Seventeen participants were ultimately selected, including high school and undergraduate students, UM alumni, musicians, teachers, and community leaders.
Seventeen participants were ultimately selected, including high school and undergraduate students, UM alumni, musicians, teachers, and community leaders.
Ranging in age from 14 to 59, some had no filmmaking or artistic experience, while others had quite a bit. For several months, they worked closely with independent filmmakers Donald Harrison, Sharad Patel, Emilia Javanica, and Martin Thoburn to turn their ideas into reality.
The result is more than an hour of powerful, visual responses to the art in UMMA’s collection, and it’s well worth exploring.
If you’ve been feeling stuck inside recently, needing a distraction, or just miss wandering our galleries, now is a great time to rediscover the Many Voices project and the incredible work our participants developed for the Many Voices project.
So pop some corn, dim the lights, and get comfy. All of the videos are all available for free on YouTube, or you can stream them below.
We want to hear from you! Which are your favorites? Let us know on social media.
Many Voices at UMMA was generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.
More than 41 percent of the University of Michigan student population voted in the 2018 midterm elections in the United States — a huge increase from 14.3 percent who voted in the 2014 midterms — thanks to the Ginsberg Center's Big 10 Voter Challenge, UMMA's Vote!2018 initiative, and the work of other campus organizations.
In advance of the 2020 U.S. election, UMMA begins a year-long investigation into the practices, threats to, and performance of democracy and the law in a series of exhibitions and programs
Ann Arbor, MI — The University of Michigan Museum of Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by abstract painter, Cullen Washington, Jr. The show, Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square, is on view from Jan. 25th to May 17th, 2020 in the A. Alfred Taubman I Gallery.
What does it mean to “decolonize your bookshelf”? An article from Bookstr.com defines this practice, in part, as “actively seeking out and reading works by authors whose work has been disadvantaged by colonialism. There is an incredible wealth of literature out there that has not made it into the Western canon simply because of the circumstances in which the author lived/lives.”
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