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:20140709T144217 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography DESCRIPTION:\n\nCrystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of Natural History\, books from the Library's collection\, and displays of the equipment used at the X-Ray Crystallography Lab.\n\nUNESCO chose 2014 as the International year of Crystallography because it commemorates two important anniversaries in the study of matter: the centennial of X-ray diffraction\, and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals. Both breakthroughs led to subsequent studies in the role of symmetry in matter and the nature of crystalline material. U-M continues this investigation today.\n UID:17714-1203551@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:library,museum of natural history LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Third Floor Hallway CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T112345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Annual Employee Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by U-M Health System faculty\, staff\, students\, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent\, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26\,000) UMHS community. There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show\, and a People's Choice award will be determined by votes of visitors to the exhibit by using the voting ballots and box provided on site. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony held on Tuesday\, Sept. 9 from 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the exhibit gallery. More info. UID:17696-1203135@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17696 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:20140709T113214 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ecosystem 1952-2014: Collage DESCRIPTION:Brenda Miller-Slomovits has been studying and working in the field of art and design for much of her adult life. She received a BFA in 1989 from Eastern Michigan University and has shown her work in the Chelsea River Gallery\, the Legacy Land Conservancy Exhibits\, Ann Arbor Women Artist's shows\, the JCC Amster Gallery\, and the Gifts of Art UMHS Employee Art Exhibition. The Ann Arbor Observer has published her art over a dozen times on its cover. Miller-Slomovits has worked full-time in the Mott Newborn Intensive Care since 2002\, where she develops support programs for parents and families. UID:17698-1203235@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17698 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T111718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Forest Patterns: Functional Porcelain DESCRIPTION:Using tones and leaf patterns of deep forests\, Tom Kendall studies deep northern woodlands with close-up still life compositions. It is as if the viewer has stopped by the trail and is quietly contemplating the patterns of light and color in the woods. The porcelains are functional\, making enjoying them even more rewarding. Kendall has a Master's degree in Fine Art from Illinois State University and was director of the Art School\, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for many years. His studio\, Oak Leaf Pottery\, is in the country near Plainwell\, Michigan. Kendall's work has been exhibited widely and is in collections in the US and abroad. UID:17693-1203083@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17693 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:20140709T114306 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gesture\, Line & Color: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:An art teacher in Ann Arbor Public Schools for over 30 years\, Debbie Thompson works predominantly in clay\, finding inspiration from the natural world. Thompson began her art education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, Michigan. She then earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan\, a Master's of Fine Arts from Eastern Michigan University and took post-graduate studio classes from the Chicago Art Institute\, Maryland Art Institute\, Rhode Island School of Design and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. She exhibits her work locally and nationally and is a member of the Clay Gallery and Potters Guild in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. UID:17699-1203285@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T133115 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Heart & Home: Primitive Painting DESCRIPTION:The art of Primitive Americana comes naturally to Sandra Somers who was born and raised in a small midwestern town \"full of large old houses\, horse barns and lush farmland within roller skating range.\" Her primitive art\, created using acrylics\, depicts an active\, bustling world with interesting architecture that time has somehow overlooked. Nationally recognized museums\, historic townships and individual collectors have commissioned her work\, including the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Somers is presently living and working in a 1860s farmhouse homestead with restored outbuildings\, including a chicken coop used as a showroom studio. UID:17700-1203335@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17700 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T105525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Illuminations: Painting the Night with Light DESCRIPTION:When the sun leaves the sky\, Darlene Yeager-Torre gathers flashlights\, camera and tripod and ventures into the night to create luminous landscape photographs by using extremely long exposures (45 seconds to 1 hour). After a career of teaching art\, with degrees from Edgecliff College and Xavier University in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, she began exploring her own artistic vision. A presentation on night photography piqued her curiosity about that genre and sent her on the adventures that now fill her evenings. Despite the difficulty of long exposure photography\, the resulting\, glowing images fuel her creativity and rejuvenate her spirit. UID:17692-1203033@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17692 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T112716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Local Color: Pictorial Art Quilts DESCRIPTION:Sue Holdaway-Heys is an Ann Arbor artist known for her pictorial art quilts which often use imagery from nature and the environment. She has been a professional artist for over forty years and has an MFA in fibers from U-M. Holdaway-Heys combines texture and pattern with fabric paints to create her unique art quilts. Her focus has been commission and gallery work for the past 10 years. Mayo Clinic\, Chelsea Hospital\, St. Joseph Hospitals in Ypsilanti\, Oakland\, Brighton\, Henry Ford and others have Holdaway-Hey’s work in their collections. UID:17697-1203185@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17697 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140409T112500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sayles Pitch: John Sayles\, Author\, Auteur\, Independent DESCRIPTION:This student-researched exhibit features photographs\, storyboards\, scripts\, props\, and more from the archives of the American maverick filmmaker John Sayles\, director of such films as Lone Star\, Matewan\, and Brother from Another Planet.\n\n[Note that the Audubon portion of the exhibit closed June 29.) UID:17220-1203499@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,filmmaker,library,screen arts and cultures LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T162926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Puzzle Me This: Early Binding Fragments and Other Evidence from the U-M Papyrology Collection DESCRIPTION:Binding fragments from the U-M Papyrology Collection—including leather covers\, papyrus cartonnage\, sewing evidence and thread—are puzzles\; few retain enough structural and decorative information to accurately date them and determine what they would have looked like when intact. View original fragments next to models constructed to illustrate the probable forms some of the fragments once took.\n\nAudubon Room hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 am-7 pm\, Sat 10 am-6 pm\, Sun 2-7 pm.\n\nBrendan Haug\, archivist of the U-M Papyrology Collection and assistant professor in the Department of Classical Studies\, will lead a discussion about The Book in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Evidence from the Papyri on September 10 at 4:00 p.m. in the Hatcher Gallery. UID:18420-1208673@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18420 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,History,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140714T113054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit DESCRIPTION:Featuring some of the earliest\, rarest\, most beautiful\, or most unusual Dutch and Flemish books and manuscripts held by the University of Michigan Library\, items on display come from a collection of materials from The Netherlands and Belgium that is among the strongest in the United States.\n\nOpen Monday through Friday\, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. UID:17503-1202285@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor, Special Collections CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T122941 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Amie Siegel: Provenance DESCRIPTION:Amie Siegel’s Provenance traces in reverse the global trade in furniture from the Indian city of Chandigarh. Conceived in the 1950s by architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret\, Chandigarh’s controversial modernist architecture includes original pieces of furniture created specifically for the building’s interiors. Recently these pieces have appeared at auction houses around the world\, commanding record prices. Starting with Chandigarh furniture in the present\, the film begins in New York apartments\, London townhouses\, Belgian villas\, and Paris salons of avid collectors. From there\, it moves backward to the furniture’s sale at auction\, preview exhibitions\, and photography for auction catalogues\, to restoration\, cargo shipping containers\, and Indian ports—ending finally in Chandigarh\, a city in a state of entropy. \n\n On October 19\, 2013\, Siegel auctioned Provenance at Christie’s in London\, turning the film into another object at auction\, inseparable from the market it depicts. Lot 248\, a second film\, captures the auction of Provenance\, becoming a mirror of the first\, repeating and completing the circuit of design and art that define speculative markets.\n\nAmie Siegel was born in 1974 in Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally at MoMA/PS1\, Walker Art Center\, Hayward Gallery\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, KW Berlin\, ICA Boston\, and the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Screenings include Cannes Film Festival\, Berlin Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, The Museum of Modern Art\, The National Gallery of Art\, and the Harvard Film Archive\, among many other museums and cinematheques. She has been a fellow of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and The Film Study Center at Harvard University\, as well as a recipient of the ICA Bostonʼs Foster Prize and\, most recently\, a Sundance Institute Film Fund award for Provenance.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning\, and Institute for the Humanities. UID:18614-1211317@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18614 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123613 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait DESCRIPTION:Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical\, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.” Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists.\n\nWhen a photographer is faced with a subject who is so thoroughly invested in artistic representation\, how might this impact his or her own photographic aesthetic? In this suite of remarkable photographs\, we witness different manifestations of this phenomenon at work. For example\, we see results ranging from the surreal to the seemingly straightforward through encounters between Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman\; Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo\; and Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. In other cases the photographer intentionally frames the photographic subject alongside the artist’s own work of art so that they become compelling participants in their own painted or sculptural compositions.\n\nThis exhibition invites viewers to consider how the difficult task of representing another artist is productively accomplished through the collaborative aesthetic resonances discernable between model and photographer in these portraits. \n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Health System. UID:18620-1211563@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123835 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast DESCRIPTION:Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both traditional and new media\, acknowledging their long and diverse cultural legacies while overtly and simultaneously exploring\, and often confronting\, the many ongoing issues inherent to their cultural heritage.\n\nThis exhibition is the culmination of a decade-long investigation and exploration into fine art created by Indigenous artists from North America\, defined by their regional origins. This concluding exhibition of the three-part series presents new work by Native American\, First Nations\, Métis\, and Inuit artists and designers from the Northeastern and Southeastern regions of the United States and Canada. Curated by Ellen Taubman\, this Changing Hands presentation is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.\n\nChanging Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design\, New York\, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA’s installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs\, Native American Studies Program\, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund. UID:18621-1211712@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Museum,Native American,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham DESCRIPTION:Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented the work of David Osler (December 21\, 2013–March 30\, 2014) and Part 2\, the work of Robert Metcalf (April 5–July 13\, 2014). The series will culminate on October 5\, 2014 with a symposium that will explore the importance of this circle of Ann Arbor-based architects\, situating their regional body of domestic work into the larger context of modern architecture in the U.S. that developed on the East Coast and West Coast from the 1930s–1980s. Symposium participants include UMMA Director Joseph Rosa\, Head of the University Archives Program at the Bentley Historical Library Nancy Bartlett\, Bentley Associate Archivist and Head of Digital Curation Services Nancy Deromedi\, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty Claire Zimmerman\, Greg Saldaña\, Craig Borum\, and Robert Beckley.\n\nThis exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series\, which showcases the renowned and diverse collections of the University of Michigan. This series inaugurates UMMA’s collaboration with the Bentley Historical Library\, and is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lead support for Three Michigan Architects is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research. UID:18619-1211463@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T132729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T140000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents New Sounds of Ancient Music DESCRIPTION:As part of the Chinese Arts & Culture Festival\, Professor Ye Guohui\, an award-winning Chinese composer from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music\, will lead an ensemble of student instrumentalists in his original compositions for traditional Chinese instruments. The repertoire is composed of three ancient Chinese stories from over 1\,000 years ago: \"Night Revels of Han Zaixi\"\, \"Drinking Wine from Goblets Drifting Downstream”\, and \"Flowing Water\". The group is offering a series of lectures and workshops at U-M to discuss compositional and performance techniques\, and in addition to this concert\, they will perform on Sept. 26 at Rackham Auditorium. This Gifts of Art concert is cosponsored by the U-M Confucius Institute. For further details\, visit the CIUM website: www.confucius.umich.edu. UID:18048-1208482@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18048 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Music LOCATION:1027 E. Huron Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T154358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Maker Spaces DESCRIPTION:This panel explores the ways in which the University Library and the Ann Arbor community maker spaces are serving the local DIY culture. U-M librarians Rebecca Price and Linda Knox talk about the maker spaces on U-M's north campus and Emily Puckett Rodgers talks about the Ann Arbor maker community and the Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire.\n\nMaker spaces offer artists\, designers\, engineers and entrepreneurs access to tools\, software\, space and expertise that enable them to fabricate and test out ideas and create new projects. UID:18416-1208579@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18416 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140428T131031 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Misty Lyn & The Big Beautiful DESCRIPTION:A linchpin of the rising Michigan indie/folk scene\, 2009 Ann Arbor Folk Festival artist Misty Lyn pens haunting melodies over simple arrangements that traverse the gothic\, literary fringes of American roots music. Pulling from a wealth of vivid\, melancholic subject matter\, her songs are cathartic and poetically rich works that stand boldly on their own\, but when accompanied by her quartet\, the Big Beautiful\, realize new potential. She writes of her childhood struggles and the ensuing trials and tribulations encountered while working toward a greater purpose in life. While her music also celebrates the simple joy of being alive\, there is always a common thread of nostalgia for things that are lost and those that are fading. What kind of music is it? The question seems almost irrelevant in Misty Lyn's unique world\, but she told a French interviewer that \"someone once called [me] 'gothic country' and I liked the sound of it.\" UID:17407-1202081@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17407 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:misty lyn,misty lyn and the big beautiful,music,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T180009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140822T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T000000 SUMMARY:Other:OLD HOLLYWOOD DANCE!!! DESCRIPTION:The \;U/M Students for Recovery present &ldquo\;Old Hollywood Recovery Dance 2014&rdquo\; &ndash\; \;a sober end-of-summer dance with an opportunity to \;dress up\, dance\, and \;flaunt \;how \;fabulous \;you are.  \;The \;dance's theme is OLD HOLLYWOOD\, so dress up in formal attire\, be ready to dance and have a CLASSIC TIME. \;This event has FREE admission and is open to the community &ndash\; all ages are welcome and \;anyone interested in experiencing a substance-free fantastic event is welcome &ndash\; this includes \;people in recovery\, people supportive of recovery\, people interested in recovery and people who want to have a great time in a sober environment.This is a substance-free event\, and we ask that attendees be respectful of those who want to have a fun\, sober experience. Any non- sober participants will be asked to leave. \; UID:18421-1208694@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18421 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T144217 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography DESCRIPTION:\n\nCrystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of Natural History\, books from the Library's collection\, and displays of the equipment used at the X-Ray Crystallography Lab.\n\nUNESCO chose 2014 as the International year of Crystallography because it commemorates two important anniversaries in the study of matter: the centennial of X-ray diffraction\, and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals. Both breakthroughs led to subsequent studies in the role of symmetry in matter and the nature of crystalline material. U-M continues this investigation today.\n UID:17714-1203552@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:library,museum of natural history LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Third Floor Hallway CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T112345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Annual Employee Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by U-M Health System faculty\, staff\, students\, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent\, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26\,000) UMHS community. There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show\, and a People's Choice award will be determined by votes of visitors to the exhibit by using the voting ballots and box provided on site. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony held on Tuesday\, Sept. 9 from 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the exhibit gallery. More info. UID:17696-1203136@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17696 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:20140709T113214 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ecosystem 1952-2014: Collage DESCRIPTION:Brenda Miller-Slomovits has been studying and working in the field of art and design for much of her adult life. She received a BFA in 1989 from Eastern Michigan University and has shown her work in the Chelsea River Gallery\, the Legacy Land Conservancy Exhibits\, Ann Arbor Women Artist's shows\, the JCC Amster Gallery\, and the Gifts of Art UMHS Employee Art Exhibition. The Ann Arbor Observer has published her art over a dozen times on its cover. Miller-Slomovits has worked full-time in the Mott Newborn Intensive Care since 2002\, where she develops support programs for parents and families. UID:17698-1203236@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17698 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T111718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Forest Patterns: Functional Porcelain DESCRIPTION:Using tones and leaf patterns of deep forests\, Tom Kendall studies deep northern woodlands with close-up still life compositions. It is as if the viewer has stopped by the trail and is quietly contemplating the patterns of light and color in the woods. The porcelains are functional\, making enjoying them even more rewarding. Kendall has a Master's degree in Fine Art from Illinois State University and was director of the Art School\, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for many years. His studio\, Oak Leaf Pottery\, is in the country near Plainwell\, Michigan. Kendall's work has been exhibited widely and is in collections in the US and abroad. UID:17693-1203084@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17693 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:20140709T114306 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gesture\, Line & Color: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:An art teacher in Ann Arbor Public Schools for over 30 years\, Debbie Thompson works predominantly in clay\, finding inspiration from the natural world. Thompson began her art education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, Michigan. She then earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan\, a Master's of Fine Arts from Eastern Michigan University and took post-graduate studio classes from the Chicago Art Institute\, Maryland Art Institute\, Rhode Island School of Design and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. She exhibits her work locally and nationally and is a member of the Clay Gallery and Potters Guild in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. UID:17699-1203286@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T105525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Illuminations: Painting the Night with Light DESCRIPTION:When the sun leaves the sky\, Darlene Yeager-Torre gathers flashlights\, camera and tripod and ventures into the night to create luminous landscape photographs by using extremely long exposures (45 seconds to 1 hour). After a career of teaching art\, with degrees from Edgecliff College and Xavier University in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, she began exploring her own artistic vision. A presentation on night photography piqued her curiosity about that genre and sent her on the adventures that now fill her evenings. Despite the difficulty of long exposure photography\, the resulting\, glowing images fuel her creativity and rejuvenate her spirit. UID:17692-1203034@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17692 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T112716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Local Color: Pictorial Art Quilts DESCRIPTION:Sue Holdaway-Heys is an Ann Arbor artist known for her pictorial art quilts which often use imagery from nature and the environment. She has been a professional artist for over forty years and has an MFA in fibers from U-M. Holdaway-Heys combines texture and pattern with fabric paints to create her unique art quilts. Her focus has been commission and gallery work for the past 10 years. Mayo Clinic\, Chelsea Hospital\, St. Joseph Hospitals in Ypsilanti\, Oakland\, Brighton\, Henry Ford and others have Holdaway-Hey’s work in their collections. UID:17697-1203186@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17697 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140409T112500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sayles Pitch: John Sayles\, Author\, Auteur\, Independent DESCRIPTION:This student-researched exhibit features photographs\, storyboards\, scripts\, props\, and more from the archives of the American maverick filmmaker John Sayles\, director of such films as Lone Star\, Matewan\, and Brother from Another Planet.\n\n[Note that the Audubon portion of the exhibit closed June 29.) UID:17220-1203500@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,filmmaker,library,screen arts and cultures LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T162926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Puzzle Me This: Early Binding Fragments and Other Evidence from the U-M Papyrology Collection DESCRIPTION:Binding fragments from the U-M Papyrology Collection—including leather covers\, papyrus cartonnage\, sewing evidence and thread—are puzzles\; few retain enough structural and decorative information to accurately date them and determine what they would have looked like when intact. View original fragments next to models constructed to illustrate the probable forms some of the fragments once took.\n\nAudubon Room hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 am-7 pm\, Sat 10 am-6 pm\, Sun 2-7 pm.\n\nBrendan Haug\, archivist of the U-M Papyrology Collection and assistant professor in the Department of Classical Studies\, will lead a discussion about The Book in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Evidence from the Papyri on September 10 at 4:00 p.m. in the Hatcher Gallery. UID:18420-1208674@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18420 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,History,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140414T140752 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Ann Arbor Bonsai Society Annual Show DESCRIPTION:Share the tradition of the practice and art of bonsai at the Ann Arbor Bonsai Society annual show at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Bonsai display\, vendors\, expert advice\, and demonstrations. Admission: $3 per adult\; under 12 free. Presented by Ann Arbor Bonsai Society.\n UID:17284-1200737@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17284 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:bonsai,environmental,matthaei botanical gardens LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140806T114601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T130000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Kerrytown District Guided Tour DESCRIPTION:Join us for a guided tour of the Kerrytown district\, a very interesting and historic part of Ann Arbor. One highlight of this neighborhood is the Ann Arbor Farmers’ Market\, an open-air marketplace which features locally grown food\, plants\, prepared food items\, and crafts\, all sold by the people who grow them or make them. The Kerrytown district also includes the nationally-known Zingerman's Delicatessen\, and the People’s Food Coop\, a community-owned natural foods grocery store\, as well as many other interesting shops and buildings. (for international students only) UID:17950-1205348@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17950 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T122941 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Amie Siegel: Provenance DESCRIPTION:Amie Siegel’s Provenance traces in reverse the global trade in furniture from the Indian city of Chandigarh. Conceived in the 1950s by architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret\, Chandigarh’s controversial modernist architecture includes original pieces of furniture created specifically for the building’s interiors. Recently these pieces have appeared at auction houses around the world\, commanding record prices. Starting with Chandigarh furniture in the present\, the film begins in New York apartments\, London townhouses\, Belgian villas\, and Paris salons of avid collectors. From there\, it moves backward to the furniture’s sale at auction\, preview exhibitions\, and photography for auction catalogues\, to restoration\, cargo shipping containers\, and Indian ports—ending finally in Chandigarh\, a city in a state of entropy. \n\n On October 19\, 2013\, Siegel auctioned Provenance at Christie’s in London\, turning the film into another object at auction\, inseparable from the market it depicts. Lot 248\, a second film\, captures the auction of Provenance\, becoming a mirror of the first\, repeating and completing the circuit of design and art that define speculative markets.\n\nAmie Siegel was born in 1974 in Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally at MoMA/PS1\, Walker Art Center\, Hayward Gallery\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, KW Berlin\, ICA Boston\, and the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Screenings include Cannes Film Festival\, Berlin Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, The Museum of Modern Art\, The National Gallery of Art\, and the Harvard Film Archive\, among many other museums and cinematheques. She has been a fellow of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and The Film Study Center at Harvard University\, as well as a recipient of the ICA Bostonʼs Foster Prize and\, most recently\, a Sundance Institute Film Fund award for Provenance.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning\, and Institute for the Humanities. UID:18614-1211318@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18614 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123613 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait DESCRIPTION:Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical\, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.” Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists.\n\nWhen a photographer is faced with a subject who is so thoroughly invested in artistic representation\, how might this impact his or her own photographic aesthetic? In this suite of remarkable photographs\, we witness different manifestations of this phenomenon at work. For example\, we see results ranging from the surreal to the seemingly straightforward through encounters between Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman\; Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo\; and Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. In other cases the photographer intentionally frames the photographic subject alongside the artist’s own work of art so that they become compelling participants in their own painted or sculptural compositions.\n\nThis exhibition invites viewers to consider how the difficult task of representing another artist is productively accomplished through the collaborative aesthetic resonances discernable between model and photographer in these portraits. \n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Health System. UID:18620-1211564@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123835 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast DESCRIPTION:Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both traditional and new media\, acknowledging their long and diverse cultural legacies while overtly and simultaneously exploring\, and often confronting\, the many ongoing issues inherent to their cultural heritage.