Demario Dotson | AADL Black Lives Matter Muralist

Fri, 05/21/2021 - 10:10am by christopherporter

Demario Dotson (b. 1994)
Sandra Blands With Capes (Protecting the Black Youth From the Police)
sbwithcapes.com
Instagram: @DemarioDotson 

Quadre Curry | AADL Black Lives Matter Muralist

Fri, 05/21/2021 - 10:05am by christopherporter

Quadre Curry (b. 1997)
quadrecurry.com
Instagram: @reddq.art

T'onna Clemons | AADL Black Lives Matter Muralist

Fri, 05/21/2021 - 10:00am by christopherporter

T'onna Clemons (b. 1987)
tonnaclemons.com
Instagram: @comicbookartist

Ten works from "Please Stand By: The 2021 Stamps School Senior Exhibition" that show the collection's creative range

Wed, 05/05/2021 - 3:00pm by christopherporter

All 91 University of Michigan students featured in Please Stand By: The 2021 Stamps School Senior Exhibition deserve every ray of light that can cut through the darkness of the past 15 months.

You can be their sunshine and check out all the projects by the BA, BFA, and Interarts Performance students from the Stamps School's Integrative Project and Senior Studio over at stampsgrads.org.

Riverside Arts Center’s "Present: An Online Exhibit" offers an egalitarian collection of creative endeavors

Tue, 05/04/2021 - 1:30pm by christopherporter

Art is essential, whether or not it is created for public display.

"The Art of Queer Health Sciences" communicates empathy, not just data

Thu, 04/29/2021 - 1:30pm by christopherporter

We sat at a table outside Vinology just as a 50-degree cold rain picked up. It was strong enough to send a chill but not blowing sideways enough to chase off two people determined to do something outside of our house even in a less-than-ideal environment where gray was the primary color.

U-M alumnus William Weese donates considerable Chinese ceramics collection to UMMA

Wed, 04/28/2021 - 12:00pm by christopherporter

William Weese just dropped a whole lot of Chinese ceramics on the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

WSG Gallery's "The World Turns With and Without People" and "Silence and Breezes" explore nature and, sometimes, humans

Tue, 04/20/2021 - 3:30pm by christopherporter

The artists at WSG Gallery are experts at creating impressive responses to themed prompts. For March's exhibit, Silences and Breezes, WSG artists created selections that range from action paintings influenced by music to calming and atmospheric representations of the natural world. April's theme is The World Turns With and Without People, but like March's show, many of the selected works seem to buzz with anticipation for warm weather.

Inspired by Little Free Libraries, two miniature art galleries have popped up in Ann Arbor

Wed, 04/14/2021 - 2:30pm by christopherporter

The trend of placing a Little Free Library in front of your home/school/business and filling it with books is such a feel-good story—barren boxes or those filled with water-stained dregs from someone's basement notwithstanding—that it's surprising variations on this haven't happened: Canned Goods Rejected by Your Children Cupboard, Clothes That Your Kids Wore Once and Then Never Grabbed From the Bottom of Their Dresser Drawers Boutique, Sporting Goods I Thought I Could Sell for More Than I Was Offered Shoppe.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz's "For Your Eyes Only" invites viewers to wrestle with our public-private lives in the Digital Age

Tue, 03/23/2021 - 2:30pm by christopherporter

Over the course of the past year, art spaces have shifted from in-person to primarily online, marking an enormous—and sometimes challenging—shift in the experience of an exhibition. Though many galleries and museums have now reopened at least partially, one artist’s recent exhibit bypasses concerns about whether to invite bodies into enclosed spaces. In fact, artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz created a space that's intended to be viewed from outside. Her latest exhibition, For Your Eyes Only, featured in the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Gallery through April 16, questions the boundaries of public and private space through the inaccessible, room-sized installation, which can be viewed from the street outside the gallery.