LOCATION:William Clements Library - Great Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130107T164129 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T173000 SUMMARY:Other:Ben Bernanke lecture DESCRIPTION:Bernanke\, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System\, will speak at U-M as part of the Policy Talks @ the Ford School lecture series.\n\nThe talk\, which is free and open to the public\, will take place 4-5:30 in Rackham Auditorium. All passes for this event have been distributed. It will web-streamed live at www.fordschool.umich.edu/events/calendar/1447/. UID:11885-1179133@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11885 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:lecture LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130114T134038 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Professor Lisa Nakamura Talk \"Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women's Labor and the Gendering of Semiconductor Manufacture\" DESCRIPTION:Contemporary digital media production centers on the Asia-Pacific region--Silicon Valley and China\, sites where software and hardware are made. Asians and Asia have become racialized as digital\; the “nimble fingers” of Asian women are a key resource in digital industries. However\, this gendering and racialization of computer manufacture as women of colors’ work has a forgotten earlier history.\n\nIn 1970 Fairchild Corporation\, a key electronics manufacturer\, opened a fab plant on the Shiprock Indian reservation in New Mexico and became the largest employer of Indians in the U.S. Asian and Indian women were included in similar industrial discourses of racialized labor\, lack of mobility\, and docility that inform digital production cultures today. UID:12023-1180077@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12023 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:asia,native american,screen arts and cultures,women LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121220T144413 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T190000 SUMMARY:Rally / Mass Meeting:IFC Recruitment Mass Meeting DESCRIPTION:Students interested in the Greek Community and chapters within the Interfraternity council should attend this meeting. Members of all the chapters will be present along with IFC Executive Board members to answer you questions. UID:11760-1178936@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:greek life LOCATION:Michigan Union - Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120914T203721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T220000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Learning to Love Opera–OLLI Study Group DESCRIPTION:This course prepares participants for HDTV satellite broadcast of live opera performances from the Metropolitan Opera House during its 2012 season. The format includes observation and discussion of related opera performances (DVDs)\, feature and documentary films\, and occasional guest lectures by University of Michigan faculty. A syllabus is available online at www.univliving.com. Facilitated by Richard Adelman. This class meets Mondays and Tuesdays. Contact office for specific dates.\n UID:10333-1173918@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10333 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:lifelong learning,olli,opera,retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location - University Living, 2865 S. Main CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T123800 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T190000 SUMMARY:Presentation:University Musical Society Night School DESCRIPTION:A history talk with Mark Clague to set the stage for the MLK-day concert\, From Cass\nCorridor to the World: A Tribute to Detroit’s Musical Golden Age. UID:11939-1179571@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11939 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:clague,night school,ums,university musical society LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Ann Arbor District Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130114T000009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Guest Recital: Joel Hastings\, piano DESCRIPTION:“The Piano’s 12 Sides” Pianist Joel Hastings\, SMTD alumni\, performs the piano music of Carter Pann\, also an SMTD alumni\, with the composer as guest pianist. UID:11220-1176528@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11220 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120807T151022 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130114T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Marc Cohn DESCRIPTION:A trip back in time ... or is it?\n\nWhen Cleveland native Marc Cohn released a luminous piece of pure pop songcraft called \"Walking in Memphis\" in 1991\, he earned a Best New Artist Grammy and a permanent place in American musical consciousness. His tough 2007 album \"Join the Parade\" revived his career\, and now he's back with \"Listening Booth: 1970\"–not a nostalgia trip but a fresh look at some songs of that era. There are a few hits among them\, like “Wild World” and “The Tears of a Clown\,” but most are neither standards nor obscurities–songs that have new things to say in Marc's hands and voice: the Grateful Dead's “New Speedway Boogie\,” Simon & Garfunkel's \"The Only Living Boy in New York\,\" and Van Morrison's “Into the Mystic\" are on the album\, and he even finds a new direction in soft rock like Bread's \"Make It With You\,\" performed on the album as a duet with India.Arie. This is more than a listening booth\, and more than a trip back in time–it may be the most important release of its type since Rod Stewart's similar albums of a few years back. UID:9506-1140176@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9506 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:contemporary songwriters,marc cohn,music,rock/pop,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121126T164337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T003000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Juried Art Competition DESCRIPTION:YOU be the judge!\n\nIn January\, the Center for Campus Involvement will be hosting a Juried Art Competition\, where art enthusiasts and passersby alike can vote on the best showcases of art at Pierpont.\n\nOn Tuesday\, January 15\, there will be a reception at 5 PM for the exhibit at Pierpont. Join us for light refreshments!\n\nAnd don’t forgot to vote all month! We’ll announce the winner online on January 31! UID:11550-1177134@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11550 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,competition,exhibit,exhibition,multicultural,north campus,visual arts LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130110T134616 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T073000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T054500 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:UM/SJTU Symposium on Nanotechnology DESCRIPTION:A joint symposium with Shanghai Jiao Tong University on nanotechnology\nin energy and medicine. UID:11969-1179710@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11969 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:china,research symposium LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Fourth Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T095034 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T080000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cao Yu: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Drama DESCRIPTION: On January 15\, 2013\, the exhibition entitled \"Cao Yu\, Pioneer of Modern Drama in China\" will be opened in North Campus Research Complex. Cao Yu is the founding father of modern Chinese drama\, often regarded as China's most important of the 20th century. The exhibition is as much a story of modern China as it is about Cao Yu himself because his life and career exemplify the dilemmas and difficulties faced by generations of Chinese intellectuals in the twentieth century.\n\"Thunderstorm\"\, Cao Yu's maiden work\, and \"The Savage Land\"\, a film by Liang Zi based on the play by Cao Yu\, will be screened at the U-M campus during the exhibition period\, and Professor Siyuan Liu (Department of Theatre and Film\, UBC) will give a presentation entitled\, \"From Aristotle to O'Neill: Western Influence on Cao Yu\" at 4pm\, February 8\, 2013. UID:11925-1179350@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11925 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:cao yu,china,drama LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex - Building 18 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T144458 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Brain Fitness PuzzleArt: Interactive Installation DESCRIPTION:New York artist Alli Berman had a CVA (stroke) years ago. She experimented in her studio and came up with art that is viewable\, touchable\, and movable and incorporates a therapeutic art concept. Berman now creates exciting colorful interactive art installations to help people of all ages and abilities develop stronger\, faster cognitive function as they enjoy her relaxing sensory experience. Neuroscientists and therapists use PuzzleArt in 15 countries and agree: it's secret fun therapy for developing neural plasticity. It's PuzzleArt like no puzzle you've ever done before. UID:11604-1177437@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Charley Harper by Motawi: Ceramic Art Tile DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features Motawi's new collection of tiles based on the work of beloved wildlife artist Charley Harper (1922-2007). Harper's work is modern\, sophisticated and completely charming. His minimal graphic style lends itself perfectly to Motawi's cuenca tile making technique. Nawal Motawi graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Fine Art. In 1992\, she founded Motawi Tileworks in a garage studio. Today\, Nawal employs more than 30 people and sells tile through hundreds of retailers around the county. In addition to this exhibit of newly released tiles\, the University Hospital has Motawi tile murals in the east and west Patient Elevator Lobbies on floors 1-8. UID:11607-1177587@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11607 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level B2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T142716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Garden of Eden & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings DESCRIPTION:Did you know that the Garden of Eden is also the Garden of Infancy? That the tree of life is also the life giving womb? In new work illuminating familiar favorites\, snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into the biological significance of ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. Clark's snowflake of the tree of knowledge explores the biological origins of good and evil\, shedding new light on the curves of the serpent. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 3\, 2012 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery-Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. UID:11601-1177287@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11601 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T150300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Hidden Glimpses of Nature: Photography DESCRIPTION:The photography of Charles St. Charles reveals hidden glimpses of nature that few people have witnessed or are even aware exist. His work covers a vast spectrum\, from the scale of very small while recording light passing through the natural lens of miniscule dew drops\, to the scale of the very large while recording fields of daisies and fields of stars in the same image. The briefest moments of kissing and cavorting fox kits are frozen in time\, while extraordinary long exposures taken during the night expose brilliant fall foliage surrounded by moving mist. Charles' unmanipulated images all point to the same conclusion – it is a phenomenal world that we live in. UID:11608-1177700@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11608 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Inside & Out: Fragments & Narratives in Clay DESCRIPTION:Mari Ogihara uses clay as a medium for its close resemblance to skin. Her ceramic sculptures create tension and unity between raw and ornamented surfaces and illicit feelings of sensuality and serenity. After receiving a BFA in ceramics from U-M in 2003\, Ogihara went on to study in Kyoto\, Japan to experience ceramics in her native country. Upon her return she attended Temple University of Philadelphia to receive her MFA in 2006. She is the recipient of several grants & awards including the NICHE award in 2011\, and has completed ceramic residencies in the US\, France and Brazil. She currently maintains a studio practice at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester\, New York. UID:11606-1177537@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11606 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T143920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents K-12 Student Group Show DESCRIPTION:This exhibit celebrates the emerging artistry of students from Saline public schools. Saline Area Schools are strong in visual education\, and students learn and participate in a wide range of media and processes throughout grade school. Every student develops an understanding of production\, criticism\, history\, and aesthetics within the visual arts. In this exhibition\, work from young people in grades K-12 will be displayed in both 2-D and 3-D galleries. The students explore themes as presented by seven different teachers in a variety of mediums\, from drawing and painting to ceramics and sculpture\, are included in this exhibit. UID:11603-1177387@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11603 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscape Forms: Painting Retrospective DESCRIPTION:A U-M graduate from the School of Art & Design in 1949\, Karin L. Bodycombe forged new territory in the arts. Working to pave the way for others\, she studied at Wayne State University and earned a degree in Art Education in 1952\, later inspiring many student artists. Creating in watercolor\, gouache\, pen\, acrylics and oils\, Bodycombe said of her work\, \"I paint landscape compositions reducing them to the basic areas or forms of the subject resembling the environment only through the tiles. Brush strokes express my feelings.