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Programs and Tours
August 2009
Hands-on art making
UMMA will be a site for regular opportunities to make art!
On Thursday evenings this summer from 6:30 to 9 pm take a workshop with the Ann Arbor Art Center at the new UMMA. Courses are one or two sessions and designed for anyone over the age of 16 who would like to create!
Register online at www.annarborartcenter.org
Art Workshop: Calligraphy and Brush Painting
Thursday, August 6, 6:30 pm AND
Thursday, August 13, 6:30 pm
Multipurpose Room
This is a two session workshop.
Learn first hand from the ancient masters represented in UMMA’s wonderful collection of Chinese painting. Using the “four treasures”—ink stone, ink sticks, brush, and paper— you will explore a variety of traditional methods of landscape and floral still-life painting.
$50/ $45 for UMMA and AAAC members; materials fee $16
Art Workshop: Techniques using Conté Crayon
Thursday, August 20, 6:30 pm AND
Thursday, August 27, 6:30 pm
Multipurpose Room
This is a two-session workshop.
Try an incredible challenge: to create artwork using shades of just one color! View prints, drawings, and other two-dimensional works before returning to the studio to try your hand at conté crayon techniques
Please bring a drawing pad suitable for conté. Crayons will be provided by instructor.
$50/ $45 for UMMA and AAAC members
Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos
Thursday, August 6, 5pm
Works on Paper Gallery
Senior Curator of Western Art Carole McNamara will explore some of the themes presented in Los Caprichos, UMMA’s pristine set of etchings by Francisco Goya, including scathing critiques of contemporary Spanish mores, the aristocracy, and the Catholic church, as well as the visual approaches that Goya employed to communicate those criticisms.
Evenings in the Commons
"Evenings in the Commons" is a new series at UMMA offering free, drop-in activities and programs in partnership with local artists, teachers, and venues. It will include concerts, yoga, video games, and who knows what, so check our website weekly for details!
Videogames with the Ann Arbor District Library
Wednesdays, August 5, 12, 19, 26, 7–10 pm
UMMA Commons
Ann Arbor District Library brings Videogames to UMMA! AADL offers monthly game tournaments in Rock Band, Smash Bros, and Dance Dance Revolution and will visit UMMA four Wednesdays in August with a sampler of the titles available at AADL events, plus some weird arty games you may not have played before! Find out more about the library or check out the full gaming tournament schedule.
Feldenkrais Method Awareness Through Movement
Tuesday, August 11, 7–8:30 pm
UMMA Commons
Engage your brain and your body in playful movement explorations that help develop greater flexibility, balance, coordination, and posture. Learn to overcome inappropriate habits and make movement more difficult and less comfortable than it needs to be. Discover an effortless childlike quality to movement. Relax, re-energize, renew. Please bring your own mat, water, etc. For more information, click here.
Matthew Ardizzone, Classical Guitar
Thursday, August 13, 8–9 pm
UMMA Commons
Ardizzone, an award-winning classical guitarist who has taught master classes locally, will perform music of Spanish influence. He completed a doctorate at the Eastman School of Music and has collaborated with University of Michigan faculty members and with Envision Chamber Consort, Brave New Works, and Chamber Music Ann Arbor.
Two Medicine
Fridays, August 21 and 28, 8–10 pm
UMMA Commons
Two Medicine is made up of Michigan artists Jessica and Matt McCumons, who create thoroughly compelling, original compositions—upbeat and rhythmic folk-rock with country roots—and covers inspired by Brandi Carlisle, Amos Lee, Patty Griffin, and Amy Winehouse. Classically trained, Jessica offers a powerful, emotionally charged voice while Matt's guitar reflects a warm, percussive style. These two could be just the medicine you need.
Classical Revolution Jam Session
Thursday, August 27, 7–10 pm
UMMA Commons
Classical Revolution is a chamber music jam session, presented in partnership with the Kerrytown Concert House, open to everyone who would like to play.
On Thursdays, August 20 and 27, Sweetwaters, Ann Arbor's neighborhood cafe, offers beverages and snacks during Evenings in the Commons.
Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture
Sunday, August 16, 3 pm
Alfred Taubman Gallery II
UMMA's Research Curator of Asian Art Natsu Oyobe will introduce this exhibition, which presents 22 Chinese stone sculptures from the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) through the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE). The group of steles, full figures and heads of Buddhist icons, and funerary objects, provides a comprehensive and insightful view of how art manifests ritual practice and how iconography reflects cultural transmission and transformation in China.
Guided Tours
The New UMMA
Saturday, August 1, 2 pm
Sunday, August 2, 2 pm
Saturday, August 8, 2 pm
Sunday, August 9, 2 pm
Saturday, August 15, 2 pm
Sunday, August 16, 2 pm
Saturday, August 22, 2 pm
Sunday, August 23, 2 pm
Saturday, August 29, 2 pm
Sunday, August 30, 2 pm
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