\n\nThis exhibition is the culmination of a decade-long investigation and exploration into fine art created by Indigenous artists from North America\, defined by their regional origins. This concluding exhibition of the three-part series presents new work by Native American\, First Nations\, Métis\, and Inuit artists and designers from the Northeastern and Southeastern regions of the United States and Canada. Curated by Ellen Taubman\, this Changing Hands presentation is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.\n\nChanging Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design\, New York\, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA’s installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs\, Native American Studies Program\, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund. UID:18621-1211713@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Museum,Native American,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham DESCRIPTION:Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented the work of David Osler (December 21\, 2013–March 30\, 2014) and Part 2\, the work of Robert Metcalf (April 5–July 13\, 2014). The series will culminate on October 5\, 2014 with a symposium that will explore the importance of this circle of Ann Arbor-based architects\, situating their regional body of domestic work into the larger context of modern architecture in the U.S. that developed on the East Coast and West Coast from the 1930s–1980s. Symposium participants include UMMA Director Joseph Rosa\, Head of the University Archives Program at the Bentley Historical Library Nancy Bartlett\, Bentley Associate Archivist and Head of Digital Curation Services Nancy Deromedi\, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty Claire Zimmerman\, Greg Saldaña\, Craig Borum\, and Robert Beckley.\n\nThis exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series\, which showcases the renowned and diverse collections of the University of Michigan. This series inaugurates UMMA’s collaboration with the Bentley Historical Library\, and is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lead support for Three Michigan Architects is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research. UID:18619-1211464@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140513T140957 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140823T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Paul Thorn DESCRIPTION:Paul Thorn is the modern wild man of Southern music. He's had quite a life! He skydives. He got into the ring with Roberto \"Hands of Steel\" Duran on national television. (Both ended up at Atlantic City Medical Center\, and Paul reaped a great song\, \"I'd Rather Be a Hammer Than a Nail.\") He's the son of a Pentecostal preacher who rode the tent-revival circuit. He paints. He had his first singing gig at age three. He comes from Tupelo\, Mississippi and absorbed the power of gospel music just like another famous native of that town. And he ties it all together in original songs\, masterpieces of gutbucket storytelling country and soul with a fearless confessional streak (and often very funny). Thom Jurek of the All Music Guide calls Paul Thorn \"a soul singer who can slip down into the murk and mess of human emotions with style and aplomb.\" UID:17468-1202179@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17468 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music,paul thorn,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T144217 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography DESCRIPTION:\n\nCrystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of Natural History\, books from the Library's collection\, and displays of the equipment used at the X-Ray Crystallography Lab.\n\nUNESCO chose 2014 as the International year of Crystallography because it commemorates two important anniversaries in the study of matter: the centennial of X-ray diffraction\, and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals. Both breakthroughs led to subsequent studies in the role of symmetry in matter and the nature of crystalline material. U-M continues this investigation today.\n UID:17714-1203553@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:library,museum of natural history LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Third Floor Hallway CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T112345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Annual Employee Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by U-M Health System faculty\, staff\, students\, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent\, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26\,000) UMHS community. There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show\, and a People's Choice award will be determined by votes of visitors to the exhibit by using the voting ballots and box provided on site. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony held on Tuesday\, Sept. 9 from 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the exhibit gallery. More info. UID:17696-1203137@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17696 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:20140709T113214 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ecosystem 1952-2014: Collage DESCRIPTION:Brenda Miller-Slomovits has been studying and working in the field of art and design for much of her adult life. She received a BFA in 1989 from Eastern Michigan University and has shown her work in the Chelsea River Gallery\, the Legacy Land Conservancy Exhibits\, Ann Arbor Women Artist's shows\, the JCC Amster Gallery\, and the Gifts of Art UMHS Employee Art Exhibition. The Ann Arbor Observer has published her art over a dozen times on its cover. Miller-Slomovits has worked full-time in the Mott Newborn Intensive Care since 2002\, where she develops support programs for parents and families. UID:17698-1203237@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17698 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T111718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Forest Patterns: Functional Porcelain DESCRIPTION:Using tones and leaf patterns of deep forests\, Tom Kendall studies deep northern woodlands with close-up still life compositions. It is as if the viewer has stopped by the trail and is quietly contemplating the patterns of light and color in the woods. The porcelains are functional\, making enjoying them even more rewarding. Kendall has a Master's degree in Fine Art from Illinois State University and was director of the Art School\, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for many years. His studio\, Oak Leaf Pottery\, is in the country near Plainwell\, Michigan. Kendall's work has been exhibited widely and is in collections in the US and abroad. UID:17693-1203085@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17693 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:20140709T114306 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gesture\, Line & Color: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:An art teacher in Ann Arbor Public Schools for over 30 years\, Debbie Thompson works predominantly in clay\, finding inspiration from the natural world. Thompson began her art education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, Michigan. She then earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan\, a Master's of Fine Arts from Eastern Michigan University and took post-graduate studio classes from the Chicago Art Institute\, Maryland Art Institute\, Rhode Island School of Design and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. She exhibits her work locally and nationally and is a member of the Clay Gallery and Potters Guild in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. UID:17699-1203287@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T105525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Illuminations: Painting the Night with Light DESCRIPTION:When the sun leaves the sky\, Darlene Yeager-Torre gathers flashlights\, camera and tripod and ventures into the night to create luminous landscape photographs by using extremely long exposures (45 seconds to 1 hour). After a career of teaching art\, with degrees from Edgecliff College and Xavier University in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, she began exploring her own artistic vision. A presentation on night photography piqued her curiosity about that genre and sent her on the adventures that now fill her evenings. Despite the difficulty of long exposure photography\, the resulting\, glowing images fuel her creativity and rejuvenate her spirit. UID:17692-1203035@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17692 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T112716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Local Color: Pictorial Art Quilts DESCRIPTION:Sue Holdaway-Heys is an Ann Arbor artist known for her pictorial art quilts which often use imagery from nature and the environment. She has been a professional artist for over forty years and has an MFA in fibers from U-M. Holdaway-Heys combines texture and pattern with fabric paints to create her unique art quilts. Her focus has been commission and gallery work for the past 10 years. Mayo Clinic\, Chelsea Hospital\, St. Joseph Hospitals in Ypsilanti\, Oakland\, Brighton\, Henry Ford and others have Holdaway-Hey’s work in their collections. UID:17697-1203187@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17697 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140409T112500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sayles Pitch: John Sayles\, Author\, Auteur\, Independent DESCRIPTION:This student-researched exhibit features photographs\, storyboards\, scripts\, props\, and more from the archives of the American maverick filmmaker John Sayles\, director of such films as Lone Star\, Matewan\, and Brother from Another Planet.\n\n[Note that the Audubon portion of the exhibit closed June 29.) UID:17220-1203501@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,filmmaker,library,screen arts and cultures LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T162926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Puzzle Me This: Early Binding Fragments and Other Evidence from the U-M Papyrology Collection DESCRIPTION:Binding fragments from the U-M Papyrology Collection—including leather covers\, papyrus cartonnage\, sewing evidence and thread—are puzzles\; few retain enough structural and decorative information to accurately date them and determine what they would have looked like when intact. View original fragments next to models constructed to illustrate the probable forms some of the fragments once took.\n\nAudubon Room hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 am-7 pm\, Sat 10 am-6 pm\, Sun 2-7 pm.\n\nBrendan Haug\, archivist of the U-M Papyrology Collection and assistant professor in the Department of Classical Studies\, will lead a discussion about The Book in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Evidence from the Papyri on September 10 at 4:00 p.m. in the Hatcher Gallery. UID:18420-1208675@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18420 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,History,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140806T114908 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T183000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Shopping: IKEA DESCRIPTION:Join us for a day of shopping at one of the most popular stores around. IKEA is one big store filled with thousands of items for kitchen\, living or bedrooms\, and more. The store covers 311\,000 square feet\, of home furnishings. (for international students only) UID:17953-1205352@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17953 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140414T140752 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Ann Arbor Bonsai Society Annual Show DESCRIPTION:Share the tradition of the practice and art of bonsai at the Ann Arbor Bonsai Society annual show at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Bonsai display\, vendors\, expert advice\, and demonstrations. Admission: $3 per adult\; under 12 free. Presented by Ann Arbor Bonsai Society.\n UID:17284-1200738@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17284 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:bonsai,environmental,matthaei botanical gardens LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T122941 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Amie Siegel: Provenance DESCRIPTION:Amie Siegel’s Provenance traces in reverse the global trade in furniture from the Indian city of Chandigarh. Conceived in the 1950s by architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret\, Chandigarh’s controversial modernist architecture includes original pieces of furniture created specifically for the building’s interiors. Recently these pieces have appeared at auction houses around the world\, commanding record prices. Starting with Chandigarh furniture in the present\, the film begins in New York apartments\, London townhouses\, Belgian villas\, and Paris salons of avid collectors. From there\, it moves backward to the furniture’s sale at auction\, preview exhibitions\, and photography for auction catalogues\, to restoration\, cargo shipping containers\, and Indian ports—ending finally in Chandigarh\, a city in a state of entropy. \n\n On October 19\, 2013\, Siegel auctioned Provenance at Christie’s in London\, turning the film into another object at auction\, inseparable from the market it depicts. Lot 248\, a second film\, captures the auction of Provenance\, becoming a mirror of the first\, repeating and completing the circuit of design and art that define speculative markets.\n\nAmie Siegel was born in 1974 in Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally at MoMA/PS1\, Walker Art Center\, Hayward Gallery\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, KW Berlin\, ICA Boston\, and the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Screenings include Cannes Film Festival\, Berlin Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, The Museum of Modern Art\, The National Gallery of Art\, and the Harvard Film Archive\, among many other museums and cinematheques. She has been a fellow of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and The Film Study Center at Harvard University\, as well as a recipient of the ICA Bostonʼs Foster Prize and\, most recently\, a Sundance Institute Film Fund award for Provenance.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning\, and Institute for the Humanities. UID:18614-1211319@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18614 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123613 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait DESCRIPTION:Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical\, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.” Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists.\n\nWhen a photographer is faced with a subject who is so thoroughly invested in artistic representation\, how might this impact his or her own photographic aesthetic? In this suite of remarkable photographs\, we witness different manifestations of this phenomenon at work. For example\, we see results ranging from the surreal to the seemingly straightforward through encounters between Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman\; Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo\; and Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. In other cases the photographer intentionally frames the photographic subject alongside the artist’s own work of art so that they become compelling participants in their own painted or sculptural compositions.\n\nThis exhibition invites viewers to consider how the difficult task of representing another artist is productively accomplished through the collaborative aesthetic resonances discernable between model and photographer in these portraits. \n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Health System. UID:18620-1211565@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123835 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast DESCRIPTION:Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both traditional and new media\, acknowledging their long and diverse cultural legacies while overtly and simultaneously exploring\, and often confronting\, the many ongoing issues inherent to their cultural heritage.\n\nThis exhibition is the culmination of a decade-long investigation and exploration into fine art created by Indigenous artists from North America\, defined by their regional origins. This concluding exhibition of the three-part series presents new work by Native American\, First Nations\, Métis\, and Inuit artists and designers from the Northeastern and Southeastern regions of the United States and Canada. Curated by Ellen Taubman\, this Changing Hands presentation is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.\n\nChanging Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design\, New York\, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA’s installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs\, Native American Studies Program\, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund. UID:18621-1211714@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Museum,Native American,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham DESCRIPTION:Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented the work of David Osler (December 21\, 2013–March 30\, 2014) and Part 2\, the work of Robert Metcalf (April 5–July 13\, 2014). The series will culminate on October 5\, 2014 with a symposium that will explore the importance of this circle of Ann Arbor-based architects\, situating their regional body of domestic work into the larger context of modern architecture in the U.S. that developed on the East Coast and West Coast from the 1930s–1980s. Symposium participants include UMMA Director Joseph Rosa\, Head of the University Archives Program at the Bentley Historical Library Nancy Bartlett\, Bentley Associate Archivist and Head of Digital Curation Services Nancy Deromedi\, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty Claire Zimmerman\, Greg Saldaña\, Craig Borum\, and Robert Beckley.\n\nThis exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series\, which showcases the renowned and diverse collections of the University of Michigan. This series inaugurates UMMA’s collaboration with the Bentley Historical Library\, and is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lead support for Three Michigan Architects is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research. UID:18619-1211465@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140717T160137 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Guided Tour: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast DESCRIPTION:The art in this major traveling exhibition celebrates the richness and diversity of contemporary Native and First Nations art. The artists in Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 interpret and redefine such traditional media as basketry\, beadwork\, textiles\, wood\, metalwork and stone\, as well as look to contemporary media such as photography\, performance and installation art. Join UMMA docents for an exploration of this compelling exhibition. UID:17838-1204020@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17838 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman I Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140331T154242 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140824T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys DESCRIPTION:Lindsay Lou Rilko was raised in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in a family of musicians. Her influences\, outside the family\, have been singers like Nat King Cole and songwriters like the Indigo Girls. But lately Michigan's thriving folk and bluegrass scenes have been her biggest influence. A graduate of Michigan State University with degrees in science and Spanish and a minor in Bioethics\, Lindsay lived for several months in Latin America and has a unique set of experiences on which she draws to write her original songs. Her band the Flatbellys is by now a fluid\, exciting unit after several years of playing together. Lindsay Lou comes home to Michigan with a new EP\, \"Here Between.\" This young Michigan band is breaking out all over the country\, and you can catch them now before they embark on their first German tour! UID:17118-1200401@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17118 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:lindsay lou and the flatbellys,music,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T144217 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography DESCRIPTION:\n\nCrystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of Natural History\, books from the Library's collection\, and displays of the equipment used at the X-Ray Crystallography Lab.\n\nUNESCO chose 2014 as the International year of Crystallography because it commemorates two important anniversaries in the study of matter: the centennial of X-ray diffraction\, and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals. Both breakthroughs led to subsequent studies in the role of symmetry in matter and the nature of crystalline material. U-M continues this investigation today.\n UID:17714-1203554@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:library,museum of natural history LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Third Floor Hallway CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T112345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Annual Employee Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by U-M Health System faculty\, staff\, students\, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent\, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26\,000) UMHS community. There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show\, and a People's Choice award will be determined by votes of visitors to the exhibit by using the voting ballots and box provided on site. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony held on Tuesday\, Sept. 9 from 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the exhibit gallery. More info. UID:17696-1203138@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17696 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:20140709T113214 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ecosystem 1952-2014: Collage DESCRIPTION:Brenda Miller-Slomovits has been studying and working in the field of art and design for much of her adult life. She received a BFA in 1989 from Eastern Michigan University and has shown her work in the Chelsea River Gallery\, the Legacy Land Conservancy Exhibits\, Ann Arbor Women Artist's shows\, the JCC Amster Gallery\, and the Gifts of Art UMHS Employee Art Exhibition. The Ann Arbor Observer has published her art over a dozen times on its cover. Miller-Slomovits has worked full-time in the Mott Newborn Intensive Care since 2002\, where she develops support programs for parents and families. UID:17698-1203238@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17698 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T111718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Forest Patterns: Functional Porcelain DESCRIPTION:Using tones and leaf patterns of deep forests\, Tom Kendall studies deep northern woodlands with close-up still life compositions. It is as if the viewer has stopped by the trail and is quietly contemplating the patterns of light and color in the woods. The porcelains are functional\, making enjoying them even more rewarding. Kendall has a Master's degree in Fine Art from Illinois State University and was director of the Art School\, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for many years. His studio\, Oak Leaf Pottery\, is in the country near Plainwell\, Michigan. Kendall's work has been exhibited widely and is in collections in the US and abroad. UID:17693-1203086@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17693 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:20140709T114306 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gesture\, Line & Color: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:An art teacher in Ann Arbor Public Schools for over 30 years\, Debbie Thompson works predominantly in clay\, finding inspiration from the natural world. Thompson began her art education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, Michigan. She then earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan\, a Master's of Fine Arts from Eastern Michigan University and took post-graduate studio classes from the Chicago Art Institute\, Maryland Art Institute\, Rhode Island School of Design and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. She exhibits her work locally and nationally and is a member of the Clay Gallery and Potters Guild in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. UID:17699-1203288@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T133115 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Heart & Home: Primitive Painting DESCRIPTION:The art of Primitive Americana comes naturally to Sandra Somers who was born and raised in a small midwestern town \"full of large old houses\, horse barns and lush farmland within roller skating range.\" Her primitive art\, created using acrylics\, depicts an active\, bustling world with interesting architecture that time has somehow overlooked. Nationally recognized museums\, historic townships and individual collectors have commissioned her work\, including the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Somers is presently living and working in a 1860s farmhouse homestead with restored outbuildings\, including a chicken coop used as a showroom studio. UID:17700-1203338@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17700 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T105525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Illuminations: Painting the Night with Light DESCRIPTION:When the sun leaves the sky\, Darlene Yeager-Torre gathers flashlights\, camera and tripod and ventures into the night to create luminous landscape photographs by using extremely long exposures (45 seconds to 1 hour). After a career of teaching art\, with degrees from Edgecliff College and Xavier University in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, she began exploring her own artistic vision. A presentation on night photography piqued her curiosity about that genre and sent her on the adventures that now fill her evenings. Despite the difficulty of long exposure photography\, the resulting\, glowing images fuel her creativity and rejuvenate her spirit. UID:17692-1203036@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17692 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T112716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Local Color: Pictorial Art Quilts DESCRIPTION:Sue Holdaway-Heys is an Ann Arbor artist known for her pictorial art quilts which often use imagery from nature and the environment. She has been a professional artist for over forty years and has an MFA in fibers from U-M. Holdaway-Heys combines texture and pattern with fabric paints to create her unique art quilts. Her focus has been commission and gallery work for the past 10 years. Mayo Clinic\, Chelsea Hospital\, St. Joseph Hospitals in Ypsilanti\, Oakland\, Brighton\, Henry Ford and others have Holdaway-Hey’s work in their collections. UID:17697-1203188@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17697 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140409T112500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sayles Pitch: John Sayles\, Author\, Auteur\, Independent DESCRIPTION:This student-researched exhibit features photographs\, storyboards\, scripts\, props\, and more from the archives of the American maverick filmmaker John Sayles\, director of such films as Lone Star\, Matewan\, and Brother from Another Planet.\n\n[Note that the Audubon portion of the exhibit closed June 29.) UID:17220-1203502@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,filmmaker,library,screen arts and cultures LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T162926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Puzzle Me This: Early Binding Fragments and Other Evidence from the U-M Papyrology Collection DESCRIPTION:Binding fragments from the U-M Papyrology Collection—including leather covers\, papyrus cartonnage\, sewing evidence and thread—are puzzles\; few retain enough structural and decorative information to accurately date them and determine what they would have looked like when intact. View original fragments next to models constructed to illustrate the probable forms some of the fragments once took.\n\nAudubon Room hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 am-7 pm\, Sat 10 am-6 pm\, Sun 2-7 pm.\n\nBrendan Haug\, archivist of the U-M Papyrology Collection and assistant professor in the Department of Classical Studies\, will lead a discussion about The Book in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Evidence from the Papyri on September 10 at 4:00 p.m. in the Hatcher Gallery. UID:18420-1208676@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18420 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,History,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T154358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Maker Spaces DESCRIPTION:This panel explores the ways in which the University Library and the Ann Arbor community maker spaces are serving the local DIY culture. U-M librarians Rebecca Price and Linda Knox talk about the maker spaces on U-M's north campus and Emily Puckett Rodgers talks about the Ann Arbor maker community and the Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire.\n\nMaker spaces offer artists\, designers\, engineers and entrepreneurs access to tools\, software\, space and expertise that enable them to fabricate and test out ideas and create new projects. UID:18416-1208578@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18416 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - g CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140714T113054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit DESCRIPTION:Featuring some of the earliest\, rarest\, most beautiful\, or most unusual Dutch and Flemish books and manuscripts held by the University of Michigan Library\, items on display come from a collection of materials from The Netherlands and Belgium that is among the strongest in the United States.\n\nOpen Monday through Friday\, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. UID:17503-1202288@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor, Special Collections CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T122941 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Amie Siegel: Provenance DESCRIPTION:Amie Siegel’s Provenance traces in reverse the global trade in furniture from the Indian city of Chandigarh. Conceived in the 1950s by architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret\, Chandigarh’s controversial modernist architecture includes original pieces of furniture created specifically for the building’s interiors. Recently these pieces have appeared at auction houses around the world\, commanding record prices. Starting with Chandigarh furniture in the present\, the film begins in New York apartments\, London townhouses\, Belgian villas\, and Paris salons of avid collectors. From there\, it moves backward to the furniture’s sale at auction\, preview exhibitions\, and photography for auction catalogues\, to restoration\, cargo shipping containers\, and Indian ports—ending finally in Chandigarh\, a city in a state of entropy. \n\n On October 19\, 2013\, Siegel auctioned Provenance at Christie’s in London\, turning the film into another object at auction\, inseparable from the market it depicts. Lot 248\, a second film\, captures the auction of Provenance\, becoming a mirror of the first\, repeating and completing the circuit of design and art that define speculative markets.\n\nAmie Siegel was born in 1974 in Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally at MoMA/PS1\, Walker Art Center\, Hayward Gallery\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, KW Berlin\, ICA Boston\, and the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Screenings include Cannes Film Festival\, Berlin Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, The Museum of Modern Art\, The National Gallery of Art\, and the Harvard Film Archive\, among many other museums and cinematheques. She has been a fellow of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and The Film Study Center at Harvard University\, as well as a recipient of the ICA Bostonʼs Foster Prize and\, most recently\, a Sundance Institute Film Fund award for Provenance.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning\, and Institute for the Humanities. UID:18614-1211320@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18614 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123613 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait DESCRIPTION:Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical\, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.” Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists.\n\nWhen a photographer is faced with a subject who is so thoroughly invested in artistic representation\, how might this impact his or her own photographic aesthetic? In this suite of remarkable photographs\, we witness different manifestations of this phenomenon at work. For example\, we see results ranging from the surreal to the seemingly straightforward through encounters between Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman\; Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo\; and Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. In other cases the photographer intentionally frames the photographic subject alongside the artist’s own work of art so that they become compelling participants in their own painted or sculptural compositions.\n\nThis exhibition invites viewers to consider how the difficult task of representing another artist is productively accomplished through the collaborative aesthetic resonances discernable between model and photographer in these portraits. \n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Health System. UID:18620-1211566@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123835 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast DESCRIPTION:Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both traditional and new media\, acknowledging their long and diverse cultural legacies while overtly and simultaneously exploring\, and often confronting\, the many ongoing issues inherent to their cultural heritage.\n\nThis exhibition is the culmination of a decade-long investigation and exploration into fine art created by Indigenous artists from North America\, defined by their regional origins. This concluding exhibition of the three-part series presents new work by Native American\, First Nations\, Métis\, and Inuit artists and designers from the Northeastern and Southeastern regions of the United States and Canada. Curated by Ellen Taubman\, this Changing Hands presentation is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.\n\nChanging Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design\, New York\, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA’s installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs\, Native American Studies Program\, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund. UID:18621-1211715@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Museum,Native American,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham DESCRIPTION:Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented the work of David Osler (December 21\, 2013–March 30\, 2014) and Part 2\, the work of Robert Metcalf (April 5–July 13\, 2014). The series will culminate on October 5\, 2014 with a symposium that will explore the importance of this circle of Ann Arbor-based architects\, situating their regional body of domestic work into the larger context of modern architecture in the U.S. that developed on the East Coast and West Coast from the 1930s–1980s. Symposium participants include UMMA Director Joseph Rosa\, Head of the University Archives Program at the Bentley Historical Library Nancy Bartlett\, Bentley Associate Archivist and Head of Digital Curation Services Nancy Deromedi\, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty Claire Zimmerman\, Greg Saldaña\, Craig Borum\, and Robert Beckley.\n\nThis exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series\, which showcases the renowned and diverse collections of the University of Michigan. This series inaugurates UMMA’s collaboration with the Bentley Historical Library\, and is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lead support for Three Michigan Architects is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research. UID:18619-1211466@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140729T120724 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140825T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GSI Teaching Orientation DESCRIPTION:The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) has designed the Graduate Student Instructor Teaching Orientation (GSITO) to help new GSIs prepare for their initial teaching experiences. It has also proven to be a valuable event for experienced GSIs and for graduate students who anticipate teaching in the future.\n\nThe event will be held on Monday\, August 25 from 1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. The event will continue on Tuesday\, August 26 from 8:30 a.m. --4:30 p.m. Breakfast and lunch will be provided on Tuesday.\n\nFor more information about the event\, including the agenda for the day\, and to register visit: http://crlt.umich.edu/gsis/gsio UID:17931-1205180@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17931 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate School,Multicultural,Rackham,Workshop LOCATION:Michigan League - Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T144217 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography DESCRIPTION:\n\nCrystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of Natural History\, books from the Library's collection\, and displays of the equipment used at the X-Ray Crystallography Lab.\n\nUNESCO chose 2014 as the International year of Crystallography because it commemorates two important anniversaries in the study of matter: the centennial of X-ray diffraction\, and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals. Both breakthroughs led to subsequent studies in the role of symmetry in matter and the nature of crystalline material. U-M continues this investigation today.\n UID:17714-1203555@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:library,museum of natural history LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Third Floor Hallway CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T112345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Annual Employee Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by U-M Health System faculty\, staff\, students\, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent\, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26\,000) UMHS community. There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show\, and a People's Choice award will be determined by votes of visitors to the exhibit by using the voting ballots and box provided on site. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony held on Tuesday\, Sept. 9 from 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the exhibit gallery. More info. UID:17696-1203139@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17696 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:20140709T113214 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ecosystem 1952-2014: Collage DESCRIPTION:Brenda Miller-Slomovits has been studying and working in the field of art and design for much of her adult life. She received a BFA in 1989 from Eastern Michigan University and has shown her work in the Chelsea River Gallery\, the Legacy Land Conservancy Exhibits\, Ann Arbor Women Artist's shows\, the JCC Amster Gallery\, and the Gifts of Art UMHS Employee Art Exhibition. The Ann Arbor Observer has published her art over a dozen times on its cover. Miller-Slomovits has worked full-time in the Mott Newborn Intensive Care since 2002\, where she develops support programs for parents and families. UID:17698-1203239@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17698 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T111718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Forest Patterns: Functional Porcelain DESCRIPTION:Using tones and leaf patterns of deep forests\, Tom Kendall studies deep northern woodlands with close-up still life compositions. It is as if the viewer has stopped by the trail and is quietly contemplating the patterns of light and color in the woods. The porcelains are functional\, making enjoying them even more rewarding. Kendall has a Master's degree in Fine Art from Illinois State University and was director of the Art School\, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for many years. His studio\, Oak Leaf Pottery\, is in the country near Plainwell\, Michigan. Kendall's work has been exhibited widely and is in collections in the US and abroad. UID:17693-1203087@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17693 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:20140709T114306 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gesture\, Line & Color: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:An art teacher in Ann Arbor Public Schools for over 30 years\, Debbie Thompson works predominantly in clay\, finding inspiration from the natural world. Thompson began her art education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, Michigan. She then earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan\, a Master's of Fine Arts from Eastern Michigan University and took post-graduate studio classes from the Chicago Art Institute\, Maryland Art Institute\, Rhode Island School of Design and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. She exhibits her work locally and nationally and is a member of the Clay Gallery and Potters Guild in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. UID:17699-1203289@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T133115 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Heart & Home: Primitive Painting DESCRIPTION:The art of Primitive Americana comes naturally to Sandra Somers who was born and raised in a small midwestern town \"full of large old houses\, horse barns and lush farmland within roller skating range.\" Her primitive art\, created using acrylics\, depicts an active\, bustling world with interesting architecture that time has somehow overlooked. Nationally recognized museums\, historic townships and individual collectors have commissioned her work\, including the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Somers is presently living and working in a 1860s farmhouse homestead with restored outbuildings\, including a chicken coop used as a showroom studio. UID:17700-1203339@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17700 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T105525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Illuminations: Painting the Night with Light DESCRIPTION:When the sun leaves the sky\, Darlene Yeager-Torre gathers flashlights\, camera and tripod and ventures into the night to create luminous landscape photographs by using extremely long exposures (45 seconds to 1 hour). After a career of teaching art\, with degrees from Edgecliff College and Xavier University in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, she began exploring her own artistic vision. A presentation on night photography piqued her curiosity about that genre and sent her on the adventures that now fill her evenings. Despite the difficulty of long exposure photography\, the resulting\, glowing images fuel her creativity and rejuvenate her spirit. UID:17692-1203037@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17692 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T112716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Local Color: Pictorial Art Quilts DESCRIPTION:Sue Holdaway-Heys is an Ann Arbor artist known for her pictorial art quilts which often use imagery from nature and the environment. She has been a professional artist for over forty years and has an MFA in fibers from U-M. Holdaway-Heys combines texture and pattern with fabric paints to create her unique art quilts. Her focus has been commission and gallery work for the past 10 years. Mayo Clinic\, Chelsea Hospital\, St. Joseph Hospitals in Ypsilanti\, Oakland\, Brighton\, Henry Ford and others have Holdaway-Hey’s work in their collections. UID:17697-1203189@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17697 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140409T112500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sayles Pitch: John Sayles\, Author\, Auteur\, Independent DESCRIPTION:This student-researched exhibit features photographs\, storyboards\, scripts\, props\, and more from the archives of the American maverick filmmaker John Sayles\, director of such films as Lone Star\, Matewan\, and Brother from Another Planet.\n\n[Note that the Audubon portion of the exhibit closed June 29.) UID:17220-1203503@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,filmmaker,library,screen arts and cultures LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140729T120724 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GSI Teaching Orientation DESCRIPTION:The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) has designed the Graduate Student Instructor Teaching Orientation (GSITO) to help new GSIs prepare for their initial teaching experiences. It has also proven to be a valuable event for experienced GSIs and for graduate students who anticipate teaching in the future.\n\nThe event will be held on Monday\, August 25 from 1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. The event will continue on Tuesday\, August 26 from 8:30 a.m. --4:30 p.m. Breakfast and lunch will be provided on Tuesday.\n\nFor more information about the event\, including the agenda for the day\, and to register visit: http://crlt.umich.edu/gsis/gsio UID:17931-1205181@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17931 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate School,Multicultural,Rackham,Workshop LOCATION:Michigan League - Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T162926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Puzzle Me This: Early Binding Fragments and Other Evidence from the U-M Papyrology Collection DESCRIPTION:Binding fragments from the U-M Papyrology Collection—including leather covers\, papyrus cartonnage\, sewing evidence and thread—are puzzles\; few retain enough structural and decorative information to accurately date them and determine what they would have looked like when intact. View original fragments next to models constructed to illustrate the probable forms some of the fragments once took.\n\nAudubon Room hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 am-7 pm\, Sat 10 am-6 pm\, Sun 2-7 pm.\n\nBrendan Haug\, archivist of the U-M Papyrology Collection and assistant professor in the Department of Classical Studies\, will lead a discussion about The Book in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Evidence from the Papyri on September 10 at 4:00 p.m. in the Hatcher Gallery. UID:18420-1208677@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18420 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,History,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140714T113054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit DESCRIPTION:Featuring some of the earliest\, rarest\, most beautiful\, or most unusual Dutch and Flemish books and manuscripts held by the University of Michigan Library\, items on display come from a collection of materials from The Netherlands and Belgium that is among the strongest in the United States.\n\nOpen Monday through Friday\, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. UID:17503-1202289@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor, Special Collections CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130619T113607 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T130000 SUMMARY:Other:Eat Smarter: Fresh Produce Series DESCRIPTION:Fresh\, locally grown fruits\, vegetables and more\, now available here on campus! Visit us at the University Hospital's Courtyard every Tuesday. Eat smarter while supporting U-M's commitment to offering sustainable\, locally sourced foods. \n UID:13785-1202817@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/13785 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:fresh produce,fruits and vegetables,health and wellness,hospital,nutrition,produce cart LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Courtyard CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T122941 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Amie Siegel: Provenance DESCRIPTION:Amie Siegel’s Provenance traces in reverse the global trade in furniture from the Indian city of Chandigarh. Conceived in the 1950s by architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret\, Chandigarh’s controversial modernist architecture includes original pieces of furniture created specifically for the building’s interiors. Recently these pieces have appeared at auction houses around the world\, commanding record prices. Starting with Chandigarh furniture in the present\, the film begins in New York apartments\, London townhouses\, Belgian villas\, and Paris salons of avid collectors. From there\, it moves backward to the furniture’s sale at auction\, preview exhibitions\, and photography for auction catalogues\, to restoration\, cargo shipping containers\, and Indian ports—ending finally in Chandigarh\, a city in a state of entropy. \n\n On October 19\, 2013\, Siegel auctioned Provenance at Christie’s in London\, turning the film into another object at auction\, inseparable from the market it depicts. Lot 248\, a second film\, captures the auction of Provenance\, becoming a mirror of the first\, repeating and completing the circuit of design and art that define speculative markets.