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Programs and Tours
July 2008
Guided Tours at UMMA Off/Site
Paul Outerbridge: Color Photographs from Mexico and California, the 1950s
Thursdays, July 10, 17, and 24, 7 pm
Sundays, July 13 and 20, 2 pm
August 2008
Guided Tours at UMMA Off/Site
Paul Outerbridge: Color Photographs from Mexico and California, the 1950s
Thursday, August 21, 7 pm
Sundays, August 3, 10, and 24, 2 pm
Special Event
Artscapade!
Thursday, August 28, 8-11 pm
Michigan Union, 530 S. State. St., Ann Arbor
This annual Welcome Week tradition introduces new UM students to the lively arts scene at Michigan. Passport to the Arts—featuring games for each of the arts offered on campus—has become a favorite. Performances and prizes round out the events. This year’s Artscapade will wind through and around the Union, enlivening our sister event Escapade.
Cosponsored by UMMA and Arts at Michigan and with support from the University of Michigan Credit Union.
September 2008
Guided Tours at UMMA Off/Site
Paul Outerbridge: Color Photographs from Mexico and California, the 1950s
Thursday, September 4, 7 pm
Sundays, September 7, 2 pm
Fall Symposium
The Experience and Use of Wonder
Saturday, September 13, 1-5:30pm
Rackham Amphitheater, 915 E. Washington, Ann Arbor
The experience of wonder eludes words and dissolves conceptual categories. In it, we are transported from memory, reason, even desire. But wonder also has been an engine of worldly thought and action, the “beginning of philosophy” that has by turns compelled conformity and sparked revolution. This symposium will bring together four innovative scholars—Robert Farris Thompson (Yale University), Zoe S. Strother (Columbia University), Glenn Adamson (Victoria and Albert Museum), and Norman M. Klein (CalArts)—to discuss how wonder has been experienced and employed in several cultural and historical contexts in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Also presented will be Norman M. Klein’s interactive science-fiction novel, The Imaginary 20th Century.
This event is sponsored by the Department of the History of Art, the Museum of Art and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Curator’s Talk
The Infinite Landscape: Master Photographers from the UMMA Collection
Sunday, September 28, 3pm
UMMA Off/Site, 1301 S. University, Ann Arbor
Experience works from the Museum‘s collections in advance of UMMA’s grand reopening in spring 2009. Join Senior Curator of Western Art Carole McNamara as she explores the strategies and means through which photographers create a coherent portrayal of the landscape. Ansel Adams and his nineteenth-century predecessor, William Henry Jackson, convey majestic and iconic views of the American West, while landscapes of a more domestic character by Walker Evans and Eugène Atget are contrasted against visions of the sublime in the work of Minor White and Harry Callahan. Through cropping, framing, and other manipulations of the motifs of landscape, Paul Caponigro, Franco Fontana, and other more contemporary photographers take a more abstract view of our physical world.
October 2008
Guided Tours at UMMA Off/Site
Paul Outerbridge: Color Photographs from Mexico and California, the 1950s
Thursday, October 2, 16, and 30, 7 pm
Sundays, October 5 and 19, 2 pm
Curator’s Talk
The Infinite Landscape: Master Photographers from the UMMA Collection
Sunday, October 12, 3pm
UMMA Off/Site, 1301 S. University, Ann Arbor
Experience works from the Museum‘s collections in advance of UMMA’s grand reopening in spring 2009. Join Senior Curator of Western Art Carole McNamara as she explores the strategies and means through which photographers create a coherent portrayal of the landscape. Ansel Adams and his nineteenth-century predecessor, William Henry Jackson, convey majestic and iconic views of the American West, while landscapes of a more domestic character by Walker Evans and Eugène Atget are contrasted against visions of the sublime in the work of Minor White and Harry Callahan. Through cropping, framing, and other manipulations of the motifs of landscape, Paul Caponigro, Franco Fontana, and other more contemporary photographers take a more abstract view of our physical world.
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