Arts & Culture
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April 11, 2016
Detroit museums workshop celebrates Motown culture
The ways that Detroit’s museums are shaping the city’s present and future is the focus of a University of Michigan Museum Studies Program half-day workshop.
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March 28, 2016
Pollen universe revealed in large-scale ceramic sculptures
“Hidden Worlds: The Universe of Pollen Revealed in Large-scale Ceramic Sculptures,” artist Susan Crowell’s exhibition of colorful ceramic pollen sculptures, is on display in the Matthaei Botanical Gardens conservatory.
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March 21, 2016
Don’t Miss: Journalist Samuel G. Freedman to speak at U-M
Samuel G. Freedman, a religion columnist for The New York Times, author and professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, will present his lecture “Pigskin Isn’t Kosher: American Jewry as Political Football,” at 7 p.m. March 22 at Palmer Commons Forum Hall.
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March 14, 2016
Don’t Miss: Ann Arbor Film Festival returns to the Michigan Theater
The 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival is longest running independent and experimental film festival in North America, receiving more than 3,000 submissions annually from more than 70 countries.
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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.
