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:20160717T180022 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T235959 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Tango Workshop + Live Orchestra --- Ney Melo\, Jennifer Bratt\, TRio de la Plata (7/16 - 7/17) DESCRIPTION:Tango Workshop + Live Orchestra --- Ney Melo\, Jennifer Bratt\, TRio de la Plata (7/16 - 7/17) Come for the whole weekend workshop or just for a single tango lesson or just the live orchestra or just the outdoor park picnic milonga! Very affordable\, see prices at bottom.\n\n+ Six high-impact classes during Saturday and Sunday with the famous Ney & Jennifer (Check them out: https://youtu.be/biCylUQZH1w)\n\n+ LIVE traditional tango music at Saturday's milonga by Argentine TRio de la Plata (https://www.facebook.com/triodelaplatany/videos) **This is a rare opportunity so please invite your friends\, especially musicians\, to come see this dance in action 7/16!\n\n+ Plus an all-nighter milonga\n\n+ Outdoor milonga at beautiful Olson Park shelter on Sunday\, and social picnic\n\n+ Awesome discount for students!\n\nEarly Bird Registration: http://umich.edu/~matc/events/workshop-july16/\n\nWorld-renowned tango dancers and teachers Ney Melo & Jennifer Bratt started in the New York City and Buenos Aires tango scenes\, learning from the old milongueros and dancing every night in the milongas. They started their tango classes in NYC in 2003. These classes were immensely popular. In 2007\, they relocated to the West Coast and opened their studio \"TangoVida San Francisco\" on 1120 Pacific Street in San Francisco. After many marvelous years there\, they have returned to New York City and have added two new tangueros to the family: Kilian and Starla.\n\nNey and Jennifer are dedicated to inspiring students to dance tango with feeling\, musicality\, cadencia\, and connection - the way it is danced in Buenos Aires. The atmosphere in their classes is relaxed\, personable and lively\, and they place equal emphasis on the lady's role as the man's. Technique and the essence of tango\, both fundamental to dancing well\, are stressed in whatever step is being shown. Their instruction is highly respected and sought out by beginning and advanced dancers\, as well as other teachers and choreographers. In addition to running TangoVida NY\, Ney and Jennifer have been busy touring the world. They regularly teach and perform in Italy\, Romania\, Istanbul\, Australia\, and New Zealand as well as extensively all over North America.\n\nPrices:\nFor single events --\n1 milonga dance - ($10 for students or $15)\n1 class with Ney & Jen - ($15 for students or $20)\n\nAttend all classes for a day and get the milonga(s) included.\n\nBest deal: All Saturday + Sunday ($50 for students or $80 for non-students)\n\nMessage us if you are just interested in coming to watch the live orchestra and we may be able to invite you with a special deal if space allows. Ney and Jen will dance a demonstration with the Trio around 11pm!\n-----------------------------------\n\nSaturday classes: All levels dynamics I: Compas y Corridas\, Intermediate Milonguero Alterations\, Advanced Milonga Traspie\n\nSunday classes: All levels dynamics II: Syncopations & Adagio\, intermediate Ney & Jen moves\, advanced vals & the piano UID:31153-4236149@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:1401 Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T200000 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:30719-3703681@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:20160717T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T200000 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:30720-3703765@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:20160717T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T200000 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:30717-3703513@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:20160717T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T200000 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:30718-3703597@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:20160717T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T200000 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:30715-3703345@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:20160717T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T170000 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:30722-3703933@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:20160717T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T200000 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:30721-3703849@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:20160717T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T200000 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:30716-3703429@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:20160310T165634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T235900 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:29615-4127479@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 Hatcher) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160421T105421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T200000 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:30488-3519949@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:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T170000 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:30494-3530536@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:20160717T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T170000 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:30497-3530599@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:20160717T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T170000 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:30041-3321322@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:20160717T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T170000 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:30043-3321408@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:20160706T154352 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mira Henry: The View Inside DESCRIPTION:Before joining the faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles\, Mira Henry spent several years as a project architect\, immersed in the everyday\, banal details of how buildings get built: construction drawings\, material specs\, and building codes. She became an expert in seeing the world the way an architect sees it. But as a progressive architectural thinker\, Henry’s inspiration has been to deconstruct that vision\, to “unsee” the very forms and representations that constitute an architect’s basic language.\n\nThrough speculative experiments and conceptual drawings Henry discovers in static architectural details an unsettling range of figurative expression\, including\, for example\, the way the profiles of roof eaves resemble human heads. Wallpaper\, with its ability to mask\, transform\, or animate a space\, is also a prominent element in her work. Her projects explore how these features animate our subjective experience—what she calls our “shifting fantasies”—of architectural space.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:31189-4136503@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31189 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,UMMA LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160308T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T170000 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:29503-3129577@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:20160717T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T170000 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:30500-3530743@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:20160608T153223 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T210000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:24th Annual Concert of Colors DESCRIPTION:From jazz riffs to Latin rock\, experience Detroit’s 24th annual Concert of Colors festival as it returns to Midtown for four days of world music\, July 14-17.\n\nThis annual diversity festival kicks off with a musical performance at the Arab American Museum in Dearborn on Thursday\, July 14\, followed by performances at the University of Michigan Detroit Center\, Max M. Fischer Music Center\, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History\, Scarab Club\, and Detroit Institute of Arts\, July 15-17.\n\nFor the sixth consecutive year\, the U-M Detroit Center returns as host of the Wolverine Outdoor Stage\, located in the Sonick Courtyard at Orchestra Place.\n\nThis year’s headlining acts for the Wolverine Outdoor Stage include percussionist Sean Dobbins\, leads his high-energy jazz band\, and hip-hop\, neo-soul sensation\, ManaSol and the Nuts Trio.\n\nThe Concert of Colors is a free event\, created for music lovers of all ages. In addition to the concert\, visitors of the festival can purchase food and vendor merchandise.To learn more about the 24th annual concert of colors\, visit concertofcolors.com.\n\nWolverine Outdoor Stage (Sosnick Court\, behind U-M Detroit Center)\n\nSaturday\, July 16\n7:30 p.m. | MamaSol & The NUTS (hip-hop/neo-soul)\n6 p.m. | Britney Stoney (neo-soul)\n4:30 p.m. | Tahnz and The Filthy Animals (jazz/rock/blues)\n3 p.m. | Casual Sweetheart (indie pop)\n1:30 p.m. | The Sun Drummers (African drums)\n12 p.m. | Roots Vibrations (reggae)\n\nSunday\, July 17\n7:30 p.m. | Sean Dobbins (jazz)\n6 p.m. | Kevin Christian (R&B)\n4:30 p.m. | Tristen Brooke (acoustic rock)\n3 p.m. | Blue Black Hours (heavy psychedelic)\n1:30 p.m. | Buya (Puerto Rican drums)\n12 p.m. | Iyawo Dance Theatre + Folkloric Women’s Vocal Ensemble (dance) UID:30947-3907012@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30947 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Culture,Dance,Detroit,Diversity,Music LOCATION:Detroit Center - Sosnick Court, behind U-M Detroit Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T170000 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:27873-2579378@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:20160707T124928 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T130000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Meet Me at UMMA: A Museum Arts Experience for Persons with Mild Memory Loss and Their Care Partners DESCRIPTION:To register for this program\, email mdeland@alz.org or call the local Alzheimer’s Association at 800.272.3900 at any time. For more information\, please contact UMMA at 734.647.0522 during normal business hours.\n\nMeet Me at UMMA invites people with mild memory loss to enjoy a guided gallery experience along with family members or care partners. This program is designed for people who live at home and their companions.