\n\nAmie Siegel was born in 1974 in Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally at MoMA/PS1\, Walker Art Center\, Hayward Gallery\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, KW Berlin\, ICA Boston\, and the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Screenings include Cannes Film Festival\, Berlin Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, The Museum of Modern Art\, The National Gallery of Art\, and the Harvard Film Archive\, among many other museums and cinematheques. She has been a fellow of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and The Film Study Center at Harvard University\, as well as a recipient of the ICA Bostonʼs Foster Prize and\, most recently\, a Sundance Institute Film Fund award for Provenance.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning\, and Institute for the Humanities. UID:18614-1211321@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18614 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123613 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait DESCRIPTION:Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical\, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.” Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists.\n\nWhen a photographer is faced with a subject who is so thoroughly invested in artistic representation\, how might this impact his or her own photographic aesthetic? In this suite of remarkable photographs\, we witness different manifestations of this phenomenon at work. For example\, we see results ranging from the surreal to the seemingly straightforward through encounters between Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman\; Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo\; and Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. In other cases the photographer intentionally frames the photographic subject alongside the artist’s own work of art so that they become compelling participants in their own painted or sculptural compositions.\n\nThis exhibition invites viewers to consider how the difficult task of representing another artist is productively accomplished through the collaborative aesthetic resonances discernable between model and photographer in these portraits. \n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Health System. UID:18620-1211567@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123835 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast DESCRIPTION:Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both traditional and new media\, acknowledging their long and diverse cultural legacies while overtly and simultaneously exploring\, and often confronting\, the many ongoing issues inherent to their cultural heritage.\n\nThis exhibition is the culmination of a decade-long investigation and exploration into fine art created by Indigenous artists from North America\, defined by their regional origins. This concluding exhibition of the three-part series presents new work by Native American\, First Nations\, Métis\, and Inuit artists and designers from the Northeastern and Southeastern regions of the United States and Canada. Curated by Ellen Taubman\, this Changing Hands presentation is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.\n\nChanging Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design\, New York\, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA’s installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs\, Native American Studies Program\, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund. UID:18621-1211716@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Museum,Native American,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham DESCRIPTION:Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented the work of David Osler (December 21\, 2013–March 30\, 2014) and Part 2\, the work of Robert Metcalf (April 5–July 13\, 2014). The series will culminate on October 5\, 2014 with a symposium that will explore the importance of this circle of Ann Arbor-based architects\, situating their regional body of domestic work into the larger context of modern architecture in the U.S. that developed on the East Coast and West Coast from the 1930s–1980s. Symposium participants include UMMA Director Joseph Rosa\, Head of the University Archives Program at the Bentley Historical Library Nancy Bartlett\, Bentley Associate Archivist and Head of Digital Curation Services Nancy Deromedi\, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty Claire Zimmerman\, Greg Saldaña\, Craig Borum\, and Robert Beckley.\n\nThis exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series\, which showcases the renowned and diverse collections of the University of Michigan. This series inaugurates UMMA’s collaboration with the Bentley Historical Library\, and is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lead support for Three Michigan Architects is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research. UID:18619-1211467@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140926T123027 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Workshop: The Art of the Resume DESCRIPTION:This is a closed session for current UROP Peer Mentors. The Career Center will train on how to conduct a meaningful resume critique using your own resume as a guide. UID:18485-1209586@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18485 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Undergraduate Science Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140926T183029 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Workshop: Introduction to the Career Center for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions DESCRIPTION:This is a closed event for staff members in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions\, UID:18488-1209589@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18488 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140806T115234 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T183000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Ice Cream Social DESCRIPTION:Join other new international students for a short walk to the Washtenaw Dairy for ice cream at the lowest prices in town! Wear comfortable shoes. (for international students only) UID:17948-1205344@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17948 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Social LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20150413T174201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140826T203000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Biological Software Weekly Meeting DESCRIPTION:If you're interested in participating in a competition\, learning computer programming\, and/or creating genetic research software tools\, come join us at our weekly meetings in the USB. UID:17439-1202127@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17439 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:competition,computer science,genetic research,igem,interdisciplinary,software LOCATION:Undergraduate Science Building - 4163 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T144217 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography DESCRIPTION:\n\nCrystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of Natural History\, books from the Library's collection\, and displays of the equipment used at the X-Ray Crystallography Lab.\n\nUNESCO chose 2014 as the International year of Crystallography because it commemorates two important anniversaries in the study of matter: the centennial of X-ray diffraction\, and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals. Both breakthroughs led to subsequent studies in the role of symmetry in matter and the nature of crystalline material. U-M continues this investigation today.\n UID:17714-1203556@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:library,museum of natural history LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Third Floor Hallway CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T112345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Annual Employee Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by U-M Health System faculty\, staff\, students\, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent\, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26\,000) UMHS community. There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show\, and a People's Choice award will be determined by votes of visitors to the exhibit by using the voting ballots and box provided on site. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony held on Tuesday\, Sept. 9 from 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the exhibit gallery. More info. UID:17696-1203140@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17696 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:20140709T113214 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ecosystem 1952-2014: Collage DESCRIPTION:Brenda Miller-Slomovits has been studying and working in the field of art and design for much of her adult life. She received a BFA in 1989 from Eastern Michigan University and has shown her work in the Chelsea River Gallery\, the Legacy Land Conservancy Exhibits\, Ann Arbor Women Artist's shows\, the JCC Amster Gallery\, and the Gifts of Art UMHS Employee Art Exhibition. The Ann Arbor Observer has published her art over a dozen times on its cover. Miller-Slomovits has worked full-time in the Mott Newborn Intensive Care since 2002\, where she develops support programs for parents and families. UID:17698-1203240@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17698 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T111718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Forest Patterns: Functional Porcelain DESCRIPTION:Using tones and leaf patterns of deep forests\, Tom Kendall studies deep northern woodlands with close-up still life compositions. It is as if the viewer has stopped by the trail and is quietly contemplating the patterns of light and color in the woods. The porcelains are functional\, making enjoying them even more rewarding. Kendall has a Master's degree in Fine Art from Illinois State University and was director of the Art School\, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for many years. His studio\, Oak Leaf Pottery\, is in the country near Plainwell\, Michigan. Kendall's work has been exhibited widely and is in collections in the US and abroad. UID:17693-1203088@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17693 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:20140709T114306 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gesture\, Line & Color: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:An art teacher in Ann Arbor Public Schools for over 30 years\, Debbie Thompson works predominantly in clay\, finding inspiration from the natural world. Thompson began her art education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, Michigan. She then earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan\, a Master's of Fine Arts from Eastern Michigan University and took post-graduate studio classes from the Chicago Art Institute\, Maryland Art Institute\, Rhode Island School of Design and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. She exhibits her work locally and nationally and is a member of the Clay Gallery and Potters Guild in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. UID:17699-1203290@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T133115 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Heart & Home: Primitive Painting DESCRIPTION:The art of Primitive Americana comes naturally to Sandra Somers who was born and raised in a small midwestern town \"full of large old houses\, horse barns and lush farmland within roller skating range.\" Her primitive art\, created using acrylics\, depicts an active\, bustling world with interesting architecture that time has somehow overlooked. Nationally recognized museums\, historic townships and individual collectors have commissioned her work\, including the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Somers is presently living and working in a 1860s farmhouse homestead with restored outbuildings\, including a chicken coop used as a showroom studio. UID:17700-1203340@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17700 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T105525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Illuminations: Painting the Night with Light DESCRIPTION:When the sun leaves the sky\, Darlene Yeager-Torre gathers flashlights\, camera and tripod and ventures into the night to create luminous landscape photographs by using extremely long exposures (45 seconds to 1 hour). After a career of teaching art\, with degrees from Edgecliff College and Xavier University in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, she began exploring her own artistic vision. A presentation on night photography piqued her curiosity about that genre and sent her on the adventures that now fill her evenings. Despite the difficulty of long exposure photography\, the resulting\, glowing images fuel her creativity and rejuvenate her spirit. UID:17692-1203038@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17692 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T112716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Local Color: Pictorial Art Quilts DESCRIPTION:Sue Holdaway-Heys is an Ann Arbor artist known for her pictorial art quilts which often use imagery from nature and the environment. She has been a professional artist for over forty years and has an MFA in fibers from U-M. Holdaway-Heys combines texture and pattern with fabric paints to create her unique art quilts. Her focus has been commission and gallery work for the past 10 years. Mayo Clinic\, Chelsea Hospital\, St. Joseph Hospitals in Ypsilanti\, Oakland\, Brighton\, Henry Ford and others have Holdaway-Hey’s work in their collections. UID:17697-1203190@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17697 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140409T112500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sayles Pitch: John Sayles\, Author\, Auteur\, Independent DESCRIPTION:This student-researched exhibit features photographs\, storyboards\, scripts\, props\, and more from the archives of the American maverick filmmaker John Sayles\, director of such films as Lone Star\, Matewan\, and Brother from Another Planet.\n\n[Note that the Audubon portion of the exhibit closed June 29.) UID:17220-1203504@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,filmmaker,library,screen arts and cultures LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140807T091832 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:New Faculty Orientation Aug. 27 DESCRIPTION:The Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching present a New Faculty Orientation from 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Aug. 27 in the Michigan League. The program will include remarks by President Mark Schlissel. There will be information about support for faculty research and teaching\, and interactive sessions in which faculty can share experiences and strategize about good teaching. At an Information Fair\, representatives from key university offices provide materials and answer questions. For more information\, contact Carolyn Parker at cwparker@umich.edu\, call 734-763-0159\, or go to www.crlt.umich.edu/programs/teaching-orientations. UID:18025-1206031@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18025 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T162926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Puzzle Me This: Early Binding Fragments and Other Evidence from the U-M Papyrology Collection DESCRIPTION:Binding fragments from the U-M Papyrology Collection—including leather covers\, papyrus cartonnage\, sewing evidence and thread—are puzzles\; few retain enough structural and decorative information to accurately date them and determine what they would have looked like when intact. View original fragments next to models constructed to illustrate the probable forms some of the fragments once took.\n\nAudubon Room hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 am-7 pm\, Sat 10 am-6 pm\, Sun 2-7 pm.\n\nBrendan Haug\, archivist of the U-M Papyrology Collection and assistant professor in the Department of Classical Studies\, will lead a discussion about The Book in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Evidence from the Papyri on September 10 at 4:00 p.m. in the Hatcher Gallery. UID:18420-1208678@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18420 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,History,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140714T113054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit DESCRIPTION:Featuring some of the earliest\, rarest\, most beautiful\, or most unusual Dutch and Flemish books and manuscripts held by the University of Michigan Library\, items on display come from a collection of materials from The Netherlands and Belgium that is among the strongest in the United States.\n\nOpen Monday through Friday\, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. UID:17503-1202290@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor, Special Collections CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T122941 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Amie Siegel: Provenance DESCRIPTION:Amie Siegel’s Provenance traces in reverse the global trade in furniture from the Indian city of Chandigarh. Conceived in the 1950s by architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret\, Chandigarh’s controversial modernist architecture includes original pieces of furniture created specifically for the building’s interiors. Recently these pieces have appeared at auction houses around the world\, commanding record prices. Starting with Chandigarh furniture in the present\, the film begins in New York apartments\, London townhouses\, Belgian villas\, and Paris salons of avid collectors. From there\, it moves backward to the furniture’s sale at auction\, preview exhibitions\, and photography for auction catalogues\, to restoration\, cargo shipping containers\, and Indian ports—ending finally in Chandigarh\, a city in a state of entropy. \n\n On October 19\, 2013\, Siegel auctioned Provenance at Christie’s in London\, turning the film into another object at auction\, inseparable from the market it depicts. Lot 248\, a second film\, captures the auction of Provenance\, becoming a mirror of the first\, repeating and completing the circuit of design and art that define speculative markets.\n\nAmie Siegel was born in 1974 in Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally at MoMA/PS1\, Walker Art Center\, Hayward Gallery\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, KW Berlin\, ICA Boston\, and the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Screenings include Cannes Film Festival\, Berlin Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, The Museum of Modern Art\, The National Gallery of Art\, and the Harvard Film Archive\, among many other museums and cinematheques. She has been a fellow of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and The Film Study Center at Harvard University\, as well as a recipient of the ICA Bostonʼs Foster Prize and\, most recently\, a Sundance Institute Film Fund award for Provenance.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning\, and Institute for the Humanities. UID:18614-1211322@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18614 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123613 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait DESCRIPTION:Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical\, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.” Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists.\n\nWhen a photographer is faced with a subject who is so thoroughly invested in artistic representation\, how might this impact his or her own photographic aesthetic? In this suite of remarkable photographs\, we witness different manifestations of this phenomenon at work. For example\, we see results ranging from the surreal to the seemingly straightforward through encounters between Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman\; Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo\; and Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. In other cases the photographer intentionally frames the photographic subject alongside the artist’s own work of art so that they become compelling participants in their own painted or sculptural compositions.\n\nThis exhibition invites viewers to consider how the difficult task of representing another artist is productively accomplished through the collaborative aesthetic resonances discernable between model and photographer in these portraits. \n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Health System. UID:18620-1211568@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123835 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast DESCRIPTION:Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both traditional and new media\, acknowledging their long and diverse cultural legacies while overtly and simultaneously exploring\, and often confronting\, the many ongoing issues inherent to their cultural heritage.\n\nThis exhibition is the culmination of a decade-long investigation and exploration into fine art created by Indigenous artists from North America\, defined by their regional origins. This concluding exhibition of the three-part series presents new work by Native American\, First Nations\, Métis\, and Inuit artists and designers from the Northeastern and Southeastern regions of the United States and Canada. Curated by Ellen Taubman\, this Changing Hands presentation is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.\n\nChanging Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design\, New York\, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA’s installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs\, Native American Studies Program\, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund. UID:18621-1211717@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Museum,Native American,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham DESCRIPTION:Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented the work of David Osler (December 21\, 2013–March 30\, 2014) and Part 2\, the work of Robert Metcalf (April 5–July 13\, 2014). The series will culminate on October 5\, 2014 with a symposium that will explore the importance of this circle of Ann Arbor-based architects\, situating their regional body of domestic work into the larger context of modern architecture in the U.S. that developed on the East Coast and West Coast from the 1930s–1980s. Symposium participants include UMMA Director Joseph Rosa\, Head of the University Archives Program at the Bentley Historical Library Nancy Bartlett\, Bentley Associate Archivist and Head of Digital Curation Services Nancy Deromedi\, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty Claire Zimmerman\, Greg Saldaña\, Craig Borum\, and Robert Beckley.\n\nThis exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series\, which showcases the renowned and diverse collections of the University of Michigan. This series inaugurates UMMA’s collaboration with the Bentley Historical Library\, and is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lead support for Three Michigan Architects is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research. UID:18619-1211468@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140806T114808 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T180000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:North Campus Tour DESCRIPTION:The 800 acres of rolling hills and mature trees which we know as North Campus today were cleared by pioneers in 1860 and farmed until the U-M bought North Campus in 1952. We will visit some of the key buildings and landmarks to help you familiarize with North Campus. (for international students only) UID:17951-1205349@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17951 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social,WelcometoMichigan LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140416T103802 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140827T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Liz Story DESCRIPTION:A native of California\, Liz Story began her musical training as a young child\, mastering Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 11 by the age of 11. When her family moved to Germany during her teens\, she added languages\, philosophy\, and poetry to her studies. On her return to the United States\, Liz continued her formal piano studies at the Juilliard School of Music and also enrolled at Hunter College. After hearing the jazz pianist Bill Evans one night at the Bottom Line in New York City\, she decided to learn jazz piano–and after moving back to Southern California and taking a job playing piano in a restaurant\, she was suddenly thrust into improvisations when she discovered that the piano she was to perform on had no stand for her sheet music. Over several months\, these improvisations developed into compositions. When Will Ackerman\, founder of the influential Windham Hill label\, heard a tape of those\, he signed her to record her 1983 debut album “Solid Colors.\" Liz has since released a dozen albums that havehighlighted her classical piano background\, fused with a wide range of styles embracing jazz\, folk\, pop\, and impressionistic music. An evening with Liz Story is meditative\, spiritual\, even profound\, and we're excited to welcome her back to The Ark for the first time in many years. UID:17318-1200772@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17318 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:liz story,music,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T144217 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The International Year of Crystallography DESCRIPTION:\n\nCrystallography is the branch of science concerned with the structure and properties of crystals. Come and see crystals from the Museum of Natural History\, books from the Library's collection\, and displays of the equipment used at the X-Ray Crystallography Lab.\n\nUNESCO chose 2014 as the International year of Crystallography because it commemorates two important anniversaries in the study of matter: the centennial of X-ray diffraction\, and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals. Both breakthroughs led to subsequent studies in the role of symmetry in matter and the nature of crystalline material. U-M continues this investigation today.\n UID:17714-1203557@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17714 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:library,museum of natural history LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Third Floor Hallway CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T112345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Annual Employee Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by U-M Health System faculty\, staff\, students\, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent\, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26\,000) UMHS community. There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show\, and a People's Choice award will be determined by votes of visitors to the exhibit by using the voting ballots and box provided on site. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony held on Tuesday\, Sept. 9 from 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the exhibit gallery. More info. UID:17696-1203141@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17696 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:20140709T113214 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ecosystem 1952-2014: Collage DESCRIPTION:Brenda Miller-Slomovits has been studying and working in the field of art and design for much of her adult life. She received a BFA in 1989 from Eastern Michigan University and has shown her work in the Chelsea River Gallery\, the Legacy Land Conservancy Exhibits\, Ann Arbor Women Artist's shows\, the JCC Amster Gallery\, and the Gifts of Art UMHS Employee Art Exhibition. The Ann Arbor Observer has published her art over a dozen times on its cover. Miller-Slomovits has worked full-time in the Mott Newborn Intensive Care since 2002\, where she develops support programs for parents and families. UID:17698-1203241@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17698 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T111718 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Forest Patterns: Functional Porcelain DESCRIPTION:Using tones and leaf patterns of deep forests\, Tom Kendall studies deep northern woodlands with close-up still life compositions. It is as if the viewer has stopped by the trail and is quietly contemplating the patterns of light and color in the woods. The porcelains are functional\, making enjoying them even more rewarding. Kendall has a Master's degree in Fine Art from Illinois State University and was director of the Art School\, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for many years. His studio\, Oak Leaf Pottery\, is in the country near Plainwell\, Michigan. Kendall's work has been exhibited widely and is in collections in the US and abroad. UID:17693-1203089@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17693 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:20140709T114306 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gesture\, Line & Color: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:An art teacher in Ann Arbor Public Schools for over 30 years\, Debbie Thompson works predominantly in clay\, finding inspiration from the natural world. Thompson began her art education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, Michigan. She then earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan\, a Master's of Fine Arts from Eastern Michigan University and took post-graduate studio classes from the Chicago Art Institute\, Maryland Art Institute\, Rhode Island School of Design and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. She exhibits her work locally and nationally and is a member of the Clay Gallery and Potters Guild in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. UID:17699-1203291@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T133115 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Heart & Home: Primitive Painting DESCRIPTION:The art of Primitive Americana comes naturally to Sandra Somers who was born and raised in a small midwestern town \"full of large old houses\, horse barns and lush farmland within roller skating range.\" Her primitive art\, created using acrylics\, depicts an active\, bustling world with interesting architecture that time has somehow overlooked. Nationally recognized museums\, historic townships and individual collectors have commissioned her work\, including the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Somers is presently living and working in a 1860s farmhouse homestead with restored outbuildings\, including a chicken coop used as a showroom studio. UID:17700-1203341@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17700 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T105525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Illuminations: Painting the Night with Light DESCRIPTION:When the sun leaves the sky\, Darlene Yeager-Torre gathers flashlights\, camera and tripod and ventures into the night to create luminous landscape photographs by using extremely long exposures (45 seconds to 1 hour). After a career of teaching art\, with degrees from Edgecliff College and Xavier University in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, she began exploring her own artistic vision. A presentation on night photography piqued her curiosity about that genre and sent her on the adventures that now fill her evenings. Despite the difficulty of long exposure photography\, the resulting\, glowing images fuel her creativity and rejuvenate her spirit. UID:17692-1203039@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17692 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140709T112716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Local Color: Pictorial Art Quilts DESCRIPTION:Sue Holdaway-Heys is an Ann Arbor artist known for her pictorial art quilts which often use imagery from nature and the environment. She has been a professional artist for over forty years and has an MFA in fibers from U-M. Holdaway-Heys combines texture and pattern with fabric paints to create her unique art quilts. Her focus has been commission and gallery work for the past 10 years. Mayo Clinic\, Chelsea Hospital\, St. Joseph Hospitals in Ypsilanti\, Oakland\, Brighton\, Henry Ford and others have Holdaway-Hey’s work in their collections. UID:17697-1203191@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17697 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140409T112500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T233000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sayles Pitch: John Sayles\, Author\, Auteur\, Independent DESCRIPTION:This student-researched exhibit features photographs\, storyboards\, scripts\, props\, and more from the archives of the American maverick filmmaker John Sayles\, director of such films as Lone Star\, Matewan\, and Brother from Another Planet.\n\n[Note that the Audubon portion of the exhibit closed June 29.) UID:17220-1203505@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17220 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,filmmaker,library,screen arts and cultures LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140822T162926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Puzzle Me This: Early Binding Fragments and Other Evidence from the U-M Papyrology Collection DESCRIPTION:Binding fragments from the U-M Papyrology Collection—including leather covers\, papyrus cartonnage\, sewing evidence and thread—are puzzles\; few retain enough structural and decorative information to accurately date them and determine what they would have looked like when intact. View original fragments next to models constructed to illustrate the probable forms some of the fragments once took.\n\nAudubon Room hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 am-7 pm\, Sat 10 am-6 pm\, Sun 2-7 pm.\n\nBrendan Haug\, archivist of the U-M Papyrology Collection and assistant professor in the Department of Classical Studies\, will lead a discussion about The Book in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Evidence from the Papyri on September 10 at 4:00 p.m. in the Hatcher Gallery. UID:18420-1208679@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18420 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,History,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140819T153932 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Drawing and Printmaking Student Work - Larry Cressman DESCRIPTION:Student work hosted by RC Professor Emeritus Larry Cressman UID:18341-1207765@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18341 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Visual Arts LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Residential College Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140828T101733 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T110000 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan Union Poster Sale DESCRIPTION:THE BIGGEST POSTER SALE\nBiggest and Best Selection. Choose from over 2000 different images. FINE \nART\, MUSIC\, MOVIES\, MODELS\, HUMOR\, ANIMALS\, PERSONALITIES\, \nLANDSCAPES\, MOTIVATIONALS\, PHOTOGRAPHY.\n MOST IMAGES ONLY $7\, $8\, AND $9.\nSEE US at Michigan Union Ground Floor ON Sunday Aug. 31st\n2014. THE HOURS ARE 10AM-7PM. THIS SALE IS SPONSORED BY Center for UID:18540-1210062@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18540 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:WelcometoMichigan LOCATION:1027 E. Huron Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140714T113054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Netherlandic Treasures Exhibit DESCRIPTION:Featuring some of the earliest\, rarest\, most beautiful\, or most unusual Dutch and Flemish books and manuscripts held by the University of Michigan Library\, items on display come from a collection of materials from The Netherlands and Belgium that is among the strongest in the United States.\n\nOpen Monday through Friday\, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. UID:17503-1202291@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17503 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:exhibit,library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor, Special Collections CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130619T121111 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T130000 SUMMARY:Other:Eat Smarter: Fresh Produce Series DESCRIPTION:Fresh\, locally grown fruits\, vegetables and more\, now available here on campus! Visit us at the North Campus Research Complex (NCRC). Eat smarter while supporting U-M's commitment to offering sustainable\, locally sourced foods.\n UID:13787-1202831@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/13787 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:employees,faculty and staff,fruits and vegetables,health and wellness,mhealthy,north campus research complex LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex - Building 18, ground level next to the Flavors Cafe CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T122941 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Amie Siegel: Provenance DESCRIPTION:Amie Siegel’s Provenance traces in reverse the global trade in furniture from the Indian city of Chandigarh. Conceived in the 1950s by architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret\, Chandigarh’s controversial modernist architecture includes original pieces of furniture created specifically for the building’s interiors. Recently these pieces have appeared at auction houses around the world\, commanding record prices. Starting with Chandigarh furniture in the present\, the film begins in New York apartments\, London townhouses\, Belgian villas\, and Paris salons of avid collectors. From there\, it moves backward to the furniture’s sale at auction\, preview exhibitions\, and photography for auction catalogues\, to restoration\, cargo shipping containers\, and Indian ports—ending finally in Chandigarh\, a city in a state of entropy. \n\n On October 19\, 2013\, Siegel auctioned Provenance at Christie’s in London\, turning the film into another object at auction\, inseparable from the market it depicts. Lot 248\, a second film\, captures the auction of Provenance\, becoming a mirror of the first\, repeating and completing the circuit of design and art that define speculative markets.\n\nAmie Siegel was born in 1974 in Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally at MoMA/PS1\, Walker Art Center\, Hayward Gallery\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, KW Berlin\, ICA Boston\, and the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Screenings include Cannes Film Festival\, Berlin Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, The Museum of Modern Art\, The National Gallery of Art\, and the Harvard Film Archive\, among many other museums and cinematheques. She has been a fellow of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and The Film Study Center at Harvard University\, as well as a recipient of the ICA Bostonʼs Foster Prize and\, most recently\, a Sundance Institute Film Fund award for Provenance.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning\, and Institute for the Humanities. UID:18614-1211323@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18614 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123613 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Artistic Impositions in the Photographic Portrait DESCRIPTION:Susan Sontag claimed that photographs “owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical\, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject.” Any photographic portrait marks an encounter between the person executing the image and the person posing for it. The sixteen photographs included in this exhibition speak to an especially charged collaboration between photographer and model in that they are all portraits of artists.\n\nWhen a photographer is faced with a subject who is so thoroughly invested in artistic representation\, how might this impact his or her own photographic aesthetic? In this suite of remarkable photographs\, we witness different manifestations of this phenomenon at work. For example\, we see results ranging from the surreal to the seemingly straightforward through encounters between Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman\; Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo\; and Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. In other cases the photographer intentionally frames the photographic subject alongside the artist’s own work of art so that they become compelling participants in their own painted or sculptural compositions.\n\nThis exhibition invites viewers to consider how the difficult task of representing another artist is productively accomplished through the collaborative aesthetic resonances discernable between model and photographer in these portraits. \n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Health System. UID:18620-1211569@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18620 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123835 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast DESCRIPTION:Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 explores the work of contemporary artists of Native North American origin working in both traditional and new media\, acknowledging their long and diverse cultural legacies while overtly and simultaneously exploring\, and often confronting\, the many ongoing issues inherent to their cultural heritage.\n\nThis exhibition is the culmination of a decade-long investigation and exploration into fine art created by Indigenous artists from North America\, defined by their regional origins. This concluding exhibition of the three-part series presents new work by Native American\, First Nations\, Métis\, and Inuit artists and designers from the Northeastern and Southeastern regions of the United States and Canada. Curated by Ellen Taubman\, this Changing Hands presentation is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.\n\nChanging Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design\, New York\, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition catalogue is made possible in part with the support of the Smithsonian Institution’s Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program. Lead support for UMMA’s installation is provided by the University of Michigan Health System\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs\, Native American Studies Program\, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund. UID:18621-1211718@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18621 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Museum,Native American,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140902T123358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition: Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham DESCRIPTION:Three Michigan Architects: Part 3—George Brigham is the last in a series of three consecutive exhibitions. Part 1 of the series presented the work of David Osler (December 21\, 2013–March 30\, 2014) and Part 2\, the work of Robert Metcalf (April 5–July 13\, 2014). The series will culminate on October 5\, 2014 with a symposium that will explore the importance of this circle of Ann Arbor-based architects\, situating their regional body of domestic work into the larger context of modern architecture in the U.S. that developed on the East Coast and West Coast from the 1930s–1980s. Symposium participants include UMMA Director Joseph Rosa\, Head of the University Archives Program at the Bentley Historical Library Nancy Bartlett\, Bentley Associate Archivist and Head of Digital Curation Services Nancy Deromedi\, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty Claire Zimmerman\, Greg Saldaña\, Craig Borum\, and Robert Beckley.\n\nThis exhibition is part of the U-M Collections Collaborations series\, which showcases the renowned and diverse collections of the University of Michigan. This series inaugurates UMMA’s collaboration with the Bentley Historical Library\, and is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lead support for Three Michigan Architects is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research. UID:18619-1211469@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18619 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140703T155346 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:IVCF - North Campus BBQ DESCRIPTION:Join InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for an evening of free hamburgers\, veggie Burgers and hot dogs as we meet people and hang out on the North Campus Diag before classes begin! Stop by for a time of food\, fun and friends!\n\nThere will also be information about the variety of ministries and activities that the InterVarsity community participates in\, including but not limited to Weekly Large Groups\, Small Group Bible Studies\, and IM sports! Come learn how you can get involved! UID:17646-1202962@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17646 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:welcome to michigan,welcome week LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower - North Campus Diag CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140408T121903 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Beoga DESCRIPTION:The bedrock of Beoga’s music lies firmly within the Irish tradition\, but they are not afraid to incorporate other genres’ nuances into their music. This five-piece ensemble comes from County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Moving from bluesy riffs to tango-inflected jazz\, to a raunchy New Orleans jamboree vibe\, their music always returns to a wonderfully bouncy traditional sound. They themselves call their music \"trad on anabolic steroids.\" With a repertoire of fresh self-penned tunes and inventive arrangements\, Beoga's album \"A Lovely Madness\" earned a 9/10 rating from Ireland’s Hot Press magazine\, and all their albums have landed on numerous ten-best lists in both Ireland and North America. Says the Irish Echo: \"It is Beoga who may be Ireland’s closest answer to The Band in combined virtuosity\, risk-taking\, and omnivorous musical palate.\" UID:17203-1200539@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17203 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:beoga,music,the ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140803T221144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T200000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Movie Night DESCRIPTION:Looking to meet new people and relax on Thursday night before classes begin? Kick back and enjoy a free movie as we watch the Lego Movie at the Transformation Center (near Rackham Auditorium). Free snacks and fun activities will follow! \n\nThis event is hosted by Access\, a student organization from Harvest Mission Community Church (www.hmcc.net)and is open to all students. UID:9177-1202963@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9177 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:church,film,free,free food,games,movies,welcome to michigan,welcome week,WelcometoMichigan LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 1001 E. Huron St (Intersection of E. Huron and Fletcher, between Rackham Auditorium and the Power Center) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140828T180009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T213000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Movie Night DESCRIPTION:Looking to meet new people and relax on Thursay night before classes begin? Kick back and enjoy a free movie as we watch the Lego Movie at the Transformation Center (near Rackham Auditorium). Free snacks and fun activities will follow! UID:18225-1206432@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18225 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Transformation Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140828T180038 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T220000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Party at the Rock DESCRIPTION:Meet people from your area of campus at a substance-free lawn party sponsored by New Life Students. Free food\, fun games\, and an overall fantastic time. Join us on the lawn of New Life Church (1541 Washtenaw Ave) across from The Rock. Thursday\, August 28th at 8pm. UID:17737-1203647@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/17737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:New Life Church CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140821T122231 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20140828T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20140829T000000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Late Night with Rec Sports DESCRIPTION:Kick-off the academic year with a fun-filled interactive night with Rec Sports at the CCRB. Spread the word\, tell your friends\, do what you must\, you don't want to miss this event! Try a Group-X sample class\, play racquetball or table tennis\, workout on our extensive selection of cardio or weigh equipment\, work the heavy or speed bag\, or just hang out. And much much more...Including the movie Divergent in the CCRB Gym thanks to our sponsor\, Meijer!\n\nThis event is FREE and open to all UM Students and Rec Sports members. Athletic shoes and proper attire required to participate in some events. UID:18376-1208199@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/18376 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Free,Rec Sports LOCATION:Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool) CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR