Above Ground – 40 Moments of Transformation is a photography exhibition highlighting the powerful, ground-breaking performance art and actions of China’s Young Feminist Activists (YFA). The exhibit curator, Lü Ping, a Chinese feminist organizer and visiting scholar at Columbia University will speak about YFA and the exhibit. A reception will follow. The talk will be given … Read more
The University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Women’s Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies are pleased to host Above Ground: 40 Moments of Transformation, a photography exhibition highlighting the powerful, ground-breaking performance art and actions of China’s Young Feminist Activists (YFA). The exhibit is curated by Lü Ping, … Read more
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 15; 4 – 6 PM Re-Imaging Gender features the work of 15 promising artists who take on one of the most important challenges facing contemporary art: how to render the modern spectrum of gender, going beyond the simple male/female binary to include a wide variety of identities and sexualities. The Re-Imaging … Read more
Heidi Kumao’s solo exhibition, Swallowed Whole: A Visual Journey Through Traumatic Injury and Recovery, will be on display in Lane Hall Gallery at U-M Institute for Research on Women and Gender and Women’s Studies Department, Sept. 1 – Dec. 9, 2016. The exhibition consists of large-scale staged photographs and video, all of which draw upon … Read more
A collection of photographs and memorabilia showcasing women’s physical activity at U-M. From early and restrictive physical education to D1 athletics, the exhibit explores early participatory nature of women’s movement. Despite inequities faced by women regarding physical activity, women have danced, flexed, fought, and championed for future women athletes at the university and beyond! Panel … Read more
“Chicana Fotos” features photographs by accomplished filmmaker and writer, Nancy De Los Santos, who has dedicated her life and career to rewriting and redefining images of Latina/os in mainstream media. With large colorful imagery, De Los Santos offers a striking depiction of the struggles for social justice during the 1970s. Featured in the exhibit are … Read more
Labors of Love and Loss is a collection of mixed media pieces that explore themes of gender and race and considers the intertwined lives of caregivers, their dependents and charges. Historically, in both southern African American life and in the tenuous strivings of the 19th century working underclass, the primary care and comfort of others … Read more
Fran Antmann’s photographs, taken in Guatemala over a period from 2006 to 2017, evoke the life and culture of the indigenous communities that live along the shores of Lake Atitlán. The photographs speak to the close relationship of these communities with the natural and spiritual worlds. They record the daily lives of the Maya but … Read more
Join artist Nastassja Swift to celebrate the official opening of her solo exhibition, she was here, once, in the Lane Hall Gallery. This reception is presented in collaboration with the Narrating Black Girls’ Lives Conference. Book sales and signing with keynote speaker, Dr. Saidiya Hartman will also take place during this reception. Book sales provided by Bookbound. about the exhibition: The mobility … Read more
In her new book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the … Read more
New York’s streets were turbulent and often violent in the 1980s and 1990s, as residents responded to social changes in their city as well national and international developments. The City was ground zero for the AIDS epidemic and a center of avant-garde art as well as queer and feminist activism. It was also home to … Read more
Marcia Bricker Halperin, Photographer The streets of New York City were filled with hundreds of cafeterias, self-service eating establishments, during the early to mid-20th Century. Their growth paralleled the rise of the office worker, women’s evolving roles in the work force, immigration, American love of efficiency and novelty, the growth of cities, the impact of … Read more