\" Bodycombe has won many national awards and has exhibited her work in solo shows in Michigan and beyond. UID:11605-1177487@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11605 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T143506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Birthday Party: Ceramic Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Marcia Polenberg is an award winning artist whose figurative and architectonic sculptural ceramics\, drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely across the US and locally at WSG Gallery\, Ann Arbor Art Center and the Clay Gallery. Born in New York City\, Polenberg received a BA from CUNY Brooklyn College and an MFA from U-M. She has taught art at U-M\, the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and UM-Flint\, among others. Polenberg's work is in collections in the US\, England\, France\, Canada and Australia. This exhibit rejoices in childrens' birthday parties! Along with celebrating the special birthday child\, there is delight in the festive decorations\, the birthday cake\, the friends\, and even the unexpected. UID:11602-1177337@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T140801 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents: “Garden of Infancy & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings” by Dr. Thomas L. Clark DESCRIPTION: UID:11658-1178375@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, Taubman Health Center North Lobby. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T120349 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"An Exhibit of Exceptional Bindings by James W. Craven\" DESCRIPTION:The exhibit comprises a selection of Jim's favorite repair and preservation projects over the years\, including examples of his design bindings\, leatherwork\, inlays and custom designed tray-cases. Interspersed among the bindings and boxes are an assortment of bookbinding tools. UID:11936-1179525@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11936 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:bentley,bindings,exhibit,retirement LOCATION:Bentley Historical Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T132752 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T090000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit DESCRIPTION: UID:10927-1175753@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10927 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:history,law and history,law school,race LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Room 100 Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T135304 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ross Art Collection DESCRIPTION:The Ross Art Collection at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business is displayed at locations around the school and online at www.bus.umich.edu/RossArt/collection/. UID:11657-1178644@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11657 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T094637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Detroit 21 DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design\, the University of Michigan Detroit Center presents the Work: Detroit gallery exhibition\, Black Detroit 21. Curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. This exhibition kicks off with an opening reception on Friday\, January 11\, 2013 from 6 – 9p.m. The opening night performance and discussion features:\n\n7:00 p.m. - 4TheatrSake\; 25 minute performance of selections from Cell/$hips.\n7:30 p.m. - Artists and Curator Discussion: Black Detroit 21\; Moderator: Odie Rynell Cash\, Curator \nOver the course of the last five months the artists and curator from the exhibition have held discussions both in person and via the Internet around the topics presented in \"Black Detroit 21\". This final discussion will focus on the exhibition theme in relation to art and the Detroit community. A brief question and answer period with the audience will follow the discussion.\n8:30 p.m. - Satori Circus - Performance\n\"Oh Happy Day Trilogy\" (part one)\nAccording to the artists\, the goal of this performance is to “make us think...review ourselves...soul searching/identity - its loss and in search of it...and what is gained in doing so...entertainment/education/observation/simulation/and the hybrid that comes out of those. Thereby\, the audience walks away questioning...the artist\, themselves\, the world we've woven around us.”\nWith a Black population of more than 80-percent\, Detroit's African American community plays a significant role in this city's cultural identity and economic future. As Detroit moves through the 21st century\, what role will the African Americans play in Detroit's development in the community? How will this population define itself in the new century while dealing with various issues that impacts growth\, development and cultural enrichment in the city? The exhibition Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. The 11 artists in this show are from a multitude of social\, personal and generational backgrounds\, finding a common theme in their work\, which documents and/or is influenced by Detroit's African American community. The installation of the artists work in Black Detroit 21 presents a visual context to create a dialogue around these topics.\n\nBlack Detroit 21 is curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, an internationally active independent curator\, arts program organizer and artist living between Detroit\, Michigan and Antwerp\, Belgium. Cash is recognized for his wide range of artistic practices and concerns\; with the significance of avant-garde ideas and experimental mediums/media that address contemporary social and urban society.\n\nHe studied a Liberal Education curriculum at Columbia College Chicago. He has an extensive and varied background\, having curated and exhibited artworks in more than nine countries\, including projects in Antwerp\, Manila\, Rotterdam\, Paris and Toronto. Cash was the recipient of a 2007 Flemish Minister of Culture Travel Grant for research on performance theory. He has been invited by the Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos\, Nigeria to curate a group exhibition that is anticipated to open in the Fall of 2014.\n\nThe exhibition concludes on March 22\; with event performances on February 7\, February 20\, March 8\, March 12 and March 22. For more information about Black Detroit 21 events and artists\, visit: www.detroitcenter.umich.edu/news/2013/1/artist-and-event-info-black-detroit-21. \n\nFor press inquiries\, contact: DetroitCenter@umich.edu or (313) 593-3584.\n\nThe exhibition may be accessed between 11 a.m.– 4 p.m.\, Tuesday – Saturday. Work Detroit is located at the University of Michigan Detroit Center at Orchestra Place\, 3663 Woodward Avenue\, Suite 150 in Midtown Detroit. Parking is available for exhibition guests in the structure behind Orchestra Place. UID:11924-1179283@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11924 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,detroit,school of art and design LOCATION:Detroit Center - Work Detroit Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130110T133329 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T190000 SUMMARY:Other:The Biggest Poster Sale DESCRIPTION:Are your walls looking a little bare? The start of the semester is a perfect time to add some color! Check out the Biggest Poster Sale and choose from over 2000 different images. \n\nFINE ART\, MUSIC\, MOVIES\, MODELS\, HUMOR\, ANIMALS\, PERSONALITIES\,\nLANDSCAPES\, MOTIVATIONALS\, PHOTOGRAPHY.\n\nMOST IMAGES ONLY $7\, $8\, AND $9.\n\nSEE US AT The Michigan Union Ground Floor ON Monday Jan. 14th thru Friday Jan.18th\, 2013. 10AM-7PM. \n\nTHIS SALE IS SPONSORED BY Center for Campus Involvement. UID:11968-1179705@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11968 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,poster sale,posters,sale LOCATION:Michigan Union - Ground Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120620T153538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:African Art and the Shape of Time DESCRIPTION:African Art and the Shape of Time explores how African art gives material form to diverse concepts of temporality\, history and memory. African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as expressions of timeless myths and rituals\, interrupted only by the colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such conventional views by considering diverse modes for reckoning time and its philosophical\, social\, and religious significance. The exhibition includes 30 works from the University of Michigan Museum of Art\, National Museum of African Art\, Fowler Museum at UCLA\, as well as several Detroit area private collections\, and is organized around five themes that explore the multiplicity of time in Africa: The Beginning of Things\, Embodied Time\, Moving Through Time\, Global Time\, and \"NOW.\"\n\nThis exhibition is generously supported by the University of Michigan Health System. Additional support provided by the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund. UID:9252-1174784@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9252 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african art,umma,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121108T140848 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T110000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Francis Alys: Guards DESCRIPTION:Belgian artist Francis Alys's video Guards (2005) documents sixty-four of the Queen of England's guards on a \"walk\" throughout the City of London. There is perhaps no more symbolically unemotional character than that of a bearskin-hat-wearing guard of the Queen of England. Yet even with no break in the guards' indifferent exterior\, the tale still manages to be a powerful metaphor for the human condition. Many of the elements of Guards are found throughout Alys's work: walking\, rhythm\, the use of the street and bridges are all common tropes in his oeuvre. These strategies\, evoking the poetic and sonic palette of the urban environment\, involve a sometimes loose and other times overt relationship to social resistance and to the symbolic and often political implications of these actions.\n\nGenerous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n UID:11346-1176684@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,exhibition,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130104T100004 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T130000 SUMMARY:Other:Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar Series (Faculty Candidate Seminar) DESCRIPTION:Dr. Guramrit\, Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts will be giving a seminar titled: \"The Exon Junction Complex interactome reveals the compact nature of mRNPs\" UID:11830-1179076@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11830 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:biological chemistry,faculty candidate LOCATION:Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120925T115909 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:My Brothers DESCRIPTION:My Brothers seeks to empower self-identified men of color around issues of identity\, intercultural competency\, and health and wellness that affect them in a safe\, open atmosphere. The program welcomes all University of Michigan men of color – undergraduate and graduate\, faculty and staff. Free lunch will be provided. UID:10506-1174232@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10506 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,multicultural,social justice LOCATION:Michigan Union - CSG Chambers - 3rd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120905T172812 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T125000 SUMMARY:Other:Noon Public Skate DESCRIPTION:Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!\n\nOpen to the Public\n\nCost: $3 ($2 additional cost for skate rental) UID:10183-1175475@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10183 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:hockey,ice skating,public,skate,yost ice arena LOCATION:Yost Ice Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T132154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T164500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Geometry of War: Fortification Plans for 18th Century America DESCRIPTION:Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm UID:10926-1175629@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10926 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:cartography,geography,history LOCATION:William Clements Library - Great Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120903T184119 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T163000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Current Events I–OLLI Study Group DESCRIPTION:Participants spend 10-15 minutes discussing the previous week’s events. They will be asked to present an item of interest\, which is then discussed by the group. All opinions are welcome. \n\nClass continues Tuesdays\, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. September 4 - July 30 at TSRC.\nFacilitator: Irma Sklenar. UID:10133-1173320@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10133 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:current events,lifelong learning,olli,retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T124130 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T160000 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Making of the Dream: MLK\, Detroit and U-M DESCRIPTION:Stephen Ward will moderate a discussion of King’s participation in the Great March to Freedom in Detroit June 23\, 1963 where the “Dream” speech was first presented. King’s visit to U-M in 1962 and the memorial held in his honor at Hill Auditorium following his assassination in 1968 will also be discussed. UID:11940-1179572@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11940 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:mlk,mlk symposium,stephen ward LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T124425 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T180000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Dinner and Dialogue: 50 Years of The Dream DESCRIPTION: UID:11941-1179573@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11941 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:mlk symposium LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Michigan Rooms A & B, Mott University Center, UM-Flint CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121207T082554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T210000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Mind/Body Health Care DESCRIPTION:Presentations by:\nDenise Saint-Arnault\, RN\, Ph.D.\, associate professor\, University of Michigan School of Nursing\, \"Biodynamic Psychotherapy as an Intervention for Healing Trauma\"\n \nDr. Howard Schubiner. founder and director of the Mind Body Medicine Program at Providence Hospital\, \"Sustained Pain Reduction Through Affective Self-awareness in Fibromyalgia: A Randomized Controlled Trial\"\n \nFree admission to all undergraduate nursing students with School I.D.\n$10.00 for members and $15.00 for non-members wanting 2CNE credits\n$3.00 for members and $5.00 for non-members not wanting CNE credit\n \nThe University of Michigan Health System’s Professional Development and Education for Nursing is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. 2.0 contact hours for nursing will be provided.\n \n\n\n UID:11681-1178568@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11681 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:fibromyalgia,holistic,nursing,trauma LOCATION:School of Nursing - Rooms 1230/1240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121220T142608 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T190000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Panhel Meeting DESCRIPTION: UID:11753-1178910@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11753 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:greek life LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121126T125357 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Climate Science as Culture Change DESCRIPTION:The social debate around climate change is no longer about carbon dioxide and climate models–it’s about values\, culture\, worldviews and ideology. Hear Andrew J. Hoffman\, Director\, UM Erb Institute\, discuss how the use of increasing amounts of data without attending to social values of the people or groups being addressed will increase resistance to the message and make a social consensus even more elusive. UID:11494-1177007@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:climate change LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130115T085028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T210000 SUMMARY:Other:Athletes in Medicine-Presenting Your Story DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be geared towards student-athletes thinking about pursuing a career in the healthcare field. In this interactive workshop\, we will discuss how to present your story to those graduate programs in the future. Exercises will be geared towards reflecting on how to present your story in personal statements\, interviews\, and applications as a whole.\n\nRushi Vyas will be conducting this workshop and you can contact him via email at rvyas@umich.edu. UID:12038-1180090@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12038 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:iplan: presentation,pre med,student athlete LOCATION:Academic Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130114T170224 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130115T220000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Marxism Reading Group DESCRIPTION:This event is the sixth in an ongoing series of open\, critical\ndiscussions of socialist approaches to philosophy\, history and\nsociety.\nThe principal reading to be discussed in this session will be \"The\nCommunist Horizon\"\, an essay by Jodi Dean from 2012\, which is an\noverview of the arguments in her recent book by the same name.\nThis essay (a 27-page MS Word document) can be downloaded from:\nhttp://www.jdeanicite.typepad.com/files/the-communist-horizon.doc .\nHowever\, reading the essay is not essential for coming to the\ndiscussion\, as the ideas in the essay will be presented and explained\nduring the first part of the discussion.\n\nAbout Jodi Dean:\n\nJodi Dean is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William\nSmith Colleges and Erasmus Professor of the Humanities in the Faculty\nof Philosophy at Erasmus University. She is the author or editor of\nnine books. The most recent is _Democracy and Other Neoliberal\nFantasies: Communicative Politics and Left Politics_.\n\nPraise for _The Communist Horizon_:\n\n“This is what everyone engaged in today’s struggles for emancipation\nneeds: a unique combination of theoretical stringency and a realistic\nassessment of our predicament. To anyone who continues to dwell in\nillusions about liberal democracy\, one should simply say: read Jodi\nDean’s new book!” – Slavoj Žižek\n\nThis event is free and open to the public.\n UID:12033-1180084@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12033 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:social justice LOCATION:Michigan Union - Room 2105C CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121126T164337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T003000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Juried Art Competition DESCRIPTION:YOU be the judge!\n\nIn January\, the Center for Campus Involvement will be hosting a Juried Art Competition\, where art enthusiasts and passersby alike can vote on the best showcases of art at Pierpont.\n\nOn Tuesday\, January 15\, there will be a reception at 5 PM for the exhibit at Pierpont. Join us for light refreshments!\n\nAnd don’t forgot to vote all month! We’ll announce the winner online on January 31! UID:11550-1177135@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11550 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,competition,exhibit,exhibition,multicultural,north campus,visual arts LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T095034 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T080000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cao Yu: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Drama DESCRIPTION: On January 15\, 2013\, the exhibition entitled \"Cao Yu\, Pioneer of Modern Drama in China\" will be opened in North Campus Research Complex. Cao Yu is the founding father of modern Chinese drama\, often regarded as China's most important of the 20th century. The exhibition is as much a story of modern China as it is about Cao Yu himself because his life and career exemplify the dilemmas and difficulties faced by generations of Chinese intellectuals in the twentieth century.\n\"Thunderstorm\"\, Cao Yu's maiden work\, and \"The Savage Land\"\, a film by Liang Zi based on the play by Cao Yu\, will be screened at the U-M campus during the exhibition period\, and Professor Siyuan Liu (Department of Theatre and Film\, UBC) will give a presentation entitled\, \"From Aristotle to O'Neill: Western Influence on Cao Yu\" at 4pm\, February 8\, 2013. UID:11925-1179351@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11925 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:cao yu,china,drama LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex - Building 18 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T144458 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Brain Fitness PuzzleArt: Interactive Installation DESCRIPTION:New York artist Alli Berman had a CVA (stroke) years ago. She experimented in her studio and came up with art that is viewable\, touchable\, and movable and incorporates a therapeutic art concept. Berman now creates exciting colorful interactive art installations to help people of all ages and abilities develop stronger\, faster cognitive function as they enjoy her relaxing sensory experience. Neuroscientists and therapists use PuzzleArt in 15 countries and agree: it's secret fun therapy for developing neural plasticity. It's PuzzleArt like no puzzle you've ever done before. UID:11604-1177438@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Charley Harper by Motawi: Ceramic Art Tile DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features Motawi's new collection of tiles based on the work of beloved wildlife artist Charley Harper (1922-2007). Harper's work is modern\, sophisticated and completely charming. His minimal graphic style lends itself perfectly to Motawi's cuenca tile making technique. Nawal Motawi graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Fine Art. In 1992\, she founded Motawi Tileworks in a garage studio. Today\, Nawal employs more than 30 people and sells tile through hundreds of retailers around the county. In addition to this exhibit of newly released tiles\, the University Hospital has Motawi tile murals in the east and west Patient Elevator Lobbies on floors 1-8. UID:11607-1177588@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11607 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level B2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T142716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Garden of Eden & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings DESCRIPTION:Did you know that the Garden of Eden is also the Garden of Infancy? That the tree of life is also the life giving womb? In new work illuminating familiar favorites\, snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into the biological significance of ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. Clark's snowflake of the tree of knowledge explores the biological origins of good and evil\, shedding new light on the curves of the serpent. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 3\, 2012 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery-Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. UID:11601-1177288@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11601 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T150300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Hidden Glimpses of Nature: Photography DESCRIPTION:The photography of Charles St. Charles reveals hidden glimpses of nature that few people have witnessed or are even aware exist. His work covers a vast spectrum\, from the scale of very small while recording light passing through the natural lens of miniscule dew drops\, to the scale of the very large while recording fields of daisies and fields of stars in the same image. The briefest moments of kissing and cavorting fox kits are frozen in time\, while extraordinary long exposures taken during the night expose brilliant fall foliage surrounded by moving mist. Charles' unmanipulated images all point to the same conclusion – it is a phenomenal world that we live in. UID:11608-1177701@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11608 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Inside & Out: Fragments & Narratives in Clay DESCRIPTION:Mari Ogihara uses clay as a medium for its close resemblance to skin. Her ceramic sculptures create tension and unity between raw and ornamented surfaces and illicit feelings of sensuality and serenity. After receiving a BFA in ceramics from U-M in 2003\, Ogihara went on to study in Kyoto\, Japan to experience ceramics in her native country. Upon her return she attended Temple University of Philadelphia to receive her MFA in 2006. She is the recipient of several grants & awards including the NICHE award in 2011\, and has completed ceramic residencies in the US\, France and Brazil. She currently maintains a studio practice at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester\, New York. UID:11606-1177538@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11606 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T143920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents K-12 Student Group Show DESCRIPTION:This exhibit celebrates the emerging artistry of students from Saline public schools. Saline Area Schools are strong in visual education\, and students learn and participate in a wide range of media and processes throughout grade school. Every student develops an understanding of production\, criticism\, history\, and aesthetics within the visual arts. In this exhibition\, work from young people in grades K-12 will be displayed in both 2-D and 3-D galleries. The students explore themes as presented by seven different teachers in a variety of mediums\, from drawing and painting to ceramics and sculpture\, are included in this exhibit. UID:11603-1177388@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11603 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscape Forms: Painting Retrospective DESCRIPTION:A U-M graduate from the School of Art & Design in 1949\, Karin L. Bodycombe forged new territory in the arts. Working to pave the way for others\, she studied at Wayne State University and earned a degree in Art Education in 1952\, later inspiring many student artists. Creating in watercolor\, gouache\, pen\, acrylics and oils\, Bodycombe said of her work\, \"I paint landscape compositions reducing them to the basic areas or forms of the subject resembling the environment only through the tiles. Brush strokes express my feelings.\" Bodycombe has won many national awards and has exhibited her work in solo shows in Michigan and beyond. UID:11605-1177488@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11605 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T143506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Birthday Party: Ceramic Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Marcia Polenberg is an award winning artist whose figurative and architectonic sculptural ceramics\, drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely across the US and locally at WSG Gallery\, Ann Arbor Art Center and the Clay Gallery. Born in New York City\, Polenberg received a BA from CUNY Brooklyn College and an MFA from U-M. She has taught art at U-M\, the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and UM-Flint\, among others. Polenberg's work is in collections in the US\, England\, France\, Canada and Australia. This exhibit rejoices in childrens' birthday parties! Along with celebrating the special birthday child\, there is delight in the festive decorations\, the birthday cake\, the friends\, and even the unexpected. UID:11602-1177338@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T140801 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents: “Garden of Infancy & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings” by Dr. Thomas L. Clark DESCRIPTION: UID:11658-1178376@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, Taubman Health Center North Lobby. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T120349 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"An Exhibit of Exceptional Bindings by James W. Craven\" DESCRIPTION:The exhibit comprises a selection of Jim's favorite repair and preservation projects over the years\, including examples of his design bindings\, leatherwork\, inlays and custom designed tray-cases. Interspersed among the bindings and boxes are an assortment of bookbinding tools. UID:11936-1179526@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11936 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:bentley,bindings,exhibit,retirement LOCATION:Bentley Historical Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T132752 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T090000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit DESCRIPTION: UID:10927-1175754@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10927 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:history,law and history,law school,race LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Room 100 Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T135304 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ross Art Collection DESCRIPTION:The Ross Art Collection at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business is displayed at locations around the school and online at www.bus.umich.edu/RossArt/collection/. UID:11657-1178645@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11657 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T094637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Detroit 21 DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design\, the University of Michigan Detroit Center presents the Work: Detroit gallery exhibition\, Black Detroit 21. Curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. This exhibition kicks off with an opening reception on Friday\, January 11\, 2013 from 6 – 9p.m. The opening night performance and discussion features:\n\n7:00 p.m. - 4TheatrSake\; 25 minute performance of selections from Cell/$hips.\n7:30 p.m. - Artists and Curator Discussion: Black Detroit 21\; Moderator: Odie Rynell Cash\, Curator \nOver the course of the last five months the artists and curator from the exhibition have held discussions both in person and via the Internet around the topics presented in \"Black Detroit 21\". This final discussion will focus on the exhibition theme in relation to art and the Detroit community. A brief question and answer period with the audience will follow the discussion.\n8:30 p.m. - Satori Circus - Performance\n\"Oh Happy Day Trilogy\" (part one)\nAccording to the artists\, the goal of this performance is to “make us think...review ourselves...soul searching/identity - its loss and in search of it...and what is gained in doing so...entertainment/education/observation/simulation/and the hybrid that comes out of those. Thereby\, the audience walks away questioning...the artist\, themselves\, the world we've woven around us.”\nWith a Black population of more than 80-percent\, Detroit's African American community plays a significant role in this city's cultural identity and economic future. As Detroit moves through the 21st century\, what role will the African Americans play in Detroit's development in the community? How will this population define itself in the new century while dealing with various issues that impacts growth\, development and cultural enrichment in the city? The exhibition Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. The 11 artists in this show are from a multitude of social\, personal and generational backgrounds\, finding a common theme in their work\, which documents and/or is influenced by Detroit's African American community. The installation of the artists work in Black Detroit 21 presents a visual context to create a dialogue around these topics.\n\nBlack Detroit 21 is curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, an internationally active independent curator\, arts program organizer and artist living between Detroit\, Michigan and Antwerp\, Belgium. Cash is recognized for his wide range of artistic practices and concerns\; with the significance of avant-garde ideas and experimental mediums/media that address contemporary social and urban society.\n\nHe studied a Liberal Education curriculum at Columbia College Chicago. He has an extensive and varied background\, having curated and exhibited artworks in more than nine countries\, including projects in Antwerp\, Manila\, Rotterdam\, Paris and Toronto. Cash was the recipient of a 2007 Flemish Minister of Culture Travel Grant for research on performance theory. He has been invited by the Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos\, Nigeria to curate a group exhibition that is anticipated to open in the Fall of 2014.\n\nThe exhibition concludes on March 22\; with event performances on February 7\, February 20\, March 8\, March 12 and March 22. For more information about Black Detroit 21 events and artists\, visit: www.detroitcenter.umich.edu/news/2013/1/artist-and-event-info-black-detroit-21. \n\nFor press inquiries\, contact: DetroitCenter@umich.edu or (313) 593-3584.\n\nThe exhibition may be accessed between 11 a.m.– 4 p.m.\, Tuesday – Saturday. Work Detroit is located at the University of Michigan Detroit Center at Orchestra Place\, 3663 Woodward Avenue\, Suite 150 in Midtown Detroit. Parking is available for exhibition guests in the structure behind Orchestra Place. UID:11924-1179284@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11924 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,detroit,school of art and design LOCATION:Detroit Center - Work Detroit Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130110T133329 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T190000 SUMMARY:Other:The Biggest Poster Sale DESCRIPTION:Are your walls looking a little bare? The start of the semester is a perfect time to add some color! Check out the Biggest Poster Sale and choose from over 2000 different images. \n\nFINE ART\, MUSIC\, MOVIES\, MODELS\, HUMOR\, ANIMALS\, PERSONALITIES\,\nLANDSCAPES\, MOTIVATIONALS\, PHOTOGRAPHY.\n\nMOST IMAGES ONLY $7\, $8\, AND $9.\n\nSEE US AT The Michigan Union Ground Floor ON Monday Jan. 14th thru Friday Jan.18th\, 2013. 10AM-7PM. \n\nTHIS SALE IS SPONSORED BY Center for Campus Involvement. UID:11968-1179706@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11968 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,poster sale,posters,sale LOCATION:Michigan Union - Ground Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120620T153538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:African Art and the Shape of Time DESCRIPTION:African Art and the Shape of Time explores how African art gives material form to diverse concepts of temporality\, history and memory. African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as expressions of timeless myths and rituals\, interrupted only by the colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such conventional views by considering diverse modes for reckoning time and its philosophical\, social\, and religious significance. The exhibition includes 30 works from the University of Michigan Museum of Art\, National Museum of African Art\, Fowler Museum at UCLA\, as well as several Detroit area private collections\, and is organized around five themes that explore the multiplicity of time in Africa: The Beginning of Things\, Embodied Time\, Moving Through Time\, Global Time\, and \"NOW.\"\n\nThis exhibition is generously supported by the University of Michigan Health System. Additional support provided by the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund. UID:9252-1174785@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9252 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african art,umma,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121108T140848 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T110000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Francis Alys: Guards DESCRIPTION:Belgian artist Francis Alys's video Guards (2005) documents sixty-four of the Queen of England's guards on a \"walk\" throughout the City of London. There is perhaps no more symbolically unemotional character than that of a bearskin-hat-wearing guard of the Queen of England. Yet even with no break in the guards' indifferent exterior\, the tale still manages to be a powerful metaphor for the human condition. Many of the elements of Guards are found throughout Alys's work: walking\, rhythm\, the use of the street and bridges are all common tropes in his oeuvre. These strategies\, evoking the poetic and sonic palette of the urban environment\, involve a sometimes loose and other times overt relationship to social resistance and to the symbolic and often political implications of these actions.\n\nGenerous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n UID:11346-1176685@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,exhibition,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130110T155237 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CREES Noon Lecture DESCRIPTION:Yuri Tsivian\, William Colvin Professor of Cinema and Media Studies\, University of Chicago.\n\nThe cult of Charlie Chaplin launched by West European avant-garde artists and poets of the 1920s (Goll\, Aragon\, Leger\, Chagall) reached Russia early in 1922. This talk looks at those aspects of Chaplins acting style that fascinated Soviet left-wing artists and what they made of them: Chaplin's image in Russia as a \"Taylorist actor\;\" Chaplin's impact on Kuleshov's workshop\; and\, more closely\, a strange reference in both Mayakovsky's poem and Stepanova's to a \"Chaplin\" film which the real Chaplin never made\, Man on a Propeller. This was not\, as it would seem\, a fictional film by a fictionalized Charlie\, but (as it turns out) a real film by a different comic actor shown in Russia in 1922 and taken for real by Mayakovsky and Stepanova. What was this film and why was it interesting to the revolutionary artists of the 1920s? The paper approaches this episode not as a mere filmographic conundrum or a cultural curio\; instead it looks at this pseudo-Chaplin movie through the lens of artistic programs declared by the LEF and Constructivist groups\, tracing the way the cult of Chaplin converged\, in Russian\, with the cult of flying\, the cult of propellers\, and the worship of Wells' Time Machine in the work by El Lissitsky and Nikolai Aseev.\n\nYuri Tsivian studied film history in Riga and Moscow\, combining it with studying semiotics under the guidance of Yuri Lotman (1922-93)\, a prominent cultural scholar of Tartu University in collaboration with whom Yuri has written a book on film language Dialogues with the Screen (Tallinn\, 1994). The author of over one hundred publications in sixteen languages\, Tsivian is credited with launching two new fields in the studies of film and culture: carpalistics and cinemetrics. The former studies and compares different uses of gesture in theater\, visual arts\, literature and film\; the latter uses digital tools to explore the art of film editing. UID:11981-1179984@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11981 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,cinema,russia LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1636 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120905T172812 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T125000 SUMMARY:Other:Noon Public Skate DESCRIPTION:Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!\n\nOpen to the Public\n\nCost: $3 ($2 additional cost for skate rental) UID:10183-1175476@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10183 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:hockey,ice skating,public,skate,yost ice arena LOCATION:Yost Ice Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T132154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T164500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Geometry of War: Fortification Plans for 18th Century America DESCRIPTION:Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm UID:10926-1175630@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10926 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:cartography,geography,history LOCATION:William Clements Library - Great Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T081503 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T135000 SUMMARY:Other:Sticks and Pucks DESCRIPTION:Designed for skating and stick-handling with traffic flowing in one direction.\n\nFull hockey gear required! UID:10909-1175332@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10909 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:hockey,ice,ice hockey,ice skating,pucks,skating,sticks,yost,yost ice arena LOCATION:Yost Ice Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130107T110951 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ASP Lecture. “”˜Protecting the Innocent’: Humanitarian Child Transfer in the Aftermath of the Adana Massacres (1909).” DESCRIPTION:Melanie Tanielian\, assistant professor\, department of history\, U-M. \n\nThe massacre of Ottoman Armenians in the city of Adana and its surrounding districts amidst political upheavals in the empire not only resulted in 15\,000 to 30\,000 deaths\, but also left a large \nnumber of children orphaned. This lecture analyzes non-governmental attempts\, and in particular the intervention of the female German Protestant missionaries\, the Kaiserswerth Deaconesses\, at transferring orphans out of conflict zones and placing them into orphanages in Beirut and Smyrna. In the course of the lecture\, Professor Tanielian will not only explore the various reactions of local\, state and community officials\, the experience of the children\, the practical difficulties that circumscribed the efforts\, but also link these non-governmental humanitarian efforts to larger debates of humanitarian narratives and practices in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. \n\nMelanie Tanielian received her PhD in history from the University of \nCalifornia\, Berkeley. Her dissertation\, \"The War of Famine: Everyday Life in Wartime Beirut and Mount Lebanon (1914-1918)\"\, is a socio-economic study of daily life at the Lebanese homefront during the First World War\, seen through the lens of famine\, family\, disease and medicine\, as well as local\, state\, and international humanitarian relief.  Her research and teaching interests include the social and cultural history of WWI in the Middle East\, the emergence of religious philanthropic societies and their work in times of conflict\, the history of German missionaries\, social Protestantism and modern humanitarianism\, disease\, medicine\, and hospitals\, the history Childhood and Youth. Her research has been supported by the Allan Sharlin Memorial Grant for Dissertation Research\, the DAAD Graduate Fellowship\, and the Sultan Fellowship from the Center of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. Melanie has lived\, studied and traveled extensively in the Middle East.\n\nCo-sponsors: Department of History\, CMENAS. Free and open to the public.\n UID:11861-1179104@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11861 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:melanie tanielian LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1636 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T095819 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Capital Returns: The Accumulated Interest of Chinese Imperial Capitals DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, the Chinese Communist Party has encouraged the provinces of the People’s Republic of China to exploit local resources\, including archaeological remains and historical sites. In response to this injunction\, cities that once were dynastic capitals have taken up their imperial antecedents for cultural and economic gain\, by excavating palace foundations\, reconstructing city walls\, building museums\, and installing plaques and billboards that remind tourists and local residents of the prestige of the local past. By marketing the past\, however\, these cities also transform it\, adding new layers to the historical landscape in the very process of excavating it. This talk will historicize current representations of a number of former capitals by contrasting them with older interpretations of the local landscape. UID:11927-1179471@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11927 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:china LOCATION:Michigan League - Henderson Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121221T020757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Capital Returns: The Accumulated Interest of Chinese Imperial Capitals by Christian de Pee\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, the Chinese Communist Party has encouraged the provinces of the People’s Republic of China to exploit local resources\, including archaeological remains and historical sites. In response to this injunction\, cities that once were dynastic capitals have taken up their imperial antecedents for cultural and economic gain\, by excavating palace foundations\, reconstructing city walls\, building museums\, and installing plaques and billboards that remind tourists and local residents of the prestige of the local past. By marketing the past\, however\, these cities also transform it\, adding new layers to the historical landscape in the very process of excavating it. This talk will historicize current representations of a number of former capitals by contrasting them with older interpretations of the local landscape. UID:11776-1178959@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11776 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:china,communist LOCATION:Michigan League - Henderson Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130102T152344 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MLK 2013 Kick-off Event: La Fuerza - The Influence of Latinos in American Culture & Politics DESCRIPTION:Over the past 50 years\, Dr. King’s dream has evolved as others shared in it. The narrative of the speech shifted from \"I Have A Dream\" to \"We Have A Dream\,\" as individuals and organizations worked to bring fruition to his vision. The goals of the 1963 March on Washington have evolved to include demands for health care for all and for equal rights for gays and lesbians. Though Dr. King's speech centered on the African American population\, it is now echoed by Native Americans\, Latinos\, Asian Americans\, the poor\, the disabled and all groups that are systematically excluded from the American Dream. The dream has evolved from equality to equity\, from representation to valuing diversity\, from tolerance to appreciation and from the right to vote to governing as the head of state.\n\nJoin us as Christine Chavez\, granddaughter of Cesar Chavez and political rights activist talks with a panel of experts about the changing demographics of American Politics and Culture and how the growing Latino population is helping to shape the evolution of Dr. Martin Luther King's Dream. UID:11819-1179058@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11819 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:multicultural,social justice LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - 4th Floor Amphitheatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130107T143841 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Ford Policy Union DESCRIPTION:This Ford Policy Union event will feature a debate on the policy of free trade\, which is the elimination of import tariffs and other artificial barriers to international trade. Professor Alan Deardorff\, a noted international trade scholar\, will argue that the U.S. should actively pursue free trade agreements with any country that is willing\, and it should focus those agreements on reducing barriers to international trade rather than on other issues sought by domestic interests in the U.S. Ms. Thea Lee\, an expert trade economist\, will argue that the current U.S. trade policy and so-called free trade agreements reinforce corporate power structures and exacerbate inequality in the U.S. and abroad. UID:11869-1179113@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11869 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:international policy,trade LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 1120 Annenberg Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121219T093042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Author's Forum Presents: The Selvage DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Author's Forum presents \"The Selvage: A Conversation with Linda Gregerson and Daniel Herwitz\,\" where U-M Professors Gregerson and Herwitz discuss Gregerson's new collection of poetry. In eloquent poems about Ariadne\, Theseus\, and Dido\, the death of a father\, a bombing raid in Lebanon\, and in a magnificent series detailing Masaccio’s Brancacci frescoes\, The Selvage deftly traces the “line between” the “wonder and woe” of human experience.\n\nA 2007 National Book Award finalist and a recent Guggenheim Fellow\, Linda Gregerson is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature. She teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature.\n\nDaniel Herwitz is Frederick G L Huetwell Professor\, Professor of History of Art\, Professor of Philosophy\, Professor of Comparative Literature\, and Professor of Art and Design at U-M and holds an honorary position at the University of Cape Town. \n\nThe Author's Forum is a collaboration between the U-M Institute for the Humanities\, University Library\, Great Lakes Literary Arts Center\, and Ann Arbor Book Festival. Additional support for this event is provided by the U-M English Department.\n UID:11742-1178872@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11742 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:author talk LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery room 100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T124650 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T173000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Understanding Race Theme Semester Kick-Off DESCRIPTION: UID:11942-1179574@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11942 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:mlk symposium LOCATION:Off Campus Location - UM-Flint KIVA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121126T152110 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130116T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gemini's \"When I'm 64\" Concert DESCRIPTION:A show for adults from Gemini!\n\nTwin brothers San and Laz Slomovits were born in Budapest in 1949 and left Hungary after the 1956 revolution. Come celebrate their 64th birthday and the start of their 40th year of playing music! Though most of the time they play music for children and families\, this will be a concert for adults. The brothers will play music and recall favorite memories from each of the four decades of their career: songs by many of the artists who've inspired them\, including among others\, Woody Guthrie\, Pete Seeger\, Bob Dylan\, Tom Paxton\, and the Beatles. They'll also sing their own songs\, as well as poetry they've set to music. San's daughter Emily will be special guest\, joining on violin and vocals. Leave the kids at home with their favorite babysitter and come celebrate and sing with two beloved Michigan musicians! UID:11543-1177110@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11543 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:gemini,music,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121126T164337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T003000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Juried Art Competition DESCRIPTION:YOU be the judge!\n\nIn January\, the Center for Campus Involvement will be hosting a Juried Art Competition\, where art enthusiasts and passersby alike can vote on the best showcases of art at Pierpont.\n\nOn Tuesday\, January 15\, there will be a reception at 5 PM for the exhibit at Pierpont. Join us for light refreshments!\n\nAnd don’t forgot to vote all month! We’ll announce the winner online on January 31! UID:11550-1177136@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11550 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,competition,exhibit,exhibition,multicultural,north campus,visual arts LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T095034 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cao Yu: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Drama DESCRIPTION: On January 15\, 2013\, the exhibition entitled \"Cao Yu\, Pioneer of Modern Drama in China\" will be opened in North Campus Research Complex. Cao Yu is the founding father of modern Chinese drama\, often regarded as China's most important of the 20th century. The exhibition is as much a story of modern China as it is about Cao Yu himself because his life and career exemplify the dilemmas and difficulties faced by generations of Chinese intellectuals in the twentieth century.\n\"Thunderstorm\"\, Cao Yu's maiden work\, and \"The Savage Land\"\, a film by Liang Zi based on the play by Cao Yu\, will be screened at the U-M campus during the exhibition period\, and Professor Siyuan Liu (Department of Theatre and Film\, UBC) will give a presentation entitled\, \"From Aristotle to O'Neill: Western Influence on Cao Yu\" at 4pm\, February 8\, 2013. UID:11925-1179352@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11925 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:cao yu,china,drama LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex - Building 18 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T144458 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Brain Fitness PuzzleArt: Interactive Installation DESCRIPTION:New York artist Alli Berman had a CVA (stroke) years ago. She experimented in her studio and came up with art that is viewable\, touchable\, and movable and incorporates a therapeutic art concept. Berman now creates exciting colorful interactive art installations to help people of all ages and abilities develop stronger\, faster cognitive function as they enjoy her relaxing sensory experience. Neuroscientists and therapists use PuzzleArt in 15 countries and agree: it's secret fun therapy for developing neural plasticity. It's PuzzleArt like no puzzle you've ever done before. UID:11604-1177439@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Charley Harper by Motawi: Ceramic Art Tile DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features Motawi's new collection of tiles based on the work of beloved wildlife artist Charley Harper (1922-2007). Harper's work is modern\, sophisticated and completely charming. His minimal graphic style lends itself perfectly to Motawi's cuenca tile making technique. Nawal Motawi graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Fine Art. In 1992\, she founded Motawi Tileworks in a garage studio. Today\, Nawal employs more than 30 people and sells tile through hundreds of retailers around the county. In addition to this exhibit of newly released tiles\, the University Hospital has Motawi tile murals in the east and west Patient Elevator Lobbies on floors 1-8. UID:11607-1177589@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11607 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level B2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T142716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Garden of Eden & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings DESCRIPTION:Did you know that the Garden of Eden is also the Garden of Infancy? That the tree of life is also the life giving womb? In new work illuminating familiar favorites\, snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into the biological significance of ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. Clark's snowflake of the tree of knowledge explores the biological origins of good and evil\, shedding new light on the curves of the serpent. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 3\, 2012 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery-Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. UID:11601-1177289@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11601 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T150300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Hidden Glimpses of Nature: Photography DESCRIPTION:The photography of Charles St. Charles reveals hidden glimpses of nature that few people have witnessed or are even aware exist. His work covers a vast spectrum\, from the scale of very small while recording light passing through the natural lens of miniscule dew drops\, to the scale of the very large while recording fields of daisies and fields of stars in the same image. The briefest moments of kissing and cavorting fox kits are frozen in time\, while extraordinary long exposures taken during the night expose brilliant fall foliage surrounded by moving mist. Charles' unmanipulated images all point to the same conclusion – it is a phenomenal world that we live in. UID:11608-1177702@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11608 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Inside & Out: Fragments & Narratives in Clay DESCRIPTION:Mari Ogihara uses clay as a medium for its close resemblance to skin. Her ceramic sculptures create tension and unity between raw and ornamented surfaces and illicit feelings of sensuality and serenity. After receiving a BFA in ceramics from U-M in 2003\, Ogihara went on to study in Kyoto\, Japan to experience ceramics in her native country. Upon her return she attended Temple University of Philadelphia to receive her MFA in 2006. She is the recipient of several grants & awards including the NICHE award in 2011\, and has completed ceramic residencies in the US\, France and Brazil. She currently maintains a studio practice at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester\, New York. UID:11606-1177539@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11606 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T143920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents K-12 Student Group Show DESCRIPTION:This exhibit celebrates the emerging artistry of students from Saline public schools. Saline Area Schools are strong in visual education\, and students learn and participate in a wide range of media and processes throughout grade school. Every student develops an understanding of production\, criticism\, history\, and aesthetics within the visual arts. In this exhibition\, work from young people in grades K-12 will be displayed in both 2-D and 3-D galleries. The students explore themes as presented by seven different teachers in a variety of mediums\, from drawing and painting to ceramics and sculpture\, are included in this exhibit. UID:11603-1177389@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11603 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T145025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscape Forms: Painting Retrospective DESCRIPTION:A U-M graduate from the School of Art & Design in 1949\, Karin L. Bodycombe forged new territory in the arts. Working to pave the way for others\, she studied at Wayne State University and earned a degree in Art Education in 1952\, later inspiring many student artists. Creating in watercolor\, gouache\, pen\, acrylics and oils\, Bodycombe said of her work\, \"I paint landscape compositions reducing them to the basic areas or forms of the subject resembling the environment only through the tiles. Brush strokes express my feelings.