BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160606T124513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160625T213000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T020000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Ann Arbor Japan Week | Karaoke Night at Nagomi Sushi Downtown DESCRIPTION:For those night owls looking to enjoy a beloved Japanese pastime\, come check out Nagomi Sushi’s new Downtown Ann Arbor location\, and enjoy FREE karaoke! Along with their impressive sushi selection\, Nagomi Sushi offers a unique selection of Japanese-style skewers (kushiyaki)\, a traditional Japanese street food. Free karaoke offered to those that mention Japan Week. Located at 241 East Liberty Street. \n\nIn partnership with Nagomi Sushi Downtown. UID:30916-3891029@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30916 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Japanese Studies LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160704T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Henley Royal Regatta DESCRIPTION:Cheerio! UID:28635-4118357@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28635 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Henley on Thames CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Abstraction: A Graphic Study DESCRIPTION:Chicago-based artist Natasha Kohli uses abstract acrylic paintings to convey her messages of positivity and love by pouring that energy into each piece. As a self-taught artist\, Kohli is not bound to school taught rules but rather follows instinct and spontaneity. This also allows her to freely create her own processes. Moments of introspection and feelings of acceptance are what Kohli wishes to offer viewers of her work\, and these goals are inspired by her deep love of spirituality and Bikram yoga. UID:30719-3703660@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30719 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Concrete Ephemera: Street Art Captured DESCRIPTION:David Zinn has been drawing on sidewalks for well over a decade\, using chalk and charcoal to create anamorphic 3D creatures which\, when viewed at a precise angle\, appear to exist in the real world. They often incorporate parts of the landscape and found objects\, such as cracks in concrete or leaves on the ground. He is inspired by a desire to place cheerful art underfoot in unexpected places and to embrace the temporary nature of all things. For this exhibit\, photographs of his street art installations will be on display. Zinn is a lifelong Michigander with a degree in creative writing from the U-M Residential College\, and he worked for many years as a children’s radio host on WCBN and Michigan Radio. Zinn will also give an artist demonstration alongside a musical performance by Magdalen Fossum in the University Hospital Courtyard on Thurs\, July 21\, 2016 from 12:00-1:00 pm. UID:30720-3703744@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30720 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T143042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Area Artists Photo Portrait Project DESCRIPTION:Donita Simpson is a Detroit based photographer who creates images of Detroit area artists in their personal creative environments. She has an M.F.A. in photography from Wayne State University\, and her work is currently on exhibit in The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The Detroit Area Artists Portrait Project contains images of artists that have been making art in and around the city for over 20 years. They are captured in an environment that inspires them\, often their home or their studio. UID:30717-3703492@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30717 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T144136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dimensions: Group Show DESCRIPTION:This group exhibit features a collection of contemporary artist’s books. Many different styles of alternative bindings and printing methods will be shown that often push the boundaries of traditional books and\, in the process\, become art objects. The show will also include mixed media sculptural pieces by Ray Wetzel and Phillip Dewey. The Michigan and Ohio book artists include Char Bacon\, Ruth Bardenstein\, Elizabeth Begue\, Barbara Brown\, Cecilia Escobar\, Alvey Jones and Norma Penchansky-Glasser. UID:30718-3703576@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T142303 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscapes Imagined: Oil on Canvas DESCRIPTION:Victoria Veedell creates atmospheric landscape paintings in oil on canvas\, capturing the fleeting moments of light in nature. The root of her work is an emotional reaction to the environment\, implying landscapes not necessarily seen but felt. Veedell lives and works in San Francisco\, and she is inspired by her global travels to places as far away as India and as near as Napa Valley\, California. Travel is an important component of her work as it allows her to observe and compare gradients of color\, light and atmosphere in different geographic locations. UID:30715-3703324@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30715 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151832 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Portals: Fiber Art Quilts DESCRIPTION:Creative Seasons is a small yet vibrant group of non-traditional quilters from Southeast Michigan that meets monthly. The group’s purpose is to share knowledge\, techniques and work collaboratively on projects and exhibits as decided by the group. The definition of a portal is a door\, means of entrance\, gateway\, approach or architectural composition surrounding an opening. The group chose to interpret this theme with a broad variety of art quilts incorporating hand-dyed and painted fabrics as well as a variety of surface embellishments. UID:30722-3703912@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30722 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Seriously Playful Jewelry: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:Rural Pennsylvania artists Lisa & Scott Cylinder have been husband and wife collaborators in Chickenscratch Art Jewelry since 1988\, having met at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania. Working together they have developed a wonderful exchange and interplay of ideas\, concepts and techniques\, involving meticulous fabrication with many different materials and processes. Their influences are varied and vast: modern art\, scientific phenomena\, 20th century artifacts\, nature and film play upon their ideas and how they manifest them into jewelry objects. Lisa & Scott Cylinder work to create art that stimulates conversation and curiosity. UID:30721-3703828@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30721 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T142706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Whimsical World of Bechler Pottery DESCRIPTION:The mixed media work of Stacey and Corey Bechler is whimsical\, colorful and fun. They use popular icons such as fish\, birds\, dogs and landscapes as their subjects\, and they make them look whimsical with elaborate colors\, shapes and textures. They work to create a powerful visual contrast within each piece. Using clay and glaze as a base for each of their pieces\, they often add touches of copper\, assorted wires and driftwood found near their beach home. They live on the shore of Lake Michigan inside Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. UID:30716-3703408@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30716 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20151211T113926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Works by Belle Kogan: First Female Industrial Designer DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents industrially-produced art pottery pieces designed by Belle Kogan (1902–2000)\, for Red Wing Potteries in Red Wing\, Minnesota. Kogan is considered the first prominent female industrial designer in the United States\, a founder of the profession\, and one of the 20th century's most significant designers. Her design aesthetic was heavily influenced by the geometric and streamlined shapes of Art Deco. Belle Kogan Associates\, her New York–based studio\, was the first American female-led design firm. Her contracts with Red Wing Potteries produced over 400 different art pottery shapes from the late 1930s to the early 1960s\, as well as several dinnerware and kitchenware lines. Belle Kogan and her firm designed products not only in ceramics but also clocks and small appliances\, glassware\, and pieces in silver\, plastics\, wrought iron and wood. UID:27190-2334062@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27190 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160310T165634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Intersections/Connections DESCRIPTION:This International Studies exhibit focuses on materials from across the world\, including many nations and cultures. Rather than displaying each area separately\, the exhibit concentrates on the connections and intersections among disparate regions. UID:29615-3148202@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29615 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160711T063006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T100000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Morgan Stanley's Richard B. Fisher Scholarship Program DESCRIPTION:Morgan Stanley is made up of many talents and perspectives. This diversity is what makes us unique. What you are interested in and how you approach the world will determine your individual path at Morgan Stanley. We strive to build an organization that is diverse in experience and background while reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. One way we demonstrate this commitment is through the Morgan Stanley Richard B. Fisher Scholarship Program which is an integral part of our diversity recruiting efforts helping to attract Black\, Hispanic\, Native American\, and LGBT college juniors and sophomores.\n\nIf selected as a Scholar\, you will receive a $15\,000 scholarship for exceptional academic achievement and a summer internship with Morgan Stanley. We encourage students of all majors and disciplines to apply.\n\nMorgan Stanley Campus Recruiting would like to invite your undergraduate sophomores and juniors to apply to our Richard B. Fisher Scholarship Program for Black\, Hispanic\, Native American and LGBT students. \n\nPlease note that there will be three application deadlines (June 26th\, October 2nd\, and November 6th) however students should select only one. We have provided separate links for sophomores and juniors. \n\nClass of 2018: https://morganstanley.tal.net/vx/brand-0/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/1/opp/2858-2017-Richard-B-Fischer-Scholarship-Juniors/en-GB\nClass of 2019: https://morganstanley.tal.net/vx/brand-0/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/1/opp/2859-2017-Richard-B-Fischer-Scholarship-Sophomores/en-GB UID:31061-4026872@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31061 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:New York, NY 10036, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160421T105421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Picture This! DESCRIPTION:An exhibit of photographs taken of and by young patients—many of whom were born with facial differences or cleft palates—in U-M Mott Hospital’s Craniofacial Anomalies Program. Paired with professional photographers\, the children learned new ways to look at and through the camera lens. UID:30488-3519928@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30488 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160404T105502 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29456-3120472@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents new and recent work by Los Angeles-based artist Catherine Opie\, one of the essential figures in contemporary photography. Beginning in 2010\, Opie spent six months taking photographs at the Bel Air\, California\, residence of Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011). The exhibition includes fifty works drawn from two series\, Closets and Jewels and 700 Nimes Road. Opie’s lens captures the essence of the Hollywood legend through her personal objects and mementos\, and portrays Taylor’s life experience and eccentricity as an illusory subject\, one that cannot be specifically designated or precisely described. In the artist’s words\, the project is not about the relationship to celebrity but about “the relationship to what is human.” UID:30494-3530515@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catie Newell: Overnight DESCRIPTION:Detroit-based architect Catie Newell’s work is focused on the tactile\, sensory qualities of the materials we use to build things: their texture\, density\, or malleability. Her investigations combine architectural research\, material studies\, and art experiments\, a strategy she began as a student that now defines her career.\n\nThe most important element in her formal vocabulary is light\, not only as a “material” in its own right\, but also as a condition. Varying in strength\, form\, and duration\, light constructs architecture as a situational experience rather than a fixed space. Newell’s fascination with light is a fascination with darkness. Through urban interventions\, installations\, and photographs\, she investigates how darkness creates alternate environments\, with unseen geographies\, untold histories\, and secret identities.\n\nNewell\, assistant professor of architecture at U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize in architecture. Overnight includes photographs from her Rome project as well as new photography from the series Nightly\, featuring nighttime images of Detroit streetscapes and interiors\, alongside a site-specific sculptural installation commissioned by the Museum. UID:30497-3530578@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30497 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160329T123251 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Focus: Jeanne Gang DESCRIPTION:Widely acclaimed for her integrative approach to materials\, technology\, and ecological context\, Chicago-based architect Jeanne Gang was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. Shortly thereafter Gang proposed an ambitious restoration of the Chicago riverfront through a series of small but transformational projects. The WMS Boathouse\, designed by Gang and located north of downtown\, is one such project\, encompassing a field house with state-of-the art training facilities\, a boat storage building\, and a floating dock at the river’s edge. Completed in 2013\, the 22\,000-square-foot boathouse is the city’s premier rowing center\, serving a range of public rowing clubs\, many of whose amateur athletes come from the city’s underserved communities.\n\nThis installation showcases dynamic exterior and interior sketches of the complex—recently acquired by UMMA—depicting the distinctive rhythmic contours of the roof\, derived from studies of rowers in motion\, and the open\, angular\, and light-filled spaces within.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:30041-3321301@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30041 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160329T124905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences\, ranging from the Modernism of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti\, whom he met when they spent time in Mexico in the 1920s\, to the formally exquisite photojournalism of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans\, whose work he knew in New York\, and the Surrealism of André Breton\, who visited Mexico around 1940.\n\nAlthough not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood\; one of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The twenty-three photographs in the exhibition\, drawn from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist’s ability to synthesize a personal—even nationalistic—style that merged the motifs of Mexican religious and indigenous works and plant forms (such as agave leaves) with a Modernist approach to image making. Throughout\, the presence of light as a wondrous metaphor and revealer of life animates even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:30043-3321387@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30043 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Photography Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160308T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016) DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29503-3129556@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Information and Technology,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink DESCRIPTION:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink celebrates gifts to the museum from two accomplished scholars with eclectic interests\, a keen appreciation of form\, and a love of learning from objects. Nesta Spink\, curator at UMMA from 1967 to 1979\, is regarded as the preeminent authority on the lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. U-M professor emeritus Walter Spink is a world-renowned specialist on early Buddhist art and architecture in India. This selection of their gifts\, exhibited together for the first time\, provides insight into the minds of two connoisseurs with tastes that range far beyond their areas of specialization\; highlights include exquisite Whistler prints that are rarely on display and a rich representation of South Asian folk art. The Connoisseurs’ Legacy also honors the Spinks’ long relationship with the museum\, their roles as teachers of future scholars and curators\, and their commitment to public education. UID:30500-3530722@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30500 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,India,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Extreme Time DESCRIPTION:Think you know all about time? What about things that happen in femtoseconds or eons? Time in the natural world is so extreme\, you can’t even perceive most of its scale unaided. You’ll be amazed by the types of time you can explore in our new exhibit\, and learn more about everyday time and how we measure it\, too! The exhibit is open! UID:27873-2579375@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27873 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160625T085401 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Drop-In Tour | Exploring the Kelsey Museum DESCRIPTION:Have you always wanted to learn more about Roman frescoes? Or maybe our cat mummy fascinates you? At the Drop-In Tour\, our experienced docent will give you a custom tour based on your interests. If you are a first time visitor\, this is the perfect opportunity to get an introduction to some highlights of the museum's Greek\, Roman\, Egyptian\, and Near Eastern collections. UID:31079-4040847@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31079 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Exhibition,Museum,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160420T150633 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Guided Tour - Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Mexico's Poet of Light DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences including\, among others\, Modernism andSurrealism. Although not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood. One of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The photographs in the exhibition\, from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist using motifs drawn from Mexican religious and indigenous works as well as plant forms\, in a Modernist approach to image making. UMMA docents will discuss these motifs and the artist’s use of light as a metaphor and revealer of life\, animating even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes. UID:30478-3513536@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30478 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Discussion,Education,Exhibition,Free,Latin America,Multicultural,Spanish Studies,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160420T151045 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:In Conversation: Through the Looking Glass\, Nightly DESCRIPTION:Photographed in nearby Detroit\, Catie Newell’s new images from her series Nightly frame scenes of the urban landscape illuminated at night. The resulting large-scale photographs transform mundane views of city streets into luminous vignettes that reveal surprising views of familiar spaces. Join newly arrived Assistant Curator of Photography\, Jennifer Friess\, for a guided exploration of Newell’s intriguing photographs and learn how artificial light has been used to shape our experience of urban spaces throughout the last century.\n\nLead support for the exhibition Catie Newell: Overnight is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\n\nSunday\, 26 June\, 2016\n3–4 p.m.\n\nThis program is free and open to the public\, but space is limited. Please register to secure your place by emailing umma-program-registration@umich.edu. Please include date and title of program in the subject line of your email. UID:30479-3513537@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30479 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Discussion,Film,Free,Lecture,Literature,Media,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160517T090034 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:¡Cubanismo! at Ann Arbor Summer Fest DESCRIPTION:The Cuban band Cubanismo\, led by trumpeter and bandleader Jesús Alemañy\, will will be performing as part of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival. For more information see http://a2sf.org/events/cubanismo/. UID:30732-3734336@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30732 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160406T134839 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160626T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Barefoot Movement DESCRIPTION:Check back soon for more information. UID:30253-3393262@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30253 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160704T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Henley Royal Regatta DESCRIPTION:Cheerio! UID:28635-4118358@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28635 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Henley on Thames CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160418T110610 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The Many Faces and Figures of the Four Sons in the Passover Haggadah DESCRIPTION:The Four Sons of the Passover Haggadah can now be viewed in their many versions at a unique exhibit at the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. The exhibit\, featuring 29 Haggadahs from the Irwin M. Alterman Haggadah Collection\, will be on display through July. It includes Haggadahs of various shapes and sizes\, ancient and modern\, and in a number of different languages.\n\nThe Alterman collection was acquired by the University of Michigan Library last year with the help of the Frankel Center\, and is housed in the Special Collections Library of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. It includes more than 1\,800 Haggadahs and is believed to be one of the largest Haggadah collections in the world. The unique compilation belonged to the late Irwin Alterman of West Bloomfield\, and was donated by his widow\, Marilyn McCall Alterman. \n\nPhoto courtesy of Luna Archey UID:30296-3402314@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30296 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2000 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Abstraction: A Graphic Study DESCRIPTION:Chicago-based artist Natasha Kohli uses abstract acrylic paintings to convey her messages of positivity and love by pouring that energy into each piece. As a self-taught artist\, Kohli is not bound to school taught rules but rather follows instinct and spontaneity. This also allows her to freely create her own processes. Moments of introspection and feelings of acceptance are what Kohli wishes to offer viewers of her work\, and these goals are inspired by her deep love of spirituality and Bikram yoga. UID:30719-3703661@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30719 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Concrete Ephemera: Street Art Captured DESCRIPTION:David Zinn has been drawing on sidewalks for well over a decade\, using chalk and charcoal to create anamorphic 3D creatures which\, when viewed at a precise angle\, appear to exist in the real world. They often incorporate parts of the landscape and found objects\, such as cracks in concrete or leaves on the ground. He is inspired by a desire to place cheerful art underfoot in unexpected places and to embrace the temporary nature of all things. For this exhibit\, photographs of his street art installations will be on display. Zinn is a lifelong Michigander with a degree in creative writing from the U-M Residential College\, and he worked for many years as a children’s radio host on WCBN and Michigan Radio. Zinn will also give an artist demonstration alongside a musical performance by Magdalen Fossum in the University Hospital Courtyard on Thurs\, July 21\, 2016 from 12:00-1:00 pm. UID:30720-3703745@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30720 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T143042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Area Artists Photo Portrait Project DESCRIPTION:Donita Simpson is a Detroit based photographer who creates images of Detroit area artists in their personal creative environments. She has an M.F.A. in photography from Wayne State University\, and her work is currently on exhibit in The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The Detroit Area Artists Portrait Project contains images of artists that have been making art in and around the city for over 20 years. They are captured in an environment that inspires them\, often their home or their studio. UID:30717-3703493@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30717 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T144136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dimensions: Group Show DESCRIPTION:This group exhibit features a collection of contemporary artist’s books. Many different styles of alternative bindings and printing methods will be shown that often push the boundaries of traditional books and\, in the process\, become art objects. The show will also include mixed media sculptural pieces by Ray Wetzel and Phillip Dewey. The Michigan and Ohio book artists include Char Bacon\, Ruth Bardenstein\, Elizabeth Begue\, Barbara Brown\, Cecilia Escobar\, Alvey Jones and Norma Penchansky-Glasser. UID:30718-3703577@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T142303 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscapes Imagined: Oil on Canvas DESCRIPTION:Victoria Veedell creates atmospheric landscape paintings in oil on canvas\, capturing the fleeting moments of light in nature. The root of her work is an emotional reaction to the environment\, implying landscapes not necessarily seen but felt. Veedell lives and works in San Francisco\, and she is inspired by her global travels to places as far away as India and as near as Napa Valley\, California. Travel is an important component of her work as it allows her to observe and compare gradients of color\, light and atmosphere in different geographic locations. UID:30715-3703325@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30715 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151832 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Portals: Fiber Art Quilts DESCRIPTION:Creative Seasons is a small yet vibrant group of non-traditional quilters from Southeast Michigan that meets monthly. The group’s purpose is to share knowledge\, techniques and work collaboratively on projects and exhibits as decided by the group. The definition of a portal is a door\, means of entrance\, gateway\, approach or architectural composition surrounding an opening. The group chose to interpret this theme with a broad variety of art quilts incorporating hand-dyed and painted fabrics as well as a variety of surface embellishments. UID:30722-3703913@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30722 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Seriously Playful Jewelry: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:Rural Pennsylvania artists Lisa & Scott Cylinder have been husband and wife collaborators in Chickenscratch Art Jewelry since 1988\, having met at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania. Working together they have developed a wonderful exchange and interplay of ideas\, concepts and techniques\, involving meticulous fabrication with many different materials and processes. Their influences are varied and vast: modern art\, scientific phenomena\, 20th century artifacts\, nature and film play upon their ideas and how they manifest them into jewelry objects. Lisa & Scott Cylinder work to create art that stimulates conversation and curiosity. UID:30721-3703829@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30721 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T142706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Whimsical World of Bechler Pottery DESCRIPTION:The mixed media work of Stacey and Corey Bechler is whimsical\, colorful and fun. They use popular icons such as fish\, birds\, dogs and landscapes as their subjects\, and they make them look whimsical with elaborate colors\, shapes and textures. They work to create a powerful visual contrast within each piece. Using clay and glaze as a base for each of their pieces\, they often add touches of copper\, assorted wires and driftwood found near their beach home. They live on the shore of Lake Michigan inside Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. UID:30716-3703409@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30716 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20151211T113926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Works by Belle Kogan: First Female Industrial Designer DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents industrially-produced art pottery pieces designed by Belle Kogan (1902–2000)\, for Red Wing Potteries in Red Wing\, Minnesota. Kogan is considered the first prominent female industrial designer in the United States\, a founder of the profession\, and one of the 20th century's most significant designers. Her design aesthetic was heavily influenced by the geometric and streamlined shapes of Art Deco. Belle Kogan Associates\, her New York–based studio\, was the first American female-led design firm. Her contracts with Red Wing Potteries produced over 400 different art pottery shapes from the late 1930s to the early 1960s\, as well as several dinnerware and kitchenware lines. Belle Kogan and her firm designed products not only in ceramics but also clocks and small appliances\, glassware\, and pieces in silver\, plastics\, wrought iron and wood. UID:27190-2334063@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27190 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160310T165634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Intersections/Connections DESCRIPTION:This International Studies exhibit focuses on materials from across the world\, including many nations and cultures. Rather than displaying each area separately\, the exhibit concentrates on the connections and intersections among disparate regions. UID:29615-3148203@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29615 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation DESCRIPTION:Today the Emancipation Proclamation is one of our nation’s critical documents. It symbolizes a remarkable turning point: slavery’s extinction in the United States became possible and indeed highly likely. Still\, our views of that moment may be as varied as they were 150 years ago.\n\nProclaiming Emancipation explores reflections upon the Proclamation and the meaning of emancipation through the holdings of the William L. Clements Library\, with select items from collaborating institutions. \n\nThrough an exploration of freedom\, military service\, executive power and visual representations\, Proclaiming Emancipation pays tribute to a near-sacred document steeped in the logic of history and the imaginings of myth.\n-----------------------------------------------------\nSponsored by the Program in Race\, Law & History and the William L. Clements Library\, in cooperation with the University of Michigan Library. Martha S. Jones and Clayton Lewis\, curators.\n\nPROCLAIMING EMANCIPATION has been made possible through the generous support of Faith (AB ‘69) and Stephen (AB ‘66\, JD ‘69) Brown\, and at the University of Michigan: College of Literature\, Science and the Arts\, Office of the Vice President for Research\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Rackham Graduate School\, Institute for the Humanities\, Law in Slavery and Freedom Project\, and the Understanding Race Theme Semester. UID:31039-4010851@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31039 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Detroit,Diversity,Exhibition,History,Law,Library,Rackham,Research,Social Justice LOCATION:Detroit Center - Monts Hall Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160615T100557 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T103000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Advanced Research Computing at Michigan - An Overview DESCRIPTION:Brock Palen\, Associate Director of Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services\, will provide an overview of the resources available to researchers engaged in computationally intensive science on the University of Michigan campus.\n\nThe talk is open to researchers from any department at U-M.\n\nThe session will address:\n* high performance computing services\n* data science services such as Hadoop and Spark\n* research storage\n* cloud services\n* networking services\n* grant consultation and collaboration\n* access to off-campus resources.\n\nThere will be time for questions and answers after the presentation. UID:30982-3960780@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30982 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Chemistry,Engineering,Graduate,Information and Technology,Medicine,Nursing,Physics,Public Health,Research,Science LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Extreme Time DESCRIPTION:Think you know all about time? What about things that happen in femtoseconds or eons? Time in the natural world is so extreme\, you can’t even perceive most of its scale unaided. You’ll be amazed by the types of time you can explore in our new exhibit\, and learn more about everyday time and how we measure it\, too! The exhibit is open! UID:27873-2579404@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27873 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160506T162225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A New Treasure Trove at Special Collections DESCRIPTION:This display showcases recent acquisitions that strengthen our extraordinary holdings in the areas of radical literature\, transportation history\, film\, rare books\, culinary history\, Islamic manuscripts\, children’s literature\, and Judaica. View an eclectic display of unique artifacts that reflect the broad range of our collections.\n\nArtifacts on display include historical treasures like Emma Goldman’s well-traveled suitcase\, Orson Welles’ cutting script for the film Around the World\, a fifteenth-century manuscript containing an Arabic treatise of materia media attributed to Galen\, a 1850 contract for the remount of the moving machinery of the St. Peterburg and Moscow Railway\, and Mildred Taylor’s illustrated novella for children\, The Gold Cadillac\, narrating a Northern black family’s experience of Southern segregation and prejudice during the 1950s as seen through the eyes of a young girl.\n\nExhibit Hours: Monday-Friday\, 10am-5pm\nClosed Memorial Day\, 4th of July\, and Labor Day UID:30662-3646170@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30662 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160615T133751 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Dissertation Defense: Transcriptional Regulation of Autophagy DESCRIPTION:Candidate for a PhD in Molecular\, Cellular\, and Developmental Biology\n\nAbstract: Macroautophagy (hereafter autophagy) is a cellular recycling process through which cytoplasmic contents are delivered into the lysosome/vacuole for degradation by double-membrane organelles\, autophagosomes. Autophagy is essential for cell survival under stress\; however\, too much autophagy can also be detrimental. Autophagy activity can be regulated by modulating the size or the number of autophagosomes. Although there are more than 40 autophagy-related (ATG) genes that have been identified\, it is not fully understood how most of these genes contribute to these aspects of regulation. Autophagy is highly conserved among eukaryotic cells\, and its molecular machinery has been best characterized in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. \n\nIn my thesis studies\, I use budding yeast as the model organism\, taking advantage of its utility in genetic/genomic screening\; in addition\, high-throughput sequencing and powerful autophagy assays have been developed uniquely in the yeast system\, to explore how autophagy is modulated through transcriptional regulation.\nWhen I joined the Klionsky lab\, I became involved in the study of a negative transcriptional regulator of autophagy\, Ume6. Deletion of the UME6 gene results in an increase in the size\, but not the number\, of autophagosomes by increasing the expression of Atg8. From a subsequent genetic screen for autophagy modulators\, I identified another transcription repressor of autophagy\, Pho23. Intriguingly\, Pho23 ended up being characterized as a specific regulator of the number\, but not the size\, of autophagosomes\, or it can be viewed as controlling the rate of autophagosome formation by regulating Atg9 expression. These studies support a model whereby the size and numbers of autophagosomes are independently regulated through precise transcriptional regulation of different ATG genes. \n\nCollaborating with Amélie Bernard\, a postdoc in the lab\, to further explore the transcriptional regulation network of autophagy\, we analyzed 139 yeast strains each deleted for a single gene encoding a transcription factor\; we profiled the transcription of several ATG genes in each strain. Through this screen we identified Gcn4\, Slf1\, Gat1 and Gln3 as transcriptional activators\, and Spt10\, Fyv5\, and Rph1 as transcriptional repressors of autophagy. We also further investigated the detailed molecular mechanisms of the regulation of autophagy by Rph1. UID:30987-3962779@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30987 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Dissertation Defense,Research,Science LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Earl Lewis Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160421T105421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Picture This! DESCRIPTION:An exhibit of photographs taken of and by young patients—many of whom were born with facial differences or cleft palates—in U-M Mott Hospital’s Craniofacial Anomalies Program. Paired with professional photographers\, the children learned new ways to look at and through the camera lens. UID:30488-3519929@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30488 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160404T105502 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29456-3120473@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents new and recent work by Los Angeles-based artist Catherine Opie\, one of the essential figures in contemporary photography. Beginning in 2010\, Opie spent six months taking photographs at the Bel Air\, California\, residence of Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011). The exhibition includes fifty works drawn from two series\, Closets and Jewels and 700 Nimes Road. Opie’s lens captures the essence of the Hollywood legend through her personal objects and mementos\, and portrays Taylor’s life experience and eccentricity as an illusory subject\, one that cannot be specifically designated or precisely described. In the artist’s words\, the project is not about the relationship to celebrity but about “the relationship to what is human.” UID:30494-3530516@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catie Newell: Overnight DESCRIPTION:Detroit-based architect Catie Newell’s work is focused on the tactile\, sensory qualities of the materials we use to build things: their texture\, density\, or malleability. Her investigations combine architectural research\, material studies\, and art experiments\, a strategy she began as a student that now defines her career.\n\nThe most important element in her formal vocabulary is light\, not only as a “material” in its own right\, but also as a condition. Varying in strength\, form\, and duration\, light constructs architecture as a situational experience rather than a fixed space. Newell’s fascination with light is a fascination with darkness. Through urban interventions\, installations\, and photographs\, she investigates how darkness creates alternate environments\, with unseen geographies\, untold histories\, and secret identities.\n\nNewell\, assistant professor of architecture at U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize in architecture. Overnight includes photographs from her Rome project as well as new photography from the series Nightly\, featuring nighttime images of Detroit streetscapes and interiors\, alongside a site-specific sculptural installation commissioned by the Museum. UID:30497-3530579@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30497 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160329T123251 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Focus: Jeanne Gang DESCRIPTION:Widely acclaimed for her integrative approach to materials\, technology\, and ecological context\, Chicago-based architect Jeanne Gang was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. Shortly thereafter Gang proposed an ambitious restoration of the Chicago riverfront through a series of small but transformational projects. The WMS Boathouse\, designed by Gang and located north of downtown\, is one such project\, encompassing a field house with state-of-the art training facilities\, a boat storage building\, and a floating dock at the river’s edge. Completed in 2013\, the 22\,000-square-foot boathouse is the city’s premier rowing center\, serving a range of public rowing clubs\, many of whose amateur athletes come from the city’s underserved communities.\n\nThis installation showcases dynamic exterior and interior sketches of the complex—recently acquired by UMMA—depicting the distinctive rhythmic contours of the roof\, derived from studies of rowers in motion\, and the open\, angular\, and light-filled spaces within.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:30041-3321302@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30041 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160329T124905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences\, ranging from the Modernism of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti\, whom he met when they spent time in Mexico in the 1920s\, to the formally exquisite photojournalism of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans\, whose work he knew in New York\, and the Surrealism of André Breton\, who visited Mexico around 1940.\n\nAlthough not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood\; one of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The twenty-three photographs in the exhibition\, drawn from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist’s ability to synthesize a personal—even nationalistic—style that merged the motifs of Mexican religious and indigenous works and plant forms (such as agave leaves) with a Modernist approach to image making. Throughout\, the presence of light as a wondrous metaphor and revealer of life animates even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:30043-3321388@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30043 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Photography Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160308T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016) DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29503-3129557@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Information and Technology,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink DESCRIPTION:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink celebrates gifts to the museum from two accomplished scholars with eclectic interests\, a keen appreciation of form\, and a love of learning from objects. Nesta Spink\, curator at UMMA from 1967 to 1979\, is regarded as the preeminent authority on the lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. U-M professor emeritus Walter Spink is a world-renowned specialist on early Buddhist art and architecture in India. This selection of their gifts\, exhibited together for the first time\, provides insight into the minds of two connoisseurs with tastes that range far beyond their areas of specialization\; highlights include exquisite Whistler prints that are rarely on display and a rich representation of South Asian folk art. The Connoisseurs’ Legacy also honors the Spinks’ long relationship with the museum\, their roles as teachers of future scholars and curators\, and their commitment to public education. UID:30500-3530723@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30500 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,India,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160616T105125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:One-on-One Canvas Support DESCRIPTION:Building your Canvas site? Stop by to work one-on-one with a LSA-ISS consultant. No registration or appointment necessary! We can cover basic information\, such as organizing your course content or setting up a home page or we can answer any questions or troubleshoot issues you may have. We can also offer assistance with other academic technologies\, such as i>clicker. UID:30994-3968764@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30994 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Information and Technology,Workshop LOCATION:School of Education - 2302 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160520T181505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160627T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Center Stage Strings Performance: Opening Student Solo Concert DESCRIPTION:Center Stage Strings celebrates its new home in Ann Arbor as part of the MPulse Summer Institute! This opening concert kicks off the four-week-long intensive program and festival\, where extraordinary string players aged 11-24 and a world-class faculty study and join together to perform. Come and enjoy some of the country's top talent in a solo recital of violinists\, violists and cellists! UID:30779-3756532@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30779 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160704T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Henley Royal Regatta DESCRIPTION:Cheerio! UID:28635-4118359@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28635 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Henley on Thames CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160418T110610 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The Many Faces and Figures of the Four Sons in the Passover Haggadah DESCRIPTION:The Four Sons of the Passover Haggadah can now be viewed in their many versions at a unique exhibit at the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. The exhibit\, featuring 29 Haggadahs from the Irwin M. Alterman Haggadah Collection\, will be on display through July. It includes Haggadahs of various shapes and sizes\, ancient and modern\, and in a number of different languages.\n\nThe Alterman collection was acquired by the University of Michigan Library last year with the help of the Frankel Center\, and is housed in the Special Collections Library of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. It includes more than 1\,800 Haggadahs and is believed to be one of the largest Haggadah collections in the world. The unique compilation belonged to the late Irwin Alterman of West Bloomfield\, and was donated by his widow\, Marilyn McCall Alterman. \n\nPhoto courtesy of Luna Archey UID:30296-3402315@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30296 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2000 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Abstraction: A Graphic Study DESCRIPTION:Chicago-based artist Natasha Kohli uses abstract acrylic paintings to convey her messages of positivity and love by pouring that energy into each piece. As a self-taught artist\, Kohli is not bound to school taught rules but rather follows instinct and spontaneity. This also allows her to freely create her own processes. Moments of introspection and feelings of acceptance are what Kohli wishes to offer viewers of her work\, and these goals are inspired by her deep love of spirituality and Bikram yoga. UID:30719-3703662@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30719 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Concrete Ephemera: Street Art Captured DESCRIPTION:David Zinn has been drawing on sidewalks for well over a decade\, using chalk and charcoal to create anamorphic 3D creatures which\, when viewed at a precise angle\, appear to exist in the real world. They often incorporate parts of the landscape and found objects\, such as cracks in concrete or leaves on the ground. He is inspired by a desire to place cheerful art underfoot in unexpected places and to embrace the temporary nature of all things. For this exhibit\, photographs of his street art installations will be on display. Zinn is a lifelong Michigander with a degree in creative writing from the U-M Residential College\, and he worked for many years as a children’s radio host on WCBN and Michigan Radio. Zinn will also give an artist demonstration alongside a musical performance by Magdalen Fossum in the University Hospital Courtyard on Thurs\, July 21\, 2016 from 12:00-1:00 pm. UID:30720-3703746@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30720 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T143042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Area Artists Photo Portrait Project DESCRIPTION:Donita Simpson is a Detroit based photographer who creates images of Detroit area artists in their personal creative environments. She has an M.F.A. in photography from Wayne State University\, and her work is currently on exhibit in The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The Detroit Area Artists Portrait Project contains images of artists that have been making art in and around the city for over 20 years. They are captured in an environment that inspires them\, often their home or their studio. UID:30717-3703494@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30717 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T144136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dimensions: Group Show DESCRIPTION:This group exhibit features a collection of contemporary artist’s books. Many different styles of alternative bindings and printing methods will be shown that often push the boundaries of traditional books and\, in the process\, become art objects. The show will also include mixed media sculptural pieces by Ray Wetzel and Phillip Dewey. The Michigan and Ohio book artists include Char Bacon\, Ruth Bardenstein\, Elizabeth Begue\, Barbara Brown\, Cecilia Escobar\, Alvey Jones and Norma Penchansky-Glasser. UID:30718-3703578@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T142303 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscapes Imagined: Oil on Canvas DESCRIPTION:Victoria Veedell creates atmospheric landscape paintings in oil on canvas\, capturing the fleeting moments of light in nature. The root of her work is an emotional reaction to the environment\, implying landscapes not necessarily seen but felt. Veedell lives and works in San Francisco\, and she is inspired by her global travels to places as far away as India and as near as Napa Valley\, California. Travel is an important component of her work as it allows her to observe and compare gradients of color\, light and atmosphere in different geographic locations. UID:30715-3703326@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30715 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151832 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Portals: Fiber Art Quilts DESCRIPTION:Creative Seasons is a small yet vibrant group of non-traditional quilters from Southeast Michigan that meets monthly. The group’s purpose is to share knowledge\, techniques and work collaboratively on projects and exhibits as decided by the group. The definition of a portal is a door\, means of entrance\, gateway\, approach or architectural composition surrounding an opening. The group chose to interpret this theme with a broad variety of art quilts incorporating hand-dyed and painted fabrics as well as a variety of surface embellishments. UID:30722-3703914@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30722 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Seriously Playful Jewelry: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:Rural Pennsylvania artists Lisa & Scott Cylinder have been husband and wife collaborators in Chickenscratch Art Jewelry since 1988\, having met at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania. Working together they have developed a wonderful exchange and interplay of ideas\, concepts and techniques\, involving meticulous fabrication with many different materials and processes. Their influences are varied and vast: modern art\, scientific phenomena\, 20th century artifacts\, nature and film play upon their ideas and how they manifest them into jewelry objects. Lisa & Scott Cylinder work to create art that stimulates conversation and curiosity. UID:30721-3703830@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30721 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T142706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Whimsical World of Bechler Pottery DESCRIPTION:The mixed media work of Stacey and Corey Bechler is whimsical\, colorful and fun. They use popular icons such as fish\, birds\, dogs and landscapes as their subjects\, and they make them look whimsical with elaborate colors\, shapes and textures. They work to create a powerful visual contrast within each piece. Using clay and glaze as a base for each of their pieces\, they often add touches of copper\, assorted wires and driftwood found near their beach home. They live on the shore of Lake Michigan inside Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. UID:30716-3703410@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30716 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20151211T113926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Works by Belle Kogan: First Female Industrial Designer DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents industrially-produced art pottery pieces designed by Belle Kogan (1902–2000)\, for Red Wing Potteries in Red Wing\, Minnesota. Kogan is considered the first prominent female industrial designer in the United States\, a founder of the profession\, and one of the 20th century's most significant designers. Her design aesthetic was heavily influenced by the geometric and streamlined shapes of Art Deco. Belle Kogan Associates\, her New York–based studio\, was the first American female-led design firm. Her contracts with Red Wing Potteries produced over 400 different art pottery shapes from the late 1930s to the early 1960s\, as well as several dinnerware and kitchenware lines. Belle Kogan and her firm designed products not only in ceramics but also clocks and small appliances\, glassware\, and pieces in silver\, plastics\, wrought iron and wood. UID:27190-2334064@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27190 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160531T131905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Influencer Training™ DESCRIPTION:The truth is\, we all need to be better influencers. Hardly a day passes that we don’t try to influence ourselves or others to do something different. In spite of the fact that we’re routinely trying to help ourselves and others alter behavior\, few of us can articulate a model of what it takes to do so. Drawing from the skills of many of the world’s best change agents and combining them with five decades of social-science research\, Influencer Training™ creates a powerful and portable model for changing behaviors.\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nApply techniques to successfully lead change initiatives in your organization\nUse strategies to reduce errors and project failures\nDiagnose the real causes behind problems and create real solutions\nInfluence across the organization with or without formal authority\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nKnowing how to transform your organizational culture\nEnabling your team to complete projects on time and on budget\nBecoming more effective in how you influence others\n\nAudience:\n\nIndividuals or teams looking to overcome profound\, persistent\, and resistant problems who would like to learn how to influence change\n\nProgram Note:\n\nWe are pleased to be offering this program at a special discounted rate only to U-M employees available through LPD. The normal price is $1\,395 through VitalSmarts®. UID:30856-3843096@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30856 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Leadership,Networking,Workshop LOCATION:Administrative Services Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160310T165634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Intersections/Connections DESCRIPTION:This International Studies exhibit focuses on materials from across the world\, including many nations and cultures. Rather than displaying each area separately\, the exhibit concentrates on the connections and intersections among disparate regions. UID:29615-3148204@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29615 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation DESCRIPTION:Today the Emancipation Proclamation is one of our nation’s critical documents. It symbolizes a remarkable turning point: slavery’s extinction in the United States became possible and indeed highly likely. Still\, our views of that moment may be as varied as they were 150 years ago.\n\nProclaiming Emancipation explores reflections upon the Proclamation and the meaning of emancipation through the holdings of the William L. Clements Library\, with select items from collaborating institutions. \n\nThrough an exploration of freedom\, military service\, executive power and visual representations\, Proclaiming Emancipation pays tribute to a near-sacred document steeped in the logic of history and the imaginings of myth.\n-----------------------------------------------------\nSponsored by the Program in Race\, Law & History and the William L. Clements Library\, in cooperation with the University of Michigan Library. Martha S. Jones and Clayton Lewis\, curators.\n\nPROCLAIMING EMANCIPATION has been made possible through the generous support of Faith (AB ‘69) and Stephen (AB ‘66\, JD ‘69) Brown\, and at the University of Michigan: College of Literature\, Science and the Arts\, Office of the Vice President for Research\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Rackham Graduate School\, Institute for the Humanities\, Law in Slavery and Freedom Project\, and the Understanding Race Theme Semester. UID:31039-4010852@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31039 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Detroit,Diversity,Exhibition,History,Law,Library,Rackham,Research,Social Justice LOCATION:Detroit Center - Monts Hall Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Extreme Time DESCRIPTION:Think you know all about time? What about things that happen in femtoseconds or eons? Time in the natural world is so extreme\, you can’t even perceive most of its scale unaided. You’ll be amazed by the types of time you can explore in our new exhibit\, and learn more about everyday time and how we measure it\, too! The exhibit is open! UID:27873-2579433@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27873 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160616T105125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:One-on-One Canvas Support DESCRIPTION:Building your Canvas site? Stop by to work one-on-one with a LSA-ISS consultant. No registration or appointment necessary! We can cover basic information\, such as organizing your course content or setting up a home page or we can answer any questions or troubleshoot issues you may have. We can also offer assistance with other academic technologies\, such as i>clicker. UID:30994-3968765@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30994 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Information and Technology,Workshop LOCATION:School of Education - 2302 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160506T162225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A New Treasure Trove at Special Collections DESCRIPTION:This display showcases recent acquisitions that strengthen our extraordinary holdings in the areas of radical literature\, transportation history\, film\, rare books\, culinary history\, Islamic manuscripts\, children’s literature\, and Judaica. View an eclectic display of unique artifacts that reflect the broad range of our collections.\n\nArtifacts on display include historical treasures like Emma Goldman’s well-traveled suitcase\, Orson Welles’ cutting script for the film Around the World\, a fifteenth-century manuscript containing an Arabic treatise of materia media attributed to Galen\, a 1850 contract for the remount of the moving machinery of the St. Peterburg and Moscow Railway\, and Mildred Taylor’s illustrated novella for children\, The Gold Cadillac\, narrating a Northern black family’s experience of Southern segregation and prejudice during the 1950s as seen through the eyes of a young girl.\n\nExhibit Hours: Monday-Friday\, 10am-5pm\nClosed Memorial Day\, 4th of July\, and Labor Day UID:30662-3646171@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30662 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160421T105421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Picture This! DESCRIPTION:An exhibit of photographs taken of and by young patients—many of whom were born with facial differences or cleft palates—in U-M Mott Hospital’s Craniofacial Anomalies Program. Paired with professional photographers\, the children learned new ways to look at and through the camera lens. UID:30488-3519930@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30488 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160404T105502 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29456-3120474@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents new and recent work by Los Angeles-based artist Catherine Opie\, one of the essential figures in contemporary photography. Beginning in 2010\, Opie spent six months taking photographs at the Bel Air\, California\, residence of Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011). The exhibition includes fifty works drawn from two series\, Closets and Jewels and 700 Nimes Road. Opie’s lens captures the essence of the Hollywood legend through her personal objects and mementos\, and portrays Taylor’s life experience and eccentricity as an illusory subject\, one that cannot be specifically designated or precisely described. In the artist’s words\, the project is not about the relationship to celebrity but about “the relationship to what is human.” UID:30494-3530517@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catie Newell: Overnight DESCRIPTION:Detroit-based architect Catie Newell’s work is focused on the tactile\, sensory qualities of the materials we use to build things: their texture\, density\, or malleability. Her investigations combine architectural research\, material studies\, and art experiments\, a strategy she began as a student that now defines her career.\n\nThe most important element in her formal vocabulary is light\, not only as a “material” in its own right\, but also as a condition. Varying in strength\, form\, and duration\, light constructs architecture as a situational experience rather than a fixed space. Newell’s fascination with light is a fascination with darkness. Through urban interventions\, installations\, and photographs\, she investigates how darkness creates alternate environments\, with unseen geographies\, untold histories\, and secret identities.\n\nNewell\, assistant professor of architecture at U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize in architecture. Overnight includes photographs from her Rome project as well as new photography from the series Nightly\, featuring nighttime images of Detroit streetscapes and interiors\, alongside a site-specific sculptural installation commissioned by the Museum. UID:30497-3530580@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30497 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160329T123251 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Focus: Jeanne Gang DESCRIPTION:Widely acclaimed for her integrative approach to materials\, technology\, and ecological context\, Chicago-based architect Jeanne Gang was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. Shortly thereafter Gang proposed an ambitious restoration of the Chicago riverfront through a series of small but transformational projects. The WMS Boathouse\, designed by Gang and located north of downtown\, is one such project\, encompassing a field house with state-of-the art training facilities\, a boat storage building\, and a floating dock at the river’s edge. Completed in 2013\, the 22\,000-square-foot boathouse is the city’s premier rowing center\, serving a range of public rowing clubs\, many of whose amateur athletes come from the city’s underserved communities.\n\nThis installation showcases dynamic exterior and interior sketches of the complex—recently acquired by UMMA—depicting the distinctive rhythmic contours of the roof\, derived from studies of rowers in motion\, and the open\, angular\, and light-filled spaces within.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:30041-3321303@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30041 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160329T124905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences\, ranging from the Modernism of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti\, whom he met when they spent time in Mexico in the 1920s\, to the formally exquisite photojournalism of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans\, whose work he knew in New York\, and the Surrealism of André Breton\, who visited Mexico around 1940.\n\nAlthough not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood\; one of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The twenty-three photographs in the exhibition\, drawn from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist’s ability to synthesize a personal—even nationalistic—style that merged the motifs of Mexican religious and indigenous works and plant forms (such as agave leaves) with a Modernist approach to image making. Throughout\, the presence of light as a wondrous metaphor and revealer of life animates even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:30043-3321389@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30043 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Photography Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160602T162355 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T133000 SUMMARY:Other:Procurement Services hosts Life Science Suppliers Show DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Life Science Suppliers Show on Tuesday\, June 28\, 2016! \n \nLunch will be provided and you can learn more about how these research supply vendors can help your unit save money: \n Bio-Rad \n Corning Life Sciences \n Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) \n Millipore Sigma (formerly EMD Millipore) \n QIAGEN \n Sigma-Aldrich \n Thermo Fisher Scientific \n \nAnd\, at the show\, be sure to enter a drawing to win one of four great prizes! \n \nFor more information\, contact\, Life Science Procurement Agent Kelly Pavlica\, at kelpav@umich.edu or (734) 615-8767. UID:30901-3859122@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30901 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Research,Science LOCATION:Medical Science Research Building 3 - Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160308T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016) DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29503-3129558@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Information and Technology,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink DESCRIPTION:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink celebrates gifts to the museum from two accomplished scholars with eclectic interests\, a keen appreciation of form\, and a love of learning from objects. Nesta Spink\, curator at UMMA from 1967 to 1979\, is regarded as the preeminent authority on the lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. U-M professor emeritus Walter Spink is a world-renowned specialist on early Buddhist art and architecture in India. This selection of their gifts\, exhibited together for the first time\, provides insight into the minds of two connoisseurs with tastes that range far beyond their areas of specialization\; highlights include exquisite Whistler prints that are rarely on display and a rich representation of South Asian folk art. The Connoisseurs’ Legacy also honors the Spinks’ long relationship with the museum\, their roles as teachers of future scholars and curators\, and their commitment to public education. UID:30500-3530724@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30500 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,India,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160518T153725 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T133000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Study Abroad First Step Session DESCRIPTION:Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.\nPresentations are every Tuesday\, Wednesday\, Thursday\, and Friday from 1–1:30pm from June 8–August 4 (except July 5-6).\nTake your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world\, scholarships and other financial aid\, and much more.\nAttending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program. Fulfill this requirement before the school year even begins! UID:30742-3738394@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30742 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity,Inclusion,International,Language,Social Impact,Social Justice,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1338 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160503T154655 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Feelings through Fiction Therapy Group (dates & times flexible) DESCRIPTION:The Summer 2016 group will include:\n\n1.5 hour sessions with snacks.\n\n8 weeks of sessions.\n\n9-13 year-old (girl and boy) participants.\n\nCost flexibility based on insurance benefits (self-pay is $40/session).\n\nScheduling flexibility since the day and time of the group sessions are determined by interest and the participant’s schedule.\n\nThroughout elementary\, middle\, and junior high school\, social interactions can become increasingly complicated and difficult to manage. Learning to navigate relationships with friends\, classmates\, and family can be even more challenging as girls and boys also begin to explore their identity. The Feelings through Fiction Summer 2016 Group uses a book club format to create a safe space for participants to discuss ideas and feelings common to kids their age. By the end of the eight week group\, participants should be better in tune with their feelings and how to manage them\, how to understand others and work through conflict\, and better able to deal with challenging social situations.\nRegistration is required. Call (734) 764-9466 or visit uccf.umich.edu to learn more UID:30608-3621669@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30608 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Children,Discussion,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160527T154156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:A History of the Weather Underground and the Future of Michigan Climate DESCRIPTION:Originally an educational project at the University of Michigan in the early 1990s\, the Weather Underground transformed into the highly successful commercial internet weather web site\, wunderground.com\, in 1995. Weather Underground co-founder\, Jeff Masters\, will give an overview of his science communication experiences gathered during a 25-year career with the organization. He will then apply those skills to look at how climate change will likely impact Michigan's climate in the future.\n\nJeff Masters is Director of Meteorology for Weather Underground\, Inc.\, which he co-founded in 1995. He received his B.S.\, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. \nBetween his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees\, he worked as a flight meteorologist with the Hurricane Hunters at NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center in Miami. He was nearly killed flying into Hurricane Hugo. In 1995\, while working on his Ph.D.\, Masters co-founded The Weather Underground\, with U-M Professor Perry Samson. Masters wrote much of the software formats the raw National Weather Service data used on the website\, and created most of the imagery on the tropical page. Jeff currently serves as Director of Meteorology and on the Board of Directors for the company. UID:30830-3794861@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30830 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160315T115104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160628T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Boy & Bear DESCRIPTION:When your first EP wins you accolades like Rolling Stone’s Artist To Watch of 2010 and Triple J’s Unearthed Artist of the Year\, not to mention wooing fans the world over—including the likes of Laura Marling and Marcus Mumford\, no less—there’s only one thing you can do for your debut album: confound expectations. After the phenomenal success of the EP \"With Emperor Antarctica\"—which transformed the Sydney quintet from promising new comers to bonafide international sensations—a search for new ideas and wisdom led Boy & Bear to American producer Joe Chiccarelli\, whose work with acts like My Morning Jacket\, The Strokes and The Shins has earned him a reputation as someone who is both sympathetic to a band’s organic sound and able to add another dimension. Holing up with Chiccarelli in Nashville’s world-renowned Blackbird Studios in early 2011\, Boy & Bear set about exploding their musical horizons. “We wanted to work with someone who could push us\,” says Dave Hosking. “Someone who could take us out of our comfort zone and add a real rock/pop flavor to things. We wanted this to be more than just a ‘new folk’ record\, because we really feel like we’ve out-grown that tag.” None of which is to suggest that Boy & Bear have completely abandoned the sound that won them comparisons to Fleet Foxes and Mumford and Sons\, earning them a place as leaders of a new global folk movement. On songs like “House and Farm” and the gorgeous mid-album interlude\, “Percy Warner Park”\, Boy & Bear deliver aching harmonies and delicate acoustic textures with effortless aplomb\, but in Boy & Bear's new music\, those quietly intense gems are part of a bigger picture. UID:29314-3067354@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29314 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160704T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Henley Royal Regatta DESCRIPTION:Cheerio! UID:28635-4118360@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28635 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Henley on Thames CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160418T110610 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The Many Faces and Figures of the Four Sons in the Passover Haggadah DESCRIPTION:The Four Sons of the Passover Haggadah can now be viewed in their many versions at a unique exhibit at the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. The exhibit\, featuring 29 Haggadahs from the Irwin M. Alterman Haggadah Collection\, will be on display through July. It includes Haggadahs of various shapes and sizes\, ancient and modern\, and in a number of different languages.\n\nThe Alterman collection was acquired by the University of Michigan Library last year with the help of the Frankel Center\, and is housed in the Special Collections Library of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. It includes more than 1\,800 Haggadahs and is believed to be one of the largest Haggadah collections in the world. The unique compilation belonged to the late Irwin Alterman of West Bloomfield\, and was donated by his widow\, Marilyn McCall Alterman. \n\nPhoto courtesy of Luna Archey UID:30296-3402316@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30296 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2000 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Abstraction: A Graphic Study DESCRIPTION:Chicago-based artist Natasha Kohli uses abstract acrylic paintings to convey her messages of positivity and love by pouring that energy into each piece. As a self-taught artist\, Kohli is not bound to school taught rules but rather follows instinct and spontaneity. This also allows her to freely create her own processes. Moments of introspection and feelings of acceptance are what Kohli wishes to offer viewers of her work\, and these goals are inspired by her deep love of spirituality and Bikram yoga. UID:30719-3703663@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30719 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Concrete Ephemera: Street Art Captured DESCRIPTION:David Zinn has been drawing on sidewalks for well over a decade\, using chalk and charcoal to create anamorphic 3D creatures which\, when viewed at a precise angle\, appear to exist in the real world. They often incorporate parts of the landscape and found objects\, such as cracks in concrete or leaves on the ground. He is inspired by a desire to place cheerful art underfoot in unexpected places and to embrace the temporary nature of all things. For this exhibit\, photographs of his street art installations will be on display. Zinn is a lifelong Michigander with a degree in creative writing from the U-M Residential College\, and he worked for many years as a children’s radio host on WCBN and Michigan Radio. Zinn will also give an artist demonstration alongside a musical performance by Magdalen Fossum in the University Hospital Courtyard on Thurs\, July 21\, 2016 from 12:00-1:00 pm. UID:30720-3703747@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30720 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T143042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Area Artists Photo Portrait Project DESCRIPTION:Donita Simpson is a Detroit based photographer who creates images of Detroit area artists in their personal creative environments. She has an M.F.A. in photography from Wayne State University\, and her work is currently on exhibit in The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The Detroit Area Artists Portrait Project contains images of artists that have been making art in and around the city for over 20 years. They are captured in an environment that inspires them\, often their home or their studio. UID:30717-3703495@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30717 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T144136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dimensions: Group Show DESCRIPTION:This group exhibit features a collection of contemporary artist’s books. Many different styles of alternative bindings and printing methods will be shown that often push the boundaries of traditional books and\, in the process\, become art objects. The show will also include mixed media sculptural pieces by Ray Wetzel and Phillip Dewey. The Michigan and Ohio book artists include Char Bacon\, Ruth Bardenstein\, Elizabeth Begue\, Barbara Brown\, Cecilia Escobar\, Alvey Jones and Norma Penchansky-Glasser. UID:30718-3703579@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T142303 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscapes Imagined: Oil on Canvas DESCRIPTION:Victoria Veedell creates atmospheric landscape paintings in oil on canvas\, capturing the fleeting moments of light in nature. The root of her work is an emotional reaction to the environment\, implying landscapes not necessarily seen but felt. Veedell lives and works in San Francisco\, and she is inspired by her global travels to places as far away as India and as near as Napa Valley\, California. Travel is an important component of her work as it allows her to observe and compare gradients of color\, light and atmosphere in different geographic locations. UID:30715-3703327@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30715 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151832 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Portals: Fiber Art Quilts DESCRIPTION:Creative Seasons is a small yet vibrant group of non-traditional quilters from Southeast Michigan that meets monthly. The group’s purpose is to share knowledge\, techniques and work collaboratively on projects and exhibits as decided by the group. The definition of a portal is a door\, means of entrance\, gateway\, approach or architectural composition surrounding an opening. The group chose to interpret this theme with a broad variety of art quilts incorporating hand-dyed and painted fabrics as well as a variety of surface embellishments. UID:30722-3703915@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30722 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Seriously Playful Jewelry: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:Rural Pennsylvania artists Lisa & Scott Cylinder have been husband and wife collaborators in Chickenscratch Art Jewelry since 1988\, having met at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania. Working together they have developed a wonderful exchange and interplay of ideas\, concepts and techniques\, involving meticulous fabrication with many different materials and processes. Their influences are varied and vast: modern art\, scientific phenomena\, 20th century artifacts\, nature and film play upon their ideas and how they manifest them into jewelry objects. Lisa & Scott Cylinder work to create art that stimulates conversation and curiosity. UID:30721-3703831@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30721 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T142706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Whimsical World of Bechler Pottery DESCRIPTION:The mixed media work of Stacey and Corey Bechler is whimsical\, colorful and fun. They use popular icons such as fish\, birds\, dogs and landscapes as their subjects\, and they make them look whimsical with elaborate colors\, shapes and textures. They work to create a powerful visual contrast within each piece. Using clay and glaze as a base for each of their pieces\, they often add touches of copper\, assorted wires and driftwood found near their beach home. They live on the shore of Lake Michigan inside Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. UID:30716-3703411@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30716 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20151211T113926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Works by Belle Kogan: First Female Industrial Designer DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents industrially-produced art pottery pieces designed by Belle Kogan (1902–2000)\, for Red Wing Potteries in Red Wing\, Minnesota. Kogan is considered the first prominent female industrial designer in the United States\, a founder of the profession\, and one of the 20th century's most significant designers. Her design aesthetic was heavily influenced by the geometric and streamlined shapes of Art Deco. Belle Kogan Associates\, her New York–based studio\, was the first American female-led design firm. Her contracts with Red Wing Potteries produced over 400 different art pottery shapes from the late 1930s to the early 1960s\, as well as several dinnerware and kitchenware lines. Belle Kogan and her firm designed products not only in ceramics but also clocks and small appliances\, glassware\, and pieces in silver\, plastics\, wrought iron and wood. UID:27190-2334065@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27190 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160310T165634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Intersections/Connections DESCRIPTION:This International Studies exhibit focuses on materials from across the world\, including many nations and cultures. Rather than displaying each area separately\, the exhibit concentrates on the connections and intersections among disparate regions. UID:29615-3148205@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29615 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation DESCRIPTION:Today the Emancipation Proclamation is one of our nation’s critical documents. It symbolizes a remarkable turning point: slavery’s extinction in the United States became possible and indeed highly likely. Still\, our views of that moment may be as varied as they were 150 years ago.\n\nProclaiming Emancipation explores reflections upon the Proclamation and the meaning of emancipation through the holdings of the William L. Clements Library\, with select items from collaborating institutions. \n\nThrough an exploration of freedom\, military service\, executive power and visual representations\, Proclaiming Emancipation pays tribute to a near-sacred document steeped in the logic of history and the imaginings of myth.\n-----------------------------------------------------\nSponsored by the Program in Race\, Law & History and the William L. Clements Library\, in cooperation with the University of Michigan Library. Martha S. Jones and Clayton Lewis\, curators.\n\nPROCLAIMING EMANCIPATION has been made possible through the generous support of Faith (AB ‘69) and Stephen (AB ‘66\, JD ‘69) Brown\, and at the University of Michigan: College of Literature\, Science and the Arts\, Office of the Vice President for Research\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Rackham Graduate School\, Institute for the Humanities\, Law in Slavery and Freedom Project\, and the Understanding Race Theme Semester. UID:31039-4010853@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31039 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Detroit,Diversity,Exhibition,History,Law,Library,Rackham,Research,Social Justice LOCATION:Detroit Center - Monts Hall Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Extreme Time DESCRIPTION:Think you know all about time? What about things that happen in femtoseconds or eons? Time in the natural world is so extreme\, you can’t even perceive most of its scale unaided. You’ll be amazed by the types of time you can explore in our new exhibit\, and learn more about everyday time and how we measure it\, too! The exhibit is open! UID:27873-2579462@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27873 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160506T162225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A New Treasure Trove at Special Collections DESCRIPTION:This display showcases recent acquisitions that strengthen our extraordinary holdings in the areas of radical literature\, transportation history\, film\, rare books\, culinary history\, Islamic manuscripts\, children’s literature\, and Judaica. View an eclectic display of unique artifacts that reflect the broad range of our collections.\n\nArtifacts on display include historical treasures like Emma Goldman’s well-traveled suitcase\, Orson Welles’ cutting script for the film Around the World\, a fifteenth-century manuscript containing an Arabic treatise of materia media attributed to Galen\, a 1850 contract for the remount of the moving machinery of the St. Peterburg and Moscow Railway\, and Mildred Taylor’s illustrated novella for children\, The Gold Cadillac\, narrating a Northern black family’s experience of Southern segregation and prejudice during the 1950s as seen through the eyes of a young girl.\n\nExhibit Hours: Monday-Friday\, 10am-5pm\nClosed Memorial Day\, 4th of July\, and Labor Day UID:30662-3646172@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30662 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160421T105421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Picture This! DESCRIPTION:An exhibit of photographs taken of and by young patients—many of whom were born with facial differences or cleft palates—in U-M Mott Hospital’s Craniofacial Anomalies Program. Paired with professional photographers\, the children learned new ways to look at and through the camera lens. UID:30488-3519931@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30488 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160404T105502 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29456-3120475@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents new and recent work by Los Angeles-based artist Catherine Opie\, one of the essential figures in contemporary photography. Beginning in 2010\, Opie spent six months taking photographs at the Bel Air\, California\, residence of Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011). The exhibition includes fifty works drawn from two series\, Closets and Jewels and 700 Nimes Road. Opie’s lens captures the essence of the Hollywood legend through her personal objects and mementos\, and portrays Taylor’s life experience and eccentricity as an illusory subject\, one that cannot be specifically designated or precisely described. In the artist’s words\, the project is not about the relationship to celebrity but about “the relationship to what is human.” UID:30494-3530518@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catie Newell: Overnight DESCRIPTION:Detroit-based architect Catie Newell’s work is focused on the tactile\, sensory qualities of the materials we use to build things: their texture\, density\, or malleability. Her investigations combine architectural research\, material studies\, and art experiments\, a strategy she began as a student that now defines her career.\n\nThe most important element in her formal vocabulary is light\, not only as a “material” in its own right\, but also as a condition. Varying in strength\, form\, and duration\, light constructs architecture as a situational experience rather than a fixed space. Newell’s fascination with light is a fascination with darkness. Through urban interventions\, installations\, and photographs\, she investigates how darkness creates alternate environments\, with unseen geographies\, untold histories\, and secret identities.\n\nNewell\, assistant professor of architecture at U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize in architecture. Overnight includes photographs from her Rome project as well as new photography from the series Nightly\, featuring nighttime images of Detroit streetscapes and interiors\, alongside a site-specific sculptural installation commissioned by the Museum. UID:30497-3530581@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30497 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160329T123251 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Focus: Jeanne Gang DESCRIPTION:Widely acclaimed for her integrative approach to materials\, technology\, and ecological context\, Chicago-based architect Jeanne Gang was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. Shortly thereafter Gang proposed an ambitious restoration of the Chicago riverfront through a series of small but transformational projects. The WMS Boathouse\, designed by Gang and located north of downtown\, is one such project\, encompassing a field house with state-of-the art training facilities\, a boat storage building\, and a floating dock at the river’s edge. Completed in 2013\, the 22\,000-square-foot boathouse is the city’s premier rowing center\, serving a range of public rowing clubs\, many of whose amateur athletes come from the city’s underserved communities.\n\nThis installation showcases dynamic exterior and interior sketches of the complex—recently acquired by UMMA—depicting the distinctive rhythmic contours of the roof\, derived from studies of rowers in motion\, and the open\, angular\, and light-filled spaces within.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:30041-3321304@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30041 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160329T124905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences\, ranging from the Modernism of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti\, whom he met when they spent time in Mexico in the 1920s\, to the formally exquisite photojournalism of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans\, whose work he knew in New York\, and the Surrealism of André Breton\, who visited Mexico around 1940.\n\nAlthough not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood\; one of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The twenty-three photographs in the exhibition\, drawn from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist’s ability to synthesize a personal—even nationalistic—style that merged the motifs of Mexican religious and indigenous works and plant forms (such as agave leaves) with a Modernist approach to image making. Throughout\, the presence of light as a wondrous metaphor and revealer of life animates even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:30043-3321390@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30043 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Photography Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160308T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016) DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29503-3129559@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Information and Technology,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink DESCRIPTION:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink celebrates gifts to the museum from two accomplished scholars with eclectic interests\, a keen appreciation of form\, and a love of learning from objects. Nesta Spink\, curator at UMMA from 1967 to 1979\, is regarded as the preeminent authority on the lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. U-M professor emeritus Walter Spink is a world-renowned specialist on early Buddhist art and architecture in India. This selection of their gifts\, exhibited together for the first time\, provides insight into the minds of two connoisseurs with tastes that range far beyond their areas of specialization\; highlights include exquisite Whistler prints that are rarely on display and a rich representation of South Asian folk art. The Connoisseurs’ Legacy also honors the Spinks’ long relationship with the museum\, their roles as teachers of future scholars and curators\, and their commitment to public education. UID:30500-3530725@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30500 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,India,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160425T135848 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) DESCRIPTION:Abstract and paper not yet available UID:30517-3556104@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30517 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Education,Research,seminar LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160518T153725 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T133000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Study Abroad First Step Session DESCRIPTION:Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.\nPresentations are every Tuesday\, Wednesday\, Thursday\, and Friday from 1–1:30pm from June 8–August 4 (except July 5-6).\nTake your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world\, scholarships and other financial aid\, and much more.\nAttending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program. Fulfill this requirement before the school year even begins! UID:30742-3738395@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30742 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity,Inclusion,International,Language,Social Impact,Social Justice,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1338 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160404T094747 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T173000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Beginning Tennis DESCRIPTION:This class will provide those people who have little to no experience with tennis a fundamental knowledge of stroke development\, footwork\, and scoring. A racquet is provided if needed. Register on eventbrite.com and search for Kinesiology Community Programs. UID:30174-3373101@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30174 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fitness,Health & Wellness,Kinesiology LOCATION:Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool) - Palmer Tennis Courts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160404T095156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T183000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Intermediate Tennis DESCRIPTION:In this course\, you will review and strengthen stroke techniques with emphasis on spin\, depth and direction. Some advanced shots will be introduced such as lobs\, drop shots\, slices and approach shots. You will participate in drills\, games and play. A racquet is provided if needed. Register on eventbrite.com and search for Kinesiology Community Programs. UID:30175-3373102@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30175 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fitness,Health & Wellness,Kinesiology LOCATION:Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool) - Palmer Tennis Courts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160520T181506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Center Stage Strings Master Class: Danielle Belen\, violin DESCRIPTION:A glimpse behind the scenes in the making of a young artist and the relationship between a teacher and a student. Three Center Stage Strings students perform for this master teacher in a fun and engaging experience for all involved! UID:30788-3756541@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30788 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160322T181229 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160629T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Brad Cole DESCRIPTION:Check back soon for more information. UID:29908-3259630@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29908 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160704T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Henley Royal Regatta DESCRIPTION:Cheerio! UID:28635-4118361@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28635 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Henley on Thames CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160418T110610 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The Many Faces and Figures of the Four Sons in the Passover Haggadah DESCRIPTION:The Four Sons of the Passover Haggadah can now be viewed in their many versions at a unique exhibit at the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. The exhibit\, featuring 29 Haggadahs from the Irwin M. Alterman Haggadah Collection\, will be on display through July. It includes Haggadahs of various shapes and sizes\, ancient and modern\, and in a number of different languages.\n\nThe Alterman collection was acquired by the University of Michigan Library last year with the help of the Frankel Center\, and is housed in the Special Collections Library of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. It includes more than 1\,800 Haggadahs and is believed to be one of the largest Haggadah collections in the world. The unique compilation belonged to the late Irwin Alterman of West Bloomfield\, and was donated by his widow\, Marilyn McCall Alterman. \n\nPhoto courtesy of Luna Archey UID:30296-3402317@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30296 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2000 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Abstraction: A Graphic Study DESCRIPTION:Chicago-based artist Natasha Kohli uses abstract acrylic paintings to convey her messages of positivity and love by pouring that energy into each piece. As a self-taught artist\, Kohli is not bound to school taught rules but rather follows instinct and spontaneity. This also allows her to freely create her own processes. Moments of introspection and feelings of acceptance are what Kohli wishes to offer viewers of her work\, and these goals are inspired by her deep love of spirituality and Bikram yoga. UID:30719-3703664@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30719 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Concrete Ephemera: Street Art Captured DESCRIPTION:David Zinn has been drawing on sidewalks for well over a decade\, using chalk and charcoal to create anamorphic 3D creatures which\, when viewed at a precise angle\, appear to exist in the real world. They often incorporate parts of the landscape and found objects\, such as cracks in concrete or leaves on the ground. He is inspired by a desire to place cheerful art underfoot in unexpected places and to embrace the temporary nature of all things. For this exhibit\, photographs of his street art installations will be on display. Zinn is a lifelong Michigander with a degree in creative writing from the U-M Residential College\, and he worked for many years as a children’s radio host on WCBN and Michigan Radio. Zinn will also give an artist demonstration alongside a musical performance by Magdalen Fossum in the University Hospital Courtyard on Thurs\, July 21\, 2016 from 12:00-1:00 pm. UID:30720-3703748@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30720 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T143042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Area Artists Photo Portrait Project DESCRIPTION:Donita Simpson is a Detroit based photographer who creates images of Detroit area artists in their personal creative environments. She has an M.F.A. in photography from Wayne State University\, and her work is currently on exhibit in The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The Detroit Area Artists Portrait Project contains images of artists that have been making art in and around the city for over 20 years. They are captured in an environment that inspires them\, often their home or their studio. UID:30717-3703496@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30717 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T144136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dimensions: Group Show DESCRIPTION:This group exhibit features a collection of contemporary artist’s books. Many different styles of alternative bindings and printing methods will be shown that often push the boundaries of traditional books and\, in the process\, become art objects. The show will also include mixed media sculptural pieces by Ray Wetzel and Phillip Dewey. The Michigan and Ohio book artists include Char Bacon\, Ruth Bardenstein\, Elizabeth Begue\, Barbara Brown\, Cecilia Escobar\, Alvey Jones and Norma Penchansky-Glasser. UID:30718-3703580@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T142303 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscapes Imagined: Oil on Canvas DESCRIPTION:Victoria Veedell creates atmospheric landscape paintings in oil on canvas\, capturing the fleeting moments of light in nature. The root of her work is an emotional reaction to the environment\, implying landscapes not necessarily seen but felt. Veedell lives and works in San Francisco\, and she is inspired by her global travels to places as far away as India and as near as Napa Valley\, California. Travel is an important component of her work as it allows her to observe and compare gradients of color\, light and atmosphere in different geographic locations. UID:30715-3703328@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30715 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151832 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Portals: Fiber Art Quilts DESCRIPTION:Creative Seasons is a small yet vibrant group of non-traditional quilters from Southeast Michigan that meets monthly. The group’s purpose is to share knowledge\, techniques and work collaboratively on projects and exhibits as decided by the group. The definition of a portal is a door\, means of entrance\, gateway\, approach or architectural composition surrounding an opening. The group chose to interpret this theme with a broad variety of art quilts incorporating hand-dyed and painted fabrics as well as a variety of surface embellishments. UID:30722-3703916@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30722 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Seriously Playful Jewelry: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:Rural Pennsylvania artists Lisa & Scott Cylinder have been husband and wife collaborators in Chickenscratch Art Jewelry since 1988\, having met at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania. Working together they have developed a wonderful exchange and interplay of ideas\, concepts and techniques\, involving meticulous fabrication with many different materials and processes. Their influences are varied and vast: modern art\, scientific phenomena\, 20th century artifacts\, nature and film play upon their ideas and how they manifest them into jewelry objects. Lisa & Scott Cylinder work to create art that stimulates conversation and curiosity. UID:30721-3703832@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30721 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T142706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Whimsical World of Bechler Pottery DESCRIPTION:The mixed media work of Stacey and Corey Bechler is whimsical\, colorful and fun. They use popular icons such as fish\, birds\, dogs and landscapes as their subjects\, and they make them look whimsical with elaborate colors\, shapes and textures. They work to create a powerful visual contrast within each piece. Using clay and glaze as a base for each of their pieces\, they often add touches of copper\, assorted wires and driftwood found near their beach home. They live on the shore of Lake Michigan inside Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. UID:30716-3703412@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30716 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20151211T113926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Works by Belle Kogan: First Female Industrial Designer DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents industrially-produced art pottery pieces designed by Belle Kogan (1902–2000)\, for Red Wing Potteries in Red Wing\, Minnesota. Kogan is considered the first prominent female industrial designer in the United States\, a founder of the profession\, and one of the 20th century's most significant designers. Her design aesthetic was heavily influenced by the geometric and streamlined shapes of Art Deco. Belle Kogan Associates\, her New York–based studio\, was the first American female-led design firm. Her contracts with Red Wing Potteries produced over 400 different art pottery shapes from the late 1930s to the early 1960s\, as well as several dinnerware and kitchenware lines. Belle Kogan and her firm designed products not only in ceramics but also clocks and small appliances\, glassware\, and pieces in silver\, plastics\, wrought iron and wood. UID:27190-2334066@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27190 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160310T165634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Intersections/Connections DESCRIPTION:This International Studies exhibit focuses on materials from across the world\, including many nations and cultures. Rather than displaying each area separately\, the exhibit concentrates on the connections and intersections among disparate regions. UID:29615-3148206@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29615 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation DESCRIPTION:Today the Emancipation Proclamation is one of our nation’s critical documents. It symbolizes a remarkable turning point: slavery’s extinction in the United States became possible and indeed highly likely. Still\, our views of that moment may be as varied as they were 150 years ago.\n\nProclaiming Emancipation explores reflections upon the Proclamation and the meaning of emancipation through the holdings of the William L. Clements Library\, with select items from collaborating institutions. \n\nThrough an exploration of freedom\, military service\, executive power and visual representations\, Proclaiming Emancipation pays tribute to a near-sacred document steeped in the logic of history and the imaginings of myth.\n-----------------------------------------------------\nSponsored by the Program in Race\, Law & History and the William L. Clements Library\, in cooperation with the University of Michigan Library. Martha S. Jones and Clayton Lewis\, curators.\n\nPROCLAIMING EMANCIPATION has been made possible through the generous support of Faith (AB ‘69) and Stephen (AB ‘66\, JD ‘69) Brown\, and at the University of Michigan: College of Literature\, Science and the Arts\, Office of the Vice President for Research\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Rackham Graduate School\, Institute for the Humanities\, Law in Slavery and Freedom Project\, and the Understanding Race Theme Semester. UID:31039-4010854@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31039 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Detroit,Diversity,Exhibition,History,Law,Library,Rackham,Research,Social Justice LOCATION:Detroit Center - Monts Hall Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160531T122730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Enneagram: 9 Ways of Working Smarter DESCRIPTION:While every individual is unique\, we have patterns in the way we think\, feel\, and behave which form our identity and Enneagram personality type. The more we become aware of these gifts\, the better we become at understanding others and how they see the world.\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nAssess your natural Enneagram working style\nDescribe the eight other Enneagram work styles\nIdentify your work style under calm\, stressful and high performance conditions\nRecognize your preferred work environment where your style can be more successful\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nGaining a clearer sense of how you work and what you need from your environment\nUnderstanding the many ways others work\nBecoming more flexible and effective when working with others\n\nAudience:\n\nAnyone interested in learning how their personality type influences their interactions with others\n\nProgram Note:\n\nParticipants will receive a copy of the book The Essential Enneagram by David Daniels\, M.D. and Virginia Price\, Ph.D. and will complete the online Enneagram assessment. Instructions will be sent via e-mail prior to the class. UID:30852-3843089@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30852 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Leadership,Networking,Professional Development,Workshop LOCATION:Administrative Services Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160531T132416 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Finding an Extra Hour Every Day: Time Management and Technology Strategies for Busy Professionals DESCRIPTION:Everyone wishes they had extra time in their day. Explore the most common areas of productivity loss (and possible gain) affecting many busy professionals today. Come and learn useful strategies for finding at least one extra hour of productivity every day!\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nIdentify key projects and integrate planning tools to better prioritize your work\nDetermine when to say “No” to unnecessary tasks\nApply techniques to clear the clutter in your mind for better focus and attention\nChoose different strategies for making your time in meetings more productive and efficient\nEmploy the concept of “padding” to better manage incoming information\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nLearning how to be honest with yourself about responsibilities\, capabilities\, and capacity\nDeveloping strategies which allow you to identify important responsibilities and how to best allocate time to them\nKnowing how to take advantage of expected and unexpected “downtime”\n\nAudience:\n\nAnyone wishing to gain control over their workload and find extra time in their day UID:30858-3843098@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30858 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Networking,Workshop LOCATION:Administrative Services Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160615T091111 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T100000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Thesis defense: Variation in venom gene family repertoires in populations of a cone snail DESCRIPTION:Peter Cerda presents his master's thesis research UID:30951-3912983@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30951 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Ecology,Evolutionary Biology,Graduate LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources Building - 2024 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160506T162225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A New Treasure Trove at Special Collections DESCRIPTION:This display showcases recent acquisitions that strengthen our extraordinary holdings in the areas of radical literature\, transportation history\, film\, rare books\, culinary history\, Islamic manuscripts\, children’s literature\, and Judaica. View an eclectic display of unique artifacts that reflect the broad range of our collections.\n\nArtifacts on display include historical treasures like Emma Goldman’s well-traveled suitcase\, Orson Welles’ cutting script for the film Around the World\, a fifteenth-century manuscript containing an Arabic treatise of materia media attributed to Galen\, a 1850 contract for the remount of the moving machinery of the St. Peterburg and Moscow Railway\, and Mildred Taylor’s illustrated novella for children\, The Gold Cadillac\, narrating a Northern black family’s experience of Southern segregation and prejudice during the 1950s as seen through the eyes of a young girl.\n\nExhibit Hours: Monday-Friday\, 10am-5pm\nClosed Memorial Day\, 4th of July\, and Labor Day UID:30662-3646173@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30662 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160421T105421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Picture This! DESCRIPTION:An exhibit of photographs taken of and by young patients—many of whom were born with facial differences or cleft palates—in U-M Mott Hospital’s Craniofacial Anomalies Program. Paired with professional photographers\, the children learned new ways to look at and through the camera lens. UID:30488-3519932@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30488 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160404T105502 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29456-3120476@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents new and recent work by Los Angeles-based artist Catherine Opie\, one of the essential figures in contemporary photography. Beginning in 2010\, Opie spent six months taking photographs at the Bel Air\, California\, residence of Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011). The exhibition includes fifty works drawn from two series\, Closets and Jewels and 700 Nimes Road. Opie’s lens captures the essence of the Hollywood legend through her personal objects and mementos\, and portrays Taylor’s life experience and eccentricity as an illusory subject\, one that cannot be specifically designated or precisely described. In the artist’s words\, the project is not about the relationship to celebrity but about “the relationship to what is human.” UID:30494-3530519@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catie Newell: Overnight DESCRIPTION:Detroit-based architect Catie Newell’s work is focused on the tactile\, sensory qualities of the materials we use to build things: their texture\, density\, or malleability. Her investigations combine architectural research\, material studies\, and art experiments\, a strategy she began as a student that now defines her career.\n\nThe most important element in her formal vocabulary is light\, not only as a “material” in its own right\, but also as a condition. Varying in strength\, form\, and duration\, light constructs architecture as a situational experience rather than a fixed space. Newell’s fascination with light is a fascination with darkness. Through urban interventions\, installations\, and photographs\, she investigates how darkness creates alternate environments\, with unseen geographies\, untold histories\, and secret identities.\n\nNewell\, assistant professor of architecture at U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize in architecture. Overnight includes photographs from her Rome project as well as new photography from the series Nightly\, featuring nighttime images of Detroit streetscapes and interiors\, alongside a site-specific sculptural installation commissioned by the Museum. UID:30497-3530582@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30497 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160329T123251 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Focus: Jeanne Gang DESCRIPTION:Widely acclaimed for her integrative approach to materials\, technology\, and ecological context\, Chicago-based architect Jeanne Gang was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. Shortly thereafter Gang proposed an ambitious restoration of the Chicago riverfront through a series of small but transformational projects. The WMS Boathouse\, designed by Gang and located north of downtown\, is one such project\, encompassing a field house with state-of-the art training facilities\, a boat storage building\, and a floating dock at the river’s edge. Completed in 2013\, the 22\,000-square-foot boathouse is the city’s premier rowing center\, serving a range of public rowing clubs\, many of whose amateur athletes come from the city’s underserved communities.\n\nThis installation showcases dynamic exterior and interior sketches of the complex—recently acquired by UMMA—depicting the distinctive rhythmic contours of the roof\, derived from studies of rowers in motion\, and the open\, angular\, and light-filled spaces within.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:30041-3321305@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30041 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160329T124905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences\, ranging from the Modernism of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti\, whom he met when they spent time in Mexico in the 1920s\, to the formally exquisite photojournalism of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans\, whose work he knew in New York\, and the Surrealism of André Breton\, who visited Mexico around 1940.\n\nAlthough not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood\; one of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The twenty-three photographs in the exhibition\, drawn from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist’s ability to synthesize a personal—even nationalistic—style that merged the motifs of Mexican religious and indigenous works and plant forms (such as agave leaves) with a Modernist approach to image making. Throughout\, the presence of light as a wondrous metaphor and revealer of life animates even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:30043-3321391@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30043 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Photography Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160308T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016) DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29503-3129560@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Information and Technology,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink DESCRIPTION:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink celebrates gifts to the museum from two accomplished scholars with eclectic interests\, a keen appreciation of form\, and a love of learning from objects. Nesta Spink\, curator at UMMA from 1967 to 1979\, is regarded as the preeminent authority on the lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. U-M professor emeritus Walter Spink is a world-renowned specialist on early Buddhist art and architecture in India. This selection of their gifts\, exhibited together for the first time\, provides insight into the minds of two connoisseurs with tastes that range far beyond their areas of specialization\; highlights include exquisite Whistler prints that are rarely on display and a rich representation of South Asian folk art. The Connoisseurs’ Legacy also honors the Spinks’ long relationship with the museum\, their roles as teachers of future scholars and curators\, and their commitment to public education. UID:30500-3530726@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30500 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,India,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160505T115753 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents Sultry Jazz & Soul DESCRIPTION:Bassist and vocalist Gwenyth Hayes’ hybrid reinterpretations give due respect to classics from many genres and eras and center around her sultry voice\, groove oriented bass lines and tight instrumental arrangements. She reinvents traditional soul\, jazz\, soft rock and blues standards with a new smooth\, sensual and contemporary feel. During her Blues era as a professional bassist in Chicago\, Hayes performed regularly at world famous clubs including Buddy Guy’s Legends. She performs with jazz guitarist Jake Reichbart and drummer Rob Avsharian. This concert is part of Gifts of Art’s UMHS Summer Courtyard Concert Series. UID:30652-3635929@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30652 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Health & Wellness,Music LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Courtyard CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160531T131448 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Peer Leadership: Getting Results Without Authority DESCRIPTION:No matter what your organizational level\, everyone is a leader. This class will help you identify your innate leadership skills and show you how you can use them to be more successful and effective in your daily work life.\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nBuild confidence in your leadership competencies\nRecognize how your personality and leadership styles are similar to or different from styles used by others\nInfluence decisions made by others when you are not “officially” in charge\nUse these improved leadership strategies and techniques in your various roles\nBuild upon skills and knowledge needed to be an effective leader\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nDeveloping core leadership skills that transcend your job position or role\nCreating a comprehensive plan of action for furthering your development as a leader\n\nAudience:\n\nAnyone interested in developing their leadership abilities\n\nProgram Note:\n\nAs required class preparation\, participants will complete the online StrengthsFinder® 2.0 assessment. Instructions will be sent via e-mail prior to the class. UID:30854-3843093@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30854 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Leadership,Networking,Professional Development,Workshop LOCATION:Administrative Services Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160518T153725 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T133000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Study Abroad First Step Session DESCRIPTION:Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.\nPresentations are every Tuesday\, Wednesday\, Thursday\, and Friday from 1–1:30pm from June 8–August 4 (except July 5-6).\nTake your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world\, scholarships and other financial aid\, and much more.\nAttending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program. Fulfill this requirement before the school year even begins! UID:30742-3738396@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30742 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity,Inclusion,International,Language,Social Impact,Social Justice,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1338 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160616T105125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:One-on-One Canvas Support DESCRIPTION:Building your Canvas site? Stop by to work one-on-one with a LSA-ISS consultant. No registration or appointment necessary! We can cover basic information\, such as organizing your course content or setting up a home page or we can answer any questions or troubleshoot issues you may have. We can also offer assistance with other academic technologies\, such as i>clicker. UID:30994-3968766@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30994 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Information and Technology,Workshop LOCATION:School of Education - 2302 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160404T091701 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T190000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Beginner Golf DESCRIPTION:Beginner golf classes are open to UM faculty/staff/students taught by PGA professionals. The facility includes a heated and covered structure to keep you warm and dry. Search for Kinesiology Community Programs on eventbrite.com. UID:30169-3373086@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30169 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fitness,Health & Wellness,Kinesiology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160401T162952 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T201500 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Intermediate Golf Class DESCRIPTION:This intermediate golf class is open to UM faculty/staff/students taught by PGA professionals. The facility includes a heated and covered structure to keep you warm and dry. Search for Kinesiology Community Programs on eventbrite.com. UID:30152-3373089@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30152 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fitness,Health & Wellness,Kinesiology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160406T140837 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Bruce in the U.S.A DESCRIPTION:Check back soon for more information. UID:30254-3393264@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30254 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160520T181505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Center Stage Strings Performance: Faculty Showcase DESCRIPTION:The faculty of Center Stage Strings\, led by faculty director Danielle Belen\, perform solos and duos in recital. Featuring Stephen Shipps\, Elbert Tsai\, Mi-Eun Kim\, Caroline Coade\, and Wei Yu\, our newest member of the Center Stage team and principal cellist of the Detroit Symphony.\n\nWorks by Wieniawski\, Ysaÿe\, Liszt and more. UID:30780-3756533@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30780 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160607T124542 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160630T213000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Polish Animation Night DESCRIPTION:Snacks provided\n\nThursdays at 8pm\nJune 9-August 4 & August 25\n2175 North Quad UID:30932-3899002@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30932 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Free,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Quad - 2175 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160704T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Henley Royal Regatta DESCRIPTION:Cheerio! UID:28635-4118362@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28635 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Henley on Thames CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160418T110610 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The Many Faces and Figures of the Four Sons in the Passover Haggadah DESCRIPTION:The Four Sons of the Passover Haggadah can now be viewed in their many versions at a unique exhibit at the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. The exhibit\, featuring 29 Haggadahs from the Irwin M. Alterman Haggadah Collection\, will be on display through July. It includes Haggadahs of various shapes and sizes\, ancient and modern\, and in a number of different languages.\n\nThe Alterman collection was acquired by the University of Michigan Library last year with the help of the Frankel Center\, and is housed in the Special Collections Library of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. It includes more than 1\,800 Haggadahs and is believed to be one of the largest Haggadah collections in the world. The unique compilation belonged to the late Irwin Alterman of West Bloomfield\, and was donated by his widow\, Marilyn McCall Alterman. \n\nPhoto courtesy of Luna Archey UID:30296-3402318@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30296 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2000 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Abstraction: A Graphic Study DESCRIPTION:Chicago-based artist Natasha Kohli uses abstract acrylic paintings to convey her messages of positivity and love by pouring that energy into each piece. As a self-taught artist\, Kohli is not bound to school taught rules but rather follows instinct and spontaneity. This also allows her to freely create her own processes. Moments of introspection and feelings of acceptance are what Kohli wishes to offer viewers of her work\, and these goals are inspired by her deep love of spirituality and Bikram yoga. UID:30719-3703665@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30719 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Concrete Ephemera: Street Art Captured DESCRIPTION:David Zinn has been drawing on sidewalks for well over a decade\, using chalk and charcoal to create anamorphic 3D creatures which\, when viewed at a precise angle\, appear to exist in the real world. They often incorporate parts of the landscape and found objects\, such as cracks in concrete or leaves on the ground. He is inspired by a desire to place cheerful art underfoot in unexpected places and to embrace the temporary nature of all things. For this exhibit\, photographs of his street art installations will be on display. Zinn is a lifelong Michigander with a degree in creative writing from the U-M Residential College\, and he worked for many years as a children’s radio host on WCBN and Michigan Radio. Zinn will also give an artist demonstration alongside a musical performance by Magdalen Fossum in the University Hospital Courtyard on Thurs\, July 21\, 2016 from 12:00-1:00 pm. UID:30720-3703749@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30720 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T143042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Area Artists Photo Portrait Project DESCRIPTION:Donita Simpson is a Detroit based photographer who creates images of Detroit area artists in their personal creative environments. She has an M.F.A. in photography from Wayne State University\, and her work is currently on exhibit in The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The Detroit Area Artists Portrait Project contains images of artists that have been making art in and around the city for over 20 years. They are captured in an environment that inspires them\, often their home or their studio. UID:30717-3703497@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30717 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T144136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dimensions: Group Show DESCRIPTION:This group exhibit features a collection of contemporary artist’s books. Many different styles of alternative bindings and printing methods will be shown that often push the boundaries of traditional books and\, in the process\, become art objects. The show will also include mixed media sculptural pieces by Ray Wetzel and Phillip Dewey. The Michigan and Ohio book artists include Char Bacon\, Ruth Bardenstein\, Elizabeth Begue\, Barbara Brown\, Cecilia Escobar\, Alvey Jones and Norma Penchansky-Glasser. UID:30718-3703581@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T142303 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscapes Imagined: Oil on Canvas DESCRIPTION:Victoria Veedell creates atmospheric landscape paintings in oil on canvas\, capturing the fleeting moments of light in nature. The root of her work is an emotional reaction to the environment\, implying landscapes not necessarily seen but felt. Veedell lives and works in San Francisco\, and she is inspired by her global travels to places as far away as India and as near as Napa Valley\, California. Travel is an important component of her work as it allows her to observe and compare gradients of color\, light and atmosphere in different geographic locations. UID:30715-3703329@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30715 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151832 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Portals: Fiber Art Quilts DESCRIPTION:Creative Seasons is a small yet vibrant group of non-traditional quilters from Southeast Michigan that meets monthly. The group’s purpose is to share knowledge\, techniques and work collaboratively on projects and exhibits as decided by the group. The definition of a portal is a door\, means of entrance\, gateway\, approach or architectural composition surrounding an opening. The group chose to interpret this theme with a broad variety of art quilts incorporating hand-dyed and painted fabrics as well as a variety of surface embellishments. UID:30722-3703917@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30722 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Seriously Playful Jewelry: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:Rural Pennsylvania artists Lisa & Scott Cylinder have been husband and wife collaborators in Chickenscratch Art Jewelry since 1988\, having met at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania. Working together they have developed a wonderful exchange and interplay of ideas\, concepts and techniques\, involving meticulous fabrication with many different materials and processes. Their influences are varied and vast: modern art\, scientific phenomena\, 20th century artifacts\, nature and film play upon their ideas and how they manifest them into jewelry objects. Lisa & Scott Cylinder work to create art that stimulates conversation and curiosity. UID:30721-3703833@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30721 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T142706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Whimsical World of Bechler Pottery DESCRIPTION:The mixed media work of Stacey and Corey Bechler is whimsical\, colorful and fun. They use popular icons such as fish\, birds\, dogs and landscapes as their subjects\, and they make them look whimsical with elaborate colors\, shapes and textures. They work to create a powerful visual contrast within each piece. Using clay and glaze as a base for each of their pieces\, they often add touches of copper\, assorted wires and driftwood found near their beach home. They live on the shore of Lake Michigan inside Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. UID:30716-3703413@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30716 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20151211T113926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Works by Belle Kogan: First Female Industrial Designer DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents industrially-produced art pottery pieces designed by Belle Kogan (1902–2000)\, for Red Wing Potteries in Red Wing\, Minnesota. Kogan is considered the first prominent female industrial designer in the United States\, a founder of the profession\, and one of the 20th century's most significant designers. Her design aesthetic was heavily influenced by the geometric and streamlined shapes of Art Deco. Belle Kogan Associates\, her New York–based studio\, was the first American female-led design firm. Her contracts with Red Wing Potteries produced over 400 different art pottery shapes from the late 1930s to the early 1960s\, as well as several dinnerware and kitchenware lines. Belle Kogan and her firm designed products not only in ceramics but also clocks and small appliances\, glassware\, and pieces in silver\, plastics\, wrought iron and wood. UID:27190-2334067@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27190 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160310T165634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Intersections/Connections DESCRIPTION:This International Studies exhibit focuses on materials from across the world\, including many nations and cultures. Rather than displaying each area separately\, the exhibit concentrates on the connections and intersections among disparate regions. UID:29615-3148207@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29615 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation DESCRIPTION:Today the Emancipation Proclamation is one of our nation’s critical documents. It symbolizes a remarkable turning point: slavery’s extinction in the United States became possible and indeed highly likely. Still\, our views of that moment may be as varied as they were 150 years ago.\n\nProclaiming Emancipation explores reflections upon the Proclamation and the meaning of emancipation through the holdings of the William L. Clements Library\, with select items from collaborating institutions. \n\nThrough an exploration of freedom\, military service\, executive power and visual representations\, Proclaiming Emancipation pays tribute to a near-sacred document steeped in the logic of history and the imaginings of myth.\n-----------------------------------------------------\nSponsored by the Program in Race\, Law & History and the William L. Clements Library\, in cooperation with the University of Michigan Library. Martha S. Jones and Clayton Lewis\, curators.\n\nPROCLAIMING EMANCIPATION has been made possible through the generous support of Faith (AB ‘69) and Stephen (AB ‘66\, JD ‘69) Brown\, and at the University of Michigan: College of Literature\, Science and the Arts\, Office of the Vice President for Research\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Rackham Graduate School\, Institute for the Humanities\, Law in Slavery and Freedom Project\, and the Understanding Race Theme Semester. UID:31039-4010855@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31039 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Detroit,Diversity,Exhibition,History,Law,Library,Rackham,Research,Social Justice LOCATION:Detroit Center - Monts Hall Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Extreme Time DESCRIPTION:Think you know all about time? What about things that happen in femtoseconds or eons? Time in the natural world is so extreme\, you can’t even perceive most of its scale unaided. You’ll be amazed by the types of time you can explore in our new exhibit\, and learn more about everyday time and how we measure it\, too! The exhibit is open! UID:27873-2579288@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27873 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160506T162225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A New Treasure Trove at Special Collections DESCRIPTION:This display showcases recent acquisitions that strengthen our extraordinary holdings in the areas of radical literature\, transportation history\, film\, rare books\, culinary history\, Islamic manuscripts\, children’s literature\, and Judaica. View an eclectic display of unique artifacts that reflect the broad range of our collections.\n\nArtifacts on display include historical treasures like Emma Goldman’s well-traveled suitcase\, Orson Welles’ cutting script for the film Around the World\, a fifteenth-century manuscript containing an Arabic treatise of materia media attributed to Galen\, a 1850 contract for the remount of the moving machinery of the St. Peterburg and Moscow Railway\, and Mildred Taylor’s illustrated novella for children\, The Gold Cadillac\, narrating a Northern black family’s experience of Southern segregation and prejudice during the 1950s as seen through the eyes of a young girl.\n\nExhibit Hours: Monday-Friday\, 10am-5pm\nClosed Memorial Day\, 4th of July\, and Labor Day UID:30662-3646174@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30662 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160421T105421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Picture This! DESCRIPTION:An exhibit of photographs taken of and by young patients—many of whom were born with facial differences or cleft palates—in U-M Mott Hospital’s Craniofacial Anomalies Program. Paired with professional photographers\, the children learned new ways to look at and through the camera lens. UID:30488-3519933@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30488 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160523T155817 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Supporting Scholarship: Eight Topics Documented in the Clements Library DESCRIPTION:Come and see what brings researchers from around the world to the William L Clements Library to explore its historical collections. This exhibit highlights eight research topics that the holdings of the Clements support. They include: Exploration and Discovery\; Colonial America\; Conflict\; Age of Revolution\; Education\; Business and Trade\; Religion & Reform\; and The Under-Represented. \n\nVisit to see rare treasures that reflect the broad range of early maps\, manuscripts\, books\, prints\, and photography in our collections. For more information about the Library and using it for research\, please visit our website at clements.umich.edu. \n\nThis exhibit will close on October 28\, 2016. UID:30795-3776663@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30795 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Exhibition,History,Library,Lifelong Learning LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160628T160209 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Ariana Orozco's Dissertation Oral Defense DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Ariana Orozco's dissertation oral defense:\n\nDissertation Title: Memory and Material Culture in Contemporary German Prose by Jenny Erpenbeck and Judith Schalansky\n\nDefense Date and Time: Friday\, July 1\, 10:30 AM\n\nDefense Location: 3308 Modern Languages Building UID:31090-4066764@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31090 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate School LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3308 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160404T105502 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29456-3120477@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents new and recent work by Los Angeles-based artist Catherine Opie\, one of the essential figures in contemporary photography. Beginning in 2010\, Opie spent six months taking photographs at the Bel Air\, California\, residence of Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011). The exhibition includes fifty works drawn from two series\, Closets and Jewels and 700 Nimes Road. Opie’s lens captures the essence of the Hollywood legend through her personal objects and mementos\, and portrays Taylor’s life experience and eccentricity as an illusory subject\, one that cannot be specifically designated or precisely described. In the artist’s words\, the project is not about the relationship to celebrity but about “the relationship to what is human.” UID:30494-3530520@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catie Newell: Overnight DESCRIPTION:Detroit-based architect Catie Newell’s work is focused on the tactile\, sensory qualities of the materials we use to build things: their texture\, density\, or malleability. Her investigations combine architectural research\, material studies\, and art experiments\, a strategy she began as a student that now defines her career.\n\nThe most important element in her formal vocabulary is light\, not only as a “material” in its own right\, but also as a condition. Varying in strength\, form\, and duration\, light constructs architecture as a situational experience rather than a fixed space. Newell’s fascination with light is a fascination with darkness. Through urban interventions\, installations\, and photographs\, she investigates how darkness creates alternate environments\, with unseen geographies\, untold histories\, and secret identities.\n\nNewell\, assistant professor of architecture at U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize in architecture. Overnight includes photographs from her Rome project as well as new photography from the series Nightly\, featuring nighttime images of Detroit streetscapes and interiors\, alongside a site-specific sculptural installation commissioned by the Museum. UID:30497-3530583@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30497 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160329T123251 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Focus: Jeanne Gang DESCRIPTION:Widely acclaimed for her integrative approach to materials\, technology\, and ecological context\, Chicago-based architect Jeanne Gang was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. Shortly thereafter Gang proposed an ambitious restoration of the Chicago riverfront through a series of small but transformational projects. The WMS Boathouse\, designed by Gang and located north of downtown\, is one such project\, encompassing a field house with state-of-the art training facilities\, a boat storage building\, and a floating dock at the river’s edge. Completed in 2013\, the 22\,000-square-foot boathouse is the city’s premier rowing center\, serving a range of public rowing clubs\, many of whose amateur athletes come from the city’s underserved communities.\n\nThis installation showcases dynamic exterior and interior sketches of the complex—recently acquired by UMMA—depicting the distinctive rhythmic contours of the roof\, derived from studies of rowers in motion\, and the open\, angular\, and light-filled spaces within.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:30041-3321306@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30041 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160329T124905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences\, ranging from the Modernism of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti\, whom he met when they spent time in Mexico in the 1920s\, to the formally exquisite photojournalism of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans\, whose work he knew in New York\, and the Surrealism of André Breton\, who visited Mexico around 1940.\n\nAlthough not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood\; one of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The twenty-three photographs in the exhibition\, drawn from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist’s ability to synthesize a personal—even nationalistic—style that merged the motifs of Mexican religious and indigenous works and plant forms (such as agave leaves) with a Modernist approach to image making. Throughout\, the presence of light as a wondrous metaphor and revealer of life animates even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:30043-3321392@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30043 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Photography Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160308T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016) DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29503-3129561@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Information and Technology,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink DESCRIPTION:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink celebrates gifts to the museum from two accomplished scholars with eclectic interests\, a keen appreciation of form\, and a love of learning from objects. Nesta Spink\, curator at UMMA from 1967 to 1979\, is regarded as the preeminent authority on the lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. U-M professor emeritus Walter Spink is a world-renowned specialist on early Buddhist art and architecture in India. This selection of their gifts\, exhibited together for the first time\, provides insight into the minds of two connoisseurs with tastes that range far beyond their areas of specialization\; highlights include exquisite Whistler prints that are rarely on display and a rich representation of South Asian folk art. The Connoisseurs’ Legacy also honors the Spinks’ long relationship with the museum\, their roles as teachers of future scholars and curators\, and their commitment to public education. UID:30500-3530727@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30500 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,India,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160622T181506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T113000 SUMMARY:Performance:Center Stage Strings Brown Bag Lunch Performances DESCRIPTION:Bring your lunch and listen to some great music from our string students. Adults and kids of all ages are encouraged to come. UID:30777-3754515@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30777 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160701T181603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T143000 SUMMARY:Other:2-Electron 3-Center Bonds as a\n\nTool for Hydrogen Storage and\n\nSelective Catalytic Reactions DESCRIPTION:Inorganic\nMary Grellier\, University of Toulouse\n UID:30890-3859112@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30890 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706 Chemistry CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160615T134715 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T140000 SUMMARY:Other:Dissertation Defense: Mechanisms that underlie experience-dependent assembly of neural circuits DESCRIPTION:Candidate for PhD in Molecular\, Cellular\, and Developmental Biology\n\nAbstract:\nI aim to understand the interaction between the environment and the developing brain through investigating how sensory experience shapes behavior. Sensory experience modifies neural connections through activity-dependent plasticity\, enabling animals to cope with environmental variability. Classic work\, particularly those in vertebrate visual systems\, has provided important insights into the mechanisms that underlie experience-dependent plasticity of the developing circuit. However\, there are significant gaps explaining the mechanism by which sensory experience shapes circuit function during development. Particularly\, how experience-dependent changes in synaptic transmission during development affect behavior in the mature animal are poorly understood. This dissertation examines how noxious sensory experience during development changes synaptic transmission in the nociceptive circuit to shape behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila provides a relatively simple and genetically amenable model for analyzing both neural development and mechanisms underlying behaviors\, and is thus a powerful model for discovering basic principles underlying experience-dependent plasticity during development. One well-characterized set of Drosophila sensory neurons is the nociceptors. The nociceptors respond to noxious environmental cues such as intense radiation\, chemical or mechanical stimuli. The cell bodies and dendrites of these neurons lie just underneath the larval cuticle\, and their dendrites receive sensory inputs from the environment. Their axons\, in turn\, project to the central nervous system to provide inputs to the nociceptive circuits\, which eventually leads to appropriate motor responses. In larvae\, activation of the nociceptors elicits a robust behavioral response. To address how noxious stimuli alters the nociceptive circuit\, I have established a calcium live-imaging technique to physiologically measure neural dynamics within larval brains and have developed a behavioral assay to probe motor output. Through the use of these experimental techniques\, I have determined that excessive noxious experience during a sensitive period in development modifies nociceptive behavior through an intrinsic program of circuit development. These findings suggest that the development of the larval nociceptive circuit is shaped by sensory inputs and neural activity. Moreover\, my collaborative work demonstrates that the developmental plasticity is es¬tablished through serotonergic inhibition which specifically modifies synapses in the nociceptive\, but not mechanosensory\, pathway. We further show that excessive stimulation of nociceptors activates serotonergic neurons to sensitize the presynaptic terminals of nociceptors to serotoninergic inhibition after development is completed\, leading to abated nociceptive behavior. This is the first demonstration\, to our knowledge\, that noxious sensory experience shapes the development of Drosophila\, and reveals a neural mechanism involved in offsetting harmful environmental stimuli. UID:30989-3962780@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30989 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Dissertation Defense,Research LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - East Conference Room, 4th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160518T153725 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T133000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Study Abroad First Step Session DESCRIPTION:Where will study abroad take you? Find out at a CGIS First Step session.\nPresentations are every Tuesday\, Wednesday\, Thursday\, and Friday from 1–1:30pm from June 8–August 4 (except July 5-6).\nTake your first step toward a study abroad experience at UM and learn more about study programs around the world\, scholarships and other financial aid\, and much more.\nAttending a CGIS First Step session is a required part of applying to a CGIS study abroad program. Fulfill this requirement before the school year even begins! UID:30742-3738397@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30742 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity,Inclusion,International,Language,Social Impact,Social Justice,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1338 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160628T181509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T150000 SUMMARY:Performance:Senior Recital: James Russell\, flute DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Swallow - Falling Grace\; Russell - The Man Who Cried Jazz\, Breath\, Freedom\; Henderson - Serenity\; Pearson - Jeanine\; Blakey - Look at the Birdie UID:31092-4068757@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31092 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Stearns Building - Cady Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160520T181506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Center Stage Strings Master Class: Yizhak Schotten\, viola DESCRIPTION:A glimpse behind the scenes in the making of a young artist and the relationship between a teacher and a student. Three Center Stage Strings students perform for this master teacher in a fun and engaging experience for all involved! UID:30789-3756542@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30789 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160412T164313 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160701T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Tiempo Libre DESCRIPTION:Check back soon for more information. UID:30389-3445661@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30389 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160704T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Henley Royal Regatta DESCRIPTION:Cheerio! UID:28635-4118363@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28635 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Henley on Thames CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Abstraction: A Graphic Study DESCRIPTION:Chicago-based artist Natasha Kohli uses abstract acrylic paintings to convey her messages of positivity and love by pouring that energy into each piece. As a self-taught artist\, Kohli is not bound to school taught rules but rather follows instinct and spontaneity. This also allows her to freely create her own processes. Moments of introspection and feelings of acceptance are what Kohli wishes to offer viewers of her work\, and these goals are inspired by her deep love of spirituality and Bikram yoga. UID:30719-3703666@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30719 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Concrete Ephemera: Street Art Captured DESCRIPTION:David Zinn has been drawing on sidewalks for well over a decade\, using chalk and charcoal to create anamorphic 3D creatures which\, when viewed at a precise angle\, appear to exist in the real world. They often incorporate parts of the landscape and found objects\, such as cracks in concrete or leaves on the ground. He is inspired by a desire to place cheerful art underfoot in unexpected places and to embrace the temporary nature of all things. For this exhibit\, photographs of his street art installations will be on display. Zinn is a lifelong Michigander with a degree in creative writing from the U-M Residential College\, and he worked for many years as a children’s radio host on WCBN and Michigan Radio. Zinn will also give an artist demonstration alongside a musical performance by Magdalen Fossum in the University Hospital Courtyard on Thurs\, July 21\, 2016 from 12:00-1:00 pm. UID:30720-3703750@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30720 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T143042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Area Artists Photo Portrait Project DESCRIPTION:Donita Simpson is a Detroit based photographer who creates images of Detroit area artists in their personal creative environments. She has an M.F.A. in photography from Wayne State University\, and her work is currently on exhibit in The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The Detroit Area Artists Portrait Project contains images of artists that have been making art in and around the city for over 20 years. They are captured in an environment that inspires them\, often their home or their studio. UID:30717-3703498@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30717 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T144136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dimensions: Group Show DESCRIPTION:This group exhibit features a collection of contemporary artist’s books. Many different styles of alternative bindings and printing methods will be shown that often push the boundaries of traditional books and\, in the process\, become art objects. The show will also include mixed media sculptural pieces by Ray Wetzel and Phillip Dewey. The Michigan and Ohio book artists include Char Bacon\, Ruth Bardenstein\, Elizabeth Begue\, Barbara Brown\, Cecilia Escobar\, Alvey Jones and Norma Penchansky-Glasser. UID:30718-3703582@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T142303 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscapes Imagined: Oil on Canvas DESCRIPTION:Victoria Veedell creates atmospheric landscape paintings in oil on canvas\, capturing the fleeting moments of light in nature. The root of her work is an emotional reaction to the environment\, implying landscapes not necessarily seen but felt. Veedell lives and works in San Francisco\, and she is inspired by her global travels to places as far away as India and as near as Napa Valley\, California. Travel is an important component of her work as it allows her to observe and compare gradients of color\, light and atmosphere in different geographic locations. UID:30715-3703330@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30715 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151832 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Portals: Fiber Art Quilts DESCRIPTION:Creative Seasons is a small yet vibrant group of non-traditional quilters from Southeast Michigan that meets monthly. The group’s purpose is to share knowledge\, techniques and work collaboratively on projects and exhibits as decided by the group. The definition of a portal is a door\, means of entrance\, gateway\, approach or architectural composition surrounding an opening. The group chose to interpret this theme with a broad variety of art quilts incorporating hand-dyed and painted fabrics as well as a variety of surface embellishments. UID:30722-3703918@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30722 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T151534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Seriously Playful Jewelry: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:Rural Pennsylvania artists Lisa & Scott Cylinder have been husband and wife collaborators in Chickenscratch Art Jewelry since 1988\, having met at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania. Working together they have developed a wonderful exchange and interplay of ideas\, concepts and techniques\, involving meticulous fabrication with many different materials and processes. Their influences are varied and vast: modern art\, scientific phenomena\, 20th century artifacts\, nature and film play upon their ideas and how they manifest them into jewelry objects. Lisa & Scott Cylinder work to create art that stimulates conversation and curiosity. UID:30721-3703834@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30721 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T142706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Whimsical World of Bechler Pottery DESCRIPTION:The mixed media work of Stacey and Corey Bechler is whimsical\, colorful and fun. They use popular icons such as fish\, birds\, dogs and landscapes as their subjects\, and they make them look whimsical with elaborate colors\, shapes and textures. They work to create a powerful visual contrast within each piece. Using clay and glaze as a base for each of their pieces\, they often add touches of copper\, assorted wires and driftwood found near their beach home. They live on the shore of Lake Michigan inside Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. UID:30716-3703414@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30716 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20151211T113926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Works by Belle Kogan: First Female Industrial Designer DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents industrially-produced art pottery pieces designed by Belle Kogan (1902–2000)\, for Red Wing Potteries in Red Wing\, Minnesota. Kogan is considered the first prominent female industrial designer in the United States\, a founder of the profession\, and one of the 20th century's most significant designers. Her design aesthetic was heavily influenced by the geometric and streamlined shapes of Art Deco. Belle Kogan Associates\, her New York–based studio\, was the first American female-led design firm. Her contracts with Red Wing Potteries produced over 400 different art pottery shapes from the late 1930s to the early 1960s\, as well as several dinnerware and kitchenware lines. Belle Kogan and her firm designed products not only in ceramics but also clocks and small appliances\, glassware\, and pieces in silver\, plastics\, wrought iron and wood. UID:27190-2334068@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27190 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160310T165634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Intersections/Connections DESCRIPTION:This International Studies exhibit focuses on materials from across the world\, including many nations and cultures. Rather than displaying each area separately\, the exhibit concentrates on the connections and intersections among disparate regions. UID:29615-3148208@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29615 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation DESCRIPTION:Today the Emancipation Proclamation is one of our nation’s critical documents. It symbolizes a remarkable turning point: slavery’s extinction in the United States became possible and indeed highly likely. Still\, our views of that moment may be as varied as they were 150 years ago.\n\nProclaiming Emancipation explores reflections upon the Proclamation and the meaning of emancipation through the holdings of the William L. Clements Library\, with select items from collaborating institutions. \n\nThrough an exploration of freedom\, military service\, executive power and visual representations\, Proclaiming Emancipation pays tribute to a near-sacred document steeped in the logic of history and the imaginings of myth.\n-----------------------------------------------------\nSponsored by the Program in Race\, Law & History and the William L. Clements Library\, in cooperation with the University of Michigan Library. Martha S. Jones and Clayton Lewis\, curators.\n\nPROCLAIMING EMANCIPATION has been made possible through the generous support of Faith (AB ‘69) and Stephen (AB ‘66\, JD ‘69) Brown\, and at the University of Michigan: College of Literature\, Science and the Arts\, Office of the Vice President for Research\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Rackham Graduate School\, Institute for the Humanities\, Law in Slavery and Freedom Project\, and the Understanding Race Theme Semester. UID:31039-4010856@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31039 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Detroit,Diversity,Exhibition,History,Law,Library,Rackham,Research,Social Justice LOCATION:Detroit Center - Monts Hall Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Extreme Time DESCRIPTION:Think you know all about time? What about things that happen in femtoseconds or eons? Time in the natural world is so extreme\, you can’t even perceive most of its scale unaided. You’ll be amazed by the types of time you can explore in our new exhibit\, and learn more about everyday time and how we measure it\, too! The exhibit is open! UID:27873-2579317@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27873 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160421T105421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Picture This! DESCRIPTION:An exhibit of photographs taken of and by young patients—many of whom were born with facial differences or cleft palates—in U-M Mott Hospital’s Craniofacial Anomalies Program. Paired with professional photographers\, the children learned new ways to look at and through the camera lens. UID:30488-3519934@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30488 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160404T105502 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29456-3120478@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents new and recent work by Los Angeles-based artist Catherine Opie\, one of the essential figures in contemporary photography. Beginning in 2010\, Opie spent six months taking photographs at the Bel Air\, California\, residence of Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011). The exhibition includes fifty works drawn from two series\, Closets and Jewels and 700 Nimes Road. Opie’s lens captures the essence of the Hollywood legend through her personal objects and mementos\, and portrays Taylor’s life experience and eccentricity as an illusory subject\, one that cannot be specifically designated or precisely described. In the artist’s words\, the project is not about the relationship to celebrity but about “the relationship to what is human.” UID:30494-3530521@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catie Newell: Overnight DESCRIPTION:Detroit-based architect Catie Newell’s work is focused on the tactile\, sensory qualities of the materials we use to build things: their texture\, density\, or malleability. Her investigations combine architectural research\, material studies\, and art experiments\, a strategy she began as a student that now defines her career.\n\nThe most important element in her formal vocabulary is light\, not only as a “material” in its own right\, but also as a condition. Varying in strength\, form\, and duration\, light constructs architecture as a situational experience rather than a fixed space. Newell’s fascination with light is a fascination with darkness. Through urban interventions\, installations\, and photographs\, she investigates how darkness creates alternate environments\, with unseen geographies\, untold histories\, and secret identities.\n\nNewell\, assistant professor of architecture at U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize in architecture. Overnight includes photographs from her Rome project as well as new photography from the series Nightly\, featuring nighttime images of Detroit streetscapes and interiors\, alongside a site-specific sculptural installation commissioned by the Museum. UID:30497-3530584@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30497 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160329T123251 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Focus: Jeanne Gang DESCRIPTION:Widely acclaimed for her integrative approach to materials\, technology\, and ecological context\, Chicago-based architect Jeanne Gang was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. Shortly thereafter Gang proposed an ambitious restoration of the Chicago riverfront through a series of small but transformational projects. The WMS Boathouse\, designed by Gang and located north of downtown\, is one such project\, encompassing a field house with state-of-the art training facilities\, a boat storage building\, and a floating dock at the river’s edge. Completed in 2013\, the 22\,000-square-foot boathouse is the city’s premier rowing center\, serving a range of public rowing clubs\, many of whose amateur athletes come from the city’s underserved communities.\n\nThis installation showcases dynamic exterior and interior sketches of the complex—recently acquired by UMMA—depicting the distinctive rhythmic contours of the roof\, derived from studies of rowers in motion\, and the open\, angular\, and light-filled spaces within.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:30041-3321307@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30041 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160329T124905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences\, ranging from the Modernism of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti\, whom he met when they spent time in Mexico in the 1920s\, to the formally exquisite photojournalism of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans\, whose work he knew in New York\, and the Surrealism of André Breton\, who visited Mexico around 1940.\n\nAlthough not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood\; one of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The twenty-three photographs in the exhibition\, drawn from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist’s ability to synthesize a personal—even nationalistic—style that merged the motifs of Mexican religious and indigenous works and plant forms (such as agave leaves) with a Modernist approach to image making. Throughout\, the presence of light as a wondrous metaphor and revealer of life animates even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:30043-3321393@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30043 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Photography Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160308T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016) DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays UID:29503-3129562@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Information and Technology,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink DESCRIPTION:The Connoisseurs’ Legacy: The Collection of Nesta and Walter Spink celebrates gifts to the museum from two accomplished scholars with eclectic interests\, a keen appreciation of form\, and a love of learning from objects. Nesta Spink\, curator at UMMA from 1967 to 1979\, is regarded as the preeminent authority on the lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. U-M professor emeritus Walter Spink is a world-renowned specialist on early Buddhist art and architecture in India. This selection of their gifts\, exhibited together for the first time\, provides insight into the minds of two connoisseurs with tastes that range far beyond their areas of specialization\; highlights include exquisite Whistler prints that are rarely on display and a rich representation of South Asian folk art. The Connoisseurs’ Legacy also honors the Spinks’ long relationship with the museum\, their roles as teachers of future scholars and curators\, and their commitment to public education. UID:30500-3530728@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30500 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,India,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160629T085326 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Saturday Sampler Tour | Art and Artifact DESCRIPTION:Explore connections between ancient artifacts and famous works of art outside of the Kelsey Museum. UID:31094-4068759@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31094 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Museum,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T125623 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160702T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:An Evening With Seth Bernard & Friends DESCRIPTION:Check back soon for more information. UID:30492-3530498@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30492 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR