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Programs and Tours
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, 3 pm
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.
November 2008
Guided Tours at UMMA Off/Site
The Infinite Landscape: Master Photographers from the UMMA Collection
Thursday, November 13 and 20, 7 pm
Sundays, November 9 and 23, 2 pm
A2SO-UMMA Family Event
Sunday, November 9, 2:30 pm
Michigan Theater
UMMA teams up with Talking Colors Art Studio to offer an oil pastel workshop before the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra family concert, The Orchestra is Here to Play, which features the musical duo, Gemini. Kids with concert tickets may create a work of art based on their own astrological signs and participate in other fun activities before the concert begins at 4 pm.
Campaign Finale Open House
November 14 and Saturday, November 15, 9 am–12 pm
Museum of Art, 525 S. State St., and UMMA Off/Site, 1301 S. University, Ann Arbor
UMMA staff and volunteers will host an information station at our historic home, Alumni Memorial Hall, to share refreshments and insights and excitement about the Museum’s reopening in spring 2009. Participants in the UM Campaign Finale and Parents Weekend are also invited to visit The Infinite Landscape: Master Photographers from the UMMA Collection, the final exhibition at UMMA Off/Site, the Museum’s temporary exhibition space. Gallery tours will be offered throughout the open house and visitors will receive a 10% discount in the Museum Shop.
December 2008
Guided Tours at UMMA Off/Site
The Infinite Landscape: Master Photographers from the UMMA Collection
Thursday, December 4 and 18, 7 pm
Sunday, December 7, 2 pm
Day With(out) Art
Talk by Honor Moore
Monday, December 1, 5 pm
Hussey Room, Michigan League, 911 N. University, Ann Arbor
Honor Moore is a renowned poet, memoirist, biographer, and playwright. Her most recent book, The Bishop’s Daughter (2008), profiles Moore’s father, Paul Moore, Episcopal priest, peace and civil rights activist, husband and father, who struggled with his sexuality. Moore received a Guggenheim Fellowship for The Bishop’s Daughter and has received numerous other awards, including from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. The author of three collections of poems—Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir—Moore also wrote The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter and is the editor of Amy Lowell: Selected Poems. She teaches writing at Columbia University and the New School in New York.
The first Day With(out) Art during World AIDS Day was commemorated on December 1, 1989 as a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. Since then, Day With(out) Art has grown into an international collaboration in which an estimated 8,000 organizations acknowledge the devastating toll that HIV and AIDS have taken on the worldwide creative and performing arts communities, as legions of artists, performers, and other creators have been lost to this disease, most in young adulthood or middle age. As a museum devoted to fostering and presenting creative expression and to preserving cultural memory, UMMA has long been committed to participation in this worldwide event.
This program is cosponsored by UMMA and the Creative Writing Program of the UM Department of English and is part of the Zell Visiting Writers Series 2008–2009. Additional support has been provided by the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund.
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