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DTSTAMP:20150605T120008
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T235959
SUMMARY:Sporting Event:ICSA Nationals
DESCRIPTION:Team Race and Coed Nationals
UID:22833-1417585@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22833
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Newport, RI
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T124407
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Along the Way: Collage on Canvas
DESCRIPTION:Iowa City artist Sara Slee Brown focuses on using images of natural beauty and man-made buildings to create imaginary scenarios that give rise to possibilities outside of everyday experience. Using the computer as her medium\, she digitally combines photographic images and original artwork. She then makes digital prints and layers them onto canvas with acrylic varnish. The resulting surface is more paint than print\, revealing the artist’s hand upon the work. Brown holds a BFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and an MFA in Painting from the University of Iowa School of Art.
UID:22420-1396447@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22420
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T125645
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Big Painted Stuff: Mixed Media
DESCRIPTION:Karl Laub’s paintings are a mixture of acrylics\, watercolors\, pastels\, molding paste and whatever else he can find to include in his artwork. He has enjoyed working on these larger pieces that have let him experiment with a wider range of colors and techniques and allowed him more room to make a mess. Laub is the Community Development Director for the City of River Rouge and resides in Gibraltar\, Michigan.
UID:22424-1396671@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22424
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T125010
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Chasing Fotos – Critters
DESCRIPTION:Lynette Curtiss is an award winning Michigan based artist who has always had a passion for photography. She has used this passion to capture the beauty of many forms of life\, including people\, places\, wildlife and nature. Curtiss holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Lawrence Technological University and a photography certificate from the College of Creative Studies. She continues to expand her knowledge of photography by taking workshops\, leading photography group meet-ups with Ann Arbor Shutterbugs and collaborating with other groups. She is also the volunteer yearbook editor for Parkview Elementary in Novi.
UID:22421-1396503@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22421
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T124008
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Evolution of Rock Getting Wheels
DESCRIPTION:Ann Arbor artist Middy Potter has creativity at the center of his life. When composing a sculpture\, he adds a dash of humor\, a bit of whimsy\, and a pinch of wonderment. Self-taught as an artist\, Potter realizes the connection between science and art. His formal training includes a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering\, a form of art in itself. Texture\, color\, technical challenges and different materials are part of his creations. Materials for Potter's sculptures include wood\, cloth\, 3-D glass mosaic\, stone\, metal\, cast stone and found objects.
UID:22419-1396390@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22419
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T130321
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Pearls\, Chains & Silhouettes: Handmade\, Industrial & Digital Jewelry
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on common jewelry motifs and iconic imagery\, Ashley Buchanan individually hand-cuts silhouettes from sheet metal using a traditional jeweler’s saw. She then applies color using an industrial process called powder coating. In select pieces\, Buchanan incorporates digitally scanned photographs made into buttons that she prong sets onto pieces in the form of gemstones. By combining the handmade with the industrial and the digital\, Buchanan pushes the boundaries of jewelry\, producing pieces with a fresh voice that speaks to the past\, present and future of craft while maintaining the seductive quality of jewelry.
UID:22427-1396783@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22427
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T130003
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Proof: Encaustic on Wood
DESCRIPTION:As she paints and constructs\, Graceann Warn’s paintings and assemblages use the metaphor of excavation. Her formal education in landscape architecture and classical archaeology assist her as she attempts to unearth an object or solve a mystery. A full time artist since 1985\, Warn now works primarily on wood panels with oils and encaustic\, and much of her work is concerned with the science and mystery of uncovering and covering. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the collections of Yale University\, Museum of Art and Design\, New York\, NY\,  US Embassies in Nairobi and Sarajevo\, Pew Charitable Trusts and many others.
UID:22426-1396727@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22426
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T131356
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Seeing Music: Acrylic & Watercolor
DESCRIPTION:Deborah L. Hoover hopes to achieve what the Swiss artist Paul Klee described as\, “making the invisible visible.” The music the musicians create in her paintings is full of life. Can you hear it? Using vibrant colors in acrylic or watercolor\, Hoover’s paintings inspire a multisensory response. She graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design and currently works in graphic arts and painting.
UID:22428-1396839@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22428
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150310T132434
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Dinnerware Museum: A Place at the Table
DESCRIPTION:The Dinnerware Museum\, a new museum in Ann Arbor established in 2012\, features a collection of thousands of pieces of functional dinnerware from all over the world along with fine art referencing dinnerware created from ceramic\, metal\, glass\, paper\, plastic and more. This exhibition highlights portions of eight memorable place settings of American tableware dating from the 1930s to the present\, including sets designed by the leading 20th century designers Eva Zeisel\, Russel Wright\, Glidden Parker\, and Don Schreckengost as well as new dinnerware by contemporary artist Julia Galloway in 2014.
UID:21151-1335861@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21151
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T122533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Transitions: Watercolor on Paper
DESCRIPTION:The current work of Ann Arbor based artist Maria Ruggiero focuses on the large and small events in daily life through the genre of still life. She creates complex compositions of objects and other elements that reflect aspects of her experiences\, with an emphasis on those that relate to the development of her young son. Pattern\, decoration\, and the juxtaposition of objects with flat images are consistent elements in Ruggiero's paintings\, as is her interest in light quality and color. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from Michigan State University\, an MFA in Painting from Kent State University in Ohio\, and she is Professor of Art at Eastern Michigan University.
UID:22415-1396334@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22415
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141218T105602
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Re-Imaging Gender - A Juried Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Our understandings of gender have shifted dramatically in recent decades. No longer is gender a matter of an immutable binary\, or a set of predetermined preferences and predilections. This exhibition--the first of its kind--both celebrates and interrogates the visual aspects of the re- imaging of gender.\n\nRe-imaging Gender features the work of 15 promising artists who take on one of the most important challenges facing contemporary art: how to render the modern spectrum of gender\, going beyond the simple male/female binary to include a wide variety of identities and sexualities.\n\nThe Re-imaging artists\, MFA students enrolled at Michigan and CIC universities (Big 10\, plus Chicago)\, responded to an IRWG-issued Call for Art. The result is an exhibition of 17 works in a variety of media\, including photography\, paint\, lithograph\, mixed media\, and video\, which reflect new understandings of gender.\n\nThe exhibit will be displayed at the Lane Hall Gallery\, a space shared by IRWG and the U-M Department of Women’s Studies\, from January 15 - June 26\, 2015.
UID:20407-1287715@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20407
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,LGBT,Literary Arts,Visual Arts,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Lane Hall - Gallery space on first floor
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DTSTAMP:20150512T100037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T235900
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Textile Trade Ascendancies
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features cloth samples\, photographs\, and maps\, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from 16th century trading with Portugal to the present\, when the Nigerian textile trade is dominated by imports from China. Curated by Elisha P. Renne\, U-M professor in Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies.
UID:22816-1412262@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22816
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150505T101537
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T164500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Drawdown Vietnam\, April – May 1975
DESCRIPTION:America’s long involvement in the war in Vietnam and Indochina drew to a close in April - May 1975. As the city of Saigon fell to the advancing North Vietnamese Army\, the United States military evacuated thousands of South Vietnamese civilians to ships nearby.\n\nIn the midst of the chaos\, two smaller rescues took place – Operation Babylift\, in which more than three thousand children and babies were airlifted to safety\, and the rescue of the S.S. Mayaguez\, whose ship and crew were captured by forces of the new Cambodian Khmer Rouge government less than two weeks following the fall of Saigon.\n\nThe unfolding of these events are chronicled in two lobby displays at the Gerald Ford Presidential Library – complete with artifacts\, photographs\, documents and personal stories of those involved.\n\nThe exhibit is free to Library visitors\, and will be on display through September\, 2015. \n\nPlease note that the Library is NOT open on weekends or Federal holidays. Library hours are Monday – Friday  8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
UID:22785-1411383@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22785
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Cambodia,Indochina,Operation Babylift,Saigon,Vietnam
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150415T110809
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:A Thing of the Past
DESCRIPTION:A two-day interdisciplinary workshop. Free and open to the public\, but please register by May 1 with frenchk@umich.edu.\n\nParticipants include:\n◦Jane Burns––University of North Carolina (Women and Gender Studies\, French Literature)\n◦Carol Davidson Cragoe––Heritage Consultant\, MontaguEvans LLP\, UK (Architectural History\n◦Sharon DeWitt––University of South Carolina (Physical Anthropology\, Biology)\n◦Martin Findell––University of Leicester\, UK (Linguistics)\n◦Keith Fitzpatrick–Matthew––Archaeology Officer\, Herefordshire\, UK (Field Archaeologist)\n◦Robin Fleming––Boston College (History\, Material Culture Studies)\n◦Katherine L. French––University of Michigan (History)\n◦Anne Grauer––Loyola University\, Chicago (Bioarchaeology\, Anthropology)\n◦Nancy Khalek––Brown University (Early Islam\, Religious Studies)\n◦Lilla Kopár––The Catholic University of America (Medieval Literature\, Art History)\n◦Maryanne Kowaleski––Fordham University (History)\n◦Chris Lewis––Research Associate\, King’s College London\, UK (Medieval and Local History)\n◦Aleksandra McClain–– University of York\, UK (Building Archaeology)\n◦Austin Mason––Carleton College (Early Medieval History\, Digital Humanities)\n◦Andrew Miller––DePaul University (History and Gender Studies) \n◦Elizabeth Pastan––Emory University (Art History)\n◦Larry Poos––The Catholic University of America (History\, Demography)\n◦Giorgio Riello––University of Warwick\, UK (Economic History\, Material Culture Studies)\n◦Martha Rust––New York University (English Literature)\n◦Kathryn Smith––New York University (Art History)\n◦Sarah Stanbury–– College of the Holy Cross (English Literature)\n◦Carolyn Twomey––Boston College (History and Religion)\n◦Stephen White––Emory University (History)\n◦Tom Williamson––University of East Anglois\, UK (Landscape Archaeology)
UID:22599-1404652@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22599
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Architecture,European,History,Literature,Museum,Research,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150408T094612
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ramiro Gomez: Cut-Outs
DESCRIPTION:Artist Ramiro Gomez’s life-sized cardboard cutouts\, paintings\, and constructions bring attention to those who toil behind the familiar scenes of luxury and affluence in America.\n\nLA based\, he often focuses on the Hispanic work force in Beverly Hills—the nannies\, and gardeners\, housekeepers\, and pool cleaners.\n\nIn 2014\, he spent several weeks as an artist in residence with the U-M Institute for the Humanities\, mounting his works across the Diag\, changing our everyday landscape on campus. One installation depicted migrant workers in the field\, incorporating cardboard vegetable boxes foraged from the dumpsters behind dorm cafeterias. Another illustrated a groundskeeper tending to fall leaves.\n\nFor his current exhibition\, Gomez will create a room-sized installation of his cutouts in the Institute for the Humanities gallery.\n\nAlthough his works contemplate issues of race and cultural identity\, they more philosophically explore delineations and disconnects between people\, the have and have-nots\, the visible and invisible. His articulated figures are performative\, capturing the rhythm and gesture of the service industry\, their endless repetitions that keep things running. Almost naïve in materiality and process\, his constructions are measured and deliberate actions of inclusion.\n\nSeeing a Gomez figure propped on a manicured lawn—or in a Hockney painting\, or pasted in a luxury goods magazine ad—permanently changes the picture\, and our narratives about wealth and prosperity in our society.\n-Amanda Krugliak\, Institute for the Humanities curator
UID:22529-1402009@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22529
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Multicultural,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities, Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150520T114113
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Rocks\, Paper\, Memory: Wendy Artin’s Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures
DESCRIPTION:An American artist who lives in Rome\, Wendy Artin has been working for over a decade on a series of watercolor paintings of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures and related subjects. This exhibition will feature a selection of her paintings\, not only images of ancient sculptures and landscapes but also contemporary life studies. The paintings will be set in dialogue with objects drawn from the Kelsey's collections\, including works of Greek art inspired by Egyptian precedents and examples of the same figure types seen in Artin's work (such as Aphrodite rising from the sea).\n\nWendy Artin is one of a long line of artists who draw inspiration from antiquity. Indeed\, this tradition has very ancient precedents\, such as the Roman practice of making marble “copies” of famous Greek bronze statues. Artin’s visually stunning paintings offer fresh and arresting ways of looking at ancient sculptures and buildings.
UID:22876-1414346@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22876
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - Upjohn Wing: Meader Special Exhibition Gallery, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150313T140540
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Shape of the Universe
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe\, from Einstein's discovery of space-time\, through the development of theories explaining the Big Bang and cosmic expansion\, up to cutting-edge research on gravity waves being conducted by U-M mathematician Lydia Bieri. This exhibit will include interactives\, video\, beautiful NASA photographs\, and artwork by local high school students.
UID:21954-1372967@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21954
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Exhibition,Science
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150217T130333
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Working With Difficult People and Personalities
DESCRIPTION:Overcoming the stress experienced when interacting with “difficult” people is a challenge. By focusing on personalities and behavioral styles\, this course outlines a positive approach to working around these personality conflicts.\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nIdentify categories of difficult people and why you perceive them that way\nFind coping strategies to effectively deal with difficult people and personality conflicts\nPrevent the development of problematic relationships\nIdentify the source of a dispute and determine what to do about it\nIdentify ways to effectively deflect the hostility of others\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nExpanding your knowledge of personality types and interpersonal relations\nUtilizing skills acquired to diffuse personality conflicts that may arise\nGaining confidence in handling tough situations\nMaintaining composure and professional language in “hot” situations\n\nAudience:\n\nAnyone wanting to be more effective at handling their emotions when dealing with challenging people and situations\n\nProgram Note:\n\nParticipants will receive a copy of the bestselling book Dealing with People You Can’t Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst by Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner.\n\nSchedule Selection(s) Competencies: BI CO DO QS
UID:21653-1357960@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21653
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Networking,Workshop
LOCATION:Administrative Services Building - HRD
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150527T081708
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T163000
SUMMARY:Other:Peony Garden Season in Nichols Arboretum
DESCRIPTION:The Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden is a must-see on the University of Michigan campus each spring. Thousands of blooms in the largest collection of heirloom herbaceous peonies in North America. Self-guided tours and peony information. Free admission. Also\, join us Sunday\, June 7 at 2 p.m. for Peony Blossoms and Pure Melodies\, an afternoon of Chinese flower songs in the Arb (in collaboration with the U-M Confucius Institute).\n\nNote: Peony bloom season is weather dependent. Please visit our dedicated peony website for daily bloom updates: mbgna.umich.edu/peony
UID:22824-1412381@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22824
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Gardening\, Horticulture,Outdoors
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T090526
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes\, Charity Donation Boxes
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In Judaism\, dispensing of charity is not simply a monetary transaction. Rather\, the act is a beautiful exemplar of an individual’s conscious choice to help another person\, while also acknowledging the transience of material wealth and paying one’s good fortunes forward.\n\nThese Pushkes function as vessels that anonymize the donations within\, stressing that the act of giving should not be done for acknowledgement. Instead\, giving should signify a gesture of honest good will. Furthermore\, the amalgam of wealth inside these boxes is comprised of the materiality and benevolence of an entire community.\n\nצדקה תציל ממװת\nTsedakah tatsil mi-mavet\nCharity Saves from Death\n     — 156b\, Tractate Shabes\, Babylonian Talmud\n\nAll items on display were donated by Constance Harris and are on loan from the Jewish Heritage Collection Dedicated to Mark and Dave Harris\, Special Collections Library\, University of Michigan Library—except where otherwise noted.
UID:22410-1396016@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22410
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies,Library
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150406T161023
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Through the Magnifying Glass: A Short History of the Microscope
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit displays a selection of books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that contain extraordinary illustrations of animals and plants as they were originally seen through the lenses of early microscopes. Also included are three eighteenth-century microscopes and a series of images taken by modern microscopes.\n\nOn display Monday through Friday\, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
UID:22502-1400829@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22502
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biology,History,Library,Science
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141201T143728
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection
DESCRIPTION:For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series\, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis\, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life Sciences Institute and Medical School\, to curate an exhibition from the Museum’s collection of three-dimensional objects.\n 	As a scientist\, Skiniotis creates three-dimensional models of cellular components by combining their magnified shadows or projections viewed from different perspectives. This type of study inevitably raises questions regarding the cognition of the objects around us—how\, in the absence of perspective\, are we to read elements like color\, contrast variation\, and depth of field in the dark outlines of objects? How do we make the cognitive connection between a two-dimensional shadow and the three-dimensional object that casts it? How many two-dimensional projections are needed for us to understand what we are looking at\, and at what level of detail?\nThis exhibition poses such questions by juxtaposing three-dimensional objects from the Museum’s collection with two-dimensional projections created by Skiniotis using a similar process with which he creates models of cellular components. The presentation aims to provide a glimpse of the impressions of the selected works from varied directions through interplay with their own projections and our minds.\nThe UMMA Flip Your Field series asks noted University of Michigan faculty members to consider artwork outside their field of specialization in order to guest curate an exhibition using works from UMMA's renowned collection. The UMMA Flip Your Field series is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
UID:20123-1348318@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20123
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Biology,Discussion,Exhibition,Free,History,Information and Technology,Media,Medicine,Museum,Research,Science,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150207T184109
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal\, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s based on how important paper and the written word are to civilization—including how easily writings and\, consequently knowledge\, can be lost.  This exhibition\, consisting of 19 photographs from UMMA’s collection\, was inspired by the presence of the Frank Gehry chair made of cardboard in UMMA’s Design Gallery\, and of and the need to address how artists from different cultures (present-day America and communist Czechoslovakia) view a commodity as common as paper.\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 Center for European Studies\, Center for Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies\, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.
UID:21358-1349064@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21358
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20150207T183355
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
DESCRIPTION:For more than 25 years\, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art that is focused on men and male identity as its subject matter. This exhibition features works from their vast holdings in photography. Guest curator Mario Codognato examines the lives of men in contemporary Western societies—with all their contradictions—through themes of competition and solidarity\, confrontation with identity\, and diverse explorations of the body and sexuality (as both sign and experience). Together\, these thematic groups form a fictional\, somewhat idealized\, tale in 13 chapters\, inviting viewers to reflect upon their own stories as well.\n\nDrawing upon the Hergott Shepard collection as well as select works gifted by the collectors to the Hammer Museum at UCLA\, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles (MOCA)\, the exhibition will include more than 60 works by some of the most important names in late 20th and early 21st century art\, including Doug Aitken\, John Baldessari\, Matthew Barney\, Rineke Dijkstra\, Gilbert and George\, Nan Goldin\, Robert Mapplethorpe\, Catherine Opie\, Herb Ritts\, Thomas Ruff\, Andres Serrano\, and Wolfgang Tillmans.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the University of Michigan Health System. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice Provost for Equity\, Inclusion\, and Academic Affairs\, Department of the History of Art\, Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, Institute for the Humanities\, and Residential College\, and the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund.
UID:21357-1348926@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21357
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,LGBT,Multicultural,Museum,Social,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20150323T153554
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters
DESCRIPTION:During World War I\, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers\, housewives and shipbuilders\, “old-stock Americans” and immigrants to the cause. Propaganda\, commodity\, and art came together in WWI posters. This exhibition presents rarely displayed WWI posters from UMMA’s collection.\nThe focus of the exhibition is posters directed at coal miners. These works explore the larger themes of supporting the war effort and Americanism. Coal mining communities were microcosms for the social and economic pressures when the United States entered the Great War in 1917. Coal was a central resource for the war\, yet the immigrant workforce was considered unreliable because of increasingly frequent workers’ strikes. Posters also addressed anxieties about the definition of American culture and its readiness for war.\nMarking the centennial of the Great War (1914-1919)\, the presentation of WWI posters of the UMMA collection includes some of the lesser-known works by America’s most famous poster artists. From iconic Gibson-girl type illustrations to multilingual posters in Polish\, Italian\, and German\, these posters present war-time American ideals. Works by famed designers James Montgomery Flagg\, the designer of the Uncle Sam “I Want You” poster\, and Howard Christy are featured alongside works by illustrators like J.C. Leyendecker and the acclaimed painter and printmaker Henry Reuterdahl.
UID:22267-1389582@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22267
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Culture,Discussion,Exhibition,Free,History,Language,Lifelong Learning,Museum,Politics,Research,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150323T152350
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sophie Calle: North Pole
DESCRIPTION:Following her mother's death\, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North Pole\, a place her mother had always dreamed of seeing. This multifaceted installation\, consisting of video\, photographs\, and a light box\, documents moments of Calle's journey to fulfill her mother's unrealized dream.\n\nNorth Pole / Pôle nord also includes three porcelain plaques on which Calle has inscribed a story about her voyage. The following text is an excerpt:\n\n\"I waited to reach the northernmost point on the trip in order to go ashore and bury my mother's jewels. L.\, my cabin-mate on the boat\, suggested that if the weather was not permitting\, I could still flush the ring down the toilet. The prospect would have made my mother laugh. But on Thursday October 2\, 2008\, the weather was fine. I ventured onto the glacier\, chose a beautiful stone and buried the portrait\, the necklace and the diamond. Now my mother has gone to the Arctic North. Will climate change carry her out to sea as far as the Pole? Will she be dragged down the valley towards the ice cap? Will she stay on that shore\, a marker of the Northern Glacier’s existence in the Holocene period?\"\n\nThe creative process that drives North Pole is characteristic of Calle's practice: she not only shares a story drawn from her own life\, but uses that moment to inspire further artistic exploration. Following a set of self-established behavioral instructions\, she transforms her daily life with a series of performative actions\, usually executed as a combination of texts and photographs. The result is a poignant reconsideration of the parameters of public versus private life\, through a body of work grounded in compelling\, and often very intimate\, personal investigation.\n\nThis exhibition is made possible in part by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund.
UID:22265-1389472@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22265
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Discussion,Exhibition,Family,Free,Language,Lifelong Learning,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141208T162258
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?
DESCRIPTION:This photography exhibit by Misha Friedman attempts to capture the pervasive culture of corruption in Russia. Friedman explains the photo collection in a New York Times op-ed\, writing\, “Corruption in Russia is so pervasive that the whole society accepts the unacceptable as normal\, as the only way of survival\, as the way things ‘just are.’”\n\nMisha Friedman was born in Moldova\, which at the time was part of the Soviet Union. He immigrated to the United States in 1991\, when he was 14\, and currently lives in New York. Friedman has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s in Russian and Post-Soviet studies. He will visit U-M on February 10 to give a lecture at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies titled\, “Informed Storytelling: Beyond the Facts.”\n\nThe project was made possible with a grant from the Institute of Modern Russia. University of Michigan sponsors for the Work Gallery exhibit are the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies\; Center for Russian\, East European\, & Eurasian Studies\; and Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.\n\nFor hours and location\, visit the Work Gallery website at stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/work_ann_arbor.
UID:20274-1279020@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20274
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:photography,russia
LOCATION:Work Gallery 306 South State Street
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150413T124425
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Shakespeare in the Arb 15th Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare in the Arb turns 15 in '15. Join the Residential College and Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum in celebrating this occasion\, which includes performances each weekend in June. Directed by Kate Mendeloff and performed by U-M students\, faculty\, and local actors. This is a ticketed event.
UID:22617-1404676@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22617
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Family,Literature,Outdoors,Theater
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150513T115138
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Baskery
DESCRIPTION:Says TwangNation.com: \" Baskery does their thing in Stockholm\, Sweden with such passion and fire that you could be forgiven for mistaking them for Tennesseans or Texans reared on equal parts Carter Family and Tanya Tucker.\" Sisters Greta\, Stella\, and Sunniva Bondesson have been sharing stages for ten years now\, and they've played major venues like Britain's Glastonbury Festival. Singing three-part harmonies while playing guitar\, six-stringed banjo\, and upright bass\, they create originals performed with a recklessness that convinces. Mojo called Baskery \"absurdly wonderful\,\" and if you imagine the Dixie Chicks throwing caution to the winds\, looking at American culture from the outside\, and having a great time doing it\, you'll be pretty close to what Baskery has accomplished.
UID:21142-1335319@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21142
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150409T170630
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
DESCRIPTION:This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles\, one of America's greatest directors of film\, theater\, radio and television—highlights letters\, photographs\, scripts\, and production materials culled from the University of Michigan Library's extensive Orson Welles archives.\n\nOriginal items are on display in the Audubon Room\, which is open Mon-Fri 8:30am-7pm\, Sat 10am-6pm\, Sun 2-7pm.
UID:22554-1402704@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22554
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) & Audubon Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150605T120008
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150605T170000
SUMMARY:Sporting Event:ICSA Nationals
DESCRIPTION:Team Race and Coed Nationals
UID:22833-1417586@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22833
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Newport, RI
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150520T114113
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Rocks\, Paper\, Memory: Wendy Artin’s Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures
DESCRIPTION:An American artist who lives in Rome\, Wendy Artin has been working for over a decade on a series of watercolor paintings of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures and related subjects. This exhibition will feature a selection of her paintings\, not only images of ancient sculptures and landscapes but also contemporary life studies. The paintings will be set in dialogue with objects drawn from the Kelsey's collections\, including works of Greek art inspired by Egyptian precedents and examples of the same figure types seen in Artin's work (such as Aphrodite rising from the sea).\n\nWendy Artin is one of a long line of artists who draw inspiration from antiquity. Indeed\, this tradition has very ancient precedents\, such as the Roman practice of making marble “copies” of famous Greek bronze statues. Artin’s visually stunning paintings offer fresh and arresting ways of looking at ancient sculptures and buildings.
UID:22876-1414347@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22876
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - Upjohn Wing: Meader Special Exhibition Gallery, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T124407
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Along the Way: Collage on Canvas
DESCRIPTION:Iowa City artist Sara Slee Brown focuses on using images of natural beauty and man-made buildings to create imaginary scenarios that give rise to possibilities outside of everyday experience. Using the computer as her medium\, she digitally combines photographic images and original artwork. She then makes digital prints and layers them onto canvas with acrylic varnish. The resulting surface is more paint than print\, revealing the artist’s hand upon the work. Brown holds a BFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and an MFA in Painting from the University of Iowa School of Art.
UID:22420-1396448@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22420
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T125645
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Big Painted Stuff: Mixed Media
DESCRIPTION:Karl Laub’s paintings are a mixture of acrylics\, watercolors\, pastels\, molding paste and whatever else he can find to include in his artwork. He has enjoyed working on these larger pieces that have let him experiment with a wider range of colors and techniques and allowed him more room to make a mess. Laub is the Community Development Director for the City of River Rouge and resides in Gibraltar\, Michigan.
UID:22424-1396672@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22424
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T125010
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Chasing Fotos – Critters
DESCRIPTION:Lynette Curtiss is an award winning Michigan based artist who has always had a passion for photography. She has used this passion to capture the beauty of many forms of life\, including people\, places\, wildlife and nature. Curtiss holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Lawrence Technological University and a photography certificate from the College of Creative Studies. She continues to expand her knowledge of photography by taking workshops\, leading photography group meet-ups with Ann Arbor Shutterbugs and collaborating with other groups. She is also the volunteer yearbook editor for Parkview Elementary in Novi.
UID:22421-1396504@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22421
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T124008
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Evolution of Rock Getting Wheels
DESCRIPTION:Ann Arbor artist Middy Potter has creativity at the center of his life. When composing a sculpture\, he adds a dash of humor\, a bit of whimsy\, and a pinch of wonderment. Self-taught as an artist\, Potter realizes the connection between science and art. His formal training includes a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering\, a form of art in itself. Texture\, color\, technical challenges and different materials are part of his creations. Materials for Potter's sculptures include wood\, cloth\, 3-D glass mosaic\, stone\, metal\, cast stone and found objects.
UID:22419-1396391@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22419
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T130321
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Pearls\, Chains & Silhouettes: Handmade\, Industrial & Digital Jewelry
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on common jewelry motifs and iconic imagery\, Ashley Buchanan individually hand-cuts silhouettes from sheet metal using a traditional jeweler’s saw. She then applies color using an industrial process called powder coating. In select pieces\, Buchanan incorporates digitally scanned photographs made into buttons that she prong sets onto pieces in the form of gemstones. By combining the handmade with the industrial and the digital\, Buchanan pushes the boundaries of jewelry\, producing pieces with a fresh voice that speaks to the past\, present and future of craft while maintaining the seductive quality of jewelry.
UID:22427-1396784@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22427
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T130003
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Proof: Encaustic on Wood
DESCRIPTION:As she paints and constructs\, Graceann Warn’s paintings and assemblages use the metaphor of excavation. Her formal education in landscape architecture and classical archaeology assist her as she attempts to unearth an object or solve a mystery. A full time artist since 1985\, Warn now works primarily on wood panels with oils and encaustic\, and much of her work is concerned with the science and mystery of uncovering and covering. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the collections of Yale University\, Museum of Art and Design\, New York\, NY\,  US Embassies in Nairobi and Sarajevo\, Pew Charitable Trusts and many others.
UID:22426-1396728@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22426
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T122533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Transitions: Watercolor on Paper
DESCRIPTION:The current work of Ann Arbor based artist Maria Ruggiero focuses on the large and small events in daily life through the genre of still life. She creates complex compositions of objects and other elements that reflect aspects of her experiences\, with an emphasis on those that relate to the development of her young son. Pattern\, decoration\, and the juxtaposition of objects with flat images are consistent elements in Ruggiero's paintings\, as is her interest in light quality and color. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from Michigan State University\, an MFA in Painting from Kent State University in Ohio\, and she is Professor of Art at Eastern Michigan University.
UID:22415-1396335@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22415
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150512T100037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T235900
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Textile Trade Ascendancies
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features cloth samples\, photographs\, and maps\, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from 16th century trading with Portugal to the present\, when the Nigerian textile trade is dominated by imports from China. Curated by Elisha P. Renne\, U-M professor in Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies.
UID:22816-1412263@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22816
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150415T110809
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:A Thing of the Past
DESCRIPTION:A two-day interdisciplinary workshop. Free and open to the public\, but please register by May 1 with frenchk@umich.edu.\n\nParticipants include:\n◦Jane Burns––University of North Carolina (Women and Gender Studies\, French Literature)\n◦Carol Davidson Cragoe––Heritage Consultant\, MontaguEvans LLP\, UK (Architectural History\n◦Sharon DeWitt––University of South Carolina (Physical Anthropology\, Biology)\n◦Martin Findell––University of Leicester\, UK (Linguistics)\n◦Keith Fitzpatrick–Matthew––Archaeology Officer\, Herefordshire\, UK (Field Archaeologist)\n◦Robin Fleming––Boston College (History\, Material Culture Studies)\n◦Katherine L. French––University of Michigan (History)\n◦Anne Grauer––Loyola University\, Chicago (Bioarchaeology\, Anthropology)\n◦Nancy Khalek––Brown University (Early Islam\, Religious Studies)\n◦Lilla Kopár––The Catholic University of America (Medieval Literature\, Art History)\n◦Maryanne Kowaleski––Fordham University (History)\n◦Chris Lewis––Research Associate\, King’s College London\, UK (Medieval and Local History)\n◦Aleksandra McClain–– University of York\, UK (Building Archaeology)\n◦Austin Mason––Carleton College (Early Medieval History\, Digital Humanities)\n◦Andrew Miller––DePaul University (History and Gender Studies) \n◦Elizabeth Pastan––Emory University (Art History)\n◦Larry Poos––The Catholic University of America (History\, Demography)\n◦Giorgio Riello––University of Warwick\, UK (Economic History\, Material Culture Studies)\n◦Martha Rust––New York University (English Literature)\n◦Kathryn Smith––New York University (Art History)\n◦Sarah Stanbury–– College of the Holy Cross (English Literature)\n◦Carolyn Twomey––Boston College (History and Religion)\n◦Stephen White––Emory University (History)\n◦Tom Williamson––University of East Anglois\, UK (Landscape Archaeology)
UID:22599-1404653@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22599
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Architecture,European,History,Literature,Museum,Research,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150313T140540
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Shape of the Universe
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe\, from Einstein's discovery of space-time\, through the development of theories explaining the Big Bang and cosmic expansion\, up to cutting-edge research on gravity waves being conducted by U-M mathematician Lydia Bieri. This exhibit will include interactives\, video\, beautiful NASA photographs\, and artwork by local high school students.
UID:21954-1372968@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21954
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Exhibition,Science
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150527T112108
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Magnificent Miniatures
DESCRIPTION:Featuring a collection of satsuki azalea bonsai in bloom on loan from renowned Ohio collector and U-M alumnus Melvyn Goldstein. Satsuki azalea (Rhododendron indicum) are one of the most popular and prized species used for bonsai in Japan and have been so there for at least 400 years. There are more than 3\,000 varieties. Some of the plants have different-colored flowers on the same tree\, and many flowers themselves are multi-colored. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see these bonsai azalea in bloom at Matthaei Botanical Gardens.
UID:22928-1415850@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22928
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Exhibition,Japanese Studies
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150527T081708
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T163000
SUMMARY:Other:Peony Garden Season in Nichols Arboretum
DESCRIPTION:The Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden is a must-see on the University of Michigan campus each spring. Thousands of blooms in the largest collection of heirloom herbaceous peonies in North America. Self-guided tours and peony information. Free admission. Also\, join us Sunday\, June 7 at 2 p.m. for Peony Blossoms and Pure Melodies\, an afternoon of Chinese flower songs in the Arb (in collaboration with the U-M Confucius Institute).\n\nNote: Peony bloom season is weather dependent. Please visit our dedicated peony website for daily bloom updates: mbgna.umich.edu/peony
UID:22824-1412382@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22824
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Gardening\, Horticulture,Outdoors
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T090526
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes\, Charity Donation Boxes
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In Judaism\, dispensing of charity is not simply a monetary transaction. Rather\, the act is a beautiful exemplar of an individual’s conscious choice to help another person\, while also acknowledging the transience of material wealth and paying one’s good fortunes forward.\n\nThese Pushkes function as vessels that anonymize the donations within\, stressing that the act of giving should not be done for acknowledgement. Instead\, giving should signify a gesture of honest good will. Furthermore\, the amalgam of wealth inside these boxes is comprised of the materiality and benevolence of an entire community.\n\nצדקה תציל ממװת\nTsedakah tatsil mi-mavet\nCharity Saves from Death\n     — 156b\, Tractate Shabes\, Babylonian Talmud\n\nAll items on display were donated by Constance Harris and are on loan from the Jewish Heritage Collection Dedicated to Mark and Dave Harris\, Special Collections Library\, University of Michigan Library—except where otherwise noted.
UID:22410-1396017@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22410
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies,Library
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141201T143728
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection
DESCRIPTION:For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series\, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis\, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life Sciences Institute and Medical School\, to curate an exhibition from the Museum’s collection of three-dimensional objects.\n 	As a scientist\, Skiniotis creates three-dimensional models of cellular components by combining their magnified shadows or projections viewed from different perspectives. This type of study inevitably raises questions regarding the cognition of the objects around us—how\, in the absence of perspective\, are we to read elements like color\, contrast variation\, and depth of field in the dark outlines of objects? How do we make the cognitive connection between a two-dimensional shadow and the three-dimensional object that casts it? How many two-dimensional projections are needed for us to understand what we are looking at\, and at what level of detail?\nThis exhibition poses such questions by juxtaposing three-dimensional objects from the Museum’s collection with two-dimensional projections created by Skiniotis using a similar process with which he creates models of cellular components. The presentation aims to provide a glimpse of the impressions of the selected works from varied directions through interplay with their own projections and our minds.\nThe UMMA Flip Your Field series asks noted University of Michigan faculty members to consider artwork outside their field of specialization in order to guest curate an exhibition using works from UMMA's renowned collection. The UMMA Flip Your Field series is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
UID:20123-1348248@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20123
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Biology,Discussion,Exhibition,Free,History,Information and Technology,Media,Medicine,Museum,Research,Science,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150207T184109
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal\, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s based on how important paper and the written word are to civilization—including how easily writings and\, consequently knowledge\, can be lost.  This exhibition\, consisting of 19 photographs from UMMA’s collection\, was inspired by the presence of the Frank Gehry chair made of cardboard in UMMA’s Design Gallery\, and of and the need to address how artists from different cultures (present-day America and communist Czechoslovakia) view a commodity as common as paper.\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 Center for European Studies\, Center for Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies\, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.
UID:21358-1348943@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21358
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150511T103100
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T113000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Hands-On Demo: Marvelous Mendelian Mutants
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever been curious about genes and inheritance? Gregor Mendel was. Over one hundred years ago\, he studied pea plants to develop theories of inheritance that are still relevant today! Even simple characteristics\, such as the number of petals on a flower\, or the specific coloring of a leaf are determined by a plant's genetic code and may change due to mutation. Join us for an inquiry activity highlighting Mendelian inheritance and plant development. Afterwards\, do a DNA extraction and learn about modern genetic research.\n\nHands-on demonstrations are 20-30 minute interactive programs on the 2nd floor of the Museum.​ ​They include both brief presentations highlighting University research and engaging hands-on activities\, and are suitable for adults and children ages 5 and up.
UID:22813-1412084@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22813
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150207T183355
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
DESCRIPTION:For more than 25 years\, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art that is focused on men and male identity as its subject matter. This exhibition features works from their vast holdings in photography. Guest curator Mario Codognato examines the lives of men in contemporary Western societies—with all their contradictions—through themes of competition and solidarity\, confrontation with identity\, and diverse explorations of the body and sexuality (as both sign and experience). Together\, these thematic groups form a fictional\, somewhat idealized\, tale in 13 chapters\, inviting viewers to reflect upon their own stories as well.\n\nDrawing upon the Hergott Shepard collection as well as select works gifted by the collectors to the Hammer Museum at UCLA\, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles (MOCA)\, the exhibition will include more than 60 works by some of the most important names in late 20th and early 21st century art\, including Doug Aitken\, John Baldessari\, Matthew Barney\, Rineke Dijkstra\, Gilbert and George\, Nan Goldin\, Robert Mapplethorpe\, Catherine Opie\, Herb Ritts\, Thomas Ruff\, Andres Serrano\, and Wolfgang Tillmans.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the University of Michigan Health System. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice Provost for Equity\, Inclusion\, and Academic Affairs\, Department of the History of Art\, Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, Institute for the Humanities\, and Residential College\, and the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund.
UID:21357-1348824@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21357
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,LGBT,Multicultural,Museum,Social,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150323T153554
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters
DESCRIPTION:During World War I\, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers\, housewives and shipbuilders\, “old-stock Americans” and immigrants to the cause. Propaganda\, commodity\, and art came together in WWI posters. This exhibition presents rarely displayed WWI posters from UMMA’s collection.\nThe focus of the exhibition is posters directed at coal miners. These works explore the larger themes of supporting the war effort and Americanism. Coal mining communities were microcosms for the social and economic pressures when the United States entered the Great War in 1917. Coal was a central resource for the war\, yet the immigrant workforce was considered unreliable because of increasingly frequent workers’ strikes. Posters also addressed anxieties about the definition of American culture and its readiness for war.\nMarking the centennial of the Great War (1914-1919)\, the presentation of WWI posters of the UMMA collection includes some of the lesser-known works by America’s most famous poster artists. From iconic Gibson-girl type illustrations to multilingual posters in Polish\, Italian\, and German\, these posters present war-time American ideals. Works by famed designers James Montgomery Flagg\, the designer of the Uncle Sam “I Want You” poster\, and Howard Christy are featured alongside works by illustrators like J.C. Leyendecker and the acclaimed painter and printmaker Henry Reuterdahl.
UID:22267-1389486@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22267
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Culture,Discussion,Exhibition,Free,History,Language,Lifelong Learning,Museum,Politics,Research,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150323T152350
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sophie Calle: North Pole
DESCRIPTION:Following her mother's death\, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North Pole\, a place her mother had always dreamed of seeing. This multifaceted installation\, consisting of video\, photographs\, and a light box\, documents moments of Calle's journey to fulfill her mother's unrealized dream.\n\nNorth Pole / Pôle nord also includes three porcelain plaques on which Calle has inscribed a story about her voyage. The following text is an excerpt:\n\n\"I waited to reach the northernmost point on the trip in order to go ashore and bury my mother's jewels. L.\, my cabin-mate on the boat\, suggested that if the weather was not permitting\, I could still flush the ring down the toilet. The prospect would have made my mother laugh. But on Thursday October 2\, 2008\, the weather was fine. I ventured onto the glacier\, chose a beautiful stone and buried the portrait\, the necklace and the diamond. Now my mother has gone to the Arctic North. Will climate change carry her out to sea as far as the Pole? Will she be dragged down the valley towards the ice cap? Will she stay on that shore\, a marker of the Northern Glacier’s existence in the Holocene period?\"\n\nThe creative process that drives North Pole is characteristic of Calle's practice: she not only shares a story drawn from her own life\, but uses that moment to inspire further artistic exploration. Following a set of self-established behavioral instructions\, she transforms her daily life with a series of performative actions\, usually executed as a combination of texts and photographs. The result is a poignant reconsideration of the parameters of public versus private life\, through a body of work grounded in compelling\, and often very intimate\, personal investigation.\n\nThis exhibition is made possible in part by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund.
UID:22265-1389401@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22265
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Discussion,Exhibition,Family,Free,Language,Lifelong Learning,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141208T162258
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?
DESCRIPTION:This photography exhibit by Misha Friedman attempts to capture the pervasive culture of corruption in Russia. Friedman explains the photo collection in a New York Times op-ed\, writing\, “Corruption in Russia is so pervasive that the whole society accepts the unacceptable as normal\, as the only way of survival\, as the way things ‘just are.’”\n\nMisha Friedman was born in Moldova\, which at the time was part of the Soviet Union. He immigrated to the United States in 1991\, when he was 14\, and currently lives in New York. Friedman has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s in Russian and Post-Soviet studies. He will visit U-M on February 10 to give a lecture at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies titled\, “Informed Storytelling: Beyond the Facts.”\n\nThe project was made possible with a grant from the Institute of Modern Russia. University of Michigan sponsors for the Work Gallery exhibit are the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies\; Center for Russian\, East European\, & Eurasian Studies\; and Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.\n\nFor hours and location\, visit the Work Gallery website at stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/work_ann_arbor.
UID:20274-1279021@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20274
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:photography,russia
LOCATION:Work Gallery 306 South State Street
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150604T085052
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T143000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:Cinetopia: The Snow White Murder Case
DESCRIPTION:Released in 2014  |  126 minutes  |  Directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura\n\nWith subtitles in English\n\nBased on a novel by bestselling author Kanae Minato\, the film dissects the odd goings-on behind the grim discovery of a corpse in the woods of a national park near Tokyo. The victim is a beautiful young office worker\, Noriko Miki (Nanao)\, the object of much jealousy at the cosmetic company where she was employed. Suspicions soon turn toward her co-worker Miki Shirono (Mao Inoue)\, who has vanished after the murder. Blogger/journalist Yuji Akahoshi (Go Ayano) takes his investigation to the world of social media and the case quickly turns into a witch hunt with a full-blown Twitter storm. As the plot makes brain-bending twists and turns\, the camera takes a cold\, hard but not humorless look at the damage wrought by the pettiness of a passive-aggressive society. - Japan Society
UID:22971-1417260@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22971
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Film,Japanese Studies
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150511T102437
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T131500
SUMMARY:Presentation:Planetarium: Two Small Pieces of Glass
DESCRIPTION:While attending a local star party\, two teenage students learn how the telescope has helped us understand our place in space and how telescopes continue to expand our understanding of the Universe. Their conversation with a local female astronomer enlightens them on the history of the telescope and the discoveries these wonderful tools have made.
UID:22598-1412072@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22598
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Science
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150520T143414
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T153000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Sketching in the Galleries
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to create your own sketches of the ancient objects found in the exhibition Rocks\, Paper\, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures. We will provide paper\, pencils\, and clipboards. Heather Accurso from the Ann Arbor Art Center will offer instruction and guidance as needed to participants.\n\nHeather Accurso received her BFA from Mundelein College and MFA from the University of Chicago. Since 1993 she has worked as an art instructor\, with emphasis on drawing\, at colleges and community learning centers\, fulfilling her mission to help students find their unique visual voices in addition to covering techniques and materials. Her drawings are exhibited in Chicago\, Detroit\, and Ann Arbor. Visit http://www.heather-accurso.de for images and more information.\n\nThis program is free and open to the public.
UID:22882-1414581@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22882
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - Upjohn Wing: Meader Special Exhibition Gallery, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20141029T152936
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T143000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Dinosaur Tour!
DESCRIPTION:Free docent-led tours of the dinosaur exhibits every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. for the first 15 people to sign up. Sign up at the host table in the Rotunda lobby. First come\, first served (sorry\, reservations are not possible). Tours last approximately 30 minutes. Sponsored by U-M Credit Union.
UID:19550-1345030@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/19550
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150511T102658
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T151500
SUMMARY:Presentation:Planetarium: Back to the Moon
DESCRIPTION:Narrated by Tim Allen (voice of Buzz Lightyear)\, this is a behind-the-scenes feature on the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE\, the largest incentivized prize in history\, to return robots to the Moon. Includes a short star talk.
UID:21959-1412076@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21959
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150511T103100
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T153000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Hands-On Demo: Marvelous Mendelian Mutants
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever been curious about genes and inheritance? Gregor Mendel was. Over one hundred years ago\, he studied pea plants to develop theories of inheritance that are still relevant today! Even simple characteristics\, such as the number of petals on a flower\, or the specific coloring of a leaf are determined by a plant's genetic code and may change due to mutation. Join us for an inquiry activity highlighting Mendelian inheritance and plant development. Afterwards\, do a DNA extraction and learn about modern genetic research.\n\nHands-on demonstrations are 20-30 minute interactive programs on the 2nd floor of the Museum.​ ​They include both brief presentations highlighting University research and engaging hands-on activities\, and are suitable for adults and children ages 5 and up.
UID:22813-1412088@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22813
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150413T124425
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Shakespeare in the Arb 15th Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare in the Arb turns 15 in '15. Join the Residential College and Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum in celebrating this occasion\, which includes performances each weekend in June. Directed by Kate Mendeloff and performed by U-M students\, faculty\, and local actors. This is a ticketed event.
UID:22617-1404677@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22617
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Family,Literature,Outdoors,Theater
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150409T170630
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150606T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
DESCRIPTION:This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles\, one of America's greatest directors of film\, theater\, radio and television—highlights letters\, photographs\, scripts\, and production materials culled from the University of Michigan Library's extensive Orson Welles archives.\n\nOriginal items are on display in the Audubon Room\, which is open Mon-Fri 8:30am-7pm\, Sat 10am-6pm\, Sun 2-7pm.
UID:22554-1402705@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22554
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) & Audubon Room
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150331T124407
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Along the Way: Collage on Canvas
DESCRIPTION:Iowa City artist Sara Slee Brown focuses on using images of natural beauty and man-made buildings to create imaginary scenarios that give rise to possibilities outside of everyday experience. Using the computer as her medium\, she digitally combines photographic images and original artwork. She then makes digital prints and layers them onto canvas with acrylic varnish. The resulting surface is more paint than print\, revealing the artist’s hand upon the work. Brown holds a BFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and an MFA in Painting from the University of Iowa School of Art.
UID:22420-1396449@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22420
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T125645
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Big Painted Stuff: Mixed Media
DESCRIPTION:Karl Laub’s paintings are a mixture of acrylics\, watercolors\, pastels\, molding paste and whatever else he can find to include in his artwork. He has enjoyed working on these larger pieces that have let him experiment with a wider range of colors and techniques and allowed him more room to make a mess. Laub is the Community Development Director for the City of River Rouge and resides in Gibraltar\, Michigan.
UID:22424-1396673@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22424
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150331T125010
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Chasing Fotos – Critters
DESCRIPTION:Lynette Curtiss is an award winning Michigan based artist who has always had a passion for photography. She has used this passion to capture the beauty of many forms of life\, including people\, places\, wildlife and nature. Curtiss holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Lawrence Technological University and a photography certificate from the College of Creative Studies. She continues to expand her knowledge of photography by taking workshops\, leading photography group meet-ups with Ann Arbor Shutterbugs and collaborating with other groups. She is also the volunteer yearbook editor for Parkview Elementary in Novi.
UID:22421-1396505@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22421
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150331T124008
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Evolution of Rock Getting Wheels
DESCRIPTION:Ann Arbor artist Middy Potter has creativity at the center of his life. When composing a sculpture\, he adds a dash of humor\, a bit of whimsy\, and a pinch of wonderment. Self-taught as an artist\, Potter realizes the connection between science and art. His formal training includes a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering\, a form of art in itself. Texture\, color\, technical challenges and different materials are part of his creations. Materials for Potter's sculptures include wood\, cloth\, 3-D glass mosaic\, stone\, metal\, cast stone and found objects.
UID:22419-1396392@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22419
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150331T130321
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Pearls\, Chains & Silhouettes: Handmade\, Industrial & Digital Jewelry
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on common jewelry motifs and iconic imagery\, Ashley Buchanan individually hand-cuts silhouettes from sheet metal using a traditional jeweler’s saw. She then applies color using an industrial process called powder coating. In select pieces\, Buchanan incorporates digitally scanned photographs made into buttons that she prong sets onto pieces in the form of gemstones. By combining the handmade with the industrial and the digital\, Buchanan pushes the boundaries of jewelry\, producing pieces with a fresh voice that speaks to the past\, present and future of craft while maintaining the seductive quality of jewelry.
UID:22427-1396785@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22427
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150331T130003
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Proof: Encaustic on Wood
DESCRIPTION:As she paints and constructs\, Graceann Warn’s paintings and assemblages use the metaphor of excavation. Her formal education in landscape architecture and classical archaeology assist her as she attempts to unearth an object or solve a mystery. A full time artist since 1985\, Warn now works primarily on wood panels with oils and encaustic\, and much of her work is concerned with the science and mystery of uncovering and covering. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the collections of Yale University\, Museum of Art and Design\, New York\, NY\,  US Embassies in Nairobi and Sarajevo\, Pew Charitable Trusts and many others.
UID:22426-1396729@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22426
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150331T122533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Transitions: Watercolor on Paper
DESCRIPTION:The current work of Ann Arbor based artist Maria Ruggiero focuses on the large and small events in daily life through the genre of still life. She creates complex compositions of objects and other elements that reflect aspects of her experiences\, with an emphasis on those that relate to the development of her young son. Pattern\, decoration\, and the juxtaposition of objects with flat images are consistent elements in Ruggiero's paintings\, as is her interest in light quality and color. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from Michigan State University\, an MFA in Painting from Kent State University in Ohio\, and she is Professor of Art at Eastern Michigan University.
UID:22415-1396336@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22415
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150512T100037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T235900
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Textile Trade Ascendancies
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features cloth samples\, photographs\, and maps\, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from 16th century trading with Portugal to the present\, when the Nigerian textile trade is dominated by imports from China. Curated by Elisha P. Renne\, U-M professor in Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies.
UID:22816-1412264@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22816
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150313T140540
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Shape of the Universe
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe\, from Einstein's discovery of space-time\, through the development of theories explaining the Big Bang and cosmic expansion\, up to cutting-edge research on gravity waves being conducted by U-M mathematician Lydia Bieri. This exhibit will include interactives\, video\, beautiful NASA photographs\, and artwork by local high school students.
UID:21954-1372969@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21954
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Exhibition,Science
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150527T112108
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Magnificent Miniatures
DESCRIPTION:Featuring a collection of satsuki azalea bonsai in bloom on loan from renowned Ohio collector and U-M alumnus Melvyn Goldstein. Satsuki azalea (Rhododendron indicum) are one of the most popular and prized species used for bonsai in Japan and have been so there for at least 400 years. There are more than 3\,000 varieties. Some of the plants have different-colored flowers on the same tree\, and many flowers themselves are multi-colored. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see these bonsai azalea in bloom at Matthaei Botanical Gardens.
UID:22928-1415851@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22928
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Exhibition,Japanese Studies
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150527T081708
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T163000
SUMMARY:Other:Peony Garden Season in Nichols Arboretum
DESCRIPTION:The Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden is a must-see on the University of Michigan campus each spring. Thousands of blooms in the largest collection of heirloom herbaceous peonies in North America. Self-guided tours and peony information. Free admission. Also\, join us Sunday\, June 7 at 2 p.m. for Peony Blossoms and Pure Melodies\, an afternoon of Chinese flower songs in the Arb (in collaboration with the U-M Confucius Institute).\n\nNote: Peony bloom season is weather dependent. Please visit our dedicated peony website for daily bloom updates: mbgna.umich.edu/peony
UID:22824-1412383@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22824
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Gardening\, Horticulture,Outdoors
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T090526
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes\, Charity Donation Boxes
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In Judaism\, dispensing of charity is not simply a monetary transaction. Rather\, the act is a beautiful exemplar of an individual’s conscious choice to help another person\, while also acknowledging the transience of material wealth and paying one’s good fortunes forward.\n\nThese Pushkes function as vessels that anonymize the donations within\, stressing that the act of giving should not be done for acknowledgement. Instead\, giving should signify a gesture of honest good will. Furthermore\, the amalgam of wealth inside these boxes is comprised of the materiality and benevolence of an entire community.\n\nצדקה תציל ממװת\nTsedakah tatsil mi-mavet\nCharity Saves from Death\n     — 156b\, Tractate Shabes\, Babylonian Talmud\n\nAll items on display were donated by Constance Harris and are on loan from the Jewish Heritage Collection Dedicated to Mark and Dave Harris\, Special Collections Library\, University of Michigan Library—except where otherwise noted.
UID:22410-1396018@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22410
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies,Library
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141201T143728
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection
DESCRIPTION:For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series\, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis\, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life Sciences Institute and Medical School\, to curate an exhibition from the Museum’s collection of three-dimensional objects.\n 	As a scientist\, Skiniotis creates three-dimensional models of cellular components by combining their magnified shadows or projections viewed from different perspectives. This type of study inevitably raises questions regarding the cognition of the objects around us—how\, in the absence of perspective\, are we to read elements like color\, contrast variation\, and depth of field in the dark outlines of objects? How do we make the cognitive connection between a two-dimensional shadow and the three-dimensional object that casts it? How many two-dimensional projections are needed for us to understand what we are looking at\, and at what level of detail?\nThis exhibition poses such questions by juxtaposing three-dimensional objects from the Museum’s collection with two-dimensional projections created by Skiniotis using a similar process with which he creates models of cellular components. The presentation aims to provide a glimpse of the impressions of the selected works from varied directions through interplay with their own projections and our minds.\nThe UMMA Flip Your Field series asks noted University of Michigan faculty members to consider artwork outside their field of specialization in order to guest curate an exhibition using works from UMMA's renowned collection. The UMMA Flip Your Field series is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
UID:20123-1348225@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20123
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Biology,Discussion,Exhibition,Free,History,Information and Technology,Media,Medicine,Museum,Research,Science,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150207T184109
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal\, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s based on how important paper and the written word are to civilization—including how easily writings and\, consequently knowledge\, can be lost.  This exhibition\, consisting of 19 photographs from UMMA’s collection\, was inspired by the presence of the Frank Gehry chair made of cardboard in UMMA’s Design Gallery\, and of and the need to address how artists from different cultures (present-day America and communist Czechoslovakia) view a commodity as common as paper.\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 Center for European Studies\, Center for Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies\, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.
UID:21358-1348968@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21358
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150207T183355
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
DESCRIPTION:For more than 25 years\, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art that is focused on men and male identity as its subject matter. This exhibition features works from their vast holdings in photography. Guest curator Mario Codognato examines the lives of men in contemporary Western societies—with all their contradictions—through themes of competition and solidarity\, confrontation with identity\, and diverse explorations of the body and sexuality (as both sign and experience). Together\, these thematic groups form a fictional\, somewhat idealized\, tale in 13 chapters\, inviting viewers to reflect upon their own stories as well.\n\nDrawing upon the Hergott Shepard collection as well as select works gifted by the collectors to the Hammer Museum at UCLA\, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles (MOCA)\, the exhibition will include more than 60 works by some of the most important names in late 20th and early 21st century art\, including Doug Aitken\, John Baldessari\, Matthew Barney\, Rineke Dijkstra\, Gilbert and George\, Nan Goldin\, Robert Mapplethorpe\, Catherine Opie\, Herb Ritts\, Thomas Ruff\, Andres Serrano\, and Wolfgang Tillmans.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the University of Michigan Health System. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice Provost for Equity\, Inclusion\, and Academic Affairs\, Department of the History of Art\, Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, Institute for the Humanities\, and Residential College\, and the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund.
UID:21357-1348842@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21357
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,LGBT,Multicultural,Museum,Social,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150323T153554
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters
DESCRIPTION:During World War I\, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers\, housewives and shipbuilders\, “old-stock Americans” and immigrants to the cause. Propaganda\, commodity\, and art came together in WWI posters. This exhibition presents rarely displayed WWI posters from UMMA’s collection.\nThe focus of the exhibition is posters directed at coal miners. These works explore the larger themes of supporting the war effort and Americanism. Coal mining communities were microcosms for the social and economic pressures when the United States entered the Great War in 1917. Coal was a central resource for the war\, yet the immigrant workforce was considered unreliable because of increasingly frequent workers’ strikes. Posters also addressed anxieties about the definition of American culture and its readiness for war.\nMarking the centennial of the Great War (1914-1919)\, the presentation of WWI posters of the UMMA collection includes some of the lesser-known works by America’s most famous poster artists. From iconic Gibson-girl type illustrations to multilingual posters in Polish\, Italian\, and German\, these posters present war-time American ideals. Works by famed designers James Montgomery Flagg\, the designer of the Uncle Sam “I Want You” poster\, and Howard Christy are featured alongside works by illustrators like J.C. Leyendecker and the acclaimed painter and printmaker Henry Reuterdahl.
UID:22267-1389506@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22267
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Culture,Discussion,Exhibition,Free,History,Language,Lifelong Learning,Museum,Politics,Research,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150323T152350
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sophie Calle: North Pole
DESCRIPTION:Following her mother's death\, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North Pole\, a place her mother had always dreamed of seeing. This multifaceted installation\, consisting of video\, photographs\, and a light box\, documents moments of Calle's journey to fulfill her mother's unrealized dream.\n\nNorth Pole / Pôle nord also includes three porcelain plaques on which Calle has inscribed a story about her voyage. The following text is an excerpt:\n\n\"I waited to reach the northernmost point on the trip in order to go ashore and bury my mother's jewels. L.\, my cabin-mate on the boat\, suggested that if the weather was not permitting\, I could still flush the ring down the toilet. The prospect would have made my mother laugh. But on Thursday October 2\, 2008\, the weather was fine. I ventured onto the glacier\, chose a beautiful stone and buried the portrait\, the necklace and the diamond. Now my mother has gone to the Arctic North. Will climate change carry her out to sea as far as the Pole? Will she be dragged down the valley towards the ice cap? Will she stay on that shore\, a marker of the Northern Glacier’s existence in the Holocene period?\"\n\nThe creative process that drives North Pole is characteristic of Calle's practice: she not only shares a story drawn from her own life\, but uses that moment to inspire further artistic exploration. Following a set of self-established behavioral instructions\, she transforms her daily life with a series of performative actions\, usually executed as a combination of texts and photographs. The result is a poignant reconsideration of the parameters of public versus private life\, through a body of work grounded in compelling\, and often very intimate\, personal investigation.\n\nThis exhibition is made possible in part by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund.
UID:22265-1389416@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22265
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Discussion,Exhibition,Family,Free,Language,Lifelong Learning,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150520T114113
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Rocks\, Paper\, Memory: Wendy Artin’s Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures
DESCRIPTION:An American artist who lives in Rome\, Wendy Artin has been working for over a decade on a series of watercolor paintings of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures and related subjects. This exhibition will feature a selection of her paintings\, not only images of ancient sculptures and landscapes but also contemporary life studies. The paintings will be set in dialogue with objects drawn from the Kelsey's collections\, including works of Greek art inspired by Egyptian precedents and examples of the same figure types seen in Artin's work (such as Aphrodite rising from the sea).\n\nWendy Artin is one of a long line of artists who draw inspiration from antiquity. Indeed\, this tradition has very ancient precedents\, such as the Roman practice of making marble “copies” of famous Greek bronze statues. Artin’s visually stunning paintings offer fresh and arresting ways of looking at ancient sculptures and buildings.
UID:22876-1414348@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22876
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - Upjohn Wing: Meader Special Exhibition Gallery, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141029T152936
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T143000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Dinosaur Tour!
DESCRIPTION:Free docent-led tours of the dinosaur exhibits every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. for the first 15 people to sign up. Sign up at the host table in the Rotunda lobby. First come\, first served (sorry\, reservations are not possible). Tours last approximately 30 minutes. Sponsored by U-M Credit Union.
UID:19550-1345092@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/19550
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150323T160011
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Guided Tour: Engaging with Art
DESCRIPTION:UMMA docents will guide visitors through the galleries on tours as diverse as their interests and areas of expertise. Each docent plans a theme and includes a variety of styles and media to illuminate his or her ideas. Themes may be repeated but each docent's approach and choice of objects is unique.
UID:22272-1389607@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22272
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Discussion,Education,Exhibition,Free,History,Language,Multicultural,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150413T124833
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T150000
SUMMARY:Performance:Peony Blossoms and Pure Melodies - Music Concert in the Arb
DESCRIPTION:An afternoon of live music in the Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden. Featuring Chinese flower songs performed by local singers. Presented by the U-M Confucius Institute and U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum. Free. Rain date Sun.\, June 14\, 2 p.m.
UID:22618-1404701@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22618
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Concert,Culture,Environment,Family,Outdoors
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150511T102658
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T151500
SUMMARY:Presentation:Planetarium: Back to the Moon
DESCRIPTION:Narrated by Tim Allen (voice of Buzz Lightyear)\, this is a behind-the-scenes feature on the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE\, the largest incentivized prize in history\, to return robots to the Moon. Includes a short star talk.
UID:21959-1412080@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21959
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150511T103100
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T153000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Hands-On Demo: Marvelous Mendelian Mutants
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever been curious about genes and inheritance? Gregor Mendel was. Over one hundred years ago\, he studied pea plants to develop theories of inheritance that are still relevant today! Even simple characteristics\, such as the number of petals on a flower\, or the specific coloring of a leaf are determined by a plant's genetic code and may change due to mutation. Join us for an inquiry activity highlighting Mendelian inheritance and plant development. Afterwards\, do a DNA extraction and learn about modern genetic research.\n\nHands-on demonstrations are 20-30 minute interactive programs on the 2nd floor of the Museum.​ ​They include both brief presentations highlighting University research and engaging hands-on activities\, and are suitable for adults and children ages 5 and up.
UID:22813-1412092@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22813
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150604T141529
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T151500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T171500
SUMMARY:Film Screening:Cinetopia: East Side Sushi
DESCRIPTION:Released in 2014  |  116 minutes  |  Directed by Anthony Lucero\n\nJuana’s (Diana Elizabeth Torres) work – preparing fruit for the family’s sidewalk cart – is steady but hardly her life’s calling. Despite the objections and concerns of her family\, Juana decides to pursue her dream of becoming an expert sushi chef\, to go where her heart tells her\, not where she is expected to be. Faced with the obstacles of being the wrong gender and race for her chosen profession\, Juana must overcome the doubters to succeed where no one like her ever has. With East Side Sushi\, writer/director Anthony Lucero has crafted a colorful and entertaining depiction of restaurant politics and cultural dynamics\, producing a film that is a realistic look at the changing multicultural world of food in America. -Napa Valley Film Festival
UID:22969-1417255@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22969
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Film,Food,Japanese Studies
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150413T124425
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Shakespeare in the Arb 15th Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare in the Arb turns 15 in '15. Join the Residential College and Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum in celebrating this occasion\, which includes performances each weekend in June. Directed by Kate Mendeloff and performed by U-M students\, faculty\, and local actors. This is a ticketed event.
UID:22617-1404678@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22617
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Family,Literature,Outdoors,Theater
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
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DTSTAMP:20150513T114819
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T193000
SUMMARY:Performance:The Accidentals
DESCRIPTION:Multi-instrumentalists Katie Larson and Savannah Buist are creating quite a name for themselves among music lovers of all genres. ” Z93 FM DJ Matt Mansfield writes: “Combine musicality\, originality and melodic beauty with a welcome and unexpected bite to clever lyrics and youv’e got Accidentals music. Songwriters\, look no farther to find a new pairing to be jealous of\, especially with such a bright future ahead of them.\" They met in 2011 at their public high school.  Katie (15) was a freshman cello player\, and Savannah (16) was a violinist and orchestra concertmaster. They volunteered for a class assignment that threw them together for their first rehearsal and The Accidentals were born. Growing up in musical families with professional pianists for fathers and vocalists for mothers\, their influences bounced among classical\, jazz\, bluegrass\, country\, alt-rock\, and the obscure. They are “explorers and admirers” of indie music greats like Andrew Bird\, St. Vincent\, Sufjan Stephens\, Arcade Fire\, The Yeah\, Yeah\, Yeahs\, The Black Keys\, Sara Jaffe (and the Beatles).  Their original tunes reflect their exposure to a wide variety of instruments while staying true to their orchestral roots. In addition to playing guitar\, bass\, glockenspiel\, mandolin\, banjo\, piano\, organ\, accordian\, and kazoo\, you can’t miss the edgy violin and cello that define this duo. The Accidentals opened for some of their favorite artists\, Andrew Bird\, Sixto Rodriguez (Sugarman)\, Aunt Martha\, Rosco Bandana\, and  Lauren Mann.
UID:22215-1384662@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22215
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150409T170630
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150607T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
DESCRIPTION:This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles\, one of America's greatest directors of film\, theater\, radio and television—highlights letters\, photographs\, scripts\, and production materials culled from the University of Michigan Library's extensive Orson Welles archives.\n\nOriginal items are on display in the Audubon Room\, which is open Mon-Fri 8:30am-7pm\, Sat 10am-6pm\, Sun 2-7pm.
UID:22554-1402706@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22554
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) & Audubon Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T131356
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Seeing Music: Acrylic & Watercolor
DESCRIPTION:Deborah L. Hoover hopes to achieve what the Swiss artist Paul Klee described as\, “making the invisible visible.” The music the musicians create in her paintings is full of life. Can you hear it? Using vibrant colors in acrylic or watercolor\, Hoover’s paintings inspire a multisensory response. She graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design and currently works in graphic arts and painting.
UID:22428-1396842@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22428
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150310T132434
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Dinnerware Museum: A Place at the Table
DESCRIPTION:The Dinnerware Museum\, a new museum in Ann Arbor established in 2012\, features a collection of thousands of pieces of functional dinnerware from all over the world along with fine art referencing dinnerware created from ceramic\, metal\, glass\, paper\, plastic and more. This exhibition highlights portions of eight memorable place settings of American tableware dating from the 1930s to the present\, including sets designed by the leading 20th century designers Eva Zeisel\, Russel Wright\, Glidden Parker\, and Don Schreckengost as well as new dinnerware by contemporary artist Julia Galloway in 2014.
UID:21151-1335864@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21151
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141218T105602
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Re-Imaging Gender - A Juried Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Our understandings of gender have shifted dramatically in recent decades. No longer is gender a matter of an immutable binary\, or a set of predetermined preferences and predilections. This exhibition--the first of its kind--both celebrates and interrogates the visual aspects of the re- imaging of gender.\n\nRe-imaging Gender features the work of 15 promising artists who take on one of the most important challenges facing contemporary art: how to render the modern spectrum of gender\, going beyond the simple male/female binary to include a wide variety of identities and sexualities.\n\nThe Re-imaging artists\, MFA students enrolled at Michigan and CIC universities (Big 10\, plus Chicago)\, responded to an IRWG-issued Call for Art. The result is an exhibition of 17 works in a variety of media\, including photography\, paint\, lithograph\, mixed media\, and video\, which reflect new understandings of gender.\n\nThe exhibit will be displayed at the Lane Hall Gallery\, a space shared by IRWG and the U-M Department of Women’s Studies\, from January 15 - June 26\, 2015.
UID:20407-1287718@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20407
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,LGBT,Literary Arts,Visual Arts,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Lane Hall - Gallery space on first floor
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DTSTAMP:20150512T100037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T235900
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Textile Trade Ascendancies
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features cloth samples\, photographs\, and maps\, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from 16th century trading with Portugal to the present\, when the Nigerian textile trade is dominated by imports from China. Curated by Elisha P. Renne\, U-M professor in Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies.
UID:22816-1412265@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22816
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150505T101537
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T164500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Drawdown Vietnam\, April – May 1975
DESCRIPTION:America’s long involvement in the war in Vietnam and Indochina drew to a close in April - May 1975. As the city of Saigon fell to the advancing North Vietnamese Army\, the United States military evacuated thousands of South Vietnamese civilians to ships nearby.\n\nIn the midst of the chaos\, two smaller rescues took place – Operation Babylift\, in which more than three thousand children and babies were airlifted to safety\, and the rescue of the S.S. Mayaguez\, whose ship and crew were captured by forces of the new Cambodian Khmer Rouge government less than two weeks following the fall of Saigon.\n\nThe unfolding of these events are chronicled in two lobby displays at the Gerald Ford Presidential Library – complete with artifacts\, photographs\, documents and personal stories of those involved.\n\nThe exhibit is free to Library visitors\, and will be on display through September\, 2015. \n\nPlease note that the Library is NOT open on weekends or Federal holidays. Library hours are Monday – Friday  8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
UID:22785-1411386@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22785
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Cambodia,Indochina,Operation Babylift,Saigon,Vietnam
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20150408T094612
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ramiro Gomez: Cut-Outs
DESCRIPTION:Artist Ramiro Gomez’s life-sized cardboard cutouts\, paintings\, and constructions bring attention to those who toil behind the familiar scenes of luxury and affluence in America.\n\nLA based\, he often focuses on the Hispanic work force in Beverly Hills—the nannies\, and gardeners\, housekeepers\, and pool cleaners.\n\nIn 2014\, he spent several weeks as an artist in residence with the U-M Institute for the Humanities\, mounting his works across the Diag\, changing our everyday landscape on campus. One installation depicted migrant workers in the field\, incorporating cardboard vegetable boxes foraged from the dumpsters behind dorm cafeterias. Another illustrated a groundskeeper tending to fall leaves.\n\nFor his current exhibition\, Gomez will create a room-sized installation of his cutouts in the Institute for the Humanities gallery.\n\nAlthough his works contemplate issues of race and cultural identity\, they more philosophically explore delineations and disconnects between people\, the have and have-nots\, the visible and invisible. His articulated figures are performative\, capturing the rhythm and gesture of the service industry\, their endless repetitions that keep things running. Almost naïve in materiality and process\, his constructions are measured and deliberate actions of inclusion.\n\nSeeing a Gomez figure propped on a manicured lawn—or in a Hockney painting\, or pasted in a luxury goods magazine ad—permanently changes the picture\, and our narratives about wealth and prosperity in our society.\n-Amanda Krugliak\, Institute for the Humanities curator
UID:22529-1402012@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22529
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Multicultural,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities, Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150313T140540
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Shape of the Universe
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe\, from Einstein's discovery of space-time\, through the development of theories explaining the Big Bang and cosmic expansion\, up to cutting-edge research on gravity waves being conducted by U-M mathematician Lydia Bieri. This exhibit will include interactives\, video\, beautiful NASA photographs\, and artwork by local high school students.
UID:21954-1372970@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21954
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Exhibition,Science
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150527T112108
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Magnificent Miniatures
DESCRIPTION:Featuring a collection of satsuki azalea bonsai in bloom on loan from renowned Ohio collector and U-M alumnus Melvyn Goldstein. Satsuki azalea (Rhododendron indicum) are one of the most popular and prized species used for bonsai in Japan and have been so there for at least 400 years. There are more than 3\,000 varieties. Some of the plants have different-colored flowers on the same tree\, and many flowers themselves are multi-colored. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see these bonsai azalea in bloom at Matthaei Botanical Gardens.
UID:22928-1415852@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22928
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Exhibition,Japanese Studies
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150527T081708
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T163000
SUMMARY:Other:Peony Garden Season in Nichols Arboretum
DESCRIPTION:The Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden is a must-see on the University of Michigan campus each spring. Thousands of blooms in the largest collection of heirloom herbaceous peonies in North America. Self-guided tours and peony information. Free admission. Also\, join us Sunday\, June 7 at 2 p.m. for Peony Blossoms and Pure Melodies\, an afternoon of Chinese flower songs in the Arb (in collaboration with the U-M Confucius Institute).\n\nNote: Peony bloom season is weather dependent. Please visit our dedicated peony website for daily bloom updates: mbgna.umich.edu/peony
UID:22824-1412384@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22824
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Gardening\, Horticulture,Outdoors
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T090526
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes\, Charity Donation Boxes
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In Judaism\, dispensing of charity is not simply a monetary transaction. Rather\, the act is a beautiful exemplar of an individual’s conscious choice to help another person\, while also acknowledging the transience of material wealth and paying one’s good fortunes forward.\n\nThese Pushkes function as vessels that anonymize the donations within\, stressing that the act of giving should not be done for acknowledgement. Instead\, giving should signify a gesture of honest good will. Furthermore\, the amalgam of wealth inside these boxes is comprised of the materiality and benevolence of an entire community.\n\nצדקה תציל ממװת\nTsedakah tatsil mi-mavet\nCharity Saves from Death\n     — 156b\, Tractate Shabes\, Babylonian Talmud\n\nAll items on display were donated by Constance Harris and are on loan from the Jewish Heritage Collection Dedicated to Mark and Dave Harris\, Special Collections Library\, University of Michigan Library—except where otherwise noted.
UID:22410-1396019@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22410
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies,Library
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150406T161023
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Through the Magnifying Glass: A Short History of the Microscope
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit displays a selection of books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that contain extraordinary illustrations of animals and plants as they were originally seen through the lenses of early microscopes. Also included are three eighteenth-century microscopes and a series of images taken by modern microscopes.\n\nOn display Monday through Friday\, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
UID:22502-1400832@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22502
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biology,History,Library,Science
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150529T131407
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Wellespring
DESCRIPTION:Maverick filmmaker and actor Orson Welles\, director of what many consider the greatest film of all time\, Citizen Kane\, is the subject of this symposium in celebration of his centenary. Family members and colleagues\, scholars\, archivists and students come together to discuss his lasting impact and showcase the five Welles archive collections housed at the U-M Library in Special Collections.
UID:22951-1416453@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22951
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Film
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150513T114906
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Jeff Austin Band featuring Danny Barnes\, Ross Martin & Eric Thorin
DESCRIPTION:Mandolinist Jeff Austin is unstoppable. He is celebrated for his fleet fingers and penchant for improvisation on stage\, but those qualities also speak volumes about how he chooses to live. Jeff has cultivated his natural musical abilities and allowed himself to be driven by his boldest instincts. In 1998\, while working at a bar called The Verve in Nederland\, Colorado\, he and a group of friends formed The Yonder Mountain String Band\, which created a wild\, high-energy niche between the bluegrass legends of old and the up-and-coming jam band scene. “My time with Yonder has taught me what is possible\,” Jeff says. “It has shown me that if you work hard at it and you believe in it and there’s a part of you that’s meant to do it\, it will happen. It’s clichéd\, but it’s true.” Now Jeff Austin moves into a new creative direction as a solo artist. On his forthcoming debut project\, Jeff’s songwriting remains rooted in Americana inspiration and the frantic energy of the jam genre but also\, reaches even further weaving in more mainstream themes\, reminiscent of his co-write contribution “Fiddlin’ Around\,” that was featured on the 2010 Grammy-nominated Dierks Bentley album\, \"Up on the Ridge.\"
UID:22326-1391568@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22326
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150409T170630
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150608T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
DESCRIPTION:This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles\, one of America's greatest directors of film\, theater\, radio and television—highlights letters\, photographs\, scripts\, and production materials culled from the University of Michigan Library's extensive Orson Welles archives.\n\nOriginal items are on display in the Audubon Room\, which is open Mon-Fri 8:30am-7pm\, Sat 10am-6pm\, Sun 2-7pm.
UID:22554-1402707@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22554
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) & Audubon Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T131356
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Seeing Music: Acrylic & Watercolor
DESCRIPTION:Deborah L. Hoover hopes to achieve what the Swiss artist Paul Klee described as\, “making the invisible visible.” The music the musicians create in her paintings is full of life. Can you hear it? Using vibrant colors in acrylic or watercolor\, Hoover’s paintings inspire a multisensory response. She graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design and currently works in graphic arts and painting.
UID:22428-1396843@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22428
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1.
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150310T132434
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Dinnerware Museum: A Place at the Table
DESCRIPTION:The Dinnerware Museum\, a new museum in Ann Arbor established in 2012\, features a collection of thousands of pieces of functional dinnerware from all over the world along with fine art referencing dinnerware created from ceramic\, metal\, glass\, paper\, plastic and more. This exhibition highlights portions of eight memorable place settings of American tableware dating from the 1930s to the present\, including sets designed by the leading 20th century designers Eva Zeisel\, Russel Wright\, Glidden Parker\, and Don Schreckengost as well as new dinnerware by contemporary artist Julia Galloway in 2014.
UID:21151-1335865@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21151
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141218T105602
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Re-Imaging Gender - A Juried Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Our understandings of gender have shifted dramatically in recent decades. No longer is gender a matter of an immutable binary\, or a set of predetermined preferences and predilections. This exhibition--the first of its kind--both celebrates and interrogates the visual aspects of the re- imaging of gender.\n\nRe-imaging Gender features the work of 15 promising artists who take on one of the most important challenges facing contemporary art: how to render the modern spectrum of gender\, going beyond the simple male/female binary to include a wide variety of identities and sexualities.\n\nThe Re-imaging artists\, MFA students enrolled at Michigan and CIC universities (Big 10\, plus Chicago)\, responded to an IRWG-issued Call for Art. The result is an exhibition of 17 works in a variety of media\, including photography\, paint\, lithograph\, mixed media\, and video\, which reflect new understandings of gender.\n\nThe exhibit will be displayed at the Lane Hall Gallery\, a space shared by IRWG and the U-M Department of Women’s Studies\, from January 15 - June 26\, 2015.
UID:20407-1287719@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20407
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,LGBT,Literary Arts,Visual Arts,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Lane Hall - Gallery space on first floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150512T100037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T235900
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Textile Trade Ascendancies
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features cloth samples\, photographs\, and maps\, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from 16th century trading with Portugal to the present\, when the Nigerian textile trade is dominated by imports from China. Curated by Elisha P. Renne\, U-M professor in Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies.
UID:22816-1412266@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22816
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150217T122117
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Cut! That’s a Wrap! Video on the Cheap
DESCRIPTION:Video is an excellent way to deliver a message in the workplace. The cost of quality equipment has decreased rapidly and the availability of editing software is very common. This session will introduce you to the tools and techniques that will enable you to produce high-quality video without breaking your budget.\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nAnalyze locations to choose the best way to frame a video\nCraft basic storyboards so you are not just “shooting from the hip”\nApply simple\, inexpensive\, lighting techniques that will increase the quality of your video\nDetermine which video-editing software will meet your needs\nPractice proper framing so that you draw the viewer’s eyes where you want them to go\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nGreatly increasing the quality of video that you and your team create\nSaving your department money by knowing how to produce your own videos\nDecreasing the need to shoot and then re-shoot video\n\nAudience:\nAnyone who would like to produce quality video without a large budget\n\nSchedule Selection(s) Competencies: CO DO
UID:21251-1357938@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21251
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Networking,Workshop
LOCATION:Administrative Services Building - HRD
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150505T101537
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T164500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Drawdown Vietnam\, April – May 1975
DESCRIPTION:America’s long involvement in the war in Vietnam and Indochina drew to a close in April - May 1975. As the city of Saigon fell to the advancing North Vietnamese Army\, the United States military evacuated thousands of South Vietnamese civilians to ships nearby.\n\nIn the midst of the chaos\, two smaller rescues took place – Operation Babylift\, in which more than three thousand children and babies were airlifted to safety\, and the rescue of the S.S. Mayaguez\, whose ship and crew were captured by forces of the new Cambodian Khmer Rouge government less than two weeks following the fall of Saigon.\n\nThe unfolding of these events are chronicled in two lobby displays at the Gerald Ford Presidential Library – complete with artifacts\, photographs\, documents and personal stories of those involved.\n\nThe exhibit is free to Library visitors\, and will be on display through September\, 2015. \n\nPlease note that the Library is NOT open on weekends or Federal holidays. Library hours are Monday – Friday  8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
UID:22785-1411387@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22785
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Cambodia,Indochina,Operation Babylift,Saigon,Vietnam
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150520T114113
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Rocks\, Paper\, Memory: Wendy Artin’s Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures
DESCRIPTION:An American artist who lives in Rome\, Wendy Artin has been working for over a decade on a series of watercolor paintings of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures and related subjects. This exhibition will feature a selection of her paintings\, not only images of ancient sculptures and landscapes but also contemporary life studies. The paintings will be set in dialogue with objects drawn from the Kelsey's collections\, including works of Greek art inspired by Egyptian precedents and examples of the same figure types seen in Artin's work (such as Aphrodite rising from the sea).\n\nWendy Artin is one of a long line of artists who draw inspiration from antiquity. Indeed\, this tradition has very ancient precedents\, such as the Roman practice of making marble “copies” of famous Greek bronze statues. Artin’s visually stunning paintings offer fresh and arresting ways of looking at ancient sculptures and buildings.
UID:22876-1414350@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22876
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - Upjohn Wing: Meader Special Exhibition Gallery, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150313T140540
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Shape of the Universe
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe\, from Einstein's discovery of space-time\, through the development of theories explaining the Big Bang and cosmic expansion\, up to cutting-edge research on gravity waves being conducted by U-M mathematician Lydia Bieri. This exhibit will include interactives\, video\, beautiful NASA photographs\, and artwork by local high school students.
UID:21954-1372971@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21954
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Exhibition,Science
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150527T112108
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Magnificent Miniatures
DESCRIPTION:Featuring a collection of satsuki azalea bonsai in bloom on loan from renowned Ohio collector and U-M alumnus Melvyn Goldstein. Satsuki azalea (Rhododendron indicum) are one of the most popular and prized species used for bonsai in Japan and have been so there for at least 400 years. There are more than 3\,000 varieties. Some of the plants have different-colored flowers on the same tree\, and many flowers themselves are multi-colored. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see these bonsai azalea in bloom at Matthaei Botanical Gardens.
UID:22928-1415853@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22928
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Exhibition,Japanese Studies
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150527T081708
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T163000
SUMMARY:Other:Peony Garden Season in Nichols Arboretum
DESCRIPTION:The Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden is a must-see on the University of Michigan campus each spring. Thousands of blooms in the largest collection of heirloom herbaceous peonies in North America. Self-guided tours and peony information. Free admission. Also\, join us Sunday\, June 7 at 2 p.m. for Peony Blossoms and Pure Melodies\, an afternoon of Chinese flower songs in the Arb (in collaboration with the U-M Confucius Institute).\n\nNote: Peony bloom season is weather dependent. Please visit our dedicated peony website for daily bloom updates: mbgna.umich.edu/peony
UID:22824-1412385@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22824
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Gardening\, Horticulture,Outdoors
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150331T090526
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes\, Charity Donation Boxes
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In Judaism\, dispensing of charity is not simply a monetary transaction. Rather\, the act is a beautiful exemplar of an individual’s conscious choice to help another person\, while also acknowledging the transience of material wealth and paying one’s good fortunes forward.\n\nThese Pushkes function as vessels that anonymize the donations within\, stressing that the act of giving should not be done for acknowledgement. Instead\, giving should signify a gesture of honest good will. Furthermore\, the amalgam of wealth inside these boxes is comprised of the materiality and benevolence of an entire community.\n\nצדקה תציל ממװת\nTsedakah tatsil mi-mavet\nCharity Saves from Death\n     — 156b\, Tractate Shabes\, Babylonian Talmud\n\nAll items on display were donated by Constance Harris and are on loan from the Jewish Heritage Collection Dedicated to Mark and Dave Harris\, Special Collections Library\, University of Michigan Library—except where otherwise noted.
UID:22410-1396020@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22410
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies,Library
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150406T161023
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Through the Magnifying Glass: A Short History of the Microscope
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit displays a selection of books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that contain extraordinary illustrations of animals and plants as they were originally seen through the lenses of early microscopes. Also included are three eighteenth-century microscopes and a series of images taken by modern microscopes.\n\nOn display Monday through Friday\, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
UID:22502-1400833@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22502
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biology,History,Library,Science
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150529T131407
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Wellespring
DESCRIPTION:Maverick filmmaker and actor Orson Welles\, director of what many consider the greatest film of all time\, Citizen Kane\, is the subject of this symposium in celebration of his centenary. Family members and colleagues\, scholars\, archivists and students come together to discuss his lasting impact and showcase the five Welles archive collections housed at the U-M Library in Special Collections.
UID:22951-1416454@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22951
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Film
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20141201T143728
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection
DESCRIPTION:For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series\, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis\, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life Sciences Institute and Medical School\, to curate an exhibition from the Museum’s collection of three-dimensional objects.\n 	As a scientist\, Skiniotis creates three-dimensional models of cellular components by combining their magnified shadows or projections viewed from different perspectives. This type of study inevitably raises questions regarding the cognition of the objects around us—how\, in the absence of perspective\, are we to read elements like color\, contrast variation\, and depth of field in the dark outlines of objects? How do we make the cognitive connection between a two-dimensional shadow and the three-dimensional object that casts it? How many two-dimensional projections are needed for us to understand what we are looking at\, and at what level of detail?\nThis exhibition poses such questions by juxtaposing three-dimensional objects from the Museum’s collection with two-dimensional projections created by Skiniotis using a similar process with which he creates models of cellular components. The presentation aims to provide a glimpse of the impressions of the selected works from varied directions through interplay with their own projections and our minds.\nThe UMMA Flip Your Field series asks noted University of Michigan faculty members to consider artwork outside their field of specialization in order to guest curate an exhibition using works from UMMA's renowned collection. The UMMA Flip Your Field series is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
UID:20123-1348272@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20123
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Biology,Discussion,Exhibition,Free,History,Information and Technology,Media,Medicine,Museum,Research,Science,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150207T184109
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal\, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s based on how important paper and the written word are to civilization—including how easily writings and\, consequently knowledge\, can be lost.  This exhibition\, consisting of 19 photographs from UMMA’s collection\, was inspired by the presence of the Frank Gehry chair made of cardboard in UMMA’s Design Gallery\, and of and the need to address how artists from different cultures (present-day America and communist Czechoslovakia) view a commodity as common as paper.\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 Center for European Studies\, Center for Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies\, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.
UID:21358-1348993@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21358
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20150207T183355
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
DESCRIPTION:For more than 25 years\, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art that is focused on men and male identity as its subject matter. This exhibition features works from their vast holdings in photography. Guest curator Mario Codognato examines the lives of men in contemporary Western societies—with all their contradictions—through themes of competition and solidarity\, confrontation with identity\, and diverse explorations of the body and sexuality (as both sign and experience). Together\, these thematic groups form a fictional\, somewhat idealized\, tale in 13 chapters\, inviting viewers to reflect upon their own stories as well.\n\nDrawing upon the Hergott Shepard collection as well as select works gifted by the collectors to the Hammer Museum at UCLA\, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles (MOCA)\, the exhibition will include more than 60 works by some of the most important names in late 20th and early 21st century art\, including Doug Aitken\, John Baldessari\, Matthew Barney\, Rineke Dijkstra\, Gilbert and George\, Nan Goldin\, Robert Mapplethorpe\, Catherine Opie\, Herb Ritts\, Thomas Ruff\, Andres Serrano\, and Wolfgang Tillmans.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the University of Michigan Health System. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice Provost for Equity\, Inclusion\, and Academic Affairs\, Department of the History of Art\, Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, Institute for the Humanities\, and Residential College\, and the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund.
UID:21357-1348876@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21357
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,LGBT,Multicultural,Museum,Social,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20150323T153554
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters
DESCRIPTION:During World War I\, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers\, housewives and shipbuilders\, “old-stock Americans” and immigrants to the cause. Propaganda\, commodity\, and art came together in WWI posters. This exhibition presents rarely displayed WWI posters from UMMA’s collection.\nThe focus of the exhibition is posters directed at coal miners. These works explore the larger themes of supporting the war effort and Americanism. Coal mining communities were microcosms for the social and economic pressures when the United States entered the Great War in 1917. Coal was a central resource for the war\, yet the immigrant workforce was considered unreliable because of increasingly frequent workers’ strikes. Posters also addressed anxieties about the definition of American culture and its readiness for war.\nMarking the centennial of the Great War (1914-1919)\, the presentation of WWI posters of the UMMA collection includes some of the lesser-known works by America’s most famous poster artists. From iconic Gibson-girl type illustrations to multilingual posters in Polish\, Italian\, and German\, these posters present war-time American ideals. Works by famed designers James Montgomery Flagg\, the designer of the Uncle Sam “I Want You” poster\, and Howard Christy are featured alongside works by illustrators like J.C. Leyendecker and the acclaimed painter and printmaker Henry Reuterdahl.
UID:22267-1389526@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22267
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Culture,Discussion,Exhibition,Free,History,Language,Lifelong Learning,Museum,Politics,Research,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150323T152350
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sophie Calle: North Pole
DESCRIPTION:Following her mother's death\, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North Pole\, a place her mother had always dreamed of seeing. This multifaceted installation\, consisting of video\, photographs\, and a light box\, documents moments of Calle's journey to fulfill her mother's unrealized dream.\n\nNorth Pole / Pôle nord also includes three porcelain plaques on which Calle has inscribed a story about her voyage. The following text is an excerpt:\n\n\"I waited to reach the northernmost point on the trip in order to go ashore and bury my mother's jewels. L.\, my cabin-mate on the boat\, suggested that if the weather was not permitting\, I could still flush the ring down the toilet. The prospect would have made my mother laugh. But on Thursday October 2\, 2008\, the weather was fine. I ventured onto the glacier\, chose a beautiful stone and buried the portrait\, the necklace and the diamond. Now my mother has gone to the Arctic North. Will climate change carry her out to sea as far as the Pole? Will she be dragged down the valley towards the ice cap? Will she stay on that shore\, a marker of the Northern Glacier’s existence in the Holocene period?\"\n\nThe creative process that drives North Pole is characteristic of Calle's practice: she not only shares a story drawn from her own life\, but uses that moment to inspire further artistic exploration. Following a set of self-established behavioral instructions\, she transforms her daily life with a series of performative actions\, usually executed as a combination of texts and photographs. The result is a poignant reconsideration of the parameters of public versus private life\, through a body of work grounded in compelling\, and often very intimate\, personal investigation.\n\nThis exhibition is made possible in part by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund.
UID:22265-1389431@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22265
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Discussion,Exhibition,Family,Free,Language,Lifelong Learning,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150528T105730
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Fulbright Information Session
DESCRIPTION:A U-M Fulbright Program Advisor will describe the application and selection process and provide suggestions for making your application more competitive.
UID:22940-1416200@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22940
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Funding,International
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1644
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141208T162258
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?
DESCRIPTION:This photography exhibit by Misha Friedman attempts to capture the pervasive culture of corruption in Russia. Friedman explains the photo collection in a New York Times op-ed\, writing\, “Corruption in Russia is so pervasive that the whole society accepts the unacceptable as normal\, as the only way of survival\, as the way things ‘just are.’”\n\nMisha Friedman was born in Moldova\, which at the time was part of the Soviet Union. He immigrated to the United States in 1991\, when he was 14\, and currently lives in New York. Friedman has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s in Russian and Post-Soviet studies. He will visit U-M on February 10 to give a lecture at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies titled\, “Informed Storytelling: Beyond the Facts.”\n\nThe project was made possible with a grant from the Institute of Modern Russia. University of Michigan sponsors for the Work Gallery exhibit are the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies\; Center for Russian\, East European\, & Eurasian Studies\; and Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.\n\nFor hours and location\, visit the Work Gallery website at stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/work_ann_arbor.
UID:20274-1279024@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20274
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:photography,russia
LOCATION:Work Gallery 306 South State Street
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150413T125737
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T203000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Beekeeping with Ann Arbor Backyard Beekeepers
DESCRIPTION:Open to all beekeepers\, bee enthusiasts\, and those wanting to learn more about pollinators. Meetings start with an informal Q&A at 6:30\, followed by a formal presentation of a bee-related topic at 7. Program includes a discussion about honey bee management\, care\, and production\, as well as work to protect and enhance our local bee population. Free.
UID:22620-1404703@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22620
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150409T170630
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
DESCRIPTION:This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles\, one of America's greatest directors of film\, theater\, radio and television—highlights letters\, photographs\, scripts\, and production materials culled from the University of Michigan Library's extensive Orson Welles archives.\n\nOriginal items are on display in the Audubon Room\, which is open Mon-Fri 8:30am-7pm\, Sat 10am-6pm\, Sun 2-7pm.
UID:22554-1402708@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22554
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) & Audubon Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150513T115011
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150609T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Red Wanting Blue
DESCRIPTION:Known for making instant fans of the uninitiated with one of the most engaging and passionate live shows on the road today\, Red Wanting Blue found even bigger audiences after the release of its 2012 \"From The Vanishing Point\" album\, which landed in the Top 10 of Billboard’s Heatseekers chart and at #1 for the band’s home region. Appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman\, VH1’s Big Morning Buzz Live\, and NPR’s Mountain Stage followed\, and while the band continues to reach new and bigger career milestones\, Red Wanting Blue is also staying true to its roots. This is evident on the their new album\, \"Little America\,\" the band’s most personal and promising recording to date. \"Little America\" celebrates a community spirit Red Wanting Blue shares with its audience—a spirit goes beyond fans who simply give back the passion that comes off the stage. Red Wanting Blue’s hard work is matched by fans who work hard\, too. It’s not unexpected for members of this growing legion to take days off of work and cross state lines to follow the band\, to learn just-written tunes from wobbly YouTube videos\, and to sing every word at every concert. Get tickets early!
UID:22530-1402015@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22530
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T131356
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Seeing Music: Acrylic & Watercolor
DESCRIPTION:Deborah L. Hoover hopes to achieve what the Swiss artist Paul Klee described as\, “making the invisible visible.” The music the musicians create in her paintings is full of life. Can you hear it? Using vibrant colors in acrylic or watercolor\, Hoover’s paintings inspire a multisensory response. She graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design and currently works in graphic arts and painting.
UID:22428-1396844@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22428
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150310T132434
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Dinnerware Museum: A Place at the Table
DESCRIPTION:The Dinnerware Museum\, a new museum in Ann Arbor established in 2012\, features a collection of thousands of pieces of functional dinnerware from all over the world along with fine art referencing dinnerware created from ceramic\, metal\, glass\, paper\, plastic and more. This exhibition highlights portions of eight memorable place settings of American tableware dating from the 1930s to the present\, including sets designed by the leading 20th century designers Eva Zeisel\, Russel Wright\, Glidden Parker\, and Don Schreckengost as well as new dinnerware by contemporary artist Julia Galloway in 2014.
UID:21151-1335866@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21151
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141218T105602
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Re-Imaging Gender - A Juried Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Our understandings of gender have shifted dramatically in recent decades. No longer is gender a matter of an immutable binary\, or a set of predetermined preferences and predilections. This exhibition--the first of its kind--both celebrates and interrogates the visual aspects of the re- imaging of gender.\n\nRe-imaging Gender features the work of 15 promising artists who take on one of the most important challenges facing contemporary art: how to render the modern spectrum of gender\, going beyond the simple male/female binary to include a wide variety of identities and sexualities.\n\nThe Re-imaging artists\, MFA students enrolled at Michigan and CIC universities (Big 10\, plus Chicago)\, responded to an IRWG-issued Call for Art. The result is an exhibition of 17 works in a variety of media\, including photography\, paint\, lithograph\, mixed media\, and video\, which reflect new understandings of gender.\n\nThe exhibit will be displayed at the Lane Hall Gallery\, a space shared by IRWG and the U-M Department of Women’s Studies\, from January 15 - June 26\, 2015.
UID:20407-1287720@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20407
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,LGBT,Literary Arts,Visual Arts,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Lane Hall - Gallery space on first floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150512T100037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T235900
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Textile Trade Ascendancies
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features cloth samples\, photographs\, and maps\, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from 16th century trading with Portugal to the present\, when the Nigerian textile trade is dominated by imports from China. Curated by Elisha P. Renne\, U-M professor in Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies.
UID:22816-1412267@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22816
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150505T101537
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T164500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Drawdown Vietnam\, April – May 1975
DESCRIPTION:America’s long involvement in the war in Vietnam and Indochina drew to a close in April - May 1975. As the city of Saigon fell to the advancing North Vietnamese Army\, the United States military evacuated thousands of South Vietnamese civilians to ships nearby.\n\nIn the midst of the chaos\, two smaller rescues took place – Operation Babylift\, in which more than three thousand children and babies were airlifted to safety\, and the rescue of the S.S. Mayaguez\, whose ship and crew were captured by forces of the new Cambodian Khmer Rouge government less than two weeks following the fall of Saigon.\n\nThe unfolding of these events are chronicled in two lobby displays at the Gerald Ford Presidential Library – complete with artifacts\, photographs\, documents and personal stories of those involved.\n\nThe exhibit is free to Library visitors\, and will be on display through September\, 2015. \n\nPlease note that the Library is NOT open on weekends or Federal holidays. Library hours are Monday – Friday  8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
UID:22785-1411388@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22785
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Cambodia,Indochina,Operation Babylift,Saigon,Vietnam
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150217T130051
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Boosting Your Self-Esteem and Confidence
DESCRIPTION:Pioneering Psychologist Dr. Nathaniel Branden writes: “The reputation you have with yourself—your self-esteem—is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.” Are you critical of yourself? Are you an over-achiever? Do you feel like you have to be perfect? Do you feel selfish when you put your own needs ahead of others? This session provides a safe\, supportive space to learn and practice new behaviors to facilitate lasting change.\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nIdentify the various symptoms of low self-esteem\nRecognize where low self-esteem originates and determine its overall impact\nFind and use new behaviors to facilitate lasting change in your confidence\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nRealizing improved self esteem and confidence\nUnderstanding how to be more comfortable in your own skin\nTaking steps to change how you see yourself\nUnderstanding how low self-esteem is playing out in your life\n\nAudience:\n\nAnyone who wants to rediscover their best self and experience more authenticity\, self-respect\, satisfaction with life\, enthusiasm\, and comfort in your own skin\n\nSchedule Selection(s) Competencies: BI CO CS DO
UID:21652-1357959@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21652
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Networking,Workshop
LOCATION:Administrative Services Building - HRD
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150520T114113
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Rocks\, Paper\, Memory: Wendy Artin’s Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures
DESCRIPTION:An American artist who lives in Rome\, Wendy Artin has been working for over a decade on a series of watercolor paintings of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures and related subjects. This exhibition will feature a selection of her paintings\, not only images of ancient sculptures and landscapes but also contemporary life studies. The paintings will be set in dialogue with objects drawn from the Kelsey's collections\, including works of Greek art inspired by Egyptian precedents and examples of the same figure types seen in Artin's work (such as Aphrodite rising from the sea).\n\nWendy Artin is one of a long line of artists who draw inspiration from antiquity. Indeed\, this tradition has very ancient precedents\, such as the Roman practice of making marble “copies” of famous Greek bronze statues. Artin’s visually stunning paintings offer fresh and arresting ways of looking at ancient sculptures and buildings.
UID:22876-1414351@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22876
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - Upjohn Wing: Meader Special Exhibition Gallery, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150313T140540
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Shape of the Universe
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe\, from Einstein's discovery of space-time\, through the development of theories explaining the Big Bang and cosmic expansion\, up to cutting-edge research on gravity waves being conducted by U-M mathematician Lydia Bieri. This exhibit will include interactives\, video\, beautiful NASA photographs\, and artwork by local high school students.
UID:21954-1372972@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21954
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Exhibition,Science
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150527T112108
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Magnificent Miniatures
DESCRIPTION:Featuring a collection of satsuki azalea bonsai in bloom on loan from renowned Ohio collector and U-M alumnus Melvyn Goldstein. Satsuki azalea (Rhododendron indicum) are one of the most popular and prized species used for bonsai in Japan and have been so there for at least 400 years. There are more than 3\,000 varieties. Some of the plants have different-colored flowers on the same tree\, and many flowers themselves are multi-colored. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see these bonsai azalea in bloom at Matthaei Botanical Gardens.
UID:22928-1415854@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22928
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Exhibition,Japanese Studies
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150527T081708
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T163000
SUMMARY:Other:Peony Garden Season in Nichols Arboretum
DESCRIPTION:The Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden is a must-see on the University of Michigan campus each spring. Thousands of blooms in the largest collection of heirloom herbaceous peonies in North America. Self-guided tours and peony information. Free admission. Also\, join us Sunday\, June 7 at 2 p.m. for Peony Blossoms and Pure Melodies\, an afternoon of Chinese flower songs in the Arb (in collaboration with the U-M Confucius Institute).\n\nNote: Peony bloom season is weather dependent. Please visit our dedicated peony website for daily bloom updates: mbgna.umich.edu/peony
UID:22824-1412386@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22824
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Gardening\, Horticulture,Outdoors
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T090526
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes\, Charity Donation Boxes
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In Judaism\, dispensing of charity is not simply a monetary transaction. Rather\, the act is a beautiful exemplar of an individual’s conscious choice to help another person\, while also acknowledging the transience of material wealth and paying one’s good fortunes forward.\n\nThese Pushkes function as vessels that anonymize the donations within\, stressing that the act of giving should not be done for acknowledgement. Instead\, giving should signify a gesture of honest good will. Furthermore\, the amalgam of wealth inside these boxes is comprised of the materiality and benevolence of an entire community.\n\nצדקה תציל ממװת\nTsedakah tatsil mi-mavet\nCharity Saves from Death\n     — 156b\, Tractate Shabes\, Babylonian Talmud\n\nAll items on display were donated by Constance Harris and are on loan from the Jewish Heritage Collection Dedicated to Mark and Dave Harris\, Special Collections Library\, University of Michigan Library—except where otherwise noted.
UID:22410-1396021@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22410
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies,Library
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150406T161023
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Through the Magnifying Glass: A Short History of the Microscope
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit displays a selection of books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that contain extraordinary illustrations of animals and plants as they were originally seen through the lenses of early microscopes. Also included are three eighteenth-century microscopes and a series of images taken by modern microscopes.\n\nOn display Monday through Friday\, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
UID:22502-1400834@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22502
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biology,History,Library,Science
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141201T143728
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection
DESCRIPTION:For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series\, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis\, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life Sciences Institute and Medical School\, to curate an exhibition from the Museum’s collection of three-dimensional objects.\n 	As a scientist\, Skiniotis creates three-dimensional models of cellular components by combining their magnified shadows or projections viewed from different perspectives. This type of study inevitably raises questions regarding the cognition of the objects around us—how\, in the absence of perspective\, are we to read elements like color\, contrast variation\, and depth of field in the dark outlines of objects? How do we make the cognitive connection between a two-dimensional shadow and the three-dimensional object that casts it? How many two-dimensional projections are needed for us to understand what we are looking at\, and at what level of detail?\nThis exhibition poses such questions by juxtaposing three-dimensional objects from the Museum’s collection with two-dimensional projections created by Skiniotis using a similar process with which he creates models of cellular components. The presentation aims to provide a glimpse of the impressions of the selected works from varied directions through interplay with their own projections and our minds.\nThe UMMA Flip Your Field series asks noted University of Michigan faculty members to consider artwork outside their field of specialization in order to guest curate an exhibition using works from UMMA's renowned collection. The UMMA Flip Your Field series is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
UID:20123-1348342@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20123
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Biology,Discussion,Exhibition,Free,History,Information and Technology,Media,Medicine,Museum,Research,Science,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150207T184109
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal\, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s based on how important paper and the written word are to civilization—including how easily writings and\, consequently knowledge\, can be lost.  This exhibition\, consisting of 19 photographs from UMMA’s collection\, was inspired by the presence of the Frank Gehry chair made of cardboard in UMMA’s Design Gallery\, and of and the need to address how artists from different cultures (present-day America and communist Czechoslovakia) view a commodity as common as paper.\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 Center for European Studies\, Center for Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies\, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.
UID:21358-1349017@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21358
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150207T183355
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
DESCRIPTION:For more than 25 years\, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art that is focused on men and male identity as its subject matter. This exhibition features works from their vast holdings in photography. Guest curator Mario Codognato examines the lives of men in contemporary Western societies—with all their contradictions—through themes of competition and solidarity\, confrontation with identity\, and diverse explorations of the body and sexuality (as both sign and experience). Together\, these thematic groups form a fictional\, somewhat idealized\, tale in 13 chapters\, inviting viewers to reflect upon their own stories as well.\n\nDrawing upon the Hergott Shepard collection as well as select works gifted by the collectors to the Hammer Museum at UCLA\, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles (MOCA)\, the exhibition will include more than 60 works by some of the most important names in late 20th and early 21st century art\, including Doug Aitken\, John Baldessari\, Matthew Barney\, Rineke Dijkstra\, Gilbert and George\, Nan Goldin\, Robert Mapplethorpe\, Catherine Opie\, Herb Ritts\, Thomas Ruff\, Andres Serrano\, and Wolfgang Tillmans.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the University of Michigan Health System. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice Provost for Equity\, Inclusion\, and Academic Affairs\, Department of the History of Art\, Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, Institute for the Humanities\, and Residential College\, and the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund.
UID:21357-1348893@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21357
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,LGBT,Multicultural,Museum,Social,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20150323T153554
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters
DESCRIPTION:During World War I\, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers\, housewives and shipbuilders\, “old-stock Americans” and immigrants to the cause. Propaganda\, commodity\, and art came together in WWI posters. This exhibition presents rarely displayed WWI posters from UMMA’s collection.\nThe focus of the exhibition is posters directed at coal miners. These works explore the larger themes of supporting the war effort and Americanism. Coal mining communities were microcosms for the social and economic pressures when the United States entered the Great War in 1917. Coal was a central resource for the war\, yet the immigrant workforce was considered unreliable because of increasingly frequent workers’ strikes. Posters also addressed anxieties about the definition of American culture and its readiness for war.\nMarking the centennial of the Great War (1914-1919)\, the presentation of WWI posters of the UMMA collection includes some of the lesser-known works by America’s most famous poster artists. From iconic Gibson-girl type illustrations to multilingual posters in Polish\, Italian\, and German\, these posters present war-time American ideals. Works by famed designers James Montgomery Flagg\, the designer of the Uncle Sam “I Want You” poster\, and Howard Christy are featured alongside works by illustrators like J.C. Leyendecker and the acclaimed painter and printmaker Henry Reuterdahl.
UID:22267-1389545@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22267
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Culture,Discussion,Exhibition,Free,History,Language,Lifelong Learning,Museum,Politics,Research,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150323T152350
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sophie Calle: North Pole
DESCRIPTION:Following her mother's death\, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North Pole\, a place her mother had always dreamed of seeing. This multifaceted installation\, consisting of video\, photographs\, and a light box\, documents moments of Calle's journey to fulfill her mother's unrealized dream.\n\nNorth Pole / Pôle nord also includes three porcelain plaques on which Calle has inscribed a story about her voyage. The following text is an excerpt:\n\n\"I waited to reach the northernmost point on the trip in order to go ashore and bury my mother's jewels. L.\, my cabin-mate on the boat\, suggested that if the weather was not permitting\, I could still flush the ring down the toilet. The prospect would have made my mother laugh. But on Thursday October 2\, 2008\, the weather was fine. I ventured onto the glacier\, chose a beautiful stone and buried the portrait\, the necklace and the diamond. Now my mother has gone to the Arctic North. Will climate change carry her out to sea as far as the Pole? Will she be dragged down the valley towards the ice cap? Will she stay on that shore\, a marker of the Northern Glacier’s existence in the Holocene period?\"\n\nThe creative process that drives North Pole is characteristic of Calle's practice: she not only shares a story drawn from her own life\, but uses that moment to inspire further artistic exploration. Following a set of self-established behavioral instructions\, she transforms her daily life with a series of performative actions\, usually executed as a combination of texts and photographs. The result is a poignant reconsideration of the parameters of public versus private life\, through a body of work grounded in compelling\, and often very intimate\, personal investigation.\n\nThis exhibition is made possible in part by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund.
UID:22265-1389445@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22265
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Discussion,Exhibition,Family,Free,Language,Lifelong Learning,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141208T162258
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?
DESCRIPTION:This photography exhibit by Misha Friedman attempts to capture the pervasive culture of corruption in Russia. Friedman explains the photo collection in a New York Times op-ed\, writing\, “Corruption in Russia is so pervasive that the whole society accepts the unacceptable as normal\, as the only way of survival\, as the way things ‘just are.’”\n\nMisha Friedman was born in Moldova\, which at the time was part of the Soviet Union. He immigrated to the United States in 1991\, when he was 14\, and currently lives in New York. Friedman has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s in Russian and Post-Soviet studies. He will visit U-M on February 10 to give a lecture at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies titled\, “Informed Storytelling: Beyond the Facts.”\n\nThe project was made possible with a grant from the Institute of Modern Russia. University of Michigan sponsors for the Work Gallery exhibit are the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies\; Center for Russian\, East European\, & Eurasian Studies\; and Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.\n\nFor hours and location\, visit the Work Gallery website at stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/work_ann_arbor.
UID:20274-1279025@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20274
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:photography,russia
LOCATION:Work Gallery 306 South State Street
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150513T115157
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Antigone Rising
DESCRIPTION:Says Joan Jett: \"Antigone Rising is carrying on the feral spirit of The Runaways.\" This all-female New York City quartet cultivates an amazing mixture of three-part harmony singing\, orginal country-flavored songwriting\, and rock intensity. They've toured the Middle East as ambassadors of the U.S. State Department\, and their videos have appeared on both VH1 and CMT. The band has appeared on has also appeared The Today Show\, The Tonight Show\, Emeril Live\, and A&E's Breakfast with the Arts. Each of their albums since they came on the scene in 2005 has outdone the previous one\, Guitarist\, songwriter\, and group co-founder Kristen Ellis-Henderson and wife Sarah Kate Ellis were featured on the cover of Time magazine's April 8\, 2013\, issue marking the advance of gay marriage. A recent NYC performance\, noted Curve\, \"stoked the predominately lesbian crowd already burning with music-lust and the desire for more\, more\, more of Antigone Rising.\"
UID:21494-1352904@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21494
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150409T170630
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
DESCRIPTION:This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles\, one of America's greatest directors of film\, theater\, radio and television—highlights letters\, photographs\, scripts\, and production materials culled from the University of Michigan Library's extensive Orson Welles archives.\n\nOriginal items are on display in the Audubon Room\, which is open Mon-Fri 8:30am-7pm\, Sat 10am-6pm\, Sun 2-7pm.
UID:22554-1402709@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22554
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) & Audubon Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150610T180003
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150610T234500
SUMMARY:Other:Swing Ann Arbor Social Dance
DESCRIPTION:Interested in learning swing dance? Join Swing Ann Arbor every Wednesday to learn how to swing dance and to make friends! 8-9 PM FREE Beginner Drop In Lesson9-11 PM Social Dancing\; Free for everyone\, $2-3 suggested donation11 PM-12:30 AM: Blues Dancing at Silvio's Organic Pizza
UID:22984-1417683@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22984
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:NorthQuad Space # 2435
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T131356
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Seeing Music: Acrylic & Watercolor
DESCRIPTION:Deborah L. Hoover hopes to achieve what the Swiss artist Paul Klee described as\, “making the invisible visible.” The music the musicians create in her paintings is full of life. Can you hear it? Using vibrant colors in acrylic or watercolor\, Hoover’s paintings inspire a multisensory response. She graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design and currently works in graphic arts and painting.
UID:22428-1396845@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22428
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150310T132434
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Dinnerware Museum: A Place at the Table
DESCRIPTION:The Dinnerware Museum\, a new museum in Ann Arbor established in 2012\, features a collection of thousands of pieces of functional dinnerware from all over the world along with fine art referencing dinnerware created from ceramic\, metal\, glass\, paper\, plastic and more. This exhibition highlights portions of eight memorable place settings of American tableware dating from the 1930s to the present\, including sets designed by the leading 20th century designers Eva Zeisel\, Russel Wright\, Glidden Parker\, and Don Schreckengost as well as new dinnerware by contemporary artist Julia Galloway in 2014.
UID:21151-1335867@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21151
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141218T105602
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Re-Imaging Gender - A Juried Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Our understandings of gender have shifted dramatically in recent decades. No longer is gender a matter of an immutable binary\, or a set of predetermined preferences and predilections. This exhibition--the first of its kind--both celebrates and interrogates the visual aspects of the re- imaging of gender.\n\nRe-imaging Gender features the work of 15 promising artists who take on one of the most important challenges facing contemporary art: how to render the modern spectrum of gender\, going beyond the simple male/female binary to include a wide variety of identities and sexualities.\n\nThe Re-imaging artists\, MFA students enrolled at Michigan and CIC universities (Big 10\, plus Chicago)\, responded to an IRWG-issued Call for Art. The result is an exhibition of 17 works in a variety of media\, including photography\, paint\, lithograph\, mixed media\, and video\, which reflect new understandings of gender.\n\nThe exhibit will be displayed at the Lane Hall Gallery\, a space shared by IRWG and the U-M Department of Women’s Studies\, from January 15 - June 26\, 2015.
UID:20407-1287721@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20407
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,LGBT,Literary Arts,Visual Arts,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Lane Hall - Gallery space on first floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150512T100037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T235900
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Textile Trade Ascendancies
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features cloth samples\, photographs\, and maps\, and offers an overview of changing patterns of the textile trade in Nigeria from 16th century trading with Portugal to the present\, when the Nigerian textile trade is dominated by imports from China. Curated by Elisha P. Renne\, U-M professor in Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies.
UID:22816-1412268@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22816
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150217T130517
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Taming the E-Mail and Office Clutter Beast!
DESCRIPTION:Every day professionals are getting buried under a continuing stream of both useful and useless information. Come and learn how to finally feel like you are on top of your work\, rather than it being on top of you.\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nUse proven strategies to effectively sort\, prioritize\, and manage your email accounts\nIdentify ways to manage the various sources of information in your work\nPrepare a daily plan of action to apply to the most important and/or urgent projects and tasks in your job\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nLearning how to control e-mail\, voice mail\, snail mail\, articles\, reports\, and other sources of information overload\nGaining efficiency by reducing or eliminating clutter on your computer and in your work area\nIncreasing your effectiveness by proactively identifying and acting on your most important/urgent projects and tasks\nLowering your stress level by feeling more in control of the information flow\n\nAudience:\n\nAnyone who experiences a high volume of information\n\nSchedule Selection(s) Competencies: DO LA
UID:21654-1357962@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21654
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Networking,Workshop
LOCATION:Administrative Services Building - HRD
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150505T101537
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T164500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Drawdown Vietnam\, April – May 1975
DESCRIPTION:America’s long involvement in the war in Vietnam and Indochina drew to a close in April - May 1975. As the city of Saigon fell to the advancing North Vietnamese Army\, the United States military evacuated thousands of South Vietnamese civilians to ships nearby.\n\nIn the midst of the chaos\, two smaller rescues took place – Operation Babylift\, in which more than three thousand children and babies were airlifted to safety\, and the rescue of the S.S. Mayaguez\, whose ship and crew were captured by forces of the new Cambodian Khmer Rouge government less than two weeks following the fall of Saigon.\n\nThe unfolding of these events are chronicled in two lobby displays at the Gerald Ford Presidential Library – complete with artifacts\, photographs\, documents and personal stories of those involved.\n\nThe exhibit is free to Library visitors\, and will be on display through September\, 2015. \n\nPlease note that the Library is NOT open on weekends or Federal holidays. Library hours are Monday – Friday  8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
UID:22785-1411389@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22785
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Cambodia,Indochina,Operation Babylift,Saigon,Vietnam
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150520T114113
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Rocks\, Paper\, Memory: Wendy Artin’s Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures
DESCRIPTION:An American artist who lives in Rome\, Wendy Artin has been working for over a decade on a series of watercolor paintings of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures and related subjects. This exhibition will feature a selection of her paintings\, not only images of ancient sculptures and landscapes but also contemporary life studies. The paintings will be set in dialogue with objects drawn from the Kelsey's collections\, including works of Greek art inspired by Egyptian precedents and examples of the same figure types seen in Artin's work (such as Aphrodite rising from the sea).\n\nWendy Artin is one of a long line of artists who draw inspiration from antiquity. Indeed\, this tradition has very ancient precedents\, such as the Roman practice of making marble “copies” of famous Greek bronze statues. Artin’s visually stunning paintings offer fresh and arresting ways of looking at ancient sculptures and buildings.
UID:22876-1414352@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22876
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - Upjohn Wing: Meader Special Exhibition Gallery, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150313T140540
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Shape of the Universe
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe\, from Einstein's discovery of space-time\, through the development of theories explaining the Big Bang and cosmic expansion\, up to cutting-edge research on gravity waves being conducted by U-M mathematician Lydia Bieri. This exhibit will include interactives\, video\, beautiful NASA photographs\, and artwork by local high school students.
UID:21954-1372973@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21954
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Exhibition,Science
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150527T112108
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Magnificent Miniatures
DESCRIPTION:Featuring a collection of satsuki azalea bonsai in bloom on loan from renowned Ohio collector and U-M alumnus Melvyn Goldstein. Satsuki azalea (Rhododendron indicum) are one of the most popular and prized species used for bonsai in Japan and have been so there for at least 400 years. There are more than 3\,000 varieties. Some of the plants have different-colored flowers on the same tree\, and many flowers themselves are multi-colored. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see these bonsai azalea in bloom at Matthaei Botanical Gardens.
UID:22928-1415855@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22928
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Exhibition,Japanese Studies
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150527T081708
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T163000
SUMMARY:Other:Peony Garden Season in Nichols Arboretum
DESCRIPTION:The Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden is a must-see on the University of Michigan campus each spring. Thousands of blooms in the largest collection of heirloom herbaceous peonies in North America. Self-guided tours and peony information. Free admission. Also\, join us Sunday\, June 7 at 2 p.m. for Peony Blossoms and Pure Melodies\, an afternoon of Chinese flower songs in the Arb (in collaboration with the U-M Confucius Institute).\n\nNote: Peony bloom season is weather dependent. Please visit our dedicated peony website for daily bloom updates: mbgna.umich.edu/peony
UID:22824-1412387@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22824
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Gardening\, Horticulture,Outdoors
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150331T090526
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes\, Charity Donation Boxes
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In Judaism\, dispensing of charity is not simply a monetary transaction. Rather\, the act is a beautiful exemplar of an individual’s conscious choice to help another person\, while also acknowledging the transience of material wealth and paying one’s good fortunes forward.\n\nThese Pushkes function as vessels that anonymize the donations within\, stressing that the act of giving should not be done for acknowledgement. Instead\, giving should signify a gesture of honest good will. Furthermore\, the amalgam of wealth inside these boxes is comprised of the materiality and benevolence of an entire community.\n\nצדקה תציל ממװת\nTsedakah tatsil mi-mavet\nCharity Saves from Death\n     — 156b\, Tractate Shabes\, Babylonian Talmud\n\nAll items on display were donated by Constance Harris and are on loan from the Jewish Heritage Collection Dedicated to Mark and Dave Harris\, Special Collections Library\, University of Michigan Library—except where otherwise noted.
UID:22410-1396022@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22410
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies,Library
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150406T161023
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Through the Magnifying Glass: A Short History of the Microscope
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit displays a selection of books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that contain extraordinary illustrations of animals and plants as they were originally seen through the lenses of early microscopes. Also included are three eighteenth-century microscopes and a series of images taken by modern microscopes.\n\nOn display Monday through Friday\, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
UID:22502-1400835@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22502
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biology,History,Library,Science
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20141201T143728
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Flip Your Field: Objects from the Collection
DESCRIPTION:For the third installation of the Flip Your Field series\, UMMA invites Georgios Skiniotis\, Professor of Biological Chemistry at U-M’s Life Sciences Institute and Medical School\, to curate an exhibition from the Museum’s collection of three-dimensional objects.\n 	As a scientist\, Skiniotis creates three-dimensional models of cellular components by combining their magnified shadows or projections viewed from different perspectives. This type of study inevitably raises questions regarding the cognition of the objects around us—how\, in the absence of perspective\, are we to read elements like color\, contrast variation\, and depth of field in the dark outlines of objects? How do we make the cognitive connection between a two-dimensional shadow and the three-dimensional object that casts it? How many two-dimensional projections are needed for us to understand what we are looking at\, and at what level of detail?\nThis exhibition poses such questions by juxtaposing three-dimensional objects from the Museum’s collection with two-dimensional projections created by Skiniotis using a similar process with which he creates models of cellular components. The presentation aims to provide a glimpse of the impressions of the selected works from varied directions through interplay with their own projections and our minds.\nThe UMMA Flip Your Field series asks noted University of Michigan faculty members to consider artwork outside their field of specialization in order to guest curate an exhibition using works from UMMA's renowned collection. The UMMA Flip Your Field series is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
UID:20123-1348296@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20123
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Biology,Discussion,Exhibition,Free,History,Information and Technology,Media,Medicine,Museum,Research,Science,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150207T184109
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal\, Czech photographer Hana Hamplová created a memorable body of work during the 1970s based on how important paper and the written word are to civilization—including how easily writings and\, consequently knowledge\, can be lost.  This exhibition\, consisting of 19 photographs from UMMA’s collection\, was inspired by the presence of the Frank Gehry chair made of cardboard in UMMA’s Design Gallery\, and of and the need to address how artists from different cultures (present-day America and communist Czechoslovakia) view a commodity as common as paper.\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 Center for European Studies\, Center for Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies\, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.
UID:21358-1349041@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21358
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150207T183355
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
DESCRIPTION:For more than 25 years\, Los Angeles-based collectors Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard have built a world-class collection of contemporary art that is focused on men and male identity as its subject matter. This exhibition features works from their vast holdings in photography. Guest curator Mario Codognato examines the lives of men in contemporary Western societies—with all their contradictions—through themes of competition and solidarity\, confrontation with identity\, and diverse explorations of the body and sexuality (as both sign and experience). Together\, these thematic groups form a fictional\, somewhat idealized\, tale in 13 chapters\, inviting viewers to reflect upon their own stories as well.\n\nDrawing upon the Hergott Shepard collection as well as select works gifted by the collectors to the Hammer Museum at UCLA\, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles (MOCA)\, the exhibition will include more than 60 works by some of the most important names in late 20th and early 21st century art\, including Doug Aitken\, John Baldessari\, Matthew Barney\, Rineke Dijkstra\, Gilbert and George\, Nan Goldin\, Robert Mapplethorpe\, Catherine Opie\, Herb Ritts\, Thomas Ruff\, Andres Serrano\, and Wolfgang Tillmans.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the University of Michigan Health System. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice Provost for Equity\, Inclusion\, and Academic Affairs\, Department of the History of Art\, Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, Institute for the Humanities\, and Residential College\, and the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund.
UID:21357-1348910@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21357
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,LGBT,Multicultural,Museum,Social,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20150323T153554
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters
DESCRIPTION:During World War I\, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers\, housewives and shipbuilders\, “old-stock Americans” and immigrants to the cause. Propaganda\, commodity\, and art came together in WWI posters. This exhibition presents rarely displayed WWI posters from UMMA’s collection.\nThe focus of the exhibition is posters directed at coal miners. These works explore the larger themes of supporting the war effort and Americanism. Coal mining communities were microcosms for the social and economic pressures when the United States entered the Great War in 1917. Coal was a central resource for the war\, yet the immigrant workforce was considered unreliable because of increasingly frequent workers’ strikes. Posters also addressed anxieties about the definition of American culture and its readiness for war.\nMarking the centennial of the Great War (1914-1919)\, the presentation of WWI posters of the UMMA collection includes some of the lesser-known works by America’s most famous poster artists. From iconic Gibson-girl type illustrations to multilingual posters in Polish\, Italian\, and German\, these posters present war-time American ideals. Works by famed designers James Montgomery Flagg\, the designer of the Uncle Sam “I Want You” poster\, and Howard Christy are featured alongside works by illustrators like J.C. Leyendecker and the acclaimed painter and printmaker Henry Reuterdahl.
UID:22267-1389564@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22267
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Culture,Discussion,Exhibition,Free,History,Language,Lifelong Learning,Museum,Politics,Research,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20150323T152350
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sophie Calle: North Pole
DESCRIPTION:Following her mother's death\, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle wanted to bury her portrait and jewels on a glacier in the North Pole\, a place her mother had always dreamed of seeing. This multifaceted installation\, consisting of video\, photographs\, and a light box\, documents moments of Calle's journey to fulfill her mother's unrealized dream.\n\nNorth Pole / Pôle nord also includes three porcelain plaques on which Calle has inscribed a story about her voyage. The following text is an excerpt:\n\n\"I waited to reach the northernmost point on the trip in order to go ashore and bury my mother's jewels. L.\, my cabin-mate on the boat\, suggested that if the weather was not permitting\, I could still flush the ring down the toilet. The prospect would have made my mother laugh. But on Thursday October 2\, 2008\, the weather was fine. I ventured onto the glacier\, chose a beautiful stone and buried the portrait\, the necklace and the diamond. Now my mother has gone to the Arctic North. Will climate change carry her out to sea as far as the Pole? Will she be dragged down the valley towards the ice cap? Will she stay on that shore\, a marker of the Northern Glacier’s existence in the Holocene period?\"\n\nThe creative process that drives North Pole is characteristic of Calle's practice: she not only shares a story drawn from her own life\, but uses that moment to inspire further artistic exploration. Following a set of self-established behavioral instructions\, she transforms her daily life with a series of performative actions\, usually executed as a combination of texts and photographs. The result is a poignant reconsideration of the parameters of public versus private life\, through a body of work grounded in compelling\, and often very intimate\, personal investigation.\n\nThis exhibition is made possible in part by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund.
UID:22265-1389459@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22265
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Discussion,Exhibition,Family,Free,Language,Lifelong Learning,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20150506T141056
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T130000
SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents Rhythm & Blues
DESCRIPTION:In Flight\, also known as Super Gee Crew\, has been providing musical entertainment for Michiganders for over twenty-five years. With a song list that spans three generations\, the party never ends. Greg “Super Gee” McKinney is retired from the University of Michigan Health System\, where he worked in the main operating rooms. He’s now a basketball referee\, baseball umpire and ballroom dance teacher. Dan Goree plays guitar\; Greg McKinney\, keyboard\; Ted Brannon\, bass\; and Joe Gaglio\, drums. This concert is part of the UMHS Summer Courtyard Concert Series by Gifts of Art.\n\n**Rain location: University Hospital Main Lobby\, Floor 1
UID:22799-1411038@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22799
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Concert,Health & Wellness,Music
LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Courtyard
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DTSTAMP:20141208T162258
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?
DESCRIPTION:This photography exhibit by Misha Friedman attempts to capture the pervasive culture of corruption in Russia. Friedman explains the photo collection in a New York Times op-ed\, writing\, “Corruption in Russia is so pervasive that the whole society accepts the unacceptable as normal\, as the only way of survival\, as the way things ‘just are.’”\n\nMisha Friedman was born in Moldova\, which at the time was part of the Soviet Union. He immigrated to the United States in 1991\, when he was 14\, and currently lives in New York. Friedman has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s in Russian and Post-Soviet studies. He will visit U-M on February 10 to give a lecture at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies titled\, “Informed Storytelling: Beyond the Facts.”\n\nThe project was made possible with a grant from the Institute of Modern Russia. University of Michigan sponsors for the Work Gallery exhibit are the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies\; Center for Russian\, East European\, & Eurasian Studies\; and Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.\n\nFor hours and location\, visit the Work Gallery website at stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/work_ann_arbor.
UID:20274-1279026@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/20274
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:photography,russia
LOCATION:Work Gallery 306 South State Street
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150413T174201
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T180000
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:17439-1409705@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 - 3163
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DTSTAMP:20150413T124425
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Shakespeare in the Arb 15th Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare in the Arb turns 15 in '15. Join the Residential College and Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum in celebrating this occasion\, which includes performances each weekend in June. Directed by Kate Mendeloff and performed by U-M students\, faculty\, and local actors. This is a ticketed event.
UID:22617-1404682@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22617
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment,Family,Literature,Outdoors,Theater
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
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DTSTAMP:20150513T115223
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Drew De Four & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Drew De Four\, the Troubadour\, has played over 1\,000 shows in cities all over Japan\, the United States\, the United Kingdom\, and Ireland\, and Poland A piano-playing singer-songwriter\, Drew has released four albums internationally and completed several solo world tours without the help of a major label. Instead\, Drew funds his own projects by working feverishly at dueling piano clubs around the country. He is all about being a high-energy\, uniquely entertaining\, physically imposing presence all night long! Drew lives in Ann Arbor\, and he's a graduate of the University of Michigan music school's excellent improvisation program. His music is a combination of piano bar potpourri\, New Orleans jazz\, Waitsian ballads\, and beat-box-piano pop.
UID:21999-1376583@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/21999
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20150409T170630
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150611T230000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives
DESCRIPTION:This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles\, one of America's greatest directors of film\, theater\, radio and television—highlights letters\, photographs\, scripts\, and production materials culled from the University of Michigan Library's extensive Orson Welles archives.\n\nOriginal items are on display in the Audubon Room\, which is open Mon-Fri 8:30am-7pm\, Sat 10am-6pm\, Sun 2-7pm.
UID:22554-1402710@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22554
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) & Audubon Room
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