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:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T200000 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:30719-3703702@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:20160807T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T200000 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:30720-3703786@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:20160807T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T200000 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:30717-3703534@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:20160807T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T200000 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:30718-3703618@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:20160807T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T200000 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:30715-3703366@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:20160807T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T170000 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:30722-3703954@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:20160807T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T200000 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:30721-3703870@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:20160807T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T200000 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:30716-3703450@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:20160807T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T235900 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:29615-4127500@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:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T170000 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:30494-3530557@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:20160807T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T170000 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:30497-3530620@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:20160807T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T170000 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:30041-3321343@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:20160807T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T170000 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:30043-3321429@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:20160807T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T170000 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:31189-4136524@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:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T170000 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:30500-3530764@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30500 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,India,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T170000 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:27873-2579381@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:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T141500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4390646@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T122612 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T151500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Two Small Pieces of Glass: The Amazing Telescope DESCRIPTION:Two Small Pieces of Glass: The Amazing Telescope follows two students as they chat with a female astronomer at a local star party. The students learn the history of the telescope from Galileo’s modifications\, to a child’s spyglass\, to the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the future of astronomy. UID:31696-4392926@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31696 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T161500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4392888@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160711T113306 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160807T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Owen Danoff DESCRIPTION:D.C. native Owen Danoff wrote and recorded his first song—complete with drums\, bass\, guitar\, and piano—at age 15. Now an award-winning songwriter with a degree from Berklee College of Music\, Owen has emerged as a multi-talented musician and folk/rock solo artist. Elements of Owen’s music have been likened to that of Paul Simon\, James Taylor\, John Mayer\, and the Wallflowers\, among others_though the end result is all his own. Owen’s music combines a clear lyrical emphasis in the vein of the songwriters that inspired him with a love for memorable hooks and the energy of rock and roll. Owen’s first full-length album\, \"Twelve Stories\,\" features Owen on both bass and guitar. His recent single \"No Such Thing\" took first prize in American Songwriter's Lyric Writing Contest first prize. Most recently\, Owen was a contestant on Season 10 of NBC’s \"The Voice\,\" reaching the Top 11. After having all four coaches express interest in working with him (Adam Levine\, Christina Aguilera\, Blake Shelton\, Pharrell Williams)\, Owen spent his time working with Adam\, as well as Tori Kelly and Miley Cyrus in the process. Here's a young songwriter on his way to bigger and better things! Singer-songwriter Ken Yates opens. UID:30743-3738432@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30743 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:20160602T112712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T073000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T193000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Blueberry Festival Week DESCRIPTION:Come enjoy four days of blueberry inspired food at all meals! UID:30884-3849118@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall - and all dining halls CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T200000 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:30719-3703703@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:20160808T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T200000 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:30720-3703787@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:20160808T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T200000 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:30717-3703535@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:20160808T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T200000 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:30718-3703619@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:20160808T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T200000 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:30715-3703367@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:20160808T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T170000 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:30722-3703955@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:20160808T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T200000 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:30721-3703871@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:20160808T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T200000 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:30716-3703451@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:20160808T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T235900 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:29615-4127501@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:20160808T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T190000 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:31039-4010893@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:20160609T154221 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:COSMO-16 DESCRIPTION:The UM Physics Department is hosting COSMO-16 this summer which is the premier international series of cosmology conferences. The conference participants will discuss some of the hottest developments in cosmology\, including progress in our understanding of dark matter and dark energy\, and the recent epoch-making discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO experiment.\n\n\nThe conference is sponsored by MIRA\, MCTP\, and the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University. UID:30941-3904998@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30941 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,conference,Physics LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T170000 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:27873-2579410@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:20160808T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T170000 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:30662-3646212@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:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T170000 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:30494-3530558@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:20160808T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T170000 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:30497-3530621@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:20160329T124905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T170000 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:30043-3321430@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:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T170000 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:30500-3530765@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:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T121500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4390618@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T122728 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T131500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Larry Cat\, In Space DESCRIPTION:Larry Cat\, In Space is a playful\, imaginative cartoon presentation about an inquisitive cat that takes a trip to the Moon. We learn that his human\, Diana\, has been sent to the Moon. Larry finds a way to sneak on board a shuttle\, and goes looking for Diana. Along the way\, he learns about space and the Moon. UID:31694-4392900@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31694 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T141500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4390647@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160808T151500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4392869@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160602T112712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T073000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T193000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Blueberry Festival Week DESCRIPTION:Come enjoy four days of blueberry inspired food at all meals! UID:30884-3849119@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall - and all dining halls CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T200000 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:30719-3703704@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:20160809T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T200000 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:30720-3703788@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:20160809T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T200000 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:30717-3703536@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:20160809T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T200000 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:30718-3703620@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:20160809T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T200000 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:30715-3703368@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:20160809T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T170000 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:30722-3703956@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:20160809T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T200000 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:30721-3703872@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:20160809T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T200000 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:30716-3703452@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:20160809T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T235900 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:29615-4127502@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:20160809T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T190000 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:31039-4010894@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:20160609T154221 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:COSMO-16 DESCRIPTION:The UM Physics Department is hosting COSMO-16 this summer which is the premier international series of cosmology conferences. The conference participants will discuss some of the hottest developments in cosmology\, including progress in our understanding of dark matter and dark energy\, and the recent epoch-making discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO experiment.\n\n\nThe conference is sponsored by MIRA\, MCTP\, and the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University. UID:30941-3904999@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30941 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,conference,Physics LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T170000 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:27873-2579439@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:20160809T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T170000 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:30662-3646213@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:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T170000 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:30494-3530559@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:20160809T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T170000 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:30497-3530622@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:20160329T124905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T170000 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:30043-3321431@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:20160809T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T170000 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:31189-4136526@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:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T170000 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:30500-3530766@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:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T121500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4390619@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T122728 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T131500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Larry Cat\, In Space DESCRIPTION:Larry Cat\, In Space is a playful\, imaginative cartoon presentation about an inquisitive cat that takes a trip to the Moon. We learn that his human\, Diana\, has been sent to the Moon. Larry finds a way to sneak on board a shuttle\, and goes looking for Diana. Along the way\, he learns about space and the Moon. UID:31694-4392901@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31694 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T141500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4390648@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160824T123010 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Closing Session: Campus Connections DESCRIPTION:This is a closed session for the Comprehensive Studies Program Students enrolled in the Career Center's Campus Connection. UID:31457-4278370@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31457 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Program Room (3003) University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T151500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4392870@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160503T154655 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T193000 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:30608-3621675@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:20160609T090819 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Michigan Ecology Mixer at Ecological Society of America annual meeting DESCRIPTION:The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the School of Natural Resources and Environment invite faculty\, students\, alumni and their guests to connect with old friends and meet new ones. Hosted by EEB Professor Deborah Goldberg and SNRE host Professor Inéz Ibáñez. Refreshments and a cash bar. RSVP at link below. UID:30953-3912985@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30953 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Biology,Discussion,Ecology,Environment,Food,Free,Networking,Research,Social LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160527T164633 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pen vs. Pumpjack: Writing Our Way Out of Ecological Crisis DESCRIPTION:Please join editor Stefanie Brook Trout and contributors Maryann Lesert and Stephanie Mills for readings from Fracture: Essays\, Poems\, and Stories on Fracking in America\, a new anthology that explores the myriad impacts of hydraulic fracturing on ecosystems\, communities\, and the human spirit. The environmental writers will also discuss why the sciences need literature and other arts—and never more so than now\, when urgent action is needed divert our planet from its collision course with catastrophe.\n\nStefanie Brook Trout is an alum of the UMich Biological Station and LSA Program in the Environment. She received her MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University where she was the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory’s Environmental Writing Fellow. Before Fracture\, Stefanie co-edited Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland.\n\nMaryann Lesert is a playwright\, novelist\, and journalist who teaches creative writing and writing based on the environment at Grand Rapids Community College. Her first novel\, Base Ten was published by Feminist Pres. Threshold\, her current novel in progress\, grew from research on fracking in Michigan’s state forests. \n\nStephanie Mills is the author of seven books\, including Epicurean Simplicity\, Tough Little Beauties\, In Service of the Wild\, and On Gandhi’s Path. Over the past 40 years\, she has written essays and articles appearing in publications from Orion to The Britannica Book of the Year. Featured in the PBS documentary EarthDays\, Stephanie Mills is a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. UID:30568-3570915@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30568 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160711T113436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160809T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Elders DESCRIPTION:The Elders promise to deliver \"arse-kickin' music from the heartland.\" Take a group of Kansas City musicians with a passion for Celtic music\, add an Irishman with a love of all things American\, and you get a cross-pollination of elements that is high-octane and progressive\, yet rooted in tradition. What they have come to discover is something unaffected by fads\, trends and commercialism. Robert Oermann of Music Row magazine calls The Elders “a band to shout from the rooftops about.\" The Elders are fronted by the charismatic Irishman Ian Byrne\, from County Wicklow\, and backed by a group of fine Kansas City musicians. The band now includes former Ann Arborite Diana Ladio on fiddle. UID:29896-3257372@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29896 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:20160602T112712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T073000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T193000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Blueberry Festival Week DESCRIPTION:Come enjoy four days of blueberry inspired food at all meals! UID:30884-3849120@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall - and all dining halls CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T200000 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:30719-3703705@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:20160810T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T200000 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:30720-3703789@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:20160810T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T200000 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:30717-3703537@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:20160810T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T200000 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:30718-3703621@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:20160810T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T200000 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:30715-3703369@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:20160810T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T170000 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:30722-3703957@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:20160810T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T200000 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:30721-3703873@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:20160810T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T200000 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:30716-3703453@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:20160810T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T235900 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:29615-4127503@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:20160810T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T190000 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:31039-4010895@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:20160810T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T170000 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:27873-2579468@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:20160810T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T170000 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:30662-3646214@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:20160825T063012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Credit Acceptance Onsite Career Fair DESCRIPTION:Credit Acceptance will be hosting an onsite career fair at our headquarters located at 25505 West 12 Mile Road\, Southfield\, MI 48034 on August 10 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM. Please come out to meet our recruiting team and discuss open opportunities to join Credit Acceptance! To attend\, please follow the 3 easy steps below:\n\n1. To pre-register for the event\, please visit mysignup.com/ca_career_fair\n2. Submit your resume to us at recruiting@creditacceptance.com\n3. Don't forget to bring printed copies of your resume with you to the fair! UID:31671-4386178@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31671 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:25505 Twelve Mile Rd, Southfield, MI 48034, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T170000 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:30494-3530560@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:20160810T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T170000 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:30497-3530623@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:20160329T124905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T170000 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:30043-3321432@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:20160810T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T170000 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:31189-4136527@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:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T170000 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:30500-3530767@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:20160425T142703 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) DESCRIPTION:Abstract and paper not yet available UID:30522-3556109@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30522 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Education,Research,seminar LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T121500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4390620@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T122728 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T131500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Larry Cat\, In Space DESCRIPTION:Larry Cat\, In Space is a playful\, imaginative cartoon presentation about an inquisitive cat that takes a trip to the Moon. We learn that his human\, Diana\, has been sent to the Moon. Larry finds a way to sneak on board a shuttle\, and goes looking for Diana. Along the way\, he learns about space and the Moon. UID:31694-4392902@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31694 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T141500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4390649@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T151500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4392871@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160711T113602 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160810T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Hot Tuna Acoustic DESCRIPTION:From their days playing together as teenagers to their current acoustic and electric blues\, probably no one has more consistently led American music for the last 50 years — yes! — than Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady\, the founders and continuing core members of Hot Tuna. The pair began playing together while growing up in the Washington D.C. area\, where Jack’s father was a dentist and Jorma’s father a State Department official. Along the way\, Jorma became committed to the finger-picking guitar style exemplified by the Rev. Gary Davis. In the mid-1960s\, Jorma was asked to audition to play guitar for a new band that was forming in San Francisco\, and the rest became Jefferson Airplane history. But the pair remained loyal to the blues\, jazz\, bluegrass\, and folk influences of the small clubs and larger venues they had learned from years before. This led to an album and a record contract\, all before they decided to name their band Hot Tuna. With that album they launched a project that has continued for more than 35 years\, always finding new and interesting turns in its path forward. In an era in which old bands reunite for one last tour\, Hot Tuna can’t\, because Hot Tuna never broke up. They've turned increasingly toward acoustic roots in recent years\, but two things have never changed: Jorma and Jack still enjoy playing together as much as they did as kids in Washington D.C.\, and there are still many\, many exciting miles yet to travel on the group's musical odyssey. Hot Tuna recently released \"Steady as She Goes\,\" their first new studio album since 1990. UID:29323-3067360@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29323 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:20160602T112712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T073000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T193000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Blueberry Festival Week DESCRIPTION:Come enjoy four days of blueberry inspired food at all meals! UID:30884-3849121@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall - and all dining halls CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T200000 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:30719-3703706@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:20160811T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T200000 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:30720-3703790@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:20160811T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T200000 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:30717-3703538@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:20160811T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T200000 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:30718-3703622@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:20160811T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T200000 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:30715-3703370@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:20160811T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T170000 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:30722-3703958@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:20160811T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T200000 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:30721-3703874@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:20160811T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T200000 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:30716-3703454@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:20160811T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T235900 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:29615-4127504@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:20160811T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T190000 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:31039-4010896@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:20160811T072410 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T170000 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:31691-4452674@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31691 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160506T162225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T170000 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:30662-3646215@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:20160607T164014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:From Graffiti to Gallery DESCRIPTION:This presentation explores the current state of the New Contemporary Art movement. Current counter-culture genres have emerged into the spotlight of the creative class. The talk will present a vast overview of how graffiti\, skateboarding\, hip-hop and punk rock cultures have emerged from the underground to be coveted by art collectors\, art auctions\, museums\, and the mainstream. Jesse Cory is currently CEO of 1xRUN\, a Detroit based publisher of fine art editions. He also co-founded the Inner State Gallery in Eastern Market as well as Murals in the Market\, Detroit’s first international mural festival. This lecture is for adults 50+. UID:30942-3899020@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30942 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Lifelong Learning,Retirement,Visual Arts LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T134945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T170000 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:30494-3530561@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:20160811T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T170000 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:30497-3530624@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:20160329T124905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T170000 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:30043-3321433@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:20160811T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T170000 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:31189-4136528@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:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T170000 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:30500-3530768@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:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T121500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4390621@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160718T125629 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T140000 SUMMARY:Other:Dissertation Defense: Characterization of Circadian Feeding Rhythms in Drosophila Using the Fly Liquid-Food Interaction Counter (FLIC) Assay DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nThe circadian clock offers an internal estimate of the external time of day and is used to precisely time behavior and physiology to promote survival and fitness. In mammals\, mounting evidence has established a correlation between a disrupted circadian clock and metabolic dysfunction\, presumably due to the desynchronization of feeding with the optimal phase of endogenous metabolic rhythms. Although much is known about how feeding is positively and negatively regulated through endocrine and neuronal control\, relatively little is known about how the central circadian clock regulates feeding. Thanks to its genetic tractability and relative simplicity of its central nervous system\, Drosophila melanogaster is a powerful model organism for understanding the genetic and neural basis of circadian rhythms. Here we have used a sensitive and high through-put feeding assay\, the fly liquid-food interaction counter\, to systematically characterize the circadian feeding behavior of flies in a manner that allows for the extended observation of feeding behavior in the absence of experimental perturbation\, an approach that makes possible the recording of diurnal and circadian rhythms in feeding over many cycles. We found that commonly used genetic backgrounds display anticipatory morning and evening peaks of feeding under a 12-hour-light/12-hour-dark cycle (LD) that are highly reminiscent of locomotor rhythms. Analysis of the feeding behavior of loss of function clock gene mutants reveal that morning and evening anticipation are dependent on the canonical molecular circadian clock. Moreover\, using a highly sensitive assay for circulating sugars\, we establish that trehalose levels are tightly regulated by circadian clock genes\, per\, in a restricted feeding regimen. UID:31107-4074743@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Dissertation,Research,Science LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - East Conference Room, 4th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160819T142439 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Fulbright Information Session DESCRIPTION:A U-M Fulbright U.S. Student Program advisor will provide on overview of the program and details related to applying for the 2017-2018 grant year. Laptops are encouraged and welcomed. UID:31572-4337732@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31572 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fellowships & Grants,Funding,International LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1644 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T122728 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T131500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Larry Cat\, In Space DESCRIPTION:Larry Cat\, In Space is a playful\, imaginative cartoon presentation about an inquisitive cat that takes a trip to the Moon. We learn that his human\, Diana\, has been sent to the Moon. Larry finds a way to sneak on board a shuttle\, and goes looking for Diana. Along the way\, he learns about space and the Moon. UID:31694-4392903@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31694 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170629T121633 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T130000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Michigan Women's Soccer vs. No. 4 Virginia DESCRIPTION:Michigan Women's Soccer vs. No. 4 Virginia UID:32564-4594589@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32564 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Women's Soccer LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T141500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4390650@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160725T103638 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:REU Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Come listen to REU students speak about their summer research projects. UID:31487-4302522@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31487 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - Nesbitt Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T151500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4392872@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160404T091701 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T190000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Beginner Golf DESCRIPTION:Beginner golf classes are open to UM faculty/staff/students taught by PGA professionals. The facility includes a heated and covered structure to keep you warm and dry. Search for Kinesiology Community Programs on eventbrite.com. UID:30169-3373087@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30169 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fitness,Health & Wellness,Kinesiology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160729T113036 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Where No Man and Only A Few Space Probes Have Gone Before DESCRIPTION:Talk Details:\nAstronaut Runco will take the audience on an expansive journey through space and time\, highlighting where mankind has traveled thus far\, not only with a presence via manned spacecraft and robotic probes but also virtually via the great orbiting observatories. From liftoff of the Space Shuttle to operating in orbit around Earth and building the International Space Station\, to exploring the solar system and beyond. Mario will provide insight as to where we’ve been\, where we are now\, and where NASA hopes to be in the future.\n\nThis is a public lecture which is part of \"COSMO-16\" the 20th annual international conference on particle physics and cosmology. UID:31249-4154477@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Culture,Free,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160401T162952 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T201500 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Intermediate Golf Class DESCRIPTION:This intermediate golf class is open to UM faculty/staff/students taught by PGA professionals. The facility includes a heated and covered structure to keep you warm and dry. Search for Kinesiology Community Programs on eventbrite.com. UID:30152-3373090@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30152 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fitness,Health & Wellness,Kinesiology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160711T113642 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160811T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Tartan Terrors DESCRIPTION:The Tartan Terrors are not a band but\, in the words of the organizers\, \"North America’s premiere Celtic Event\, features the best in music\, comedy and dance.\" Amazed by the blistering chops of a two-time World Champion Bagpiper\, the driving tones of drums from around the world\, and a guitar played unlike any you’ve ever heard\, standing-room-only audiences come to understand why Dig This magazine declares the Terrors \"one act to keep an eye on!” Combine all the music with championship-caliber Highland Dancers and internationally recognized comedic performers\, and this Celtic Group goes beyond the ordinary. Members of the Tartan Terrors have performed on four different continents\; in some of the most prestigious festivals\, Highland Games\, and theaters in North America\, for President Bill Clinton and Queen Elizabeth II\, and on Good Morning America. Experience the phenomenon of the Tartan Terrors and see why Celtic Beat hails them as “the heirs apparent to the mayhem”! UID:29898-3257374@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29898 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:20160602T112712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T073000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T193000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Blueberry Festival Week DESCRIPTION:Come enjoy four days of blueberry inspired food at all meals! UID:30884-3857117@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T200000 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:30719-3703707@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:20160812T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T200000 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:30720-3703791@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:20160812T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T200000 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:30717-3703539@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:20160812T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T200000 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:30718-3703623@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:20160812T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T200000 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:30715-3703371@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:20160812T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T170000 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:30722-3703959@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:20160812T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T200000 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:30721-3703875@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:20160812T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T200000 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:30716-3703455@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:20160812T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T235900 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:29615-4127505@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:20160812T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T170000 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:31039-4010897@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:20160609T154221 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T130000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:COSMO-16 DESCRIPTION:The UM Physics Department is hosting COSMO-16 this summer which is the premier international series of cosmology conferences. The conference participants will discuss some of the hottest developments in cosmology\, including progress in our understanding of dark matter and dark energy\, and the recent epoch-making discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO experiment.\n\n\nThe conference is sponsored by MIRA\, MCTP\, and the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University. UID:30941-3905002@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30941 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,conference,Physics LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160727T093117 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Employment Opportunities with ScribeAmerica DESCRIPTION:ScribeAmerica is a company that hires and trains “Scribes” for Physicians. Our company is currently looking to recruit students to work as Medical Scribes through the University of Michigan Health System in various outpatient specialty clinics. The scribe will work one on one with board certified physicians assisting with documentation for each patient evaluated by the doctor. It is an exceptional opportunity for any student interested in medicine to gain first-hand experience following a physician in an emergency department setting. \n\nThe role of a scribe is to closely collaborate with their assigned physician by documenting the history of each patient evaluated\, the doctor’s physical examination\, the results of laboratory/radiological studies ordered\, and the eventual diagnosis and disposition. Becoming a scribe provides the student with first rate exposure to medical terminology\, disease processes\, emergency procedures\, medications\, and the medical decision making process performed by physicians.\n\nThis job is not for everyone\; the complexity of the material and fast-paced environment necessitate that only the sharpest and most motivated students succeed as a scribe. We are looking for dependable and hard working employees that have a desire for an eventual career in medicine\, or are interested in learning more about careers in medicine. There are multiple specialties\, with most clinic hours being Monday-Friday in the 8am-5pm range\, and each shift consists of following a single physician. It is expected that each scribe can commit to 2 shifts per week for at least 2 years or 4 shifts per week for at least 1 year.\n \nPaid classroom & clinical training is provided. The training is extensive and intense. Each employee will have multiple training sessions both in the classroom and with live patients in a clinical setting during which we teach the flow of the clinic\, anatomy/physiology\, extensive medical terminology\, and appropriate medical/legal documentation.\n \nThis is a unique and exciting opportunity which has demonstrated itself to be excellent experience for students preparing for careers in medicine. Our past employees that excelled as scribes have gone on to receive outstanding evaluations in their clinical trials and residencies.\n\nFor more information please visit our website. UID:31528-4320123@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31528 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Career LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T170000 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:27873-2579294@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:20151216T151117 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T120000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Group Facilitation Training DESCRIPTION:As a person over 50\, do you want to brush up on your facilitation skills so that you can feel comfortable leading one of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s many fine courses? Topics to be covered include planning for sessions\, creating a participative atmosphere\, and handling group dynamics. All class material will be provided. No outside study is required. \n\nStu Simon has facilitated group processes as a manager at Ford Motor Co. and has been a consultant since his retirement. UID:27328-2381441@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27328 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lifelong Learning,Retirement,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160506T162225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T170000 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:30662-3646216@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:20160523T155817 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T160000 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:30795-3776669@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:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T170000 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:30497-3530625@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:20160329T124905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T170000 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:30043-3321434@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:20160812T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T170000 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:31189-4136529@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:20160726T105953 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Tech Talk: DIY PC Tune-Up DESCRIPTION:Learn how to perform your own PC maintenance using the same techniques offered by computer repair stores. Find out how to:\n\nRemove unnecessary programs and files.\nDefragment your hard drive/SSD.\nUse simple tune-up tools and utilities for a cleaner\, faster computer. UID:31518-4311341@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31518 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Workshop LOCATION:Michigan Union - G-312 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T170000 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:30500-3530769@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:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T121500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4390622@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T122728 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T131500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Larry Cat\, In Space DESCRIPTION:Larry Cat\, In Space is a playful\, imaginative cartoon presentation about an inquisitive cat that takes a trip to the Moon. We learn that his human\, Diana\, has been sent to the Moon. Larry finds a way to sneak on board a shuttle\, and goes looking for Diana. Along the way\, he learns about space and the Moon. UID:31694-4392904@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31694 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T141500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4390651@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T151500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4392873@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160711T113716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Captain Ivory DESCRIPTION:Your family’s record collection just hitched a ride a generation forward\, met a few genres along the way\, and started a rock band called Captain Ivory. It’s dirty\, in-your-face\, hands-inside-the-vehicle-at-all times rock 'n’ roll. This quintet came to Nashville by way of Detroit\, where they kept their ears to the pavement to blend sounds both new and old\, sounds of legends who’ve walked before\, with a twist of new that is sure to get your feet tapping and hands clapping. Think Jack White with a bit of Radiohead\, Derek Trucks\, and more! This band has a following in Europe\, where MuzikaleVibe in the Netherlands writes: “Occasionally we come across unknown\, but ridiculously good music to which we are very excited about\; such is the case when we found Captain Ivory.” UID:29324-3067361@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29324 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:20160812T180013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160812T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T000000 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:30711-3699237@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30711 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Angell Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T200000 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:30719-3703708@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:20160813T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T200000 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:30720-3703792@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:20160813T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T200000 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:30717-3703540@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:20160813T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T200000 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:30718-3703624@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:20160813T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T200000 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:30715-3703372@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:20160813T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T170000 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:30722-3703960@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:20160813T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T200000 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:30721-3703876@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:20160813T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T200000 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:30716-3703456@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:20160813T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T235900 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:29615-4127506@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:20160813T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T170000 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:31039-4010898@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:20160813T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T170000 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:27873-2579323@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:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T170000 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:30497-3530626@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:20160329T124905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T170000 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:30043-3321435@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:20160813T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T170000 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:31189-4136530@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:20160422T140757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T170000 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:30500-3530770@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:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T121500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4390623@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T122311 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T131500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Expanded View DESCRIPTION:This look at telescopes shows us the variety that are used by astronomers to explore various aspects of deep space. Includes a brief live star talk. UID:31695-4392919@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31695 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T141500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4390652@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160714T175358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Saturday Sampler Tour | Ancient Toys and Games DESCRIPTION:On this kid-friendly tour\, discover ancient toys and games found in Egypt and Rome. Wooden horses\, noisemakers\, buzzers\, rattles\, dolls\, jacks\, and miniature swords- sounds a lot like what children still play with today! This interactive tour features fun replicas that we can see and play with as we learn from the ancient artifacts. This is a great tour to introduce your kids to the museum! UID:31355-4207678@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31355 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Children,Classical Studies,Museum,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T122612 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T151500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Two Small Pieces of Glass: The Amazing Telescope DESCRIPTION:Two Small Pieces of Glass: The Amazing Telescope follows two students as they chat with a female astronomer at a local star party. The students learn the history of the telescope from Galileo’s modifications\, to a child’s spyglass\, to the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the future of astronomy. UID:31696-4392923@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31696 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T161500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, planets\, and telescopic objects in the current night sky will be discussed in this live “star talk.” Then leave Earth and fly out into space to examine the planets and other distant objects. UID:31693-4392889@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160711T113810 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160813T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Breathe Owl Breathe DESCRIPTION:Michigan's Breathe Owl Breathe has roots in indie\, classical\, and traditional music. They play original songs that combine vocals\, guitar\, percussion\, and more\, including cello from Ann Arbor's classically trained Andréa Moreno-Beals. They describe their music as \"spirit-rock.\" Breathe Owl Breathe's songs have a kind of economy that makes them timeless-seeming yet disarmingly fresh. It's a totally new sound\, floating between post-rock and folk\, and it's been winning Breathe Owl Breathe well beyond Michigan. With roots in the northwest lower Michigan town of East Jordan\, Breathe Owl Breathe has an entrancing sound that's completely their own. \"At last\, some music in the folk tradition that is new and refreshing\, something an old music critic like me is always looking to find\,\" says Allmusic.com founder Michael Erlewine. UID:30681-3678821@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30681 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR