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:20161217T120052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161217T130000 SUMMARY:Other:[Exhibition] LOVE DESCRIPTION:Hey MPC!Following the success of the one we put on last year\, I’m excited to announce this year’s winter photography exhibition. This is a great opportunity to showcase some of your best work on our theme: LOVE. Whether it be a photo taken of a place you love\, a candid portrait shot of a couple in love\, or anything in between\, we want to see it! We encourage you to both pull from the portfolios you may have and to spend some time shooting with this theme in mind.The exhibition will take place December 11-17 in the Michigan League. The photo submission guidelines are as follows:-Limit of two photos per person\n-Photos sized to 8x10 inches at 300ppi. (Or we can crop it for you)\n-Name files in the format Firstname_Lastname_Titleofphoto \n-Send submissions to mpc.umich@gmail.com with subject line \"MPC Exhibition Submission\"Deadline to submit is 5pm\, Dec 5thWe will also be sending out email blasts with the same information (if you're not getting them\, join the Michigan Photography Club on MaizePages). If you have any questions at all\, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at mpc.eboard@umich.edu.We can't wait to see what you all have to show us! *Special thanks to Arts at Michigan for financial support!  UID:36392-6025245@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36392 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161223T120028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Slauson Tutoring DESCRIPTION:STEM Society collaborates with Slauson Middle School for tutoring opportunities where University of Michigan club members are transported to Slauson (5 min car ride\, or 15 min bus ride).  The tutoring opportunities take place on a weekly basis with a schedule made available to all members via a google doc.  The tutoring consists of helping students with any homework questions that they are struggling with\, and course material that they need additional practice with.  This is a wonderful opportunity to work with an amazing group of kids who are driven and making a conscious effort to improve academically.There are a range of tutoring opportunities available including in-class math help\, special needs help\, 1-on-1 tutoring\, and mass support after-school tutoring. Tutoring session are available for sign-up:Monday: 7:30am - 3:30pmTuesday: 7:30am - 5pmWednesday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThursday: 7:30am - 5pmFriday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThe amount of involvement can vary from week to week depending on your personal schedule\, and there is no long-term commitment.  As a Wolverine you are in a unique position to be able to influence the next generation in a very positive way.  Start giving back to the community today\, and strengthening the education of our youth. UID:34474-6175207@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34474 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Slauson Middle School CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161212T135425 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T230000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:72 Hour Study Break DESCRIPTION:72 Hour Study Break is upon us again! Join us December 15-18 from 8 am to 2 am for Therapaws\, study spaces and tutoring\, non-stop movie screenings\, a coloring book party\, Paint No Pour\, yoga\, FREE massages\, and FOOD! \n\nThis event affords students the opportunity to study and/or just hang out while taking a break from studying in a relaxing and welcoming space. Whether it’s your first time navigating finals or you’re a seasoned pro\, this time of year can be stressful. Come down to Trotter for 72-Hours of snacks\, support\, and activities and let us help you succeed!\n\nActivity Schedule:\nEVERYDAY: Brunch 10am-12pm\, Dinner 5-7pm\, Sweetland Tutors 1-10pm\nThursday\, April 21: Massages 6-8pm\, Paint No Pour 7-9pm\, Yoga 6-7pm\nSaturday\, April 23: Therapaws 1-3pm\nSunday\, April 24: Soul Food Sunday 5-7pm UID:36594-5742450@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36594 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Culture,Diversity,Film,Food,Free,Games,Health & Wellness,Multicultural,Writing LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160920T172805 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Florence Flood\, November 1966 DESCRIPTION:This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4\, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the muddy waters were those in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. Book conservators from the United States and Western Europe were called in to help with the recovery efforts. The exhibit features a British team\, headed by Peter Waters\, which created a washing-drying-mending-rebinding system to deal with tens of thousands of books damaged by the disaster.\n\nThe two most important outcomes of the tragedy are the professional training of library conservators and the establishment of disaster preparedness and response programs.\n\nLearn more and register for the symposium\, The Flood in Florence\, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective\, happening November 3-4\, 2016. https://www.lib.umich.edu/flood-florence-1966-fifty-year-retrospective UID:33962-4826217@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33962 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor Hatcher CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160816T170457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm UID:32121-4499670@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161110T123653 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT DESCRIPTION:Exhibition on view: December 1\, 2016 - December 20\, 2016\nPresentations and reception Wednesday\, November 30\nEach year\, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition\, initiated by the Class of 2013\, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2016 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes\, cities\, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Three winning projects will be exhibited:\n“Mapping Conficts” James Howe\, Gideon Schwarzman\, Yuong Wu\n“This and That” Andrew Barkhouse\, Carlos Pompeo\n“Synesthesia in Architecture” Anthony Gonzalez\, Po-Jen Huang\, Olivia Lu-Hill UID:35935-5374920@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35935 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170922T110712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York UID:44929-10012350@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161121T095149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Avant Garden: Weaving Fashion and Nature Together DESCRIPTION:Avant Garden explores plants’ long-standing role as the versatile source of raw materials for textiles and the inspiration for the designs\, colors\, and shapes that fashion takes. Plants in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens are highlighted along with their historical and cultural roles as they relate to cultivation\, sustainability\, textiles\, colors\, and design. Also included are \"living dresses\" made from plant material such as bark\, evergreen boughs\, moss\, succulents\, and others. Exhibit also includes seasonal flower display plus programming for the whole family. Free admission. Matthaei Botanical Gardens is closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day\, and New Year's Eve. Open New Year's Day 10 am-4:30 pm. UID:32887-4634114@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32887 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Fashion,Holiday,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:34760-4987569@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161117T122825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Landscape DESCRIPTION:Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell\, Antti Laitinen\, Joanie Lemercier\, and Rick Silva.\n\nCampbell’s recent body of work\, including Seal Rock\, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction\, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality\, citizenship\, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image\, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape\, including remix and glitch aesthetics\, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.\n\nThroughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres\, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color\, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues\; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\,\nthe Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. UID:36107-5446178@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T133327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection DESCRIPTION:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists\, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself\, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist\, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia\, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art\, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art. UID:35430-5224407@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T115239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:34762-4987756@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center. UID:34761-4987670@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161028T095621 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Nutcracker DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Ann Arbor Ballet Theatre UID:35173-5124011@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35173 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161212T100403 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T141500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, and planets 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. \n\nSATURDAYS at 11:30 a.m.\, 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.\nSUNDAYS at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.\nDecember 27– December 30 shows at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.\n\nThe U-M Museum of Natural History will be closed on December 24\, 25\, 26\, 31 and January 1. UID:33033-5277694@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33033 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161212T101026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T151500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Season of Light DESCRIPTION:This presentation traces the history and development of many of the world's most endearing holiday customs\, all of which involve lighting up the winter season\n\nSATURDAYS at 12:30 p.m.\nSUNDAYS AT 2:30 p.m.\nDecember 27–December 30 shows at 12:30 p.m.\nThe U-M Museum of Natural History will be closed on December 24\, 25\, 26\, 31 and January 1. UID:35581-5277713@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35581 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161212T100403 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T161500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk DESCRIPTION:Bright stars\, constellations\, and planets 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. \n\nSATURDAYS at 11:30 a.m.\, 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.\nSUNDAYS at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.\nDecember 27– December 30 shows at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.\n\nThe U-M Museum of Natural History will be closed on December 24\, 25\, 26\, 31 and January 1. UID:33033-5277699@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33033 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Museum LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161101T172213 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T203000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Peer Led Support Group Meetings DESCRIPTION:SAPAC's Peer-led Support Group is a weekly\, drop-in and confidential group for survivors to express concerns and find support among peers in a comfortable setting facilitated by student staff. The group offers semi-structured activities\, self-care practices and safe space for sharing if individuals choose to do so and is open to all survivors of sexual assault\, intimate partner violence\, sexual harassment\, and stalking. University of Michigan students of all identities\, ages\, and genders are welcome to participate\, as long as they are University of Michigan students. UID:34600-4967496@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34600 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan Union - SAPAC Office Rm 1551 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161218T180050 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T203000 SUMMARY:Other:Restore DESCRIPTION:Restore is a new undergraduate faith sharing group with a focus on building a faith community with real friendships and authentic conversation while discussing the upcoming Sunday readings.It consists of a drop-in\, open group format.   There are three days that we offer\, with the same content on each day so come when you are free! UID:34657-4968164@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34657 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:St. Mary Student Parish CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161130T103345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161218T233000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Late Night Snacks DESCRIPTION:Need a studying snack? All dining halls will have study snacks available from 10-11:30pm on December 15\,18\,19\,& 20. On December 15th\, enjoy cookies and punch. On December 18th\, come to an ice cream social. On December 19th\, taste a delicious yogurt bar. And lastly on December 20th\, enjoy veggies and dip! UID:36218-5494992@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36218 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:South Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161223T120028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Slauson Tutoring DESCRIPTION:STEM Society collaborates with Slauson Middle School for tutoring opportunities where University of Michigan club members are transported to Slauson (5 min car ride\, or 15 min bus ride).  The tutoring opportunities take place on a weekly basis with a schedule made available to all members via a google doc.  The tutoring consists of helping students with any homework questions that they are struggling with\, and course material that they need additional practice with.  This is a wonderful opportunity to work with an amazing group of kids who are driven and making a conscious effort to improve academically.There are a range of tutoring opportunities available including in-class math help\, special needs help\, 1-on-1 tutoring\, and mass support after-school tutoring. Tutoring session are available for sign-up:Monday: 7:30am - 3:30pmTuesday: 7:30am - 5pmWednesday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThursday: 7:30am - 5pmFriday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThe amount of involvement can vary from week to week depending on your personal schedule\, and there is no long-term commitment.  As a Wolverine you are in a unique position to be able to influence the next generation in a very positive way.  Start giving back to the community today\, and strengthening the education of our youth. UID:34474-6175208@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34474 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Slauson Middle School CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T135624 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel DESCRIPTION:Carlye Crisler\, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting\, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities\, people and lighting at a particular time of day\, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings\, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes\, Crisler also is a costumer\, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor. UID:36561-5716479@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 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:20161128T152923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads DESCRIPTION:Suzanne L. Cross\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor Emeritus\, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe\, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing\, supporting\, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart\, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum. UID:36273-5552627@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 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:20161221T141601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation\, Holidays & Beyond DESCRIPTION:As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration\, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark\, a former U-M physician\, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984\, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987\, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs\, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. UID:36268-5552458@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Bicentennial,Health & Wellness,History,umich200 LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161206T125640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush DESCRIPTION:These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson\, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation\, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents\, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson\, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben\, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome\, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs\, also from unknown photographers\, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time. UID:36560-5716395@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of history\, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick\, heal wounds\, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates\, Inc.\, an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art. UID:36559-5716311@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 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:20161128T152013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture DESCRIPTION:In the year 2000\, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment\, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random\, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut\, hammer\, bend\, grind and weld his sculptures to life\, giving them movement and character. UID:36272-5552543@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 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:20161205T134436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage DESCRIPTION:John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces\, gum wrapper chain\, American bricks\, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle\,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art\, they can be teaching tools\, aids in focus or meditation\, used to establish sacred space\, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan\, and he is an artist\, designer and collector with a background in theater\, fashion design\, therapeutic bodywork\, meditation\, printmaking and assemblage. UID:36558-5716227@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 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:20161205T140019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present DESCRIPTION:Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself\, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child\, television programs like Lost in Space\, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots\, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System\, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots. UID:36562-5716563@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160920T172805 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Florence Flood\, November 1966 DESCRIPTION:This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4\, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the muddy waters were those in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. Book conservators from the United States and Western Europe were called in to help with the recovery efforts. The exhibit features a British team\, headed by Peter Waters\, which created a washing-drying-mending-rebinding system to deal with tens of thousands of books damaged by the disaster.\n\nThe two most important outcomes of the tragedy are the professional training of library conservators and the establishment of disaster preparedness and response programs.\n\nLearn more and register for the symposium\, The Flood in Florence\, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective\, happening November 3-4\, 2016. https://www.lib.umich.edu/flood-florence-1966-fifty-year-retrospective UID:33962-4826218@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33962 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor Hatcher CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160816T170457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm UID:32121-4499671@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161110T123653 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT DESCRIPTION:Exhibition on view: December 1\, 2016 - December 20\, 2016\nPresentations and reception Wednesday\, November 30\nEach year\, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition\, initiated by the Class of 2013\, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2016 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes\, cities\, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Three winning projects will be exhibited:\n“Mapping Conficts” James Howe\, Gideon Schwarzman\, Yuong Wu\n“This and That” Andrew Barkhouse\, Carlos Pompeo\n“Synesthesia in Architecture” Anthony Gonzalez\, Po-Jen Huang\, Olivia Lu-Hill UID:35935-5374921@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35935 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170922T110712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York UID:44929-10012351@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161121T095149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Avant Garden: Weaving Fashion and Nature Together DESCRIPTION:Avant Garden explores plants’ long-standing role as the versatile source of raw materials for textiles and the inspiration for the designs\, colors\, and shapes that fashion takes. Plants in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens are highlighted along with their historical and cultural roles as they relate to cultivation\, sustainability\, textiles\, colors\, and design. Also included are \"living dresses\" made from plant material such as bark\, evergreen boughs\, moss\, succulents\, and others. Exhibit also includes seasonal flower display plus programming for the whole family. Free admission. Matthaei Botanical Gardens is closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day\, and New Year's Eve. Open New Year's Day 10 am-4:30 pm. UID:32887-4634115@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32887 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Fashion,Holiday,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160921T100144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun DESCRIPTION:This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun\, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale\, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections\, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.\n\nThe exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event \"Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage\" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun. UID:33066-4655814@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Library,Literature,Middle East Studies,Muslim LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:34760-4987570@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161117T122825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Landscape DESCRIPTION:Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell\, Antti Laitinen\, Joanie Lemercier\, and Rick Silva.\n\nCampbell’s recent body of work\, including Seal Rock\, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction\, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality\, citizenship\, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image\, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape\, including remix and glitch aesthetics\, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.\n\nThroughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres\, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color\, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues\; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\,\nthe Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. UID:36107-5446179@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T133327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection DESCRIPTION:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists\, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself\, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist\, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia\, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art\, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art. UID:35430-5224408@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T115239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:34762-4987757@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center. UID:34761-4987671@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161219T181640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T160000 SUMMARY:Other:Investigation of the N- and C-terminal regions of human heme oxygenase-2 DESCRIPTION:Inorganic\nAngela Fleischhacker and Stephen Ragsdale UID:36814-5922826@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36814 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1706 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161130T103345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161219T233000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Late Night Snacks DESCRIPTION:Need a studying snack? All dining halls will have study snacks available from 10-11:30pm on December 15\,18\,19\,& 20. On December 15th\, enjoy cookies and punch. On December 18th\, come to an ice cream social. On December 19th\, taste a delicious yogurt bar. And lastly on December 20th\, enjoy veggies and dip! UID:36218-5494993@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36218 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:South Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161223T120028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Slauson Tutoring DESCRIPTION:STEM Society collaborates with Slauson Middle School for tutoring opportunities where University of Michigan club members are transported to Slauson (5 min car ride\, or 15 min bus ride).  The tutoring opportunities take place on a weekly basis with a schedule made available to all members via a google doc.  The tutoring consists of helping students with any homework questions that they are struggling with\, and course material that they need additional practice with.  This is a wonderful opportunity to work with an amazing group of kids who are driven and making a conscious effort to improve academically.There are a range of tutoring opportunities available including in-class math help\, special needs help\, 1-on-1 tutoring\, and mass support after-school tutoring. Tutoring session are available for sign-up:Monday: 7:30am - 3:30pmTuesday: 7:30am - 5pmWednesday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThursday: 7:30am - 5pmFriday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThe amount of involvement can vary from week to week depending on your personal schedule\, and there is no long-term commitment.  As a Wolverine you are in a unique position to be able to influence the next generation in a very positive way.  Start giving back to the community today\, and strengthening the education of our youth. UID:34474-6175209@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34474 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Slauson Middle School CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161220T094840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Enter the Art 4 Activism Poster Competition DESCRIPTION:ENTER THE ART4ACTIVISM POSTER COMPETITION!\nTheme: Access to Opportunity \nDeadline: January 9th\, 2017\nArts at Michigan\, ArtsEngine\, & the U-M Ginsberg Center are calling for original poster designs by Umich Students to build public awareness around the themes of Opportunity and Access. $400 First Prize\, Deadline for submissions is 1/9/17. UID:36970-6096077@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36970 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Culture,Diversity,Exhibition,Literature,Multicultural,Museum,Poetry,Social,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Visual Arts,Writing LOCATION:Duderstadt Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T135624 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel DESCRIPTION:Carlye Crisler\, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting\, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities\, people and lighting at a particular time of day\, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings\, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes\, Crisler also is a costumer\, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor. UID:36561-5716480@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 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:20161128T152923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads DESCRIPTION:Suzanne L. Cross\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor Emeritus\, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe\, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing\, supporting\, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart\, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum. UID:36273-5552628@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 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:20161221T141601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation\, Holidays & Beyond DESCRIPTION:As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration\, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark\, a former U-M physician\, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984\, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987\, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs\, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. UID:36268-5552459@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Bicentennial,Health & Wellness,History,umich200 LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161206T125640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush DESCRIPTION:These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson\, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation\, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents\, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson\, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben\, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome\, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs\, also from unknown photographers\, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time. UID:36560-5716396@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of history\, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick\, heal wounds\, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates\, Inc.\, an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art. UID:36559-5716312@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 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:20161128T152013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture DESCRIPTION:In the year 2000\, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment\, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random\, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut\, hammer\, bend\, grind and weld his sculptures to life\, giving them movement and character. UID:36272-5552544@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 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:20161205T134436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage DESCRIPTION:John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces\, gum wrapper chain\, American bricks\, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle\,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art\, they can be teaching tools\, aids in focus or meditation\, used to establish sacred space\, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan\, and he is an artist\, designer and collector with a background in theater\, fashion design\, therapeutic bodywork\, meditation\, printmaking and assemblage. UID:36558-5716228@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 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:20161205T140019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present DESCRIPTION:Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself\, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child\, television programs like Lost in Space\, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots\, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System\, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots. UID:36562-5716564@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160920T172805 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Florence Flood\, November 1966 DESCRIPTION:This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4\, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the muddy waters were those in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. Book conservators from the United States and Western Europe were called in to help with the recovery efforts. The exhibit features a British team\, headed by Peter Waters\, which created a washing-drying-mending-rebinding system to deal with tens of thousands of books damaged by the disaster.\n\nThe two most important outcomes of the tragedy are the professional training of library conservators and the establishment of disaster preparedness and response programs.\n\nLearn more and register for the symposium\, The Flood in Florence\, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective\, happening November 3-4\, 2016. https://www.lib.umich.edu/flood-florence-1966-fifty-year-retrospective UID:33962-4826219@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33962 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor Hatcher CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160816T170457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm UID:32121-4499672@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161110T123653 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT DESCRIPTION:Exhibition on view: December 1\, 2016 - December 20\, 2016\nPresentations and reception Wednesday\, November 30\nEach year\, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition\, initiated by the Class of 2013\, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2016 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes\, cities\, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Three winning projects will be exhibited:\n“Mapping Conficts” James Howe\, Gideon Schwarzman\, Yuong Wu\n“This and That” Andrew Barkhouse\, Carlos Pompeo\n“Synesthesia in Architecture” Anthony Gonzalez\, Po-Jen Huang\, Olivia Lu-Hill UID:35935-5374922@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35935 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170922T110712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York UID:44929-10012352@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161121T095149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Avant Garden: Weaving Fashion and Nature Together DESCRIPTION:Avant Garden explores plants’ long-standing role as the versatile source of raw materials for textiles and the inspiration for the designs\, colors\, and shapes that fashion takes. Plants in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens are highlighted along with their historical and cultural roles as they relate to cultivation\, sustainability\, textiles\, colors\, and design. Also included are \"living dresses\" made from plant material such as bark\, evergreen boughs\, moss\, succulents\, and others. Exhibit also includes seasonal flower display plus programming for the whole family. Free admission. Matthaei Botanical Gardens is closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day\, and New Year's Eve. Open New Year's Day 10 am-4:30 pm. UID:32887-4634116@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32887 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Fashion,Holiday,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T151440 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Intro to i>Clicker for Canvas Users DESCRIPTION:Join us in learning how and why to use LSA’s Audience Response System\, i>clicker. During this workshop you will learn everything you need to know to get started using i>clicker in your courses. We will discuss how to set up the necessary equipment\, how to create and start polling sessions\, how to view polling results\, and how i>clicker integrates with Canvas for grading purposes. We will also share useful tips on using i>clicker effectively during class.\n\nRegister here: https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/?s=i+clicker&submit=Search UID:36563-5716741@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36563 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - ISS Media Center Mac Classroom, 2001-B CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160921T100144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun DESCRIPTION:This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun\, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale\, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections\, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.\n\nThe exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event \"Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage\" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun. UID:33066-4655815@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Library,Literature,Middle East Studies,Muslim LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:34760-4987571@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161117T122825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Landscape DESCRIPTION:Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell\, Antti Laitinen\, Joanie Lemercier\, and Rick Silva.\n\nCampbell’s recent body of work\, including Seal Rock\, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction\, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality\, citizenship\, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image\, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape\, including remix and glitch aesthetics\, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.\n\nThroughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres\, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color\, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues\; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\,\nthe Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. UID:36107-5446180@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T133327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection DESCRIPTION:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists\, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself\, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist\, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia\, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art\, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art. UID:35430-5224409@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T115239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:34762-4987758@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center. UID:34761-4987672@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161206T155505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Health\, History\, Demography & Development (H2D2) DESCRIPTION:Abstract and paper not yet available. UID:36615-5742471@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36615 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,History,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161130T103345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161220T233000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Late Night Snacks DESCRIPTION:Need a studying snack? All dining halls will have study snacks available from 10-11:30pm on December 15\,18\,19\,& 20. On December 15th\, enjoy cookies and punch. On December 18th\, come to an ice cream social. On December 19th\, taste a delicious yogurt bar. And lastly on December 20th\, enjoy veggies and dip! UID:36218-5494994@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36218 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:South Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161223T120028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Slauson Tutoring DESCRIPTION:STEM Society collaborates with Slauson Middle School for tutoring opportunities where University of Michigan club members are transported to Slauson (5 min car ride\, or 15 min bus ride).  The tutoring opportunities take place on a weekly basis with a schedule made available to all members via a google doc.  The tutoring consists of helping students with any homework questions that they are struggling with\, and course material that they need additional practice with.  This is a wonderful opportunity to work with an amazing group of kids who are driven and making a conscious effort to improve academically.There are a range of tutoring opportunities available including in-class math help\, special needs help\, 1-on-1 tutoring\, and mass support after-school tutoring. Tutoring session are available for sign-up:Monday: 7:30am - 3:30pmTuesday: 7:30am - 5pmWednesday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThursday: 7:30am - 5pmFriday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThe amount of involvement can vary from week to week depending on your personal schedule\, and there is no long-term commitment.  As a Wolverine you are in a unique position to be able to influence the next generation in a very positive way.  Start giving back to the community today\, and strengthening the education of our youth. UID:34474-6175210@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34474 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Slauson Middle School CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161220T094840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Enter the Art 4 Activism Poster Competition DESCRIPTION:ENTER THE ART4ACTIVISM POSTER COMPETITION!\nTheme: Access to Opportunity \nDeadline: January 9th\, 2017\nArts at Michigan\, ArtsEngine\, & the U-M Ginsberg Center are calling for original poster designs by Umich Students to build public awareness around the themes of Opportunity and Access. $400 First Prize\, Deadline for submissions is 1/9/17. UID:36970-6096078@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36970 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Culture,Diversity,Exhibition,Literature,Multicultural,Museum,Poetry,Social,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Visual Arts,Writing LOCATION:Duderstadt Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T135624 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel DESCRIPTION:Carlye Crisler\, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting\, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities\, people and lighting at a particular time of day\, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings\, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes\, Crisler also is a costumer\, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor. UID:36561-5716481@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 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:20161128T152923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads DESCRIPTION:Suzanne L. Cross\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor Emeritus\, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe\, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing\, supporting\, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart\, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum. UID:36273-5552629@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 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:20161221T141601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation\, Holidays & Beyond DESCRIPTION:As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration\, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark\, a former U-M physician\, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984\, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987\, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs\, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. UID:36268-5552460@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Bicentennial,Health & Wellness,History,umich200 LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161206T125640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush DESCRIPTION:These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson\, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation\, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents\, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson\, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben\, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome\, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs\, also from unknown photographers\, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time. UID:36560-5716397@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of history\, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick\, heal wounds\, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates\, Inc.\, an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art. UID:36559-5716313@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 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:20161128T152013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture DESCRIPTION:In the year 2000\, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment\, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random\, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut\, hammer\, bend\, grind and weld his sculptures to life\, giving them movement and character. UID:36272-5552545@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 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:20161205T134436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage DESCRIPTION:John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces\, gum wrapper chain\, American bricks\, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle\,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art\, they can be teaching tools\, aids in focus or meditation\, used to establish sacred space\, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan\, and he is an artist\, designer and collector with a background in theater\, fashion design\, therapeutic bodywork\, meditation\, printmaking and assemblage. UID:36558-5716229@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 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:20161205T140019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present DESCRIPTION:Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself\, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child\, television programs like Lost in Space\, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots\, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System\, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots. UID:36562-5716565@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160920T172805 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Florence Flood\, November 1966 DESCRIPTION:This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4\, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the muddy waters were those in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. Book conservators from the United States and Western Europe were called in to help with the recovery efforts. The exhibit features a British team\, headed by Peter Waters\, which created a washing-drying-mending-rebinding system to deal with tens of thousands of books damaged by the disaster.\n\nThe two most important outcomes of the tragedy are the professional training of library conservators and the establishment of disaster preparedness and response programs.\n\nLearn more and register for the symposium\, The Flood in Florence\, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective\, happening November 3-4\, 2016. https://www.lib.umich.edu/flood-florence-1966-fifty-year-retrospective UID:33962-4826220@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33962 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor Hatcher CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160816T170457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm UID:32121-4499673@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170922T110712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York UID:44929-10012353@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161121T095149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Avant Garden: Weaving Fashion and Nature Together DESCRIPTION:Avant Garden explores plants’ long-standing role as the versatile source of raw materials for textiles and the inspiration for the designs\, colors\, and shapes that fashion takes. Plants in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens are highlighted along with their historical and cultural roles as they relate to cultivation\, sustainability\, textiles\, colors\, and design. Also included are \"living dresses\" made from plant material such as bark\, evergreen boughs\, moss\, succulents\, and others. Exhibit also includes seasonal flower display plus programming for the whole family. Free admission. Matthaei Botanical Gardens is closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day\, and New Year's Eve. Open New Year's Day 10 am-4:30 pm. UID:32887-4634117@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32887 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Fashion,Holiday,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160921T100144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun DESCRIPTION:This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun\, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale\, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections\, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.\n\nThe exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event \"Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage\" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun. UID:33066-4655816@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Library,Literature,Middle East Studies,Muslim LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:34760-4987572@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161117T122825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Landscape DESCRIPTION:Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell\, Antti Laitinen\, Joanie Lemercier\, and Rick Silva.\n\nCampbell’s recent body of work\, including Seal Rock\, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction\, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality\, citizenship\, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image\, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape\, including remix and glitch aesthetics\, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.\n\nThroughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres\, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color\, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues\; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\,\nthe Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. UID:36107-5446181@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T133327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection DESCRIPTION:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists\, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself\, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist\, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia\, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art\, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art. UID:35430-5224410@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T115239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:34762-4987759@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161221T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center. UID:34761-4987673@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161223T120028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Slauson Tutoring DESCRIPTION:STEM Society collaborates with Slauson Middle School for tutoring opportunities where University of Michigan club members are transported to Slauson (5 min car ride\, or 15 min bus ride).  The tutoring opportunities take place on a weekly basis with a schedule made available to all members via a google doc.  The tutoring consists of helping students with any homework questions that they are struggling with\, and course material that they need additional practice with.  This is a wonderful opportunity to work with an amazing group of kids who are driven and making a conscious effort to improve academically.There are a range of tutoring opportunities available including in-class math help\, special needs help\, 1-on-1 tutoring\, and mass support after-school tutoring. Tutoring session are available for sign-up:Monday: 7:30am - 3:30pmTuesday: 7:30am - 5pmWednesday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThursday: 7:30am - 5pmFriday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThe amount of involvement can vary from week to week depending on your personal schedule\, and there is no long-term commitment.  As a Wolverine you are in a unique position to be able to influence the next generation in a very positive way.  Start giving back to the community today\, and strengthening the education of our youth. UID:34474-6175211@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34474 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Slauson Middle School CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161220T094840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Enter the Art 4 Activism Poster Competition DESCRIPTION:ENTER THE ART4ACTIVISM POSTER COMPETITION!\nTheme: Access to Opportunity \nDeadline: January 9th\, 2017\nArts at Michigan\, ArtsEngine\, & the U-M Ginsberg Center are calling for original poster designs by Umich Students to build public awareness around the themes of Opportunity and Access. $400 First Prize\, Deadline for submissions is 1/9/17. UID:36970-6096079@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36970 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Culture,Diversity,Exhibition,Literature,Multicultural,Museum,Poetry,Social,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Visual Arts,Writing LOCATION:Duderstadt Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T135624 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel DESCRIPTION:Carlye Crisler\, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting\, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities\, people and lighting at a particular time of day\, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings\, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes\, Crisler also is a costumer\, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor. UID:36561-5716482@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 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:20161128T152923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads DESCRIPTION:Suzanne L. Cross\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor Emeritus\, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe\, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing\, supporting\, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart\, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum. UID:36273-5552630@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 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:20161221T141601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation\, Holidays & Beyond DESCRIPTION:As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration\, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark\, a former U-M physician\, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984\, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987\, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs\, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. UID:36268-5552461@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Bicentennial,Health & Wellness,History,umich200 LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161206T125640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush DESCRIPTION:These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson\, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation\, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents\, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson\, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben\, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome\, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs\, also from unknown photographers\, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time. UID:36560-5716398@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of history\, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick\, heal wounds\, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates\, Inc.\, an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art. UID:36559-5716314@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 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:20161128T152013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture DESCRIPTION:In the year 2000\, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment\, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random\, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut\, hammer\, bend\, grind and weld his sculptures to life\, giving them movement and character. UID:36272-5552546@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 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:20161205T134436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage DESCRIPTION:John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces\, gum wrapper chain\, American bricks\, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle\,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art\, they can be teaching tools\, aids in focus or meditation\, used to establish sacred space\, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan\, and he is an artist\, designer and collector with a background in theater\, fashion design\, therapeutic bodywork\, meditation\, printmaking and assemblage. UID:36558-5716230@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 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:20161205T140019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present DESCRIPTION:Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself\, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child\, television programs like Lost in Space\, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots\, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System\, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots. UID:36562-5716566@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160816T170457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm UID:32121-4499674@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170922T110712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York UID:44929-10012354@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161121T095149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Avant Garden: Weaving Fashion and Nature Together DESCRIPTION:Avant Garden explores plants’ long-standing role as the versatile source of raw materials for textiles and the inspiration for the designs\, colors\, and shapes that fashion takes. Plants in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens are highlighted along with their historical and cultural roles as they relate to cultivation\, sustainability\, textiles\, colors\, and design. Also included are \"living dresses\" made from plant material such as bark\, evergreen boughs\, moss\, succulents\, and others. Exhibit also includes seasonal flower display plus programming for the whole family. Free admission. Matthaei Botanical Gardens is closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day\, and New Year's Eve. Open New Year's Day 10 am-4:30 pm. UID:32887-4634118@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32887 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Fashion,Holiday,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160921T100144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun DESCRIPTION:This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun\, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale\, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections\, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.\n\nThe exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event \"Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage\" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun. UID:33066-4655817@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Library,Literature,Middle East Studies,Muslim LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:34760-4987573@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161117T122825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Landscape DESCRIPTION:Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell\, Antti Laitinen\, Joanie Lemercier\, and Rick Silva.\n\nCampbell’s recent body of work\, including Seal Rock\, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction\, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality\, citizenship\, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image\, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape\, including remix and glitch aesthetics\, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.\n\nThroughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres\, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color\, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues\; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\,\nthe Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. UID:36107-5446182@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T133327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection DESCRIPTION:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists\, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself\, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist\, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia\, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art\, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art. UID:35430-5224411@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T115239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:34762-4987760@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center. UID:34761-4987674@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161110T123724 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T121000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents Jewish Folk Music DESCRIPTION:Rollicking freylakhs\, sweet cradle songs\, and hot American vaudeville tunes are brought to life by the Ann Arbor-based band Klezmephonic. Their sound stems from the Eastern European Jewish folk music of the 19th and 20th centuries and is sprinkled with swing and Roma stylings. The clarinet (Jennie Lavine) wails and soars over the dance inducing rhythms of bass (Dave Sharp)\; accordion & clarinet (Will Cicola)\; and guitar (Alex Belhaj). The musicians bring a mix of classical and jazz training and years of experience interpreting traditional styles. Live stream video and event subscriptions available on UMHS Gifts of Art Facebook. UID:35936-5374923@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35936 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Music LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art - Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170629T121737 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T153000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Michigan Women's Basketball vs. American DESCRIPTION:Michigan Women's Basketball vs. American UID:33358-4726601@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33358 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Women's Basketball LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170629T121731 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161222T190000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Michigan Men's Basketball vs. Furman DESCRIPTION:Michigan Men's Basketball vs. Furman UID:32639-4594664@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32639 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Men's Basketball LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161223T120028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Slauson Tutoring DESCRIPTION:STEM Society collaborates with Slauson Middle School for tutoring opportunities where University of Michigan club members are transported to Slauson (5 min car ride\, or 15 min bus ride).  The tutoring opportunities take place on a weekly basis with a schedule made available to all members via a google doc.  The tutoring consists of helping students with any homework questions that they are struggling with\, and course material that they need additional practice with.  This is a wonderful opportunity to work with an amazing group of kids who are driven and making a conscious effort to improve academically.There are a range of tutoring opportunities available including in-class math help\, special needs help\, 1-on-1 tutoring\, and mass support after-school tutoring. Tutoring session are available for sign-up:Monday: 7:30am - 3:30pmTuesday: 7:30am - 5pmWednesday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThursday: 7:30am - 5pmFriday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThe amount of involvement can vary from week to week depending on your personal schedule\, and there is no long-term commitment.  As a Wolverine you are in a unique position to be able to influence the next generation in a very positive way.  Start giving back to the community today\, and strengthening the education of our youth. UID:34474-6175212@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34474 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Slauson Middle School CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161220T094840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Enter the Art 4 Activism Poster Competition DESCRIPTION:ENTER THE ART4ACTIVISM POSTER COMPETITION!\nTheme: Access to Opportunity \nDeadline: January 9th\, 2017\nArts at Michigan\, ArtsEngine\, & the U-M Ginsberg Center are calling for original poster designs by Umich Students to build public awareness around the themes of Opportunity and Access. $400 First Prize\, Deadline for submissions is 1/9/17. UID:36970-6096080@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36970 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Culture,Diversity,Exhibition,Literature,Multicultural,Museum,Poetry,Social,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Visual Arts,Writing LOCATION:Duderstadt Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T135624 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel DESCRIPTION:Carlye Crisler\, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting\, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities\, people and lighting at a particular time of day\, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings\, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes\, Crisler also is a costumer\, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor. UID:36561-5716483@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 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:20161128T152923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads DESCRIPTION:Suzanne L. Cross\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor Emeritus\, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe\, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing\, supporting\, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart\, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum. UID:36273-5552631@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 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:20161221T141601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation\, Holidays & Beyond DESCRIPTION:As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration\, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark\, a former U-M physician\, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984\, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987\, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs\, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. UID:36268-5552462@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Bicentennial,Health & Wellness,History,umich200 LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161206T125640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush DESCRIPTION:These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson\, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation\, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents\, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson\, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben\, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome\, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs\, also from unknown photographers\, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time. UID:36560-5716399@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of history\, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick\, heal wounds\, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates\, Inc.\, an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art. UID:36559-5716315@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 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:20161128T152013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture DESCRIPTION:In the year 2000\, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment\, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random\, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut\, hammer\, bend\, grind and weld his sculptures to life\, giving them movement and character. UID:36272-5552547@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 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:20161205T134436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage DESCRIPTION:John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces\, gum wrapper chain\, American bricks\, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle\,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art\, they can be teaching tools\, aids in focus or meditation\, used to establish sacred space\, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan\, and he is an artist\, designer and collector with a background in theater\, fashion design\, therapeutic bodywork\, meditation\, printmaking and assemblage. UID:36558-5716231@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 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:20161205T140019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present DESCRIPTION:Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself\, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child\, television programs like Lost in Space\, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots\, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System\, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots. UID:36562-5716567@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160816T170457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm UID:32121-4499675@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170922T110712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York UID:44929-10012355@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161121T095149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Avant Garden: Weaving Fashion and Nature Together DESCRIPTION:Avant Garden explores plants’ long-standing role as the versatile source of raw materials for textiles and the inspiration for the designs\, colors\, and shapes that fashion takes. Plants in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens are highlighted along with their historical and cultural roles as they relate to cultivation\, sustainability\, textiles\, colors\, and design. Also included are \"living dresses\" made from plant material such as bark\, evergreen boughs\, moss\, succulents\, and others. Exhibit also includes seasonal flower display plus programming for the whole family. Free admission. Matthaei Botanical Gardens is closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day\, and New Year's Eve. Open New Year's Day 10 am-4:30 pm. UID:32887-4634119@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32887 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Environment,Fashion,Holiday,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170202T091836 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Clements Library: A Century of Collecting\, 1903 - 2016 DESCRIPTION:The William L Clements Library is one of the world’s finest early American history collections. The books\, maps\, manuscripts\, prints\, photographs\, and other original treasures in the Library’s holdings form a remarkable collection of primary sources on America from Columbus through the nineteenth century. \n\nVisit the newly renovated William L Clements Library to see the unique treasures that reflect the broad range of our collections. This exhibit highlights the collecting philosophy and practices of Mr. Clements and the Library’s four Directors. \n\nFor more information about the Library and using it for research\, please visit our website at clements.umich.edu. UID:30796-5313798@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30796 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Exhibition,History,Library,Lifelong Learning LOCATION:William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160921T100144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun DESCRIPTION:This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun\, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale\, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections\, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.\n\nThe exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event \"Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage\" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun. UID:33066-4655818@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33066 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Library,Literature,Middle East Studies,Muslim LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170106T143503 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T120000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Out of the Ordinary DESCRIPTION:The Library has been in collecting mode almost non-stop since it opened in 1923\, and many unusual or extraordinary objects have found a home within its walls. The four Clements Library curators have each contributed to this exhibit a selection of interesting\, remarkable\, or peculiar items. As we celebrate the return of the Clements collection to 909 South University Avenue\, we invite you to peruse a few of the oddball items that have turned up in a great library.\n\nExhibit open: November 4\, 2016 - April 28\, 2017\nExhibit hours are Fridays 10:00am - 4:00pm UID:35740-5922829@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35740 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Graduate,Graduate School,History,Information and Technology,Library,Undergraduate LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:34760-4987574@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161117T122825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Landscape DESCRIPTION:Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell\, Antti Laitinen\, Joanie Lemercier\, and Rick Silva.\n\nCampbell’s recent body of work\, including Seal Rock\, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction\, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality\, citizenship\, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image\, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape\, including remix and glitch aesthetics\, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.\n\nThroughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres\, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color\, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues\; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\,\nthe Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. UID:36107-5446183@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T133327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection DESCRIPTION:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists\, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself\, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist\, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia\, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art\, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art. UID:35430-5224412@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T115239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:34762-4987761@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center. UID:34761-4987675@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161223T120028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161223T170000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Slauson Tutoring DESCRIPTION:STEM Society collaborates with Slauson Middle School for tutoring opportunities where University of Michigan club members are transported to Slauson (5 min car ride\, or 15 min bus ride).  The tutoring opportunities take place on a weekly basis with a schedule made available to all members via a google doc.  The tutoring consists of helping students with any homework questions that they are struggling with\, and course material that they need additional practice with.  This is a wonderful opportunity to work with an amazing group of kids who are driven and making a conscious effort to improve academically.There are a range of tutoring opportunities available including in-class math help\, special needs help\, 1-on-1 tutoring\, and mass support after-school tutoring. Tutoring session are available for sign-up:Monday: 7:30am - 3:30pmTuesday: 7:30am - 5pmWednesday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThursday: 7:30am - 5pmFriday: 7:30am - 3:30pmThe amount of involvement can vary from week to week depending on your personal schedule\, and there is no long-term commitment.  As a Wolverine you are in a unique position to be able to influence the next generation in a very positive way.  Start giving back to the community today\, and strengthening the education of our youth. UID:34474-6175213@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34474 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Slauson Middle School CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161220T094840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Enter the Art 4 Activism Poster Competition DESCRIPTION:ENTER THE ART4ACTIVISM POSTER COMPETITION!\nTheme: Access to Opportunity \nDeadline: January 9th\, 2017\nArts at Michigan\, ArtsEngine\, & the U-M Ginsberg Center are calling for original poster designs by Umich Students to build public awareness around the themes of Opportunity and Access. $400 First Prize\, Deadline for submissions is 1/9/17. UID:36970-6096081@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36970 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Culture,Diversity,Exhibition,Literature,Multicultural,Museum,Poetry,Social,Social Impact,Social Justice,Storytelling,Visual Arts,Writing LOCATION:Duderstadt Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T135624 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ann Arbor Street Paintings: Oil on Panel DESCRIPTION:Carlye Crisler\, a well known Ann Arbor artist of en plein air (outdoor) painting\, is originally from the Bucktown district of Chicago. Her goal is to paint an environment or neighborhood by showing activities\, people and lighting at a particular time of day\, capturing an extended sense of place. In this collection of en plein air oil paintings\, Crisler has taken on complicated places with many textures and divisions of space. She embraces ambiguity with shapes of buildings broken by shadow and parts of them hidden by other things barely determined. In addition to a painter of urban landscapes\, Crisler also is a costumer\, figurative portrait painter and metal sculptor. UID:36561-5716484@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36561 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:20161128T152923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Art & Healing: American Indian Textiles & Beads DESCRIPTION:Suzanne L. Cross\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor Emeritus\, Michigan State University and member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe\, is a shawl maker and beadwork artist. She created this body of work to increase awareness and emphasize cardiac health for American Indian women by informing\, supporting\, and encouraging self-care and the value of changing life ways. Shawls are symbols of womanhood and are of significance to many American Indian tribal cultures. Now-a-day traditional female dancers complete their regalia by carrying the shawl over their left arm which is closest to the heart\, and the fringe sways to the heartbeat rhythm of the drum. UID:36273-5552632@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36273 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:20161221T141601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Dr. Snowflake Retrospective: Recreation\, Holidays & Beyond DESCRIPTION:As a part of the University of Michigan bicentennial celebration\, this year’s exhibition of Dr. Thomas L. Clark’s exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations has a historical perspective. Clark\, a former U-M physician\, began making pictorial paper snowflakes in 1984\, and his first exhibit of these intricate works was at the University of Michigan Rackham Building in 1987\, entitled A Hundred Holiday Snowflakes. Works from that show as well as from his first exhibit at the University Hospital in 1988 (including dinosaurs\, clowns and patriotic themes) are on display in this retrospective exhibit. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. UID:36268-5552463@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36268 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Bicentennial,Health & Wellness,History,umich200 LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161206T125640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Native Alaskan Baskets & Carvings with Photographs from the Gold Rush DESCRIPTION:These historic baskets by unknown Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indian artists in Alaska date to approximately 1910 and are from the collection of Virginia Simson Nelson\, Professor Emerita of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation\, U-M Medical School. Nelson’s paternal grandparents\, Simon and Frances Horwitz Simson\, as well as Simon’s brothers Abraham and Ben\, owned and operated the Surprise General Store in Nome\, Alaska from 1905-1917. Some of the traded goods from the American Indian tribes of the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta comprise this collection. With the baskets are historic photographs\, also from unknown photographers\, of Yup'ik Eskimo and Athabascan Indians from that time. UID:36560-5716400@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36560 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161205T134730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Natural Healing: Fiber Art DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of history\, humans have used plants and animals to cure the sick\, heal wounds\, and promote health. This group of fiber artists challenged themselves to represent one or more of these concepts in a representational or abstract way. They are all members of Studio Art Quilt Associates\, Inc.\, an international organization that promotes fiber as a fine art form. It serves to educate the public about the history of quilts and their significance in contemporary art. UID:36559-5716316@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36559 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:20161128T152013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Steel Sculpture DESCRIPTION:In the year 2000\, Tim Shoemaker found a niche and started doing business as Eclipse Mobile Welding. On some days you can find him on the road welding and repairing construction equipment\, on other days he will be in his shop creating steel sculpture. Shoemaker’s inspiration is spontaneous and seemingly random\, and his interests range from wildlife to guitars. He uses hand tools to cut\, hammer\, bend\, grind and weld his sculptures to life\, giving them movement and character. UID:36272-5552548@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36272 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:20161205T134436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Symbols in a Dream: Mixed Media Assemblage DESCRIPTION:John Gutoskey’s mandalas are assemblages made from a variety of commonly found objects including game pieces\, gum wrapper chain\, American bricks\, pop bottle caps and more. Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means “circle\,” and they are found in many religious and spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist sacred art\, they can be teaching tools\, aids in focus or meditation\, used to establish sacred space\, and more. Gutoskey has a MFA from the University of Michigan\, and he is an artist\, designer and collector with a background in theater\, fashion design\, therapeutic bodywork\, meditation\, printmaking and assemblage. UID:36558-5716232@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36558 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:20161205T140019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Toy Robots Past & Present DESCRIPTION:Elaine Reed has been collecting toy robots for over 30 years. As a painter herself\, she appreciates the artistic design & futuristic ideas that robots awaken in people. As a child\, television programs like Lost in Space\, The Jetsons & Star Trek inspired Reed to dream large and wish for a real robot of her own. Although she doesn’t own any real live robots\, some of her best friends are robots. At the University of Michigan Health System\, Reed works as a Bedside Artist for the Gifts of Art program and as an artist at the Turner Senior Resource Center. She also volunteers at 826 Michigan in Ann Arbor writing about robots. UID:36562-5716568@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160816T170457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75 DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm UID:32121-4499676@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170922T110712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York UID:44929-10012356@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:34760-4987575@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161117T122825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Landscape DESCRIPTION:Moving Image: Landscape explores traditional notions of landscape through four very different time-based works by artists Jim Campbell\, Antti Laitinen\, Joanie Lemercier\, and Rick Silva.\n\nCampbell’s recent body of work\, including Seal Rock\, presents pixilated images of landscapes created with grids of LEDs. The low-resolution LEDs create a tension between representation and abstraction\, provoking viewers to interpret visual information on their own. In the three-channel video It’s My Island Laitinen builds his own island in the Baltic Sea by dragging two hundred sand bags into the water over a period of three months. The work explores ideas of nationality\, citizenship\, and identity as the artist creates his own single-citizen micro-nation. Lemercier’s computer-generated print Landforms uses patterns of black dots and projected light to create the illusion of three-dimensionality and movement when seen from a distance. The effects are more realistic than a still image\, but still unsettlingly artificial. Silva’s Render Garden explores the digitized landscape\, including remix and glitch aesthetics\, through software that endlessly generates new plant combinations.\n\nThroughout the next year UMMA will present a series of exhibitions drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul. The Borusan’s thirty-year-old collection includes significant works across a variety of genres\, and since 2011 it has focused on media arts. The works exhibited here address formal concerns such as abstraction and color\, and conceptual topics such as identity or ecological issues\; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\,\nthe Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. UID:36107-5446184@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/36107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161027T133327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection DESCRIPTION:Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection is the first major exhibition to examine the subject of Tibetan book covers. For Tibetan Buddhists\, books are a divine presence in which the Buddha lives and reveals himself\, and they are venerated and handled with the utmost respect. The exhibition features 33 book covers dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth century that represent the glorious iconographic array and non-figural decoration typical of these sacred items. The majority of covers in the exhibition are Tibetan Buddhist\, but the exhibition also includes a rare Bon-religion cover and two covers from Mongolia\, as well as an important pair of covers produced circa 1411 for the Chinese Ming emperor Yongle. Protecting Wisdom presents a stunning visual display that illuminates a virtually unknown type of art\, one that will charm and intrigue both those familiar and unfamiliar with Tibetan art. UID:35430-5224413@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35430 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T115239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:34762-4987762@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Museum,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20161006T114936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161224T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center. UID:34761-4987676@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR