The Michigan museum opens its new expansion featuring works from The Bennett Collection of Women Figurative Realists.
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Samia Halaby’s Abstractions Map Displacement and Home
The trailblazing artist’s abstract paintings, on view in her first US museum retrospective, are luxurious fields of color and form, each one pulsating with its own energy.
Stamps Gallery Exhibition Centers Black Ash Basket Weavers Kelly Church and Cherish Parrish
See the nationally acclaimed contemporary artists’ boundary-pushing work in Kelly Church & Cherish Parrish: In Our Words, An Intergenerational Dialogue, extended through December 15.
Shape the Future of Visual and Material Culture at Cranbrook Academy of Art
Up to 10 full-tuition fellowships and over 50 merit scholarships are available for graduate students at the Michigan school.
Call for Proposals: Roman Witt Residency at the University of Michigan
This residency at the UM Stamps School partners with the UM Museum of Art offering a $20,000 honorarium, housing, studio space, and the museum apse as activation space.
Middle Schooler Wins “I Voted” Sticker Contest With Unhinged Werewolf Design
Riffing on the “Wolf Ripping Shirt” meme, the 12-year-old artist’s entry is one of nine designs that will be made into stickers and distributed to voters next month.
The University of Michigan’s Gender Euphoria
A semester-long symposium offers a Gender Discard Party, a “lesbian feminist haunted house,” and other events to celebrate and cultivate queer community.
American Indian Boarding Schools: The Michigan Anishinaabe Experience
Stamps Gallery’s panel discussion with Benedict Hinmon and Rochelle Ettawageshik supports its major exhibition of renowned black ash basket weavers.
Michigan State University Accused of Censoring Pro-Palestine Artwork
The university also canceled a major opening event, raising outcry among artists and curators.
Michigan Art Dealer Sentenced for Defrauding Elderly Collectors
A judge also ordered Wendy Halsted Beard to pay over $2 million in restitution after she consigned fine art photographs without giving the original owners their cut of the profit.
Kelly Church & Cherish Parrish: In Our Words, An Intergenerational Dialogue
Stamps Gallery’s fall season features a new exhibition and a slate of free programming, including a Speaker series, an artist Q&A, workshops, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Stamps Gallery Presents Elizabeth Youngblood: Syntax
The gallery’s summer season also includes Asmaa Walton: Black Art Library and Michelle Hinojosa: Logcabins. On view in Ann Arbor, Michigan.