Subject Matters: Oops, we collected a photo! Now what?
UMMA’s first photographs to enter the collection by accident in 1940. Then…. Nothing. The museum wouldn’t intentionally collect another photograph until 1971.
Fast forward to today, and photography is one of UMMA’s fastest-growing areas, filled with powerful recent acquisitions by artists such as Catherine Opie, Ming Smith, Jess T. Dugan, Jarod Lew, Brian Adams, Stephanie Syjuco, and others. For this special Subject Matters event, UMMA Curator Dave Choberka and Interim Chief Curator and Associate Curator of Photography Jennifer Friess will bring visitors into UMMA’s study room—an intimate space used for teaching and research—to get up close with photographs pulled directly from collection storage. Over this 90-minutes session, you’ll learn the story behind UMMA’s earliest photography “oopsies” and have a chance to compare them with the bold contemporary works shaping the collection today.
Free and open to the public – registration required.
Subject Matters
Subject Matters is the coolest S in the museum. Each 90-minute session is part mind-expanding conversation, part social adventure. UMMA Curator Dave Choberka teams up with a U-M professor or other special guest to unravel surprising questions sparked by the art in UMMA’s galleries.
SUPPORT
UMMA’s Subject Matter events are generously supported by Sol Bermann & Laurel Draudt.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Amelia and Eliot Relles, the Benedek Endowment Fund for the Humanities, the Richard and Rosann Noel Fund for Museum Education, the Kaish-Dorfman Campus Curriculum Fund, and U-M Ross Business.