\" Bodycombe has won many national awards and has exhibited her work in solo shows in Michigan and beyond. UID:11605-1177489@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11605 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121129T143506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Birthday Party: Ceramic Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Marcia Polenberg is an award winning artist whose figurative and architectonic sculptural ceramics\, drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely across the US and locally at WSG Gallery\, Ann Arbor Art Center and the Clay Gallery. Born in New York City\, Polenberg received a BA from CUNY Brooklyn College and an MFA from U-M. She has taught art at U-M\, the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and UM-Flint\, among others. Polenberg's work is in collections in the US\, England\, France\, Canada and Australia. This exhibit rejoices in childrens' birthday parties! Along with celebrating the special birthday child\, there is delight in the festive decorations\, the birthday cake\, the friends\, and even the unexpected. UID:11602-1177339@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T140801 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents: “Garden of Infancy & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings” by Dr. Thomas L. Clark DESCRIPTION: UID:11658-1178377@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, Taubman Health Center North Lobby. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121214T141945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Claiming Citizenship DESCRIPTION:This is an exhibition of 50 photographs. UID:11724-1178791@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11724 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african american,irwg,multicultural,photography,social justice,us history,visual arts LOCATION:Lane Hall - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T120349 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"An Exhibit of Exceptional Bindings by James W. Craven\" DESCRIPTION:The exhibit comprises a selection of Jim's favorite repair and preservation projects over the years\, including examples of his design bindings\, leatherwork\, inlays and custom designed tray-cases. Interspersed among the bindings and boxes are an assortment of bookbinding tools. UID:11936-1179527@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11936 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:bentley,bindings,exhibit,retirement LOCATION:Bentley Historical Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130117T103522 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Progress: Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:This exhibit celebrates the idea that preliminary work such as sketches\, writings\, models\, prototypes\, videos and photographs hold a personal quality that reveals the inner workings of the creative process. It is presented from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon-7 p.m. Saturday through Feb. 15 in the Jean Paul Slusser Gallery.\n\n UID:12118-1180317@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12118 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:north campus LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Jean Paul Slusser Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130117T103522 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Progress: Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition DESCRIPTION:This exhibit celebrates the idea that preliminary work such as sketches\, writings\, models\, prototypes\, videos and photographs hold a personal quality that reveals the inner workings of the creative process. It is presented from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon-7 p.m. Saturday through Feb. 15 in the Jean Paul Slusser Gallery.\n\n UID:12118-1180318@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12118 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:north campus LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Jean Paul Slusser Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T132752 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T090000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit DESCRIPTION: UID:10927-1175755@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10927 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:history,law and history,law school,race LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Room 100 Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121206T135304 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ross Art Collection DESCRIPTION:The Ross Art Collection at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business is displayed at locations around the school and online at www.bus.umich.edu/RossArt/collection/. UID:11657-1178646@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11657 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121207T130546 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Adventures in Intergenerational Programming DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matt Kaplan\, Ph.D.\, Professor of Intergenerational Programs and Aging\, Penn State. \n\nDr. Kaplan conducts research\, develops curricular resources\, and provides statewide leadership in the development and evaluation of intergenerational programs. \n\nThis presentation will explore some of the many ways in which intergenerational engagement programs have taken form across the globe and draw attention to implications for enriching the lives of young people and older adults\, promoting family cohesion\, and strengthening community support systems. The session will also note several upcoming conferences\, international study tours\, and other opportunities for learning more about the intergenerational field. \n\nThis is the second of six lectures in the third series of Thursday lectures\, \"Generations: Bridging the Divide.\" UID:11682-1178569@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11682 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:family,intergenerational,lifelong learning,olli,retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 2900 Jackson Ave (Please car pool when possible.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T094637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Detroit 21 DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design\, the University of Michigan Detroit Center presents the Work: Detroit gallery exhibition\, Black Detroit 21. Curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. This exhibition kicks off with an opening reception on Friday\, January 11\, 2013 from 6 – 9p.m. The opening night performance and discussion features:\n\n7:00 p.m. - 4TheatrSake\; 25 minute performance of selections from Cell/$hips.\n7:30 p.m. - Artists and Curator Discussion: Black Detroit 21\; Moderator: Odie Rynell Cash\, Curator \nOver the course of the last five months the artists and curator from the exhibition have held discussions both in person and via the Internet around the topics presented in \"Black Detroit 21\". This final discussion will focus on the exhibition theme in relation to art and the Detroit community. A brief question and answer period with the audience will follow the discussion.\n8:30 p.m. - Satori Circus - Performance\n\"Oh Happy Day Trilogy\" (part one)\nAccording to the artists\, the goal of this performance is to “make us think...review ourselves...soul searching/identity - its loss and in search of it...and what is gained in doing so...entertainment/education/observation/simulation/and the hybrid that comes out of those. Thereby\, the audience walks away questioning...the artist\, themselves\, the world we've woven around us.”\nWith a Black population of more than 80-percent\, Detroit's African American community plays a significant role in this city's cultural identity and economic future. As Detroit moves through the 21st century\, what role will the African Americans play in Detroit's development in the community? How will this population define itself in the new century while dealing with various issues that impacts growth\, development and cultural enrichment in the city? The exhibition Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. The 11 artists in this show are from a multitude of social\, personal and generational backgrounds\, finding a common theme in their work\, which documents and/or is influenced by Detroit's African American community. The installation of the artists work in Black Detroit 21 presents a visual context to create a dialogue around these topics.\n\nBlack Detroit 21 is curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, an internationally active independent curator\, arts program organizer and artist living between Detroit\, Michigan and Antwerp\, Belgium. Cash is recognized for his wide range of artistic practices and concerns\; with the significance of avant-garde ideas and experimental mediums/media that address contemporary social and urban society.\n\nHe studied a Liberal Education curriculum at Columbia College Chicago. He has an extensive and varied background\, having curated and exhibited artworks in more than nine countries\, including projects in Antwerp\, Manila\, Rotterdam\, Paris and Toronto. Cash was the recipient of a 2007 Flemish Minister of Culture Travel Grant for research on performance theory. He has been invited by the Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos\, Nigeria to curate a group exhibition that is anticipated to open in the Fall of 2014.\n\nThe exhibition concludes on March 22\; with event performances on February 7\, February 20\, March 8\, March 12 and March 22. For more information about Black Detroit 21 events and artists\, visit: www.detroitcenter.umich.edu/news/2013/1/artist-and-event-info-black-detroit-21. \n\nFor press inquiries\, contact: DetroitCenter@umich.edu or (313) 593-3584.\n\nThe exhibition may be accessed between 11 a.m.– 4 p.m.\, Tuesday – Saturday. Work Detroit is located at the University of Michigan Detroit Center at Orchestra Place\, 3663 Woodward Avenue\, Suite 150 in Midtown Detroit. Parking is available for exhibition guests in the structure behind Orchestra Place. UID:11924-1179285@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11924 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,art and design,detroit,school of art and design LOCATION:Detroit Center - Work Detroit Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130110T133329 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T190000 SUMMARY:Other:The Biggest Poster Sale DESCRIPTION:Are your walls looking a little bare? The start of the semester is a perfect time to add some color! Check out the Biggest Poster Sale and choose from over 2000 different images. \n\nFINE ART\, MUSIC\, MOVIES\, MODELS\, HUMOR\, ANIMALS\, PERSONALITIES\,\nLANDSCAPES\, MOTIVATIONALS\, PHOTOGRAPHY.\n\nMOST IMAGES ONLY $7\, $8\, AND $9.\n\nSEE US AT The Michigan Union Ground Floor ON Monday Jan. 14th thru Friday Jan.18th\, 2013. 10AM-7PM. \n\nTHIS SALE IS SPONSORED BY Center for Campus Involvement. UID:11968-1179707@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11968 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,poster sale,posters,sale LOCATION:Michigan Union - Ground Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120620T153538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:African Art and the Shape of Time DESCRIPTION:African Art and the Shape of Time explores how African art gives material form to diverse concepts of temporality\, history and memory. African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as expressions of timeless myths and rituals\, interrupted only by the colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such conventional views by considering diverse modes for reckoning time and its philosophical\, social\, and religious significance. The exhibition includes 30 works from the University of Michigan Museum of Art\, National Museum of African Art\, Fowler Museum at UCLA\, as well as several Detroit area private collections\, and is organized around five themes that explore the multiplicity of time in Africa: The Beginning of Things\, Embodied Time\, Moving Through Time\, Global Time\, and \"NOW.\"\n\nThis exhibition is generously supported by the University of Michigan Health System. Additional support provided by the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund. UID:9252-1174786@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9252 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african art,umma,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121108T140848 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T110000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Francis Alys: Guards DESCRIPTION:Belgian artist Francis Alys's video Guards (2005) documents sixty-four of the Queen of England's guards on a \"walk\" throughout the City of London. There is perhaps no more symbolically unemotional character than that of a bearskin-hat-wearing guard of the Queen of England. Yet even with no break in the guards' indifferent exterior\, the tale still manages to be a powerful metaphor for the human condition. Many of the elements of Guards are found throughout Alys's work: walking\, rhythm\, the use of the street and bridges are all common tropes in his oeuvre. These strategies\, evoking the poetic and sonic palette of the urban environment\, involve a sometimes loose and other times overt relationship to social resistance and to the symbolic and often political implications of these actions.\n\nGenerous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n UID:11346-1176686@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,exhibition,visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120925T114850 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Nourish YourSELF DESCRIPTION:Nourish YourSELF seeks to empower self-identified women of color around issues of identity\, intercultural competency\, and health and wellness that affect them in an open\, spirited atmosphere. The program welcomes all University of Michigan women of color – undergraduate and graduate\, faculty and staff. Free lunch will be provided. UID:10504-1174225@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10504 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,multicultural,social justice LOCATION:Michigan Union - CSG Chambers - 3rd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121210T144917 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Gifts of Art presents Brain Fitness PuzzleArt Workshop DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, New York artist Alli Berman will describe and demonstrate her fun PuzzleArt Therapy activities. Berman had a CVA (stroke) years ago. She experimented in her studio and collaborated with behavioral optometrist Dr. Susan Fisher\, neuroscientists\, occupational therapists\, educators and others to develop the perceptual PuzzleArt Therapy System. As participants use their eyes\, fingers and brains to follow swirling\, colorful paths\, they are giving themselves a great brain fitness workout to develop stronger\, faster cognitive function. Used in clinics\, universities\, therapy offices\, elementary schools\, rehabilitation centers\, private and military hospitals throughout the US and in 15 other countries\, PuzzleArt Therapy can help everyone from children with learning disabilities to soldiers returning from war with traumatic brain injuries. In the Gifts of Art gallery where the workshop will be held\, an interactive exhibition of Berman's work is on display until Feb. 4\, 2013. If planning to bring a group to the workshop\, please call Gifts of Art office at 734-936-ARTS (2787) in advance of your visit. Watch this video or visit PuzzleArtTherapy.com to learn more about PuzzleArt. UID:11693-1178581@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130108T130056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Intermarriage and the Politics of Jewish Racialization DESCRIPTION: UID:11893-1179142@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11893 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:jewish studies,women's studies LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120905T172812 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T125000 SUMMARY:Other:Noon Public Skate DESCRIPTION:Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!\n\nOpen to the Public\n\nCost: $3 ($2 additional cost for skate rental) UID:10183-1175477@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10183 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:hockey,ice skating,public,skate,yost ice arena LOCATION:Yost Ice Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121015T132154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T164500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Geometry of War: Fortification Plans for 18th Century America DESCRIPTION:Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm UID:10926-1175631@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10926 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:cartography,geography,history LOCATION:William Clements Library - Great Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120725T143419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) Biweekly Seminar DESCRIPTION:The Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) sponsors a biweekly seminar series focusing on a variety of topics related to bioethics and social science research. Visit the website for more information at www.cbssm.org and the CBSSM facebook page. UID:9396-1140067@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9396 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:bioethics,decision sciences,research methods,risk communication,social sciences,survey research LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex - Building 16, Room 266C CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130108T134748 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) Seminar: January 17th with Scott Kim\, MD\, PhD DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our CBSSM seminar scheduled for January 17\, 2013\, at 3-4 pm\, NCRC Building 16\, Room 266C. Scott Kim\, MD\, PhD\, will present a talk entitled\, “Do patients and research subjects think like bioethicists?” \n\nSummary: There are numerous studies purporting to show that research subjects confuse research as cutting edge treatment\, or have unrealistic expectations of benefit from participating. There are also studies showing that patients have unrealistic and erroneous understanding of aims of treatment.   If these studies are valid\, then there is a genuine crisis of informed consent\, both in the clinic and in the research setting.   We will discuss some data that show that measurement of ”˜misunderstanding’ or ”˜unrealistic beliefs’ in patients and research subjects may be much more difficult than researchers assume.\n\nDr. Kim is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Co-Director of CBSSM.\n UID:11897-1179141@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11897 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:bioethics,informed consent,psychiatry,research,social science research LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex - Conference Room 266C CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130108T134748 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) Seminar: January 17th with Scott Kim\, MD\, PhD DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our CBSSM seminar scheduled for January 17\, 2013\, at 3-4 pm\, NCRC Building 16\, Room 266C. Scott Kim\, MD\, PhD\, will present a talk entitled\, “Do patients and research subjects think like bioethicists?” \n\nSummary: There are numerous studies purporting to show that research subjects confuse research as cutting edge treatment\, or have unrealistic expectations of benefit from participating. There are also studies showing that patients have unrealistic and erroneous understanding of aims of treatment.   If these studies are valid\, then there is a genuine crisis of informed consent\, both in the clinic and in the research setting.   We will discuss some data that show that measurement of ”˜misunderstanding’ or ”˜unrealistic beliefs’ in patients and research subjects may be much more difficult than researchers assume.\n\nDr. Kim is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Co-Director of CBSSM.\n UID:11897-1179143@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11897 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:bioethics,informed consent,psychiatry,research,social science research LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex - Conf Rm 266C CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T134254 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“A Free Digital Society” DESCRIPTION:Richard Stallman\, president and founder of the Free Software Foundation\, is the speaker at 4:15-5:30 p.m.\, Stamps Auditorium. He was considered to be instrumental in launching the free software movement in the 1980s and was the instigator of the development of the GNU operating system\, which is the core for many Linux builds in use today. UID:11948-1179631@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11948 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:talk LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121214T141145 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Claiming Citizenship DESCRIPTION:Exhibition and panel discussion\, with Sara Blair (English) and Joshua Miller (English). The title of the panel is \"New Deal Visualities: Figures of Difference in Photographic Claims to Citizenship.\"\n\nCurated by Ricki Sollinger\, a historian of race\, reproduction\, and citizenship in the United States\, this exhibition of New Deal photographs illustrates a number of ways that African Americans took opportunities opened up by the New Deal to claim their status as citizens\, in some respects laying foundations for the Civil Rights Movement. Thus\, the exhibition also explores (implicitly and explicitly) the constituent elements of \"citizenship.\" UID:11723-1178752@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11723 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african american,history,mlk day event,multicultural,new deal,photography,social justice LOCATION:Lane Hall - 2239 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130107T105428 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Crea-Evolutionism: Challenges from the Cosmos to Everybody's Fundamentalism DESCRIPTION:The Center for Faith & Scholarship hosts Dr. Loren Wilkinson\, professor of philosophy and interdisciplinary studies at Regent College in Vancouver\, B.C. Description: Just as most theists have found it nearly impossible to deny the overwhelming evidence that \"life\, the universe and everything\" is the result of processes which we can partially describe and understand\, so also many a-theists are finding it increasingly difficult to sidestep the idea that the universe\, life\, and our own consciousness are miraculous gifts for which words like \"Creation\" and \"Creator\" are apt. Thus fundamentalisms on both sides are being challenged. Nowhere are these challenges more obvious than in our attempts to develop an appropriate response to human impact on the planet. UID:11854-1179111@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11854 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:environmental,religious LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources Building - Rm. 1040 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121218T085958 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Both the beginnings and the end of biodiversity are often associated with shifts in environmental conditions. My lab is interested in the evolutionary processes associated with organismal responses to changing environments. In my seminar\, I will touch on three areas of recent and ongoing work. I will first show that species ranges increase over millions to tens of millions of years\, a dynamic that we hypothesize results from slow adaptation to conditions at the edges of the range. I will then focus on our work exploring the functional basis of adaptation across a strong gradient in climate and\nelevation in Arabidopsis. Lastly\, I will discuss our work on the plasticity of evolvability and constraints on the evolvability of plasticity across environmental gradients\, with emphasis on our work on evolvability across resource supply gradients. Our work on evolutionary expansion of the range in Arabidopsis will be compared to recent work in other species by other labs\, speculating that the selfing mating system\, relatively low migration and plastic genetic architecture we observe in Arabidopsis suggests that similar weedy species may be at an advantage in a world of changing climates. UID:11739-1178868@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11739 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:ecology,evolutionary biology LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T125335 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T180000 SUMMARY:Other:This is My Michigan: Making the University Personal DESCRIPTION:Students express what “This is My Michigan” means to them through submitted videos\, written work or photos of their art. UID:11943-1179575@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11943 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:this is my michigan LOCATION:North Quad - 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121204T133754 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T171000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series DESCRIPTION:Unless otherwise noted\, all programs take place on Thursdays at 5:10 pm at the historic Michigan Theater\, located at 603 E. Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor\, and are free of charge and open to the public.\n\nJanuary 17: RENOIR and SURREALIST PARIS in Black & White \nA short film directed by Renoir in the late twenties\, right after he had discovered jazz\, Sur un air de Charleston is a little masterpiece\, albeit unknown\, of the silent movie period. In 2028 Paris\, a mysterious African explorer lands with his aeronef on Terra Incognita. There\, he meets a beautiful young Parisian dancer\, who eventually initiates him to the pleasures of Charleston.\nAn essay in reverse anthropology\, a burlesque and surrealist vaudeville\, Sur un air de Charleston is a singular piece of art. A product of the roaring twenties\, it can be construed as a critique of France’s racial context\, then at the height of its colonial Empire. But it also has to be considered on the much broader scale of transatlantic cultural exchanges. Thus\, we start to envision some of the unsuspected links that irrigate and reconfigure the seamingly neat cartography of Western modernism. \nTwo musicians\, Olivier Thémines and Guillaume Hazebrouck\, invite you with anthropologist Emmanuel Parent to discover this astonishing movie with a ciné-concert/conference. The movie\, accompanied by a live original music\, will be followed by a lecture and discussion on the question of race within the artistic context of 1920s France. \n\nJanuary 24: WILSON SMITH \nWilson W. Smith III is a Design Director at Nike\, Inc.\, Beaverton\, Oregon. Smith is currently involved in Nike's Better World projects\, and is a lead designer as a part of Nike's \"Innovation Kitchen\". After becoming a Senior Designer in 1990\, Smith was involved primarily with the concepts of Nike's cross-training and basketball products.\nSmith established much of the design direction for Tennis footwear throughout the 1990s\, and created many athlete-endorsed products including Andre Agassi's signature line. In 1997\, Wilson Smith became the first dedicated designer for Jordan brand\, and is best known for designing the Jordan 16(XVI) and 17(XVII). In 2003\, Wilson became the Design Director of Nike Court\, encompassing all tennis & racquet driven footwear\, while also designing signature products for Nike endorsees Serena Williams\, and Roger Federer. Black Enterprise Magazine recently named Wilson one of America’s Top Black Designers. \n\nJanuary 31: LISA STRAUSFELD\nLisa Strausfeld’s work lies at the intersection of physical and virtual space: where information structures and physical structures meet\, and where the navigation of information and the navigation of buildings join in a single experience. She and her team specialize in digital information projects including the design of large-scale media installations\, software prototypes and user interfaces\, signage and websites for a broad range of civic\, cultural and corporate clients including One Laptop per Child\, GE\, Litl\, Bloomberg\, Gallup\, The New York Times\, M.I.T.\, Brown University\, the Museum of Arts and Design and the Detroit Institute of Arts.\nStrausfeld holds four patents relating to user interfaces and intelligent search and retrieval\, and in 2006 she was named to the Senior Scientist program at the Gallup Organization. In addition to many awards and honors\, Strausfeld was selected as one of Fast Company's \"Masters of Design\" in 2009 and received the National Design Award in the category of Interaction Design in 2010.\n\nFebruary 7: El ANATSUI\nEl Anatsui was born in Anyanko\, Ghana in 1944. Many of Anatsui’s sculptures are mutable in form\, conceived to be so free and flexible that they can be shaped in any way and altered in appearance for each installation. Working with wood\, clay\, metal\, and–most recently–the discarded metal caps of liquor bottles\, Anatsui breaks with sculpture’s traditional adherence to forms of fixed shape while visually referencing the history of abstraction in African and European art. The colorful and densely patterned fields of the works assembled from discarded liquor-bottle caps also trace a broader story of colonial and postcolonial economic and cultural exchange in Africa\, told in the history of cast-off materials. The sculptures in wood and ceramics introduce ideas about the function of objects (their destruction\, transformation\, and regeneration) in everyday life\, and the role of language in deciphering visual symbols. El Anatsui received a BA from the College of Art\, University of Science and Technology\, Kumasi\, Ghana (1969) and since 1975 has taught at the University of Nigeria\, Nsukka. His works are in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\; Museum of Modern Art\, New York\; Los Angeles County Museum of Art\; Indianapolis Museum of Art\; British Museum\, London\; and Centre Pompidou\, Paris\, among many others. Major exhibitions of his work have appeared at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute\, Williamstown (2011)\; Royal Ontario Museum\, Toronto (2010)\; National Museum of Ethnology\, Osaka (2010)\; Rice University Art Gallery\, Houston (2010)\; Venice Biennale (2007)\; and the Biennale of African Art\, Senegal (2006). El Anatsui lives and works in Nsukka\, Nigeria.\n\nFebruary 21: TANIA BRUGUERA\nTania Bruguera is one of the leading political and performance artists of her generation. Her work researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life\, creating a public forum to debate ideas in a state of contradiction\, focusing on the transformation of the \"viewer\" into one of \"citizenry.\" Bruguera's terms “arte de conducta” (conduct/behavior art) and “arte útil” (useful art) define her practice. In 2010\, Bruguera launched Immigrant Movement International\, a five-year project that helps define the immigrant as a unique\, new global citizen in a postnational world and tests the concept of “useful art\,” by artists actively implementing the merging of art into society’s urgent social\, political\, and scientific issues.\nBruguera’s work has been presented internationally at Documenta 11\, Kassel\, Germany and several biennials including Performa\, Venice\, Gwangju\, and Havana. She has exhibited at the Tate Modern\, London\; Künsthalle Wien\, Vienna\; Centre Pompidou\, Paris\; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art\, New York. \n\nMarch 14: LYNDA BARRY\nLynda Barry has worked as a painter\, cartoonist\, writer\, illustrator\, playwright\, editor\, commentator and teacher and found they are very much alike. She is the inimitable creator behind the seminal comic strip that was syndicated across North America in alternative weeklies for two decades\, Ernie Pook's Comeek\, as well as the books One! Hundred! Demons!\, The! Greatest! of! Marlys!\, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel\, Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! and The Good Times are Killing Me\, which was adapted as an off-Broadway play and won the Washington State Governor's Award. In 2011\, Drawn & Quarterly published Blabber Blabber Blabber\, the first in a 10-volume retrospective series of her comics work. Her bestselling and acclaimed creative writing-how to-graphic novel for Drawn & Quarterly\, What It Is (2008)\, won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Graphic Novel and R.R. Donnelly Award for highest literary achievement by a Wisconsin author.\nWhat It Is (2008) is based on “Writing the Unthinkable”\, a tried-and-true method creative method that is playful\, powerful\, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or remember. With What It Is and Picture This (2010)\, Barry explores the depths of the inner and outer realms of creation and imagination\, where play can be serious\, monsters have purpose\, and not knowing is an answer unto itself.\n\nMarch 21: KEN BURNS\nDocumentary filmmaker Ken Burns has been producing films for PBS for more than 25 years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981\, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made. A December 2002 poll conducted by Real Screen Magazine listed The Civil War as second only to Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North as the “most influential documentary of all time\,” and named Ken Burns and Robert Flaherty as the “most influential documentary makers” of all time. In March\, 2009\, David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun said\, “”¦ Burns is not only the greatest documentarian of the day\, but also the most influential filmmaker period. That includes feature filmmakers like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. I say that because Burns not only turned millions of persons onto history with his films\, he showed us a new way of looking at our collective past and ourselves.” The late historian Stephen Ambrose said of his films\, “More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source.” Ken’s films have won twelve Emmy Awards and two Oscar nominations\, and in September of 2008\, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards\, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.\nBurns' documentaries include The Civil War\, Baseball\, Jazz\, Thomas Jefferson\, Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery\, Frank Lloyd Wright\, Mark Twain\, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson\, The War\, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea\, Prohibition and The Dust Bowl.\n\nMarch 28: CARMELITA TROPICANA\nCarmelita Tropicana (a.k.a. Alina Troyano) is a performance artist\, playwright\, and actor. Troyano burst on New York’s downtown performing arts scene in the eighties with her alter ego\, the spitfire Carmelita Tropicana and her counterpart\, the irresistible archetypal Latin macho Pingalito Betancourt\, followed by performances as Hernando Cortez’s horse and la Cucaracha Martina from her childhood fairy tales in Cuba. In Tropicana’s work humor and fantasy become subversive tools to rewrite history.\nTropicana’s performances plays and videos have been presented at venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Art in London\, Hebbel Am Ufer in Berlin\, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea in Barcelona\, the Berlin International Film Festival\, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York\, the Mark Taper Forum’s Kirk Douglas Theater in Los Angeles\, and El Museo del Barrio in New York. Her work has received funding support from the Independent Television Service\, the Jerome Foundation\, and the Rockefeller Suitcase Fund. She has received numerous awards including the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts as well as an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Performance. She is the author of a collection of performance pieces and short essays called I\, Carmelita Tropicana: Performing between Cultures (2000).\n\nApril 4: PAOLA ANTONELLI\nPerspectives\nPaola Antonelli is Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design and Director of Research and Development at the Museum of Modern Art. Her first MOMA exhibition was\, Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design (1995). Her latest exhibition was 2011’s Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects. Antonelli earned the “Design Mind” Smithsonian Institution’s National Design Award and was named one of the 25 most incisive design visionaries by Time Magazine. She has been a contributing Editor for Domus magazine\, an editor of Abitare\, and the author of the publication Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design. Antonelli’s goal is to insistently promote design’s understanding until its positive influence on the world is fully acknowledged and exploited. She is currently at work on contemporary design exhibitions\, and on Design Bites\, a book about foods as examples of outstanding design. \nPaola Antonelli's lecture\, originally scheduled for November 1\, 2012\, will take place on April 4\, 2013.\nWith support from Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the U-M Museum of Art.\n\nApril 11: MASSIMO BANZI\nMassimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project. He is an Interaction Designer\, Educator and Open Source Hardware advocate. He has worked as a consultant for clients such as: Prada\, Artemide\, Persol\, Whirlpool\, V&A Museum and Adidas.\nMassimo started the first FabLab in Italy which led to the creation of Officine Arduino\, a FabLab/Makerspace based in Torino.\nHe spent 4 years at the Interaction Design Institue Ivrea as Associate Professor. Massimo has taught workshops and has been a guest speaker at institutions all over the world.\nBefore joining IDII he was CTO for the Seat Ventures incubator. He spent many years working as a software architect\,both in Milan and London\, on projects for clients like Italia Online\, Sapient\, Labour Party\, BT\, MCI WorldCom\, SmithKlineBeecham\, Storagetek\, BSkyB and boo.com.\nMassimo is also the author of Getting Started with Arduino\, published by O’Reilly Press. He is a regular contributor to the italian edition of Wired Magazine and Che Futuro\, an online magazine about innovation.\nHe currently teaches Interaction Design at SUPSI Lugano in the south of Switzerland and is a visiting professor at CIID in Copenhagen.\n UID:11636-1177805@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11636 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:architecture,art,artists,career,dance,film,penny stamps speaker series,unique,visual arts LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130109T125535 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T180000 SUMMARY:Presentation:34th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. Community-Wide Tribute Dinner DESCRIPTION:Featuring\nPhillip W. Shaltz UID:11944-1179576@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11944 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:mlk,mlk symposium LOCATION:Off Campus Location - UM-Flint Sarvis Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130114T131336 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Professor Patrice Petro Talk \"Beyond 1989: Feminist Film Theory\" DESCRIPTION:Professor Patrice Petro is the Vice Provost for International Education and Professor of English\, Film Studies\, and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In this talk\, Dr. Petro will explore the spaces and places for feminist film theory after 1989 and up until today\, particularly in view of the many claims that feminist film theory has died or failed\, that feminist film theory is over\, and that the cinema itself is at an end. Has feminist theory been absorbed into or diffused by broader theories of gender or history or globalization? What is the role of feminist film theory in understanding our media and world today? Are feminist film studies still relevant to our understanding of twenty-first century life? How so and in what way?\n\nThis event is made possible by the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\, Germanic Language and Literature\, Communications Studies\, Institute of Humanities\, Department of History\, Women's Studies Department Rackham School of Graduate Studies\, and the School of Information. UID:12022-1180076@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12022 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:feminism,lecture,screen arts LOCATION:North Quad - 2255 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130107T182721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Winter Mass Meeting DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun filled night of Winter Mass Meeting. Learn more about the Muslim Students' Association upcoming events and meet new friends while enjoying a wonderful FREE dinner. \n\nThursday January 17th at 7:00pm\n4th floor Rackham UID:11886-1179134@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11886 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:free,free food,friend,fun,muslim,muslim student association,religion,religious,social,social event,social justice LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - 4th Floor Assembly CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20121016T140420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Dala DESCRIPTION:\"Might answer the ... question 'where are all the young Emmylou Harrises?'\"–Roughstock\n\nAmanda Walther and Sheila Carabine of Dala (the duo’s name was formed by combining the two last letters of each artist’s first name) have come a long way in a short time. The two best friends\, who met in their high school music class and wrote their first song together in 2002\, have been dubbed \"the angels of folk music\" by Canada's Exclaim! Dala draws on influences like the Beatles\, Joni Mitchell\, Neil Young and Bob Dylan in songs that are both insightful and irresistibly catchy. Amanda’s ethereal soprano voice blends seamlessly with Sheila’s velvety alto\, creating the lush harmonies that have become their trademark. Dala recently became the only Canadian act invited to perform at the 50th anniversary of the Newport Folk Festival\, and lately they've been a fixture of clubs and festivals all over Canada and the U.S. Their latest album\, \"Best Day\,\" has been nominated for three Canadian Folk Music Awards. UID:10953-1175810@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10953 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:dala,music,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120905T173515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T215000 SUMMARY:Other:Public Skate DESCRIPTION:Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!\n\nOpen to the public!\n\nCost: $6 (Adults) $4 (UM Faculty and Staff\, Students\, Youth and Seniors)\n($2 additional cost for skate rental) UID:10184-1175355@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10184 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:ice hockey,public,skating,yost ice arena LOCATION:Yost Ice Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR