Arts & Culture
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March 7, 2016
Don’t Miss: Mental health network founder to talk at U-M conference
Robert Morris will introduce Koko, a social network for mental health and well-being, in a talk at 3-4 p.m. March 10 at Rackham Auditorium, to close the 14th annual Depression on College Campuses conference.
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February 23, 2016
RC presents unique Michigan student-prisoner photo exhibit
U-M students and prisoners at the Thumb Correctional Facility are collaborating on Humanize the Numbers, a photography workshop that is part of the Prison Creative Arts Project.
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February 22, 2016
Don’t Miss: Art exhibit celebrates U-M artist Jon Onye Lockard
The exhibit “Jon Onye Lockard: Celebrating His Life and Legacy, 1932-2015,” honors the life and work of the late U-M professor.
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February 15, 2016
Don’t Miss: Kelsey Museum features objects from ancient luxury villas
The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology will open the largest show in its nearly 90-year history Feb. 19. “Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii,” will explore the lavish lifestyle of ancient Rome’s wealthiest and most powerful citizens who vacationed along the Bay of Naples.
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February 8, 2016
Don’t Miss: New exhibit celebrates Ford presidential firsts
President Gerald R. Ford’s 1974 visit to Japan and the December 1975 New York City bailout — two key moments of the Ford White House — are remembered in a new exhibit at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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February 4, 2016
U-M acquires the archive of indie filmmaker Nancy Savoca
The U-M Library will welcome the papers of director, producer and screenwriter Nancy Savoca to its growing archive of material from independent film visionaries.
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February 1, 2016
Don’t Miss: George Shirley to receive Shirley Verrett Award
The Women of Color in the Academy Project is presenting the 2016 Shirley Verrett Award to George Shirley, the Joseph Edgar Maddy Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Music and professor of voice.
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January 25, 2016
Don’t Miss: Topaz Medallion recipient Kelbaugh to speak
The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents the lecture “Honest, Elegant and Appropriate +/- 50 years” by Douglas Kelbaugh, Taubman College professor of architecture and dean emeritus. Douglas Kelbaugh Kelbaugh is the recipient of the 2016 Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, the highest national award in the field.… -
January 20, 2016
University to digitize 19th-century sheet music collection
The U-M Library will catalog and digitize one-third of its large collection of 19th century sheet music that originated from the Edison Phonograph Co.
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January 18, 2016
Don’t Miss: Jazz poster exhibit celebrates Niklaus Troxler
Like the music of John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, the appeal of jazz event posters created by Niklaus Troxler is hard to describe, but easy to feel.