\n\nIf you or someone you care about is experiencing mild memory loss\, research has shown that the visual and expressive arts can be good for your mind. In addition\, great enjoyment is to be found in seeking out the sights\, sounds\, textures\, and good feelings that come with looking at\, learning\, and sharing feelings about paintings\, music\, and other creative arts.\n\nUMMA's trained docents will accompany small groups for a guided tour and provide the opportunity for everyone to experience different kinds of art and share their responses.\n\nUpcoming Meet Me Sessions: Sunday\, October 16\n\nMeet Me at UMMA is generously supported by the Monroe-Brown Foundation Discretionary Fund for Outreach to the State of Michigan and individual donors. UID:31223-4145599@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Environment,Family,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160629T085917 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Drop-In Tour | Exploring the Kelsey Museum DESCRIPTION:This docent-led tour will be from 2:00-3:00 pm. The tour is free and open to the public. UID:31098-4068764@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31098 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Museum,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160711T112127 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Hudost with special guest Jeff Stewart DESCRIPTION:HuDost’s core musicians are Moksha Sommer and Jemal Wade Hines. They have performed at Bonnaroo\, FloydFest\, BhaktiFest\, World Café Live\, Blissfest\, Alex Grey’s CoSM\, the Salvador Dali Museum\, Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival\, The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts\, the Islands Folk Fest (Vancouver)\, WMNF’s Tropical Heat Wave Festival\, The Levitt Pavilions\, WoodSongs at the Kentucky Theater (on PBS)\, Nashville’s Bluebird Café\, Music City Roots\, and Tim Robbins’ WTF?! Fest\, and have opened for Ani DiFranco\, Philip Glass\, Jon Anderson\, Joan Osborne\, Snatam Kaur\, Steve Kilbey\, California Guitar Trio\, Bell Orchestre\, Neko Case\, Jim Lauderdale\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, and Mercan Dede. HuDost's instrumentation includes vocals\, harmonium (Indian pump organ)\, Shahi Baaja (electric Indian autoharp)\, guitars\, bouzouki\, dulcinet\, percussion\, and a slew of sonic ambient effects. Their music is a rich\, eclectic blending of pop\, rock\, and folk with traditional Sufi music\, and Bulgarian\, Croatian\, Macedonian\, Farsi\, Turkish\, and Arabic music. Their sound crosses all borders and barriers\, taking listeners on an unforgettable journey. Toledo songwriter Jeff Stewart is special guest. UID:30741-3738373@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30741 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:20160717T180022 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160717T220000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Tango Workshop + Live Orchestra --- Ney Melo\, Jennifer Bratt\, TRio de la Plata (7/16 - 7/17) DESCRIPTION:Tango Workshop + Live Orchestra --- Ney Melo\, Jennifer Bratt\, TRio de la Plata (7/16 - 7/17) Come for the whole weekend workshop or just for a single tango lesson or just the live orchestra or just the outdoor park picnic milonga! Very affordable\, see prices at bottom.\n\n+ Six high-impact classes during Saturday and Sunday with the famous Ney & Jennifer (Check them out: https://youtu.be/biCylUQZH1w)\n\n+ LIVE traditional tango music at Saturday's milonga by Argentine TRio de la Plata (https://www.facebook.com/triodelaplatany/videos) **This is a rare opportunity so please invite your friends\, especially musicians\, to come see this dance in action 7/16!\n\n+ Plus an all-nighter milonga\n\n+ Outdoor milonga at beautiful Olson Park shelter on Sunday\, and social picnic\n\n+ Awesome discount for students!\n\nEarly Bird Registration: http://umich.edu/~matc/events/workshop-july16/\n\nWorld-renowned tango dancers and teachers Ney Melo & Jennifer Bratt started in the New York City and Buenos Aires tango scenes\, learning from the old milongueros and dancing every night in the milongas. They started their tango classes in NYC in 2003. These classes were immensely popular. In 2007\, they relocated to the West Coast and opened their studio \"TangoVida San Francisco\" on 1120 Pacific Street in San Francisco. After many marvelous years there\, they have returned to New York City and have added two new tangueros to the family: Kilian and Starla.\n\nNey and Jennifer are dedicated to inspiring students to dance tango with feeling\, musicality\, cadencia\, and connection - the way it is danced in Buenos Aires. The atmosphere in their classes is relaxed\, personable and lively\, and they place equal emphasis on the lady's role as the man's. Technique and the essence of tango\, both fundamental to dancing well\, are stressed in whatever step is being shown. Their instruction is highly respected and sought out by beginning and advanced dancers\, as well as other teachers and choreographers. In addition to running TangoVida NY\, Ney and Jennifer have been busy touring the world. They regularly teach and perform in Italy\, Romania\, Istanbul\, Australia\, and New Zealand as well as extensively all over North America.\n\nPrices:\nFor single events --\n1 milonga dance - ($10 for students or $15)\n1 class with Ney & Jen - ($15 for students or $20)\n\nAttend all classes for a day and get the milonga(s) included.\n\nBest deal: All Saturday + Sunday ($50 for students or $80 for non-students)\n\nMessage us if you are just interested in coming to watch the live orchestra and we may be able to invite you with a special deal if space allows. Ney and Jen will dance a demonstration with the Trio around 11pm!\n-----------------------------------\n\nSaturday classes: All levels dynamics I: Compas y Corridas\, Intermediate Milonguero Alterations\, Advanced Milonga Traspie\n\nSunday classes: All levels dynamics II: Syncopations & Adagio\, intermediate Ney & Jen moves\, advanced vals & the piano UID:31153-4236150@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:1401 Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160802T063010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Boston Consulting Group - Advanced Degree Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Interested in Management Consulting? The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy. We partner with clients from the private\, public\, and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest-value opportunities\, address their most critical challenges\, and transform their enterprises.\n\nBoston Consulting Group is hosting on campus office hours for those pursuing an Advanced Degree (PhD\, JD\, MD\, or Post Doc) at the University of Michigan. \n\nThis is a chance to meet with our ADC specialist\, Bryan Mangelson\, to learn about consulting at BCG\, the application process and ask any questions you might have. These will be short\, 20 minute chats. \n\nThere are limited spots available and registration is on a first come\, first serve basis. Once candidates are registered\, you will receive more detailed logistics on location and time slot.\n \nUniversity of Michigan Office Hours\nMonday\, July 18th\n\nRegister here: http://on.bcg.com/1UMhtrl UID:30984-3962775@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30984 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160418T110610 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T170000 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:30296-3402335@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:20160718T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T200000 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:30719-3703682@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:20160718T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T200000 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:30720-3703766@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:20160718T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T200000 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:30717-3703514@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:20160718T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T200000 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:30718-3703598@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:20160718T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T200000 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:30715-3703346@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:20160718T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T170000 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:30722-3703934@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:20160718T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T200000 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:30721-3703850@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:20160718T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T200000 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:30716-3703430@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:20160310T165634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T235900 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:29615-4127480@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 Hatcher) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T190000 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:31039-4010872@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:20160718T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T170000 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:27873-2579407@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:20160802T063011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T103000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Future Public Health Leaders: Career Decision Making DESCRIPTION:Career Decision Making Session for Future Public Health Leaders Program. UID:31448-4271765@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31448 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160506T162225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T170000 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:30662-3646191@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:20160616T105125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T130000 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:30994-3968770@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30994 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Information and Technology,Workshop LOCATION:North Quad - 1245 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160421T105421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T200000 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:30488-3519950@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:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T170000 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:30494-3530537@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:20160718T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T170000 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:30497-3530600@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:20160718T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T170000 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:30041-3321323@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:20160718T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T170000 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:30043-3321409@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:20160718T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T170000 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:29503-3129578@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:20160718T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T170000 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:30500-3530744@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:20160722T120025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T235959 SUMMARY:Other:LENS Multimedia Program DESCRIPTION:Over the course of the one week summer program students are immersed in the world of film making from day 1 and are taught and mentored by film makers. Students will learn film vocabulary\, basic filming techniques\,  create a short film\, story boarding and writing and directing films. Please click link below for registration form.http://www.educateandreflect-k12.com/#!registration/n9wdq UID:30770-4278117@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30770 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University of Michigan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160718T181618 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T151000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Differential Equations DESCRIPTION:We will present a general theory of existence and uniqueness for harmonic maps with prescribed singularities into Riemannian manifolds with non-positive curvature. The singularities are prescribed along submanifolds of co-dimension 2. This result generalizes one from 1996\, and is motivated by a number of recent applications in general relativity including: \n* a lower bound on the ADM mass in terms of charge and angular momentum for multiple black holes\;\n* a lower bound on the ADM mass in terms of horizon area and angular momentum (Penrose inequality with angular momentum)\;\n* existence and uniqueness of stationary charged rotating solutions with infinitely many co-rotating black holes along one axis (periodic solutions)\; \n* existence and uniqueness of black holes with exotic topology in higher dimensions.\nWe present a survey of these applications.\nThis work includes joint projects with Marcus Khuri and Sumio Yamada. Speaker(s): Gilbert Weinstein (Ariel University\, Israel) UID:31016-4008615@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31016 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 2866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160602T174502 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T213000 SUMMARY:Other:Fabulous Frescoes DESCRIPTION:Frescoes are an ancient art form that really stuck around! The Greeks\, Romans\, and Egyptians created beautiful paintings on wet plaster (called fresco) that survived for thousands of years. Create your own painting on dry plaster (known as fresco-secco) inspired by ancient art or your own creativity. UID:30903-3859124@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30903 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art,Children,Family,Museum LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160520T181506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160718T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Center Stage Strings Performance: Student Chamber Concert DESCRIPTION:This concert opens the final week of 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:30786-3756539@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30786 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160722T120025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T235959 SUMMARY:Other:LENS Multimedia Program DESCRIPTION:Over the course of the one week summer program students are immersed in the world of film making from day 1 and are taught and mentored by film makers. Students will learn film vocabulary\, basic filming techniques\,  create a short film\, story boarding and writing and directing films. Please click link below for registration form.http://www.educateandreflect-k12.com/#!registration/n9wdq UID:30770-4278118@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30770 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University of Michigan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160719T181613 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T080000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SPECIAL EVENT DESCRIPTION:Speaker(s): A Soderbeck (UM) UID:31410-4254060@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31410 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 2074 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160418T110610 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T170000 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:30296-3402336@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:20160719T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T200000 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:30719-3703683@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:20160719T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T200000 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:30720-3703767@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:20160719T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T200000 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:30717-3703515@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:20160719T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T200000 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:30718-3703599@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:20160719T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T200000 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:30715-3703347@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:20160719T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T170000 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:30722-3703935@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:20160719T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T200000 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:30721-3703851@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:20160719T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T200000 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:30716-3703431@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:20160310T165634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T235900 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:29615-4127481@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 Hatcher) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T190000 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:31039-4010873@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:20160719T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T170000 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:27873-2579436@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:20160719T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T120000 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:30994-3968771@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30994 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Information and Technology,Workshop LOCATION:North Quad - 1245 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160506T162225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T170000 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:30662-3646192@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:20160719T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T200000 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:30488-3519951@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:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T170000 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:30494-3530538@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:20160719T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T170000 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:30497-3530601@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:20160719T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T170000 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:30041-3321324@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:20160719T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T170000 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:30043-3321410@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:20160706T154352 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mira Henry: The View Inside DESCRIPTION:Before joining the faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles\, Mira Henry spent several years as a project architect\, immersed in the everyday\, banal details of how buildings get built: construction drawings\, material specs\, and building codes. She became an expert in seeing the world the way an architect sees it. But as a progressive architectural thinker\, Henry’s inspiration has been to deconstruct that vision\, to “unsee” the very forms and representations that constitute an architect’s basic language.\n\nThrough speculative experiments and conceptual drawings Henry discovers in static architectural details an unsettling range of figurative expression\, including\, for example\, the way the profiles of roof eaves resemble human heads. Wallpaper\, with its ability to mask\, transform\, or animate a space\, is also a prominent element in her work. Her projects explore how these features animate our subjective experience—what she calls our “shifting fantasies”—of architectural space.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:31189-4136505@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31189 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,UMMA LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160308T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T170000 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:29503-3129579@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:20160719T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T170000 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:30500-3530745@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:20160623T181520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2016 Alumni Exhibition: Horror Vacui DESCRIPTION:Each year\, our Alumni exhibition offers an opportunity for Stamps graduates from across the country and internationally to share their current creative work.\n\nThe theme for the 2016 Stamps Alumni Juried Exhibition is “Horror Vacui”\, commonly known as “fear of empty space”.\n\nWork will be displayed at the Argus II building (400 4th St\, Ann Arbor) from July 19 - August 6\, 2016\, during the Ann Arbor Art Fair (July 21 - 24). Three jury prizes of $500 and 10 honorable mentions will be awarded.\n\nWe are very pleased to welcome Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) Executive Director Elysia Borowy-Reeder as the juror for this show.\n\nExhibition Dates: Tuesday\, July 19 - Saturday\, August 6\, 2016\nOpening Reception & Award Ceremony: Friday\, July 22\, 2016\, 6 - 8 pm UID:31069-4028878@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31069 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160615T141826 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Stamps Alumni Juried Exhibition: Horror Vacui DESCRIPTION:The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan presents Horror Vacui: The 2016 Stamps Alumni Juried Exhibition in the Argus II Building (400 4th St\, Ann Arbor) from Tuesday\, July 19 - Saturday\, August 6\, 2016 with the opening reception and award ceremony taking place on July 22 from 6-8 pm. The 2016 Stamps Alumni Juried Exhibition runs concurrent to the 57th annual Ann Arbor Street Art Fair\, July 21-24\, 2016. \n\nEach year\, the Alumni Juried Exhibition show offers an opportunity for Stamps graduates from across the country and internationally to share their current creative work. This year\, Stamps welcomes Elysia Borowy-Reeder\, Executive Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) as the exhibition juror.\n\nThe Argus II Building gallery hours are as follows:\nTuesday - Saturday: noon-7 pm\nSunday\, July 24: noon-7 pm\n\nThe exhibition\, reception\, and award ceremony are free and open to the public. More at http://stamps.umich.edu/alumni/alumni_show UID:30990-3962782@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30990 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Art,Exhibition,Festival,Free LOCATION:Argus II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160721T120025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T235959 SUMMARY:Other:The Campus Experience DESCRIPTION:This summer The RISE Program is offering a program that allows students grades 6-11 the opportunity to enjoy the campus experience. Students will participate in a 3-day workshop that gives them a look into their future(college and career). Students will spend time on the University of Ann Arbor campus during the program. The workshop focuses on the cultivation and\ngrowth of students and guiding them towards the right path. Each session will include some aspect of career & college readiness\, and character development. The workshop will consist of open dialogue\, guest speakers that will share their experience and offer guidance to students\, team building exercises\, sit in an actual lecture and a campus tour. If there are any students that would benefit from this program please pass the information along to them. Attached is the registration form\, if there are any questions do feel free to contact us.  UID:30637-4269280@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30637 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:university of michigan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160518T153725 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T133000 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:30742-3738415@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:20160718T120902 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T160000 SUMMARY:Other:Dissertation Defense: Condensin and Chromatin Mediated X Chromosome Architecture in Caenorhabditis elegans DESCRIPTION:Dosage compensation is an essential gene regulatory mechanism that balances X-linked gene expression and X to autosomal expression in organisms that utilize a chromosome-based method of sex determination. In the worm Caenorhabditis elegans dosage compensation is believed to involve two mechanisms. First\, upregulation of the X chromosomes occurs in males and hermaphrodites. The mechanism of X upregulation is not known but is believed to balance X-linked gene expression levels to autosomes in males but causes X hyperactivation in hermaphrodites. This necessitates the second mechanism mediated by the activity of the dosage compensation complex (DCC)\, which downregulates both hermaphrodite X chromosomes by two-fold. The DCC contains a condensin-like complex\, condensin IDC\, similar to mitotic condensin\, suggesting that it may compact the X chromosomes. The goal of my thesis is to address the long-standing hypothesis that DCC activity results in changes in X chromosome structure and explore the highly debated mechanism of X upregulation. In this research\, I have uncovered that MYS-1 mediated H4K16ac decondenses the male X chromosome and contributes to upregulation of gene expression on the chromosome. This novel work supports the X upregulation hypothesis. I have also showed that condensin IDC\, and the histone modifications regulated by the DCC\, mediate interphase X chromosome compaction\, providing the first evidence linking condensin-mediated chromosome compaction to chromosome-wide repression of gene expression. My work provided evidence that changes in higher order organization of the X chromosome plays a role both in X upregulation and condensin IDC mediated repression. UID:31110-4074746@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31110 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Research,Science LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - East Conference Room, 4th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160504T104054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T140000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:First Ascent Trip: Sleeping Bear Dunes and Mackinac Island DESCRIPTION:Trip Duration: Tuesday\, July 19\, 2016 - 2:00pm to Saturday\, July 23\, 2016 - 4:00pm\n\nCome hike the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore\, one of the most beautiful places Michigan has to offer! This will truly be a trip to remember in places that beg to be returned to again and again. See trip details: https://recsports.umich.edu/content/first-ascent-july-19-23-2016-sleeping-bear-dunes\n\nFirst Ascent Trips are designed specifically for incoming UM freshmen. Learn more about the First Ascent Program: https://recsports.umich.edu/article/first-ascent-program UID:30622-3627782@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30622 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Health & Wellness,Leadership,Outdoors,Rec Sports,Social LOCATION:Elbel Field Locker Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160619T203206 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T160000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:First Ascent: Sleeping Bear Dunes and Mackinac Island DESCRIPTION:First Ascent Trips are designed just for incoming UM freshmen!\n\nCome hike the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore\, one of the most beautiful places Michigan has to offer! The park was established for its outstanding natural features\, including dunes\, beaches\, forests\, and ancient glacial phenomena on the shores of Lake Michigan. We'll spend the first night camping right inside the park before hitting the trail in the morning. We'll cover around 8 miles of trail and set up camp\, spending the evening exploring the dunes\, taking in the sights\, cooking a spectacular dinner\, and hanging out around a roaring fire. After hiking out to the vans\, we'll head to the solitude of Wilderness State Park on the shore of a Great Lake and spend the following day on the historic grounds of Mackinac Island. We'll explore the beautiful island by bike\, the preferred method of transportation on car-free Mackinac. This will truly be a trip to remember in places that beg to be returned to again and again. UID:31004-3996656@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31004 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fitness,Health & Wellness,Outdoors,Rec Sports,Welcome to Michigan LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160803T123009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Google Visit: Campus Connections Day 1 DESCRIPTION:Closed session to students enrolled in the Summer Bridge Scholars Program UID:31449-4271766@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31449 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:The Career Center office The Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160503T154655 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160719T193000 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:30608-3621672@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:20160722T120025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T235959 SUMMARY:Other:LENS Multimedia Program DESCRIPTION:Over the course of the one week summer program students are immersed in the world of film making from day 1 and are taught and mentored by film makers. Students will learn film vocabulary\, basic filming techniques\,  create a short film\, story boarding and writing and directing films. Please click link below for registration form.http://www.educateandreflect-k12.com/#!registration/n9wdq UID:30770-4278119@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30770 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University of Michigan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160721T120025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T235959 SUMMARY:Other:The Campus Experience DESCRIPTION:This summer The RISE Program is offering a program that allows students grades 6-11 the opportunity to enjoy the campus experience. Students will participate in a 3-day workshop that gives them a look into their future(college and career). Students will spend time on the University of Ann Arbor campus during the program. The workshop focuses on the cultivation and\ngrowth of students and guiding them towards the right path. Each session will include some aspect of career & college readiness\, and character development. The workshop will consist of open dialogue\, guest speakers that will share their experience and offer guidance to students\, team building exercises\, sit in an actual lecture and a campus tour. If there are any students that would benefit from this program please pass the information along to them. Attached is the registration form\, if there are any questions do feel free to contact us.  UID:30637-4269281@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30637 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:university of michigan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160418T110610 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T170000 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:30296-3402337@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:20160720T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T200000 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:30719-3703684@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:20160720T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T200000 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:30720-3703768@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:20160720T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T200000 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:30717-3703516@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:20160720T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T200000 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:30718-3703600@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:20160720T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T200000 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:30715-3703348@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:20160720T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T170000 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:30722-3703936@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:20160720T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T200000 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:30721-3703852@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:20160720T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T200000 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:30716-3703432@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:20160310T165634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T235900 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:29615-4127482@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 Hatcher) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T190000 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:31039-4010874@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:20160720T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T170000 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:27873-2579465@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:20160720T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T170000 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:30662-3646193@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:20160720T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T200000 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:30488-3519952@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:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T170000 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:30494-3530539@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:20160720T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T170000 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:30497-3530602@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:20160720T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T170000 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:30041-3321325@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:20160720T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T170000 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:30043-3321411@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:20160706T154352 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mira Henry: The View Inside DESCRIPTION:Before joining the faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles\, Mira Henry spent several years as a project architect\, immersed in the everyday\, banal details of how buildings get built: construction drawings\, material specs\, and building codes. She became an expert in seeing the world the way an architect sees it. But as a progressive architectural thinker\, Henry’s inspiration has been to deconstruct that vision\, to “unsee” the very forms and representations that constitute an architect’s basic language.\n\nThrough speculative experiments and conceptual drawings Henry discovers in static architectural details an unsettling range of figurative expression\, including\, for example\, the way the profiles of roof eaves resemble human heads. Wallpaper\, with its ability to mask\, transform\, or animate a space\, is also a prominent element in her work. Her projects explore how these features animate our subjective experience—what she calls our “shifting fantasies”—of architectural space.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:31189-4136506@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31189 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,UMMA LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160308T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T170000 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:29503-3129580@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:20160720T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T170000 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:30500-3530746@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:20160425T141307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) DESCRIPTION:Abstract and paper not yet available UID:30519-3556106@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30519 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Education,Research,seminar LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160601T113431 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T193000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:I Scream for Ice Cream DESCRIPTION:Everyone loves ice cream! Come enjoy ice cream with lunch and dinner at all open dining halls! UID:30883-3849117@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30883 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall - and all dining halls CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160623T181520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2016 Alumni Exhibition: Horror Vacui DESCRIPTION:Each year\, our Alumni exhibition offers an opportunity for Stamps graduates from across the country and internationally to share their current creative work.\n\nThe theme for the 2016 Stamps Alumni Juried Exhibition is “Horror Vacui”\, commonly known as “fear of empty space”.\n\nWork will be displayed at the Argus II building (400 4th St\, Ann Arbor) from July 19 - August 6\, 2016\, during the Ann Arbor Art Fair (July 21 - 24). Three jury prizes of $500 and 10 honorable mentions will be awarded.\n\nWe are very pleased to welcome Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) Executive Director Elysia Borowy-Reeder as the juror for this show.\n\nExhibition Dates: Tuesday\, July 19 - Saturday\, August 6\, 2016\nOpening Reception & Award Ceremony: Friday\, July 22\, 2016\, 6 - 8 pm UID:31069-4028879@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31069 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160518T153725 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T133000 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:30742-3738416@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:20160620T091747 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160720T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Patent Politics: Life Forms\, Markets\, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe DESCRIPTION:Dr. Parthasarathy will speak about the politics of \"life form\" patents (e.g.\, on human genes\, stem cells\, genetically engineering organisms)\, and the governance of controversial biotechnologies.\n\nSponsored by the LSI Grads Group UID:31008-4000643@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31008 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Science LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160722T120025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T235959 SUMMARY:Other:LENS Multimedia Program DESCRIPTION:Over the course of the one week summer program students are immersed in the world of film making from day 1 and are taught and mentored by film makers. Students will learn film vocabulary\, basic filming techniques\,  create a short film\, story boarding and writing and directing films. Please click link below for registration form.http://www.educateandreflect-k12.com/#!registration/n9wdq UID:30770-4278120@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30770 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University of Michigan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160721T120025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T235959 SUMMARY:Other:The Campus Experience DESCRIPTION:This summer The RISE Program is offering a program that allows students grades 6-11 the opportunity to enjoy the campus experience. Students will participate in a 3-day workshop that gives them a look into their future(college and career). Students will spend time on the University of Ann Arbor campus during the program. The workshop focuses on the cultivation and\ngrowth of students and guiding them towards the right path. Each session will include some aspect of career & college readiness\, and character development. The workshop will consist of open dialogue\, guest speakers that will share their experience and offer guidance to students\, team building exercises\, sit in an actual lecture and a campus tour. If there are any students that would benefit from this program please pass the information along to them. Attached is the registration form\, if there are any questions do feel free to contact us.  UID:30637-4269282@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30637 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:university of michigan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160418T110610 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T170000 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:30296-3402338@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:20160721T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T200000 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:30719-3703685@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:20160721T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T200000 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:30720-3703769@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:20160721T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T200000 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:30717-3703517@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:20160721T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T200000 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:30718-3703601@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:20160721T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T200000 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:30715-3703349@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:20160721T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T170000 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:30722-3703937@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:20160721T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T200000 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:30721-3703853@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:20160721T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T200000 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:30716-3703433@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:20160310T165634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T235900 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:29615-4127483@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 Hatcher) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T190000 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:31039-4010875@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:20160506T162225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T170000 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:30662-3646194@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:20160721T160905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Artwork Mailing Party DESCRIPTION:Come join us as we head to the North Campus to package artwork from the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. Lunch will be provided and it is a good opportunity to catch up with the PCAP fam! Please email PCAP-rsvp@umich.edu if you are interested in attending! UID:31409-4251855@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31409 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,North campus,Social,Visual Arts,Volunteer LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160421T105421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T200000 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:30488-3519953@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:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T170000 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:30494-3530540@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:20160721T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T170000 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:30497-3530603@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:20160721T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T170000 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:30041-3321326@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:20160721T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T170000 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:30043-3321412@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:20160706T154352 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mira Henry: The View Inside DESCRIPTION:Before joining the faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles\, Mira Henry spent several years as a project architect\, immersed in the everyday\, banal details of how buildings get built: construction drawings\, material specs\, and building codes. She became an expert in seeing the world the way an architect sees it. But as a progressive architectural thinker\, Henry’s inspiration has been to deconstruct that vision\, to “unsee” the very forms and representations that constitute an architect’s basic language.\n\nThrough speculative experiments and conceptual drawings Henry discovers in static architectural details an unsettling range of figurative expression\, including\, for example\, the way the profiles of roof eaves resemble human heads. Wallpaper\, with its ability to mask\, transform\, or animate a space\, is also a prominent element in her work. Her projects explore how these features animate our subjective experience—what she calls our “shifting fantasies”—of architectural space.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:31189-4136507@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31189 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,UMMA LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160308T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T170000 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:29503-3129581@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:20160721T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T170000 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:30500-3530747@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:20160623T181520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2016 Alumni Exhibition: Horror Vacui DESCRIPTION:Each year\, our Alumni exhibition offers an opportunity for Stamps graduates from across the country and internationally to share their current creative work.\n\nThe theme for the 2016 Stamps Alumni Juried Exhibition is “Horror Vacui”\, commonly known as “fear of empty space”.\n\nWork will be displayed at the Argus II building (400 4th St\, Ann Arbor) from July 19 - August 6\, 2016\, during the Ann Arbor Art Fair (July 21 - 24). Three jury prizes of $500 and 10 honorable mentions will be awarded.\n\nWe are very pleased to welcome Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) Executive Director Elysia Borowy-Reeder as the juror for this show.\n\nExhibition Dates: Tuesday\, July 19 - Saturday\, August 6\, 2016\nOpening Reception & Award Ceremony: Friday\, July 22\, 2016\, 6 - 8 pm UID:31069-4028880@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31069 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160620T113517 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T133000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents Chalk Artist Demo with ‘20s Jazz on Ukulele DESCRIPTION:David Zinn\, the renowned Ann Arbor street artist of friendly 3D chalk characters\, will give an all-ages art installation demonstration. Teen musician Magdalen Fossum will accompany him with old standards\, ‘20s jazz\, and Django Reinhardt influenced original songs on ukulele and voice. Photographs of Zinn’s temporary installations have appeared in The Guardian\, La Republica\, and Der Spiegel among others. An exhibition of his work is concurrently on display in the Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor\, Floor 2 through Sept. 11\, 2016. Magdalen Fossum comes from a family of musicians and began performing at open mics in the greater Lansing area at age 7. In May of 2011\, at age 10\, Fossum was the youngest artist ever named Open Stage Performer of the Year by The Ark in Ann Arbor. Now at 15\, Fossum’s perfect intonation\, poise\, and musical style make her a stand-out talent who performs main stage at many Michigan music festivals\, including the Ann Arbor Summer Festival\, Blissfest\, Traverse City Film Festival\, and the Hard Rock Café\, among others. This event is part of the Gifts of Art UMHS Summer Courtyard Concert Series. Rain/heat location: University Hospital Courtyard overhang by UH South. UID:31012-4000647@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31012 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Concert,Free,Health & Wellness,Music LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Courtyard CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160616T105125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T160000 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:30994-3968772@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30994 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Information and Technology,Workshop LOCATION:North Quad - 1245 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160518T153725 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T133000 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:30742-3738417@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:20160629T154030 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2016 Chang Lecture on Art and Medicine DESCRIPTION:Dr. Don Nakayama\, Adjunct Professor of Surgery for Florida International University\, will speak on Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals for the tenth annual Chang Lecture\, which explores the intersection of art and medicine.\n\nSpecifically\, Dr. Nakayama will discuss a small panel on the south wall of this work\, The Surgery Panel\, which shows a gloved surgeon’s hands in an operative field\, flanked by endocrine\, digestive\, and reproductive organs. It is a medical analogue to the iconography of the main theme of the panel. Where the monumental panels celebrate the construc-tion of automobiles from forging steel to steel presses and final assembly\, The Surgery Panel suggests the assembly of a human worker. Part of the backstory behind Rivera’s work on the mural is that of his wife\, Frida Kahlo\, who did some of her most personal and celebrated paintings while in Detroit at the time.\n\nThe event is free and open to the public\, UM faculty\, staff and students.\n\nFor more information\, please contact Sandra Heskett by phone at 734-232-4943 or email at sheskett@umich.edu UID:31009-4000644@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31009 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Detroit,Lecture,Medicine,Visual Arts LOCATION:University Hospitals - Ford Ampitheater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160805T123007 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T193000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Morgan Stanley Veterans Summer Networking Event DESCRIPTION:Morgan Stanley Veterans Summer Networking Event\n\nAt Morgan Stanley\, we know that the diversity of our people is one of our greatest strengths. 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 our diversity recruiting efforts to help attract talent with military experience. \n\nWe invite student veterans to our Morgan Stanley headquarters to become familiar with the Firm’s businesses and culture\, as well as hear from our Veterans community about their experience moving from the military to the workforce. Participants will have the opportunity to network with employees across the Firm and learn more about how to be successful throughout the recruiting process.\n\nEligible candidates must be currently enrolled as a junior or sophomore in a four year accredited institution\, or beginning an MBA program in Fall 2016. Candidates must upload their resume to apply. Please note that transportation and accommodations will not be provided.\n\nApplications will open Wednesday\, June 1st on our website: http://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/students-graduates/\n\nQuestions? diversityrecruiting@morganstanley.com\n\nLearn More: www.morganstanley.com/diversity\n\n\nMorgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet). © 2016 Morgan Stanley UID:30814-3788809@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30814 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:1585 Broadway, New York, NY 10003, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160722T120025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T235959 SUMMARY:Other:LENS Multimedia Program DESCRIPTION:Over the course of the one week summer program students are immersed in the world of film making from day 1 and are taught and mentored by film makers. Students will learn film vocabulary\, basic filming techniques\,  create a short film\, story boarding and writing and directing films. Please click link below for registration form.http://www.educateandreflect-k12.com/#!registration/n9wdq UID:30770-4278121@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30770 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University of Michigan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160721T120025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160721T130000 SUMMARY:Other:The Campus Experience DESCRIPTION:This summer The RISE Program is offering a program that allows students grades 6-11 the opportunity to enjoy the campus experience. Students will participate in a 3-day workshop that gives them a look into their future(college and career). Students will spend time on the University of Ann Arbor campus during the program. The workshop focuses on the cultivation and\ngrowth of students and guiding them towards the right path. Each session will include some aspect of career & college readiness\, and character development. The workshop will consist of open dialogue\, guest speakers that will share their experience and offer guidance to students\, team building exercises\, sit in an actual lecture and a campus tour. If there are any students that would benefit from this program please pass the information along to them. Attached is the registration form\, if there are any questions do feel free to contact us.  UID:30637-4269283@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30637 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:university of michigan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160418T110610 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 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:30296-3402339@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:20160722T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T200000 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:30719-3703686@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:20160722T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T200000 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:30720-3703770@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:20160722T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T200000 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:30717-3703518@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:20160722T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T200000 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:30718-3703602@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:20160722T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T200000 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:30715-3703350@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:20160722T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 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:30722-3703938@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:20160722T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T200000 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:30721-3703854@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:20160722T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T200000 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:30716-3703434@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:20160310T165634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T235900 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:29615-4127484@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 Hatcher) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 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:31039-4010876@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:20160722T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 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:27873-2579291@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:20160722T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 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:30662-3646195@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:20160721T160905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Artwork Mailing Party DESCRIPTION:Come join us as we head to the North Campus to package artwork from the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. Lunch will be provided and it is a good opportunity to catch up with the PCAP fam! Please email PCAP-rsvp@umich.edu if you are interested in attending! UID:31409-4251856@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31409 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,North campus,Social,Visual Arts,Volunteer LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160421T105421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T200000 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:30488-3519954@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:20160722T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T160000 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:30795-3776666@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:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 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:30494-3530541@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:20160722T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 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:30497-3530604@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:20160722T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 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:30041-3321327@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:20160722T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 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:30043-3321413@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:20160706T154352 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mira Henry: The View Inside DESCRIPTION:Before joining the faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles\, Mira Henry spent several years as a project architect\, immersed in the everyday\, banal details of how buildings get built: construction drawings\, material specs\, and building codes. She became an expert in seeing the world the way an architect sees it. But as a progressive architectural thinker\, Henry’s inspiration has been to deconstruct that vision\, to “unsee” the very forms and representations that constitute an architect’s basic language.\n\nThrough speculative experiments and conceptual drawings Henry discovers in static architectural details an unsettling range of figurative expression\, including\, for example\, the way the profiles of roof eaves resemble human heads. Wallpaper\, with its ability to mask\, transform\, or animate a space\, is also a prominent element in her work. Her projects explore how these features animate our subjective experience—what she calls our “shifting fantasies”—of architectural space.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:31189-4136508@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31189 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,UMMA LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160308T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 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:29503-3129582@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:20160624T155030 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Tech Talk: Getting Started With Fitbit DESCRIPTION:Technology is suppose to make life easier\, right? Computer Showcase is hosts a regular workshop series designed to help your tech do just that. Join us for demos and tutorials on hardware\, software\, apps\, and products that might just change your world.\n\nThis session:\nNeed help choosing a fitness tracker? Whether you want to use heart rate data to take your fitness to the next level or just see how your steps add up each day\, there’s a Fitbit tracker for your goals. Learn about:\n- The benefits of a Fitbit tracker.\n- How to make the Fitbit app work for customized needs.\n- How to get the most out of customer support. UID:31075-4034870@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31075 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fitness,Free,Information and Technology,Workshop LOCATION:Michigan Union - G-312 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 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:30500-3530748@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:20160722T113000 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:30777-3754518@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:20160623T181520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2016 Alumni Exhibition: Horror Vacui DESCRIPTION:Each year\, our Alumni exhibition offers an opportunity for Stamps graduates from across the country and internationally to share their current creative work.\n\nThe theme for the 2016 Stamps Alumni Juried Exhibition is “Horror Vacui”\, commonly known as “fear of empty space”.\n\nWork will be displayed at the Argus II building (400 4th St\, Ann Arbor) from July 19 - August 6\, 2016\, during the Ann Arbor Art Fair (July 21 - 24). Three jury prizes of $500 and 10 honorable mentions will be awarded.\n\nWe are very pleased to welcome Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) Executive Director Elysia Borowy-Reeder as the juror for this show.\n\nExhibition Dates: Tuesday\, July 19 - Saturday\, August 6\, 2016\nOpening Reception & Award Ceremony: Friday\, July 22\, 2016\, 6 - 8 pm UID:31069-4028881@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31069 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160518T153725 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T133000 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:30742-3738418@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:20160806T123008 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Career Exploration Workshop DESCRIPTION:This is a closed workshop for students in the Comprehensive Studies Program. UID:31454-4278367@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31454 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Angell Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160707T125448 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T200000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Fridays After 5 DESCRIPTION:Stop in to UMMA to enjoy special exhibitions\, live music featuring Naked Ace\, and engaging activities at this special Art Fair edition of Fridays After 5! With all of UMMA's galleries remaining open until 8 p.m.\, this exciting series provides an interactive atmosphere for all audiences. While you're here\, browse the UMMA Store for a wide variety of specialty items. The Museum is always free.\n\nUMMA Fridays After 5 are generously supported by Comerica Bank and the State Street District. The media sponsor for Fridays After 5 is Michigan Radio. UID:31225-4145601@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31225 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Concert,Culture,Dance,Exhibition,Festival,Food,Free,Games,Multicultural,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160203T151931 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fridays After Five DESCRIPTION:Stop in to UMMA to enjoy special exhibitions\, music\, and engaging activities at Fridays After 5! With all of UMMA's galleries remaining open until 8pm\, this exciting series provides an interactive atmosphere for all audiences. While you're here\, browse the UMMA Store for a wide variety of specialty items. The Museum is always free.\n\nAlso\, be sure to save the date for our upcoming Fridays After 5:\n\nApril 8\, 2016\nMay 13\, 2016\nJune 10\, 2016\nJuly 22\, 2016\n\nUMMA Fridays After 5 are generously supported by Comerica Bank and the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. The media sponsor for Fridays After 5 is Michigan Radio. UID:28756-2821393@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28756 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Diversity,Multicultural,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160706T181513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:MPulse Student Solo Recital: Harp and Vocal Arts DESCRIPTION:As part of the MPulse Summer Program. UID:31205-4138822@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31205 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160520T181506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Center Stage Strings Performance: Honors Recital- Student Chamber Ensembles DESCRIPTION:Top students from MPulse Center Stage Strings are selected by audition to perform. UID:30787-3756540@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30787 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160722T180018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T000000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Astronomy Open House DESCRIPTION:Visit the Student Astronomical Society's Astronomy Open Houses to learn about astronomy\, physics\, and optics! This Friday is a special event\, Statewide Astronomy Night\, and we will be holding an extra long open house this week. Join the Bentley Historical Library\, UM Museum of Natural History\, and Department of Astronomy for more cool events\, including a lecture on dark matter\, tours of the observatory hosting the oldest US-made lens still in use\, and more!Open houses are run by members of the Student Astronomical Society and are free\, as well as open to all ages. We always have planetarium shows\, science demos\, and observatory tours. When the weather allows it\, we have observing on the roof of Angell Hall\, where we have a 0.4 M telescope in our observatory dome\, plus multiple smaller telescopes and binoculars. See our website\, umichsas.com\, for more information! UID:30710-3699236@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30710 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Angell Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160722T120025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160722T130000 SUMMARY:Other:LENS Multimedia Program DESCRIPTION:Over the course of the one week summer program students are immersed in the world of film making from day 1 and are taught and mentored by film makers. Students will learn film vocabulary\, basic filming techniques\,  create a short film\, story boarding and writing and directing films. Please click link below for registration form.http://www.educateandreflect-k12.com/#!registration/n9wdq UID:30770-4278122@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30770 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University of Michigan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T200000 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:30719-3703687@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:20160723T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T200000 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:30720-3703771@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:20160723T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T200000 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:30717-3703519@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:20160723T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T200000 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:30718-3703603@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:20160723T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T200000 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:30715-3703351@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:20160723T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T170000 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:30722-3703939@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:20160723T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T200000 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:30721-3703855@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:20160723T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T200000 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:30716-3703435@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:20160310T165634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T235900 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:29615-4127485@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 Hatcher) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T170000 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:31039-4010877@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:20160723T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T170000 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:27873-2579320@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:20160723T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T200000 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:30488-3519955@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:20160706T181513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T103000 SUMMARY:Performance:MPulse Final Institute Performance: Jazz DESCRIPTION:As part of the MPulse Summer Program. UID:31206-4138824@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31206 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T170000 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:30494-3530542@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:20160723T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T170000 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:30497-3530605@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:20160723T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T170000 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:30041-3321328@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:20160723T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T170000 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:30043-3321414@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:20160706T154352 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mira Henry: The View Inside DESCRIPTION:Before joining the faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles\, Mira Henry spent several years as a project architect\, immersed in the everyday\, banal details of how buildings get built: construction drawings\, material specs\, and building codes. She became an expert in seeing the world the way an architect sees it. But as a progressive architectural thinker\, Henry’s inspiration has been to deconstruct that vision\, to “unsee” the very forms and representations that constitute an architect’s basic language.\n\nThrough speculative experiments and conceptual drawings Henry discovers in static architectural details an unsettling range of figurative expression\, including\, for example\, the way the profiles of roof eaves resemble human heads. Wallpaper\, with its ability to mask\, transform\, or animate a space\, is also a prominent element in her work. Her projects explore how these features animate our subjective experience—what she calls our “shifting fantasies”—of architectural space.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:31189-4136509@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31189 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,UMMA LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160308T121704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T170000 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:29503-3129583@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:20160723T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T170000 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:30500-3530749@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:20160623T181520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2016 Alumni Exhibition: Horror Vacui DESCRIPTION:Each year\, our Alumni exhibition offers an opportunity for Stamps graduates from across the country and internationally to share their current creative work.\n\nThe theme for the 2016 Stamps Alumni Juried Exhibition is “Horror Vacui”\, commonly known as “fear of empty space”.\n\nWork will be displayed at the Argus II building (400 4th St\, Ann Arbor) from July 19 - August 6\, 2016\, during the Ann Arbor Art Fair (July 21 - 24). Three jury prizes of $500 and 10 honorable mentions will be awarded.\n\nWe are very pleased to welcome Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) Executive Director Elysia Borowy-Reeder as the juror for this show.\n\nExhibition Dates: Tuesday\, July 19 - Saturday\, August 6\, 2016\nOpening Reception & Award Ceremony: Friday\, July 22\, 2016\, 6 - 8 pm UID:31069-4028882@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31069 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160629T085723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Saturday Sampler Tour | Life and Death in the Ancient World DESCRIPTION:This docent-led tour will be from 2:00-3:00 pm. The tour is free and open to the public. UID:31099-4068765@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31099 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Museum,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160706T181513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160723T150000 SUMMARY:Performance:MPulse Mid-Session Performance: Harp and Vocal Arts DESCRIPTION:As part of the MPulse Summer Program. UID:31207-4138825@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31207 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR