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:20160814T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T200000 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:30719-3703709@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:20160814T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T200000 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:30720-3703793@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:20160814T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T200000 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:30717-3703541@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:20160814T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T200000 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:30718-3703625@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:20160814T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T200000 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:30715-3703373@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:20160814T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T170000 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:30722-3703961@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:20160814T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T200000 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:30721-3703877@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:20160814T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T200000 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:30716-3703457@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:20160814T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T235900 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:29615-4127507@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:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T170000 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:30497-3530627@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:20160814T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T170000 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:30043-3321436@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:20160814T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T170000 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:31189-4136531@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:20160814T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T170000 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:30500-3530771@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:20160814T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T170000 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:27873-2579382@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:20160814T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T141500 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:31693-4390653@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:20160804T172556 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Drop-In Tour | Egyptian Religion and Mummification DESCRIPTION:If you've ever wanted to see a hawk mummy\, learn about canopic jars\, or see a panel from a tomb's false door\, join us for this guided tour of Egyptian religion and mummification. UID:31711-4392947@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31711 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Egyptology,Museum,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160808T120525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Guided Tour 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 residence of Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011)\, capturing the essence of the Hollywood legend through her personal objects and mementos. She portrays Taylor’s life experience and eccentricity as an illusory subject\, one that cannot be specifically designated or precisely described. UMMA docents will explore Taylor’s celebrity and humanity through these images. UID:31813-4428232@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31813 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Film,Lecture,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T122612 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T151500 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:31696-4392927@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:20160814T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T161500 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:31693-4392890@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:20160711T113905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160814T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Lunar Octet and The Lunar Glee Club DESCRIPTION:The Lunar Octet and The Lunar Glee Club are not different bands but different names for the same legendary band over the years. Because of confusion about whether the band included singers\, the group's name changed midway through its career to The Lunar Octet. No matter you want to call it\, they play highly original and eclectic music drawing on jazz\, Cuban and Puerto Rican salsa\, rock\, African highlife music\, and Brazilian sambas\, forging a vital new sound enriched by these traditions. Almost all of the band's music consists of original compositions involving rich arrangements and strong focus on solo improvisations\, and all of the band members contribute to the compositional process. Since its debut in February 1984\, the band carried its high-energy message to dancers and listeners\, jazz\, R&B\, and rock fans alike. The Lunar Octet and Lunar Glee Club have performed at the Detroit Jazz Festival (five times)\, the Flint Jazz Festival\, the Columbus Arts Festival\, the Lancaster Festival\, the Ann Arbor Art Fair\, the WEMU/Depot Town Winter Jazz Series\, Rusty's Jazz Cafe\, Ann Arbor's Top of the Park\, the Bird of Paradise\, the Del Rio\, Mr. Flood's Party\, the Blind Pig\, the Detroit Festival of the Arts\, Detroit's New Center Park\, Toledo's CityFest\, Toledo's Rib-Off\, and more. They have released four albums. UID:29517-3129597@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29517 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:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T200000 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:30719-3703710@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:20160815T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T200000 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:30720-3703794@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:20160815T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T200000 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:30717-3703542@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:20160815T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T200000 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:30718-3703626@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:20160815T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T200000 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:30715-3703374@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:20160815T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T170000 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:30722-3703962@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:20160815T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T200000 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:30721-3703878@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:20160815T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T200000 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:30716-3703458@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:20160815T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T235900 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:29615-4127508@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:20160815T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T190000 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:31039-4010900@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:20160815T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T170000 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:27873-2579411@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:20160815T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T170000 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:30662-3646219@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:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T170000 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:30497-3530628@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:20160815T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T170000 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:30043-3321437@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:20160815T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T170000 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:30500-3530772@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:20160815T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T121500 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:31693-4390625@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:20160815T101530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T140000 SUMMARY:Other:Dissertation Defense: A Meiotic Cowboy: Condensin I Regulates Chromosome Dynamics in C. elegans Meiosis DESCRIPTION:Mentor: Gyorgyi Csankovszki\,Associate Professor\, MCDB UID:31112-4074748@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31112 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Dissertation,Research,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T122728 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T131500 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:31694-4392905@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:20160815T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T141500 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:31693-4390654@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:20160907T125222 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T150000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Behind-the-Scenes of Ann Arbor Civic Theatre DESCRIPTION:This study group discusses elements of theatre and drama\, pertaining to the literature and production of Ann Arbor Civic Theatre’s 2016-2017 mainstage season (a2ct.org). \n\nPrior to each performance\, join production staff and/or actors for a pre-show discussion on some aspect of the show in production. The discussions will allow participants to engage in the show in a deeper\, more meaningful and different way than simply watching the show. Come find out why Current magazine just voted A2CT “best theater troupe”! 15% off senior tickets for groups of 8 or more.\n\nThis study group is for those 50+ will meet for one hour on Fridays October 28\, 2016\, January 20\, 2017\, March 10\, 2017\, April 21\, 2016 and June 2\, 2017 at either the Arthur Miller Theater (1226 Murfin) or the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater (911 North University) depending on the play.\n\nInstructor Alexandra Berneis will lead the discussions. UID:32018-4490269@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Lifelong Learning,Retirement,Theater LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160815T151500 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:31693-4392874@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:20160831T063011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:2016 Nestle Diversity Leadership Symposium DESCRIPTION:Gain invaluable exposure to life and careers at the world’s largest food and beverage company!\n\nThe 8th Annual Nestlé Diversity Leadership Symposium (DLS) is a four-day intensive business program where you\, a diverse undergraduate student\, will:\n• Network with business leaders\n• Partake in leader development skill sessions\n• Give back to the community through volunteerism\n• Build a network of peers from universities across the nation\n• Interview for a summer 2017 internship or full-time development trainee program\, returning to school with the chance of a job offer and scholarship offer in hand\n\nAugust 16 – 19\, 2016\nNestlé USA Headquarters\, Glendale\, CA\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n• Must graduate between December 2016 and June 2018\n• Résumé and experience should demonstrate leadership\, a commitment to diversity & inclusion\, and a potential fit with one of Nestlé’s internship or trainee programs\n\nIdeal for diverse students committed to jump starting their career in business!\n\n*Nestlé USA pays for all reasonable travel and accommodations. See website for full criteria and details.\n\nAPPLY TODAY!\nwww.nestle.fluidreview.com\n\nAPPLICATION DEADLINE:\n5pm PST\, Tuesday\, April 26\, 2016 UID:30291-3402229@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30291 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Glendale, CA, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T200000 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:30719-3703711@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:20160816T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T200000 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:30720-3703795@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:20160816T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T200000 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:30717-3703543@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:20160816T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T200000 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:30718-3703627@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:20160816T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T200000 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:30715-3703375@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:20160816T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T170000 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:30722-3703963@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:20160816T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T200000 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:30721-3703879@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:20160816T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T200000 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:30716-3703459@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:20160816T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T235900 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:29615-4127509@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:20160816T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T190000 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:31039-4010901@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:20160816T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T170000 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:27873-2579440@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:20160816T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T170000 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:30662-3646220@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:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T170000 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:30497-3530629@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:20160816T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T170000 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:30043-3321438@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:20160816T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T170000 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:31189-4136533@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:20160816T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T170000 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:30500-3530773@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:20160816T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T121500 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:31693-4390626@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:20160819T142439 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T130000 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:31572-4337734@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:20160816T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T131500 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:31694-4392906@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:20160714T140830 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T141500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Blue Jeans and Videoconferencing: Real-time audio and video connections for teaching\, meetings\, and events DESCRIPTION:This class provides a quick-start introduction to the high-quality Blue Jeans Network service for live two-way connections\, available to almost everyone at U-M\, including students\, faculty\, and staff. Bring guest speakers into your classroom\, meeting\, or event. Teach remotely when you are on the road. Connect your students with students at other universities\, or with places and experiences they cannot otherwise access. Arrange meetings\, classes\, and special events without regard to the locations of the participants. Hold mass events with up to 5000 downstream participants. Join us and explore the possibilities available with with this great high-quality service.\n\nTo register visit http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/?s=blue+jeans&submit=Search UID:30975-3952805@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30975 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Media,Workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - MLB 2001B, Mac lab @ ISS Media Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T141500 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:31693-4390655@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:20160816T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T151500 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:31693-4392875@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:20160816T181645 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Financial/Actuarial Mathematics DESCRIPTION:Speaker(s): Jiaqi Li (UM) UID:31639-4375180@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31639 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 2866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160503T154655 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T193000 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:30608-3621676@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:20160711T114210 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160816T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Asleep at the Wheel DESCRIPTION:In the words of Billboard\, \"Everything this act has ever released is simply spectacular.\" In Texas they say Bob Wills is still the king. But Asleep at the Wheel is the official heir apparent\, a perennial Ark favorite well into a fourth decade of fabulous Western swing dance rhythms and artful country songwriting. More than 80 members have passed through Asleep at the Wheel since the band's beginnings\, but founder and frontman Ray Benson's vision of an ongoing and constantly growing tribute to the giants of Western swing\, with generous helpings of country and jump blues\, has stayed fresh. Asleep at the Wheel has won nine Grammy awards and counting\, and they deliver a high-energy show every time they come to The Ark. Come by and pick up a copy of their fabulous Bob Wills tribute album\, \"Still the King.\" UID:30391-3445663@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30391 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:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T200000 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:30719-3703712@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:20160817T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T200000 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:30720-3703796@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:20160817T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T200000 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:30717-3703544@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:20160817T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T200000 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:30718-3703628@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:20160817T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T200000 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:30715-3703376@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:20160817T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T170000 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:30722-3703964@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:20160817T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T200000 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:30721-3703880@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:20160817T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T200000 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:30716-3703460@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:20160817T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T235900 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:29615-4127510@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:20160817T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T190000 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:31039-4010902@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:20160901T063013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:The Principal Financial Group Women in Asset Management Conference\, apply through April 17th DESCRIPTION:The Principal Financial Group® is proud to offer high performing\, sophomore status or above women majoring in accounting\, finance\, economics (or a related field) the opportunity to attend the Women in Asset Management Conference. The conference takes place in the “Best City for Young Professionals” (Forbes 2014)\, Des Moines\, IA\, August 17-18\, 2016 at The Principal®. This two day conference is designed for women looking to become leaders in their field.\n\nTOP 5 REASONS TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE\n * Get an inside look at a FORTUNE 500® company (undergoing $397 million in renovations).\n * Participate in fun\, team-building challenges with bright student leaders like you\n * A chance to win a scholarship to be applied to your tuition bill.\n * Receive a female mentor in your desired career area\n * Build relationships and network with successful women leaders in asset management\n\nTO BE CONSIDERED\, YOU NEED TO:\n * Have a major in Finance\, Economics\, Accounting\, or a related field\n * Be at least a sophomore by credit\n * Maintain a 3.0 GPA or higher\n * Be involved in extracurricular activities and demonstrate leadership abilities\n * Have a strong interest in asset management\n\nBONUS!\nIf selected\, transportation*\, meals and hotel are provided\n* up to a specified amount for those traveling over 60 miles\nround trip\n\nHOW TO APPLY\nGo to www.principal.com/careers and search for requisition # 219203\nApplications will be accepted through April 17. UID:29893-3257370@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29893 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Des Moines, IA, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T170000 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:27873-2579469@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:20160817T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T170000 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:30662-3646221@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:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T170000 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:30497-3530630@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:20160817T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T170000 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:30043-3321439@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:20160817T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T170000 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:31189-4136534@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:20160817T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T170000 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:30500-3530774@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:20160817T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T121500 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:31693-4390627@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:20160817T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T131500 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:31694-4392907@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:20160817T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T141500 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:31693-4390656@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:20160817T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T151500 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:31693-4392876@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:20160711T114354 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160817T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Davina and The Vagabonds DESCRIPTION:Davina Sowers and the Vagabonds have created a stir on the national music scene with their high-energy live shows\, level A musicianship\, sharp-dressed professionalism\, and Sowers’ commanding stage presence. With influences ranging from Fats Domino and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to Aretha Franklin and Tom Waits\, the band is converting audiences one show at a time\, from Vancouver to Miami and across Europe. In 2011 Davina released her first full-length\, all-original album\, \"Black Cloud.\" It was awarded 4 1/2 stars from Downbeat. Their next release in 2014\, \"Sunshine\,\" hit number 13 on the Billboard blues chart. DATV’s shows are filled with New Orleans charm\, Memphis soul swagger\, dark theatrical moments that evoke Kurt Weill\, and tender gospel passages\, and Davina herself has been compared to Etta James\, Amy Winehouse\, Janis Joplin\, Billie Holiday\, and Betty Boop\, but comparisons don’t suffice: she's a true original. Davina & The Vagabonds come to Michigan with a great new live album\, \"Nicollet and Tenth.\" UID:30680-3678820@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30680 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T200000 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:30719-3703713@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:20160818T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T200000 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:30720-3703797@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:20160818T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T200000 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:30717-3703545@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:20160818T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T200000 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:30718-3703629@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:20160818T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T200000 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:30715-3703377@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:20160818T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T170000 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:30722-3703965@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:20160818T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T200000 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:30721-3703881@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:20160818T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T200000 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:30716-3703461@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:20160818T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T235900 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:29615-4127511@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:20160818T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T190000 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:31039-4010903@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:20160815T101330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T110000 SUMMARY:Other:Dissertation Defense: NuA4 and ecdysone impact cell cycle gene expression to regulate the proper timing of cell cycle exit in Drosophila DESCRIPTION:Mentor: Laura Buttitta\, Assistant Professor\, MCDB UID:31114-4074749@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31114 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Dissertation,Research,Science LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Earl Lewis Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160811T072410 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T170000 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:31691-4452675@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:20160719T100041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T103000 SUMMARY:Other:Rohan Sud Defense: \"Vagueness in a Precise World: Essays on Metaphysical Vagueness\" DESCRIPTION:Committee Members: Brian Weatherson (co-chair)\, David Manley (co-chair)\, Eric Swanson\, Ezra Keshet\, Ted Sider (Rutgers) UID:31398-4249641@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31398 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Philosophy LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1164 Angell Hall, Seminar Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160506T162225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T170000 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:30662-3646222@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:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T170000 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:30497-3530631@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:20160818T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T170000 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:30043-3321440@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:20160818T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T170000 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:31189-4136535@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:20160818T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T170000 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:30500-3530775@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:20160818T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T121500 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:31693-4390628@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:20160818T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T131500 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:31694-4392908@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:20160818T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T141500 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:31693-4390657@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:20160818T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T151500 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:31693-4392877@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:20160711T114447 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160818T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Steel Wheels DESCRIPTION:The Steel Wheels were last in town to help The Ark celebrate its 50th anniversary\, and their mix of timeless and contemporary embodies a good deal of what we've been about for the past half-century. The Steel Wheels have captured audiences across the country with their heady brew of original soulful mountain music. Based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia\, this dynamic band marries old-time musical traditions with their own innovative sound. Trent Wagler’s weathered tenor is joined by bell-clear four-part harmonies inspired by a shared Mennonite heritage. Add to this Eric Brubaker’s lively and evocative fiddle\, Brian Dickel’s grounded yet buoyant upright bass\, and Jay Lapp’s signature mandolin style\, and it’s no surprise that The Steel Wheels have conquered the Americana scene\, becoming festival favorites and selling out venues across the country. \"Americana music at its very best!\" said Larry Groce of \"Mountain Stage.\" The values portrayed in the band's music—devotion to roots\, community\, and family—are a way of life for The Steel Wheels\, and this is reflected in everything from production process and booking agency to merchandise and touring. UID:30744-3738433@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30744 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:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T200000 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:30719-3703714@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:20160819T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T200000 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:30720-3703798@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:20160819T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T200000 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:30717-3703546@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:20160819T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T200000 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:30718-3703630@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:20160819T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T200000 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:30715-3703378@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:20160819T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T170000 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:30722-3703966@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:20160819T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T200000 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:30721-3703882@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:20160819T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T200000 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:30716-3703462@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:20160819T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T235900 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:29615-4127512@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:20160819T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T170000 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:31039-4010904@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:20160819T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T170000 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:27873-2579295@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:20160819T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T170000 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:30662-3646223@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:20160804T133333 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T180000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:ASC and DAAS at the 34th African World Festival Detroit DESCRIPTION:The African Studies Center and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies take part in the 34th African World Festival Detroit on August 19-21\, 2016. This annual event\, which attracts over 150\,000 people each year\, showcases information\, performances\, crafts\, food\, and activities for all ages. The festival will feature a special performance by the U-M African Student Association’s Amala Dance Team on Sunday\, August 21\n\nA few of U-M’s student organizations will join ASC and DAAS at the festival. The U-M booth will provide information and presentations about the various academic programs and student organizations on campus related to Africa and its diaspora.\n\nPlease join us in supporting this community engagement and outreach event.\n\nFor more details about the festival\, visit: http://thewright.org/index.php/component/itsocial/event/1851 UID:31667-4383979@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31667 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Anthropology,Community Engagement,Culture,Dance,Exhibition,History,International,Literature,Museum,Outreach LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160523T155817 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T160000 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:30795-3776670@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:20160819T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T170000 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:30497-3530632@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:20160819T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T170000 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:30043-3321441@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:20160819T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T170000 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:31189-4136536@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:20160726T110354 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Tech Talk: Intro to iCloud DESCRIPTION:With iCloud\, you always have what's most important to you on whatever Apple device you have in hand. And it's all done automatically. Just like that. Join us to get answers to all your questions about what iCloud is and what it can do for you. We'll explore iCloud.com\, and you will learn how to sync and backup your devices\, manage your photo library\, and set up Family Sharing. Plus\, we'll cover some cool hidden tips and tricks! UID:31519-4311342@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31519 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:20160819T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T170000 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:30500-3530776@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:20160819T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T121500 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:31693-4390629@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:20160819T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T131500 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:31694-4392909@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:20160819T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T141500 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:31693-4390658@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:20160819T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T151500 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:31693-4392878@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:20170629T121646 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T193000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Michigan Women's Soccer vs. Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:Michigan Women's Soccer vs. Pittsburgh UID:32565-4594590@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32565 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Women's Soccer LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160711T114516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160819T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Dougie MacLean DESCRIPTION:Singer\, songwriter and fiddler Dougie MacLean\, OBE\, is a Celtic institution. His composition \"Caledonia\" has been called an alternative anthem of Scotland\, and it's a glorious\, bittersweet piece of music that gets down to the heart of Scotland's soul. For many years Dougie has been at the forefront of the development of Scottish music and song. But he's an artist of international repute as well\, with a rabid American fan base that fills houses wherever he goes\, and collaborations with country star Kathy Mattea (and even Jennifer Lopez) to his credit. A performer with a gift for making something universal of his own experiences and of the sheer beauty of his native land\, Dougie MacLean has been lauded by Time Out UK for songs that are \"hauntingly evocative yet contemporary in feel.\" Come by and congratulate him on the Lifetime Achievement Award he just received at the BBC Folk Awards! UID:29330-3067367@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29330 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:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T200000 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:30719-3703715@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:20160820T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T200000 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:30720-3703799@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:20160820T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T200000 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:30717-3703547@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:20160820T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T200000 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:30718-3703631@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:20160820T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T200000 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:30715-3703379@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:20160820T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T170000 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:30722-3703967@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:20160820T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T200000 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:30721-3703883@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:20160820T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T200000 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:30716-3703463@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:20160820T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T235900 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:29615-4127513@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:20160820T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T170000 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:31039-4010905@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:20160820T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T170000 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:27873-2579324@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:20160526T111654 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T151500 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Nam Center for Korean Studies Educator Workshop | Illuminating the North DESCRIPTION:From Mass Games to missile tests to NBA ambassadors\, North Korea has been at the forefront of global awareness for decades while simultaneously remaining shrouded in mystery and controversy. News stories covering its dynastic leadership\, persistent military pursuits\, and nothing if not resilient people certainly grasp our attention\, but how much do we actually know? This all-day workshop will seek to shine a light on the politics\, history\, and foreign policies surrounding the ever-reclusive\, ever-present North\, peer behind the headlines\, and discuss ways to approach the topic in the classroom. \n \nFeaturing lectures from national experts on U.S. foreign policy toward North Korea: \n \nDavid Straub \nFormer U.S. Department of State Senior Foreign Service Officer \n \nInyeop Lee\, PhD. \nAssistant Professor of Politics and History at Spring Arbor University \n \n Immerse yourself in Korea with educator resources\, hands-on activities\, and MORE! \n • Open to any K-14 educators (registration required) \n • Michigan Department of Education SCECHs available* \n • Lunch provided \n • Travel reimbursement available for eligible participants \n \nRegister NOW! http://goo.gl/forms/VjD5F4bjrEiM43mp2\n\nContact: OutreachKorea@umich.edu\n\nWebsite: http://www.ii.umich.edu/ncks/k-14-educators/educator-workshops---conferences.html \n \n*$10 processing fee for SCECHs UID:30831-3800895@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30831 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Education LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - Room 1636 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T133333 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T180000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:ASC and DAAS at the 34th African World Festival Detroit DESCRIPTION:The African Studies Center and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies take part in the 34th African World Festival Detroit on August 19-21\, 2016. This annual event\, which attracts over 150\,000 people each year\, showcases information\, performances\, crafts\, food\, and activities for all ages. The festival will feature a special performance by the U-M African Student Association’s Amala Dance Team on Sunday\, August 21\n\nA few of U-M’s student organizations will join ASC and DAAS at the festival. The U-M booth will provide information and presentations about the various academic programs and student organizations on campus related to Africa and its diaspora.\n\nPlease join us in supporting this community engagement and outreach event.\n\nFor more details about the festival\, visit: http://thewright.org/index.php/component/itsocial/event/1851 UID:31667-4383980@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31667 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Anthropology,Community Engagement,Culture,Dance,Exhibition,History,International,Literature,Museum,Outreach LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160803T140842 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T190000 SUMMARY:Community Service:eXXpedition Great Lakes 2016 DESCRIPTION:The Melissa Duhaime Lab at the University of Michigan invites all who are interested to join us on August 20\, 2016 for eXXpedition Great Lakes 2016 Detroit - St. Clair as part of the eXXpedition Great Lakes 2016 project.\n\nOn August 20\, 2016\, the eXXpedition Great Lakes 2016 will be the world’s largest simultaneous sampling event for plastic debris in the environment. This event aims to bring awareness to the issue of plastic pollution in our Great Lakes and to inform and empower citizens to protect their environment and themselves--while simultaneously promoting the involvement of girls and women in STEM fields.\nIn addition to a ship-board sampling event\, we will be hosting a land-based outreach and public awareness event in front of the Belle Isle Aquarium throughout the day and a plastic-free BBQ into the evening on August 20. Our mission is to offer an opportunity for the people of Detroit living on and near the lakes and rivers to connect to their local water resource. Our vision is to engage the public with demonstrations of plastics found in the environment\, their impact\, and what we can do about it! \n\nPotential booths/tables and activities include (but are not limited to) information about recycling\, crafts with found plastics\, a live-streaming video link to the boat while sampling\, and a beach clean-up event.\n\nIf this event piques your interest\, please join us! We are looking for participation on all levels\, from individuals to organizations -- especially for hosting outreach activities\, such as the booths/tables listed above. UID:31658-4383972@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Alumni,Community Service,Detroit,Discussion,Ecology,Education,Environment,Family,Festival,Food,Free,Games,Outdoors,Research,Social,Social Justice,Sustainability,Volunteer LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T170000 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:30497-3530633@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:20160820T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T170000 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:30043-3321442@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:20160820T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T170000 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:31189-4136537@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:20160820T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T170000 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:30500-3530777@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:20160820T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T121500 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:31693-4390630@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:20160820T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T131500 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:31695-4392920@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:20160820T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T141500 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:31693-4390659@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:20160714T175716 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Saturday Sampler Tour | Letters from Karanis DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan excavated the town of Karanis\, Egypt from 1924-1935. During the excavation\, papyrus scrolls were discovered containing tax rolls\, temple records\, grain yields\, and family feuds. Yes\, families fought with each other by sending long-distance messages on papyrus scrolls! On this interactive tour\, we will explore everyday objects from Karanis and hear snippets of these ancient (exasperated!) family letters. UID:31356-4207679@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31356 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classical Studies,Museum,Papyrology,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T122612 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T151500 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:31696-4392924@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:20160820T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T161500 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:31693-4392891@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:20160711T114603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160820T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Slambovian Circus of Dreams DESCRIPTION:The music of The Slambovian Circus of Dreams has been variously described as \"hillbilly-Floyd\,\" \"folk-pop\,\" \"alt-country\, roots-rock\,\" and \"surreal Americana\;\" a clear indicator of its singularly indescribable uniqueness. Dancing freely between all existing religious and philosophical mythologies\, the music is uplifting\, empowering\, and a lot of fun. The Slambovians have drawn comparisons to Petty\, The Decemberists\, Dylan\, and Bowie as they feature an otherworldly slide mandolin\, accordion\, cello and styles ranging from dusty Americana ballads to Pink Floyd-esque cinematic anthems. Frontman Joziah Longo (vocals\, guitar and harmonica) has drawn praise for a voice that is \"soothing and bewitching as a snake oil tonic\, \" and \"the entire root system of the Rock Family Tree is embedded in his voice\,\" says The Big Issue UK). This band has been together since the late 1990s\; they settled in Sleepy Hollow\, New York\, and began developing unique shows that have surprised and delighted Ark audiences every time. UID:30886-3851119@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30886 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR