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:20160821T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T200000 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:30719-3703716@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:20160821T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T200000 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:30720-3703800@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:20160821T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T200000 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:30717-3703548@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:20160821T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T200000 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:30718-3703632@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:20160821T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T200000 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:30715-3703380@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:20160821T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T170000 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:30722-3703968@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:20160821T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T200000 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:30721-3703884@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:20160821T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T200000 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:30716-3703464@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:20160821T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T235900 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:29615-4127514@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:20160804T133333 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T180000 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:31667-4383981@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:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T170000 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:30497-3530634@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:20160821T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T170000 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:30043-3321443@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:20160821T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T170000 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:31189-4136538@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:20160821T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T170000 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:30500-3530778@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:20160821T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T170000 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:27873-2579383@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:20160821T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T141500 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:31693-4390660@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:20160804T172908 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Drop-In Tour | Exploring the Kelsey Museum DESCRIPTION:Have you always wanted to learn more about Roman frescoes? Or maybe our cat mummy fascinates you? At the Drop-In Tour\, our experienced docent will give you a custom tour based on your interests. If you are a first time visitor\, this is the perfect opportunity to get an introduction to some highlights of the museum's Greek\, Roman\, Egyptian\, and Near Eastern collections. UID:31712-4392948@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31712 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classical Studies,Museum,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170629T121647 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T140000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Michigan Women's Soccer vs. Marshall DESCRIPTION:Michigan Women's Soccer vs. Marshall UID:32566-4594591@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32566 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Women's Soccer LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160808T120751 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Mira Henry: The View Inside DESCRIPTION:Before joining the faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles (Sci-Arc)\, Mira Henry spent several years as a project architect\, immersed in the everyday\, banal details of how buildings get built such as construction drawings and material specs. But as a progressive architectural thinker\, her inspiration has been to “unsee” the very forms and representations that constitute an architect’s basic language. For example\, through speculative experiments and conceptual drawings Henry discovers in static architectural details an unsettling range of figurative expression\, such as the way the profiles of roof eaves resemble human heads. Join UMMA docents as they explore how these features animate our subjective experience–what she calls our “shifting fantasies”–of architectural space. UID:31815-4428233@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31815 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T122612 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T151500 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:31696-4392928@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:20170629T061506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T153000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Michigan Field Hockey vs. Toronto DESCRIPTION:Michigan Field Hockey vs. Toronto UID:32556-4594581@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32556 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Field Hockey LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T161500 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:31693-4392892@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:20160711T114644 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160821T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Junior Brown DESCRIPTION:If you haven't seen Junior Brown yet\, you need to \"guit with it\"! Junior Brown is a one-man musical hot fusion machine\, and he's coming to town with his guit-steel\, a unique hybrid contraption that's part electric guitar and part country steel guitar. People call him a cross between Jimi Hendrix and Ernest Tubb. But there's a lot more to say about Junior Brown. There's the fact that he's just about the best surf guitarist around\, for example. Or that he's a wonderful composer of traditional country songs\, the kind in which each outrageous pun leads you deeper into an emotional blind alley. Come check out the performer voted #1 House Rocker by the readers of Guitar Player! Junior's latest album\, \"Volume Ten\,\" features such Junior classics-to-be as \"Hang Up and Drive\" and \"Phantom of the Opry.\" UID:30611-3621680@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30611 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:20160822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T200000 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:30719-3703717@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:20160822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T200000 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:30720-3703801@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:20160822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T200000 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:30717-3703549@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:20160822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T200000 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:30718-3703633@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:20160822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T200000 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:30715-3703381@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:20160822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T170000 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:30722-3703969@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:20160822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T200000 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:30721-3703885@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:20160822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T200000 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:30716-3703465@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:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T190000 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:31039-4010907@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:20160915T121551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition. Invisible Women: Portraits of Aging in Ukraine DESCRIPTION:Photography by Ashley Bigham\, 2015-16 Walter B. Sanders Fellow\, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, U-M\; Watercolors by Grace Mahoney\, doctoral student in Slavic languages and literatures\, U-M.\n\nIn this exhibition\, artists Bigham and Mahoney investigate the visibility and social role of Ukraine’s older generation of women—embodied in a figure both iconic and ubiquitous\, the babusya. Seen in public transport\, in the market\, and on the street\, each babusya has a story to tell. Each has something to say\, something to gossip about\, and something to complain about. The current generation of Ukrainian grandmothers survived World War II\, the Holodomor\, and multiple repressions. They are also active in the present—although civic activism is often thought to be the province of the young\, many babusya joined in the actions of Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv and throughout the country. Now they witness the war in Eastern Ukraine. Many of them have lost their homes and some of them have lost their children or grandchildren. The generation called\, “The Children of War” are now seniors of war. \n \nIn addition to their historic significance as a generation\, these women are present in the spheres of daily life throughout the country. Possibly overlooked in society\, these women are vibrant and active in the public spaces of contemporary Ukraine. Working in the open-air bazaars\, resting on public park benches\, or strolling through cemeteries\, these women stake their claim on the urban space—blending\, coalescing\, disappearing. This exhibit endeavors to tell the stories of these grannies. It’s an invitation to look closer\, to see the stories which are written on their faces – they are old and tired\, but not invisible. \n \nAshley Bigham is a lecturer and the 2015-2016 Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Prior to her appointment at Taubman College\, Ashley was a Fulbright Fellow in Lviv\, Ukraine\, researching and teaching at the Center of Urban History of East Central Europe. Bigham holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Tennessee. \n \nGrace Mahoney is a Ph.D. student in Slavic Languages and Literatures. In 2014-15 she lived in Ukraine on a U.S. Student Fulbright fellowship and interned with the Revolution of Dignity Museum in Kyiv in summer 2016. She has Bachelor's degrees in Visual Art and English Literature from Seattle University. Her work from this show was originally shown in the exhibition Portraits of the Unlost at America House in Kyiv in summer 2015. \n \nAn artists’ talk will be held from 4-5:30 pm on Friday\, September 23 in 1636 SSWB.\n\nExhibition sponsors: Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies\; A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning\; Women's Studies Department\; Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures UID:31592-4364076@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31592 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,International,Visual Arts LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - International Institute Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T170000 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:27873-2579412@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:20160822T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T170000 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:30662-3646226@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:20160822T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T170000 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:30497-3530635@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:20160822T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T170000 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:30043-3321444@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:20160822T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T170000 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:30500-3530779@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:20160822T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T121500 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:31693-4390631@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:20160822T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T131500 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:31694-4392910@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:20160822T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T141500 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:31693-4390661@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:20160822T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T151500 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:31693-4392879@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:20160711T114723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160822T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Jay Brannan DESCRIPTION:A Texas native turned New Yorker\, Jay Brannan has been writing and performing his own sweet & sad folk songs\, tempered with a healthy dose of humor\, around the globe since 2006. He also appeared as an actor in John Cameron Mitchell's indie film sensation \"Shortbus\,\" in which his song \"Soda Shop\" was the highest-selling song on the film's soundtrack album. From there\, Jay released a string of albums that topped the iTunes Singer/Songwriter & Billboard Heatseekers charts: \"goddamned\,\" produced by Will Golden (Meiko\, Michelle Branch)\; \"In Living Cover\,\" a collection of 2 originals & 7 covers\, recorded from a bedroom in his friend Drew Brody's Brooklyn apartment\; and \"Rob Me Blind\,\" produced by the legendary David Kahne (Regina Spektor\, The Bangles\, Paul McCartney\, Kelly Clarkson\, Lana Del Rey\, etc.). Gen Art Pulse has called Jay \"the male Joni Mitchell\,\" and The New York Times raves that \"his tenor voice makes even the saddest lyrics easy on the ear.\" UID:30636-3629823@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30636 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T200000 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:30719-3703718@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:20160823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T200000 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:30720-3703802@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:20160823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T200000 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:30717-3703550@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:20160823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T200000 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:30718-3703634@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:20160823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T200000 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:30715-3703382@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:20160823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T170000 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:30722-3703970@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:20160823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T200000 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:30721-3703886@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:20160823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T200000 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:30716-3703466@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:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T190000 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:31039-4010908@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:20160915T121551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition. Invisible Women: Portraits of Aging in Ukraine DESCRIPTION:Photography by Ashley Bigham\, 2015-16 Walter B. Sanders Fellow\, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, U-M\; Watercolors by Grace Mahoney\, doctoral student in Slavic languages and literatures\, U-M.\n\nIn this exhibition\, artists Bigham and Mahoney investigate the visibility and social role of Ukraine’s older generation of women—embodied in a figure both iconic and ubiquitous\, the babusya. Seen in public transport\, in the market\, and on the street\, each babusya has a story to tell. Each has something to say\, something to gossip about\, and something to complain about. The current generation of Ukrainian grandmothers survived World War II\, the Holodomor\, and multiple repressions. They are also active in the present—although civic activism is often thought to be the province of the young\, many babusya joined in the actions of Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv and throughout the country. Now they witness the war in Eastern Ukraine. Many of them have lost their homes and some of them have lost their children or grandchildren. The generation called\, “The Children of War” are now seniors of war. \n \nIn addition to their historic significance as a generation\, these women are present in the spheres of daily life throughout the country. Possibly overlooked in society\, these women are vibrant and active in the public spaces of contemporary Ukraine. Working in the open-air bazaars\, resting on public park benches\, or strolling through cemeteries\, these women stake their claim on the urban space—blending\, coalescing\, disappearing. This exhibit endeavors to tell the stories of these grannies. It’s an invitation to look closer\, to see the stories which are written on their faces – they are old and tired\, but not invisible. \n \nAshley Bigham is a lecturer and the 2015-2016 Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Prior to her appointment at Taubman College\, Ashley was a Fulbright Fellow in Lviv\, Ukraine\, researching and teaching at the Center of Urban History of East Central Europe. Bigham holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Tennessee. \n \nGrace Mahoney is a Ph.D. student in Slavic Languages and Literatures. In 2014-15 she lived in Ukraine on a U.S. Student Fulbright fellowship and interned with the Revolution of Dignity Museum in Kyiv in summer 2016. She has Bachelor's degrees in Visual Art and English Literature from Seattle University. Her work from this show was originally shown in the exhibition Portraits of the Unlost at America House in Kyiv in summer 2015. \n \nAn artists’ talk will be held from 4-5:30 pm on Friday\, September 23 in 1636 SSWB.\n\nExhibition sponsors: Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies\; A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning\; Women's Studies Department\; Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures UID:31592-4364077@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31592 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,International,Visual Arts LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - International Institute Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T170000 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:27873-2579441@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:20160719T100228 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T100000 SUMMARY:Other:Paul Boswell Defense: \"Affect\, Representation\, and the Ends of Practical Reason\" DESCRIPTION:Committee Members: Peter Railton (co-chair)\, Sarah Buss (co-chair)\, Allan Gibbard\, Chandra Sripada UID:31399-4249642@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31399 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:20160823T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T170000 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:30662-3646227@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:20160823T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T170000 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:30497-3530636@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:20160823T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T170000 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:30043-3321445@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:20160823T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T170000 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:31189-4136540@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:20160823T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T170000 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:30500-3530780@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:20160823T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T121500 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:31693-4390632@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:20160823T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T130000 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:31572-4337735@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:20160823T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T131500 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:31694-4392911@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:20160823T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T141500 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:31693-4390662@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:20160823T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T151500 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:31693-4392880@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160503T154655 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T193000 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:30608-3621677@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:20160607T161152 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160823T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Introduction to Amish Quilt Gardens DESCRIPTION:Tour guide and quilter Mary Davis will provide an overview of the dazzling quilt gardens of Northern Indiana’s Amish Country. 19 giant gardens feature 150\,000 individual plants and celebrate the Heritage Trail in northern Indiana. In 2016\, the Gardens will participate in the celebration of Indiana’s bicentennial. Learn the gardens’ history and the stories behind the quilt patterns reproduced\, along with the influence of the Amish people who live in the area. This event is for adults 50+. UID:30937-3899016@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30937 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lifelong Learning,Outdoors,Visual Arts LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T200000 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:30719-3703719@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:20160824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T200000 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:30720-3703803@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:20160824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T200000 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:30717-3703551@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:20160824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T200000 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:30718-3703635@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:20160824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T200000 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:30715-3703383@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:20160824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T170000 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:30722-3703971@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:20160824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T200000 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:30721-3703887@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:20160824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T200000 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:30716-3703467@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:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T190000 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:31039-4010909@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:20160915T121551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition. Invisible Women: Portraits of Aging in Ukraine DESCRIPTION:Photography by Ashley Bigham\, 2015-16 Walter B. Sanders Fellow\, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, U-M\; Watercolors by Grace Mahoney\, doctoral student in Slavic languages and literatures\, U-M.\n\nIn this exhibition\, artists Bigham and Mahoney investigate the visibility and social role of Ukraine’s older generation of women—embodied in a figure both iconic and ubiquitous\, the babusya. Seen in public transport\, in the market\, and on the street\, each babusya has a story to tell. Each has something to say\, something to gossip about\, and something to complain about. The current generation of Ukrainian grandmothers survived World War II\, the Holodomor\, and multiple repressions. They are also active in the present—although civic activism is often thought to be the province of the young\, many babusya joined in the actions of Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv and throughout the country. Now they witness the war in Eastern Ukraine. Many of them have lost their homes and some of them have lost their children or grandchildren. The generation called\, “The Children of War” are now seniors of war. \n \nIn addition to their historic significance as a generation\, these women are present in the spheres of daily life throughout the country. Possibly overlooked in society\, these women are vibrant and active in the public spaces of contemporary Ukraine. Working in the open-air bazaars\, resting on public park benches\, or strolling through cemeteries\, these women stake their claim on the urban space—blending\, coalescing\, disappearing. This exhibit endeavors to tell the stories of these grannies. It’s an invitation to look closer\, to see the stories which are written on their faces – they are old and tired\, but not invisible. \n \nAshley Bigham is a lecturer and the 2015-2016 Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Prior to her appointment at Taubman College\, Ashley was a Fulbright Fellow in Lviv\, Ukraine\, researching and teaching at the Center of Urban History of East Central Europe. Bigham holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Tennessee. \n \nGrace Mahoney is a Ph.D. student in Slavic Languages and Literatures. In 2014-15 she lived in Ukraine on a U.S. Student Fulbright fellowship and interned with the Revolution of Dignity Museum in Kyiv in summer 2016. She has Bachelor's degrees in Visual Art and English Literature from Seattle University. Her work from this show was originally shown in the exhibition Portraits of the Unlost at America House in Kyiv in summer 2015. \n \nAn artists’ talk will be held from 4-5:30 pm on Friday\, September 23 in 1636 SSWB.\n\nExhibition sponsors: Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies\; A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning\; Women's Studies Department\; Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures UID:31592-4364078@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31592 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,International,Visual Arts LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - International Institute Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T170000 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:27873-2579470@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:20160909T140939 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T170000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Study Group Registration Begins DESCRIPTION:Develop new interests and talents\, enrich your life\, and meet new people by choosing from almost 90 Study Groups this fall! These include the Arts\, Music\, and Theater\, History and Culture\, Investing\, Foreign Languages\, Literature\, Instructional Recreation\, Religion and Spirituality\, Science\, Social Sciences\, Technology\, and Writing classes.\nOlli Study Groups can be small or large\, meet for one session\, 4-6 sessions\, a semester\, a year\, or anything in between. If you are over 50\, and would like to join over 1500 other Ann Arbor area OLLI members\, please check our web site for further information about these classes\, lectures\, travel\, our After 5:00 events\, and membership.\nLocation/Time: Turner Senior Resource Center 9:30-5:00 M-F\, or online any time after 9:30 a.m. August 24.\nCost: Membership fee is $20\, which is required if you wish to register for any of our events\, plus the cost of each Study Group\, which is determined by the number of sessions. UID:31798-4419350@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31798 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160506T162225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T170000 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:30662-3646228@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:20160824T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T170000 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:30497-3530637@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:20160824T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T170000 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:30043-3321446@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:20160824T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T170000 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:31189-4136541@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:20160824T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T170000 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:30500-3530781@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:20160425T142849 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) DESCRIPTION:Abstract and paper not yet available UID:30523-3556110@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30523 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Education,Research,seminar LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T121500 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:31693-4390633@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:20160824T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T131500 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:31694-4392912@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:20160824T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T141500 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:31693-4390663@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:20160818T105731 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pharmaceutical Sciences Special Seminar DESCRIPTION:Nano-sized drug delivery systems are an emerging field in biomedical sciences. Delivery systems in the nanometer range are very promising drug carriers due to their ability to overcome many limitations associated with conventional drug delivery systems including multi-drug resistance in cancer treatment. Advances in dry powder inhalers and the development of suitable carriers for nano-medical drug delivery systems enable the application of nano-medical treatment strategies to the pulmonary route of administration. UID:32196-4515874@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32196 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Medicine,Nanotechnology,Pharmacy LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 2548 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T151500 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:31693-4392881@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:20160824T120059 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Adulting: Personal Finance Edition DESCRIPTION:How do you balance paying off student loans\, budgeting\, and planning for the future on a grad student salary? How should you account for income tax when you’re on a fellowship? Should we be saving for retirement while in grad school? The UM Credit Union Financial Education Specialist is here to help answer these questions. Whether you’re looking for resources to improve your personal finance management or totally winging it and want some guidance\, this workshop will help set you on the right track. Snacks will be provided! Contact Olivia Palmer at opalmer@umich.edu with any questions. UID:31812-4427913@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31812 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Room 1180, Duderstadt CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160711T114910 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160824T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Katie Geddes DESCRIPTION:Washtenaw County's own Katie Geddes sings traditional and contemporary folk\, country-folk\, and folk-pop tunes. A deft interpreter of familiar songs\, she brings something new to songs in which you think you've heard it all. Katie's captivating voice and velvety-smooth delivery bring new insight to the compositions of writers such as John Prine\, Buffy Sainte-Marie\, Michael Nesmith\, and Lennon and McCartney. Her 2010 CD release \"We Are Each Other's Angels\,\" featured an inspired roster of guest artists including Michael Johnson\, Mary McCaslin\, Don Henry\, and Small Potatoes\, and has received extensive airplay around the country and around the world. When not doing her own gigs\, Katie has been known to moonlight singing harmony for folk-rock legend Melanie and local favorite Matt Watroba\, and unannounced special guests at her shows are always a possibility. UID:29345-3076201@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29345 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:20160825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T200000 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:30719-3703720@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:20160825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T200000 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:30720-3703804@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:20160825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T200000 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:30717-3703552@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:20160825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T200000 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:30718-3703636@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:20160825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T200000 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:30715-3703384@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:20160825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T170000 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:30722-3703972@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:20160825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T200000 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:30721-3703888@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:20160825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T200000 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:30716-3703468@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:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T190000 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:31039-4010910@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:20160915T121551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition. Invisible Women: Portraits of Aging in Ukraine DESCRIPTION:Photography by Ashley Bigham\, 2015-16 Walter B. Sanders Fellow\, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, U-M\; Watercolors by Grace Mahoney\, doctoral student in Slavic languages and literatures\, U-M.\n\nIn this exhibition\, artists Bigham and Mahoney investigate the visibility and social role of Ukraine’s older generation of women—embodied in a figure both iconic and ubiquitous\, the babusya. Seen in public transport\, in the market\, and on the street\, each babusya has a story to tell. Each has something to say\, something to gossip about\, and something to complain about. The current generation of Ukrainian grandmothers survived World War II\, the Holodomor\, and multiple repressions. They are also active in the present—although civic activism is often thought to be the province of the young\, many babusya joined in the actions of Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv and throughout the country. Now they witness the war in Eastern Ukraine. Many of them have lost their homes and some of them have lost their children or grandchildren. The generation called\, “The Children of War” are now seniors of war. \n \nIn addition to their historic significance as a generation\, these women are present in the spheres of daily life throughout the country. Possibly overlooked in society\, these women are vibrant and active in the public spaces of contemporary Ukraine. Working in the open-air bazaars\, resting on public park benches\, or strolling through cemeteries\, these women stake their claim on the urban space—blending\, coalescing\, disappearing. This exhibit endeavors to tell the stories of these grannies. It’s an invitation to look closer\, to see the stories which are written on their faces – they are old and tired\, but not invisible. \n \nAshley Bigham is a lecturer and the 2015-2016 Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Prior to her appointment at Taubman College\, Ashley was a Fulbright Fellow in Lviv\, Ukraine\, researching and teaching at the Center of Urban History of East Central Europe. Bigham holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Tennessee. \n \nGrace Mahoney is a Ph.D. student in Slavic Languages and Literatures. In 2014-15 she lived in Ukraine on a U.S. Student Fulbright fellowship and interned with the Revolution of Dignity Museum in Kyiv in summer 2016. She has Bachelor's degrees in Visual Art and English Literature from Seattle University. Her work from this show was originally shown in the exhibition Portraits of the Unlost at America House in Kyiv in summer 2015. \n \nAn artists’ talk will be held from 4-5:30 pm on Friday\, September 23 in 1636 SSWB.\n\nExhibition sponsors: Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies\; A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning\; Women's Studies Department\; Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures UID:31592-4364079@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31592 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,International,Visual Arts LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - International Institute Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160811T072410 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T170000 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:31691-4452676@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31691 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160506T162225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T170000 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:30662-3646229@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:20160825T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T170000 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:30497-3530638@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:20160825T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T170000 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:30043-3321447@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:20160825T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T170000 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:31189-4136542@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:20160825T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T170000 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:30500-3530782@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:20160825T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T121500 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:31693-4390634@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:20160825T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T131500 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:31694-4392913@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:20160825T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T141500 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:31693-4390664@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:20160825T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T151500 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:31693-4392882@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:20160825T181649 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T173000 SUMMARY:Other:Aggregation-Induced Emission: Together We Shine DESCRIPTION:Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) refers to a photophysical phenomenon shown by a class of luminogenic materials that are non-emissive when they are genuinely dissolved in good solvents as molecules but become highly luminescent when they are clustered in poor solvents or solid state as aggregates. In this talk\, I will present a brief summary on the recent progresses in the area of AIE research. We have conducted mechanistic analyses of AIE processes and unified the restriction of intramolecular motions (RIM) as the main cause for the AIE effects. We have derived RIM-based molecular engineering strategies for the design of new AIE luminogen (AIEgen) systems. Typical examples of the newly developed AIEgen systems and their high-tech applications as optoelectronic materials\, chemical sensors and biomedical probes will be presented and discussed.\nBen Zhong Tang\, Department of Chemistry\,The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology\n Aggregation-Induced Emission: Together We Shine UID:31123-4082961@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170629T121649 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T193000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Michigan Women's Soccer vs. No. 12 Notre Dame DESCRIPTION:Michigan Women's Soccer vs. No. 12 Notre Dame UID:32567-4594592@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32567 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Women's Soccer LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160711T115030 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Andy McKee DESCRIPTION:Topeka-born Andy McKee has made the cover of both Acoustic Guitar and Britain's Acoustic magazine. He's a virtuoso to beat the band! Andy entertains both the eye and the ear with his use of altered tunings\, tapping\, partial capos\, percussive hits\, and with his signature two-handed technique. His guitar performance videos have received hundreds of millions of views on the Internet\, and at one point he held the top three positions on YouTube's list of top-rated videos of all time. After starting out on electric guitar\, Andy switched as a teen to acoustic and began studying the music of Michael Hedges\, Don Ross\, Billy McLaughlin\, and Preston Reed. To this day he still cites those four musicians as primary influences. Master craftsman and innovator at the same time\, Andy McKee is a virtuoso for our time. Australian blues singer/guitar-slinger Owen Campbell is tonight's special guest. UID:31051-4018892@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31051 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:20160607T124542 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160825T213000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Polish Animation Night DESCRIPTION:Snacks provided\n\nThursdays at 8pm\nJune 9-August 4 & August 25\n2175 North Quad UID:30932-3899010@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30932 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Free,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Quad - 2175 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160513T150824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T200000 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:30719-3703721@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:20160826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T200000 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:30720-3703805@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:20160826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T200000 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:30717-3703553@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:20160826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T200000 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:30718-3703637@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:20160826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T200000 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:30715-3703385@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:20160826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T170000 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:30722-3703973@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:20160826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T200000 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:30721-3703889@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:20160826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T200000 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:30716-3703469@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:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T170000 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:31039-4010911@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:20160915T121551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition. Invisible Women: Portraits of Aging in Ukraine DESCRIPTION:Photography by Ashley Bigham\, 2015-16 Walter B. Sanders Fellow\, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, U-M\; Watercolors by Grace Mahoney\, doctoral student in Slavic languages and literatures\, U-M.\n\nIn this exhibition\, artists Bigham and Mahoney investigate the visibility and social role of Ukraine’s older generation of women—embodied in a figure both iconic and ubiquitous\, the babusya. Seen in public transport\, in the market\, and on the street\, each babusya has a story to tell. Each has something to say\, something to gossip about\, and something to complain about. The current generation of Ukrainian grandmothers survived World War II\, the Holodomor\, and multiple repressions. They are also active in the present—although civic activism is often thought to be the province of the young\, many babusya joined in the actions of Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv and throughout the country. Now they witness the war in Eastern Ukraine. Many of them have lost their homes and some of them have lost their children or grandchildren. The generation called\, “The Children of War” are now seniors of war. \n \nIn addition to their historic significance as a generation\, these women are present in the spheres of daily life throughout the country. Possibly overlooked in society\, these women are vibrant and active in the public spaces of contemporary Ukraine. Working in the open-air bazaars\, resting on public park benches\, or strolling through cemeteries\, these women stake their claim on the urban space—blending\, coalescing\, disappearing. This exhibit endeavors to tell the stories of these grannies. It’s an invitation to look closer\, to see the stories which are written on their faces – they are old and tired\, but not invisible. \n \nAshley Bigham is a lecturer and the 2015-2016 Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Prior to her appointment at Taubman College\, Ashley was a Fulbright Fellow in Lviv\, Ukraine\, researching and teaching at the Center of Urban History of East Central Europe. Bigham holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Tennessee. \n \nGrace Mahoney is a Ph.D. student in Slavic Languages and Literatures. In 2014-15 she lived in Ukraine on a U.S. Student Fulbright fellowship and interned with the Revolution of Dignity Museum in Kyiv in summer 2016. She has Bachelor's degrees in Visual Art and English Literature from Seattle University. Her work from this show was originally shown in the exhibition Portraits of the Unlost at America House in Kyiv in summer 2015. \n \nAn artists’ talk will be held from 4-5:30 pm on Friday\, September 23 in 1636 SSWB.\n\nExhibition sponsors: Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies\; A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning\; Women's Studies Department\; Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures UID:31592-4364080@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31592 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,International,Visual Arts LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - International Institute Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160512T143154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T170000 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:27873-2579296@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:20160826T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T170000 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:30662-3646230@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30662 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160523T155817 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T160000 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:30795-3776671@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:20160826T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T170000 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:30497-3530639@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:20160826T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T170000 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:30043-3321448@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:20160826T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T170000 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:31189-4136543@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:20160726T110558 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Tech Talk: Meet the Canvas Crew DESCRIPTION:Learn the ins and outs of using Canvas\, including tips on using the mobile app\, integrating Canvas with your Google calendar\, and customizing your notifications. UID:31520-4311343@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31520 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:20160826T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T170000 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:30500-3530783@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:20160826T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T121500 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:31693-4390635@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:20160826T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T131500 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:31694-4392914@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:20160826T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T141500 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:31693-4390665@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:20160826T145810 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Dieudonne Fokou DESCRIPTION:Dieudonne Fokou from Cameroon experiments continuously with new media\, as he explores different modes of creation in the plastic arts. Please join us as he discusses his art and fascinating means of expressing his hopes for a better world. UID:32547-4592209@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32547 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Africa,Culture,Ecology,Environment,Outdoors,Social Justice,Sustainability,Visual Arts LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T121736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T151500 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:31693-4392883@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:20170629T121705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T190000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Michigan Volleyball vs. Saint Louis DESCRIPTION:Michigan Volleyball vs. Saint Louis UID:32594-4594619@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32594 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Volleyball LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160711T115103 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160826T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Ellis Paul DESCRIPTION:\"I got a word machine in my head. It's a damn noisy contraption. Constantly running. No 'off' switch\,\" says Ellis Paul. After growing up on a potato farm in northern Maine\, Ellis started writing songs while he was attending Boston College on a track scholarship and was laid up for several months with an injury. He's often called the quintessential New England songwriter\, and he's got a baker's dozen of Boston Music Awards to prove it. Ellis's passionate\, literate character sketches\, delivered in a soaring\, lyrical voice\, have influenced a generation of folksters toward the shamelessly poetic. The Boston Globe calls Ellis \"literate\, provocative\, urbanely romantic.\" Whatever you call him\, he's one of the major songwriters of our time. Ellis's latest\, \"Chasing Beauty\,\" was produced by Kristian Bush of the country band Sugarland. Says Absolute Punk\, which you might not think would be reviewing Ellis's albums: \"Everyone can relate to Ellis Paul and his songs\, and for that reason he continues to be a national treasure.\" UID:29355-3076211@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29355 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:20160827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T200000 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:30719-3703722@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:20160827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T200000 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:30720-3703806@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:20160827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T200000 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:30717-3703554@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:20160827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T200000 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:30718-3703638@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:20160827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T200000 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:30715-3703386@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:20160827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T170000 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:30722-3703974@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:20160827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T200000 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:30721-3703890@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:20160827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T200000 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:30716-3703470@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:20160622T094409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T170000 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:31039-4010912@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:20160827T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T170000 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:27873-2579325@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27873 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160422T140125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T170000 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:30497-3530640@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:20160827T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T170000 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:30043-3321449@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:20170629T121706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T110000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Michigan Volleyball vs. Miami (Ohio) DESCRIPTION:Michigan Volleyball vs. Miami (Ohio) UID:32595-4594620@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32595 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Volleyball LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160706T154352 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T170000 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:31189-4136544@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:20160827T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T170000 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:30500-3530784@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:20160827T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T121500 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:31693-4390636@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:20160827T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T131500 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:31695-4392921@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:20160827T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T141500 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:31693-4390666@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:20160504T105308 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T140000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:First Ascent Trip: Pictured Rocks DESCRIPTION:Trip Duration: Saturday\, August 27\, 2016 - 2:00pm to Wednesday\, August 31\, 2016 - 4:00pm\n\nJoin your future classmates to explore the pristine and picturesque Pictured Rocks National Lake Shore. Sandstore cliffs\, beaches\, waterfalls\, forest and Lake Superior are all highlights of this trip. See trip details: https://recsports.umich.edu/content/first-ascent-august-27-31-2016-pictured-rocks\n\nFirst Ascent Trips are designed specifically for incoming UM freshmen. Learn more about the First Ascent Program: https://recsports.umich.edu/article/first-ascent-program UID:30625-3627785@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30625 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Leadership,Outdoors,Rec Sports,Social LOCATION:Elbel Field Locker Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160714T180809 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Less Than Perfect | Special Exhibition Tour DESCRIPTION:Go on one of the first tours of the latest special exhibition \"Less Than Perfect\" to explore ancient \"imperfect\" objects from Japan\, Egypt\, China\, Thailand\, Korea\, India\, and Greece plus contemporary art inspired by them. Whether these objects didn't quite come out right when they were made in antiquity\, or they were created with a deliberate \"imperfection\,\" these artifacts still speak to us today. UID:31357-4209892@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31357 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Archaeology,Exhibition,Museum,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160804T122612 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T151500 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:31696-4392925@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:20160827T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T161500 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:31693-4392893@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:20170629T121706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T193000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Michigan Volleyball vs. Northern Iowa DESCRIPTION:Michigan Volleyball vs. Northern Iowa UID:32596-4594621@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32596 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Volleyball LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160711T115215 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160827T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:George Bedard's History of American Music Series - Part 4 DESCRIPTION:If you accompanied the legendary Michigan guitarist George Bedard on \"From Ragtime to Rock 'n' Roll\,\": his first trip through 20th-century American roots music in 2013\, and got back on the bus for his \"From Delta Blues to Chicago Blues\" tour in 2014\, or climbed aboard \"Different Trains—Same Time\,\" his third in the series—then you know how good these magisterial surveys of American music have been. For this production\, George will explore rockabilly and its relationship to blues and early R&B. The show will reunite George with his old buddy Mark \"Mr. B\" Braun—if you're an Ann Arbor townie\, you know you want to come out and relive the old Blind Pig days! UID:29518-3129598@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29518 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