Michelle’s Meme Machine

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Michelle’s Meme MachineWednesday Evenings at 7:00 pmDuderstadt Center Design Studio   How do we define memes? How have they come to define us? How can we critically analyze these ubiquitous pools of relief from near-constant existential dread? Navigate your browser/person to the Design Studio at 7 PM on Wednesdays for this

Flint: It’s Not Just About the Water Exhibition

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Flint: It’s Not Just About the WaterApril 7-12, 2019Duderstadt Center Gallery  “Flint: It’s Not Just About the Water”, a student-lead art exhibition, will be held in the Duderstadt Center Gallery from April 7-12th. In conjunction with the School of Theatre’s production of Jose Casas’ new play, “Flint”, about the water

Adapt: The 2019 Stamps Senior Show

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Adapt: The 2019 Stamps Senior ShowWednesday, April 10, 7:00 pmThursday, April 11, 8:00 pmFriday, April 12, 8:00 pmDuderstadt Center Video Studio The 2019 Stamps Senior Show features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition

Identity Workshops

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Identity WorkshopsTime: 12:00pm – 1:00pmLocation: Duderstadt Center Room 1180 (unless specified below) Winter 2019 Workshops Schedule:January 23: Social IdentitiesFebruary 27: Privilege LinksMarch 27: Conflict Management StylesApril 17: Core Values (Study Room B 245, Duderstadt Center Basement)  The “Identity Workshops” are designed for participants to interrogate their different identities and assumptions about themselves and others. Participants will leave

Flint: It’s not just about the Water…

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Flint: It’s not just about the Water…Friday, April 19, 20196:00 pmDuderstadt Center Video Studio The School of Music, Theatre and Dance present Flint: It’s not just about the Water… A new play by professor Jose’ Casas and directed by Dexter J. Singleton. This performance will be live streamed.  Free and open to

Tea & Tunes

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Tea & TunesFriday’s at 4:00 pm (dates below)Duderstadt Center Gallery Tea and Tunes is a series of musical performances by SMTD students organized by SMTD senior Zola Hightower and made possible through a Duderstadt Center Mini-fellowship. Tea and cookies will be served!  March 29, 2019Zoie & Cullen Zoie (violin) and

Noctis + Dius

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Senior Thesis Performance By Harrison Lourim  April 25 & 26, 2019 at 8:00 PM Duderstadt Center Video Studio An Musical Experience in Quadraphoinc Sound with Correlated Visuals. Admission: Free

Comics & Chill

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Comics & ChillTuesdays, from 5:00-6:30pmDuderstadt Center Design Studio Join us for Comics & Chill, a weekly gathering for drawing and writing comics. All skill levels welcome, no experience necessary. Comics are for EVERYONE–invite your friends and join us for the doodles! New topics each week.

Future Campus Thesis Studio

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Future Campus Thesis Studio: Radical Campus ScenariosTaubman College of Architecture + Urban PlanningApril 29 – May 31, 2019Duderstadt Center Gallery  The 2019 Future Campus Thesis Studio explores the meaning of “campus” through the development of 13 new campus designs for urban sites around the globe. The work of the studio

What is Nothing at the Ends and High in the Middle?

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An evening of dance/theatre short works Directed by Tzveta Kassabova With Lacey Moore, Rick Sparling, Malcolm Tulip and Brandon Washington Performances: Thursday September 26, 2019 at 6 pm and Friday September 27, 2019 at 6 pm & 8 pm Location: Duderstadt Center Video Studio, University of Michigan North Campus An

Costume Designs: Some of My Favorite Things

Costume Design presentation
Costume Designs:  Some of My Favorite Things Duderstadt Center Gallery September 19 – 29, 2019  Featuring the costume renderings of former students’  along with favorite pieces designed by Professor Jessica Hahn for the School of Music, Theatre & Dance over the past 25 years. Free and open to the public. For

Daddy Long Legs

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October 24 & 25, 2019 at 7:00 PMDuderstadt Video Studio 3 AM Productions’ presents Daddy Long Legs the Musical, directed by Stephanie Guralnick. The show follows teen orphan Jerusha Abbott, who is spotted by a young benefactor, who sees her potential and anonymously pays for her to have a proper

Migrare – Work in Progress

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Migrare – Work in ProgressTuesday, October 29, 20195:00 pmDuderstadt Center Gallery “Migrare” is a dance and videography research project conducted by School of Music, Theater and Dance MFA student Mario Vircha in France, Jordan, Greece and Costa Rica; four countries that have welcomed refugee dance artists whose work he wished

Barriers and Preservers

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Barriers and Preservers – Paintings by Margaret DavisOctober 3-30, 2019Opening Reception: Thursday, Oct 3, 4-7:00 pmDuderstadt Center Gallery Margaret Davis’s exhibition focuses on the adolescent.  Barriers and Preservers is a visual response to numerous cultural concerns of today’s teens; be it record levels of anxiety, school safety, street safety, or those affected

Experiments in Translation Grants – Launch Party

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Experiments in Translation Grants – Launch PartyFeaturing “Ripple Effect” artist Dorsey KaufmannDuderstadt Center Gallery and Video StudioNovember 22, 20194:00 pm In March 2020, Experiments in Translation will award up to three $10,000 grants to collaborative projects that bring Duderstadt Center technologies to bear in response to a communications challenge.This launch

Hidden to Observation (H2O)

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Hidden to Observation (H2O)November 25 – December 5, 2019Duderstadt Center Gallery Students in SI 616 (Advanced Topics in Graphic Design and Visual Communications) developed alternative interpretations, from Ripple Effect, using similar water contamination data from Flint. Seven of their posters will be on view in the Duderstadt Center connector hall

Ripple Effect

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Ripple EffectNovember 11 – December 5, 2019Duderstadt Center Gallery Ripple Effect is an interactive art exhibition that visualizes local water quality data through sound, light, and water. Through software technology, water contamination data is translated into sound waves. The installation consists of speakers that play the ‘data sound tracks’, which vibrate

Interarts Performance

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Interarts PerformanceDecember 12 & 13, 20197:30 pmDuderstadt Center Video Studio The Interarts Showcase is put on by Interarts Performance students from the Stamps School of Art & Design. Students take courses both in art & design and theater, and their work is focused on hybrid forms of performance/technology/visual art. The

Tea & Tunes

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Tea & TunesFeaturing Grant Flick and Hannah O’BrienFriday, December 13, 2019 at 4:00 pmDuderstadt Center Gallery “Tea and Tunes” is a series of musical performances by SMTD students held in the Duderstadt Center Gallery. This week we will be featuring music from Grant Flick, fiddle and tenor guitar and Hannah O’Brien,

Anonymous Autonomous

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“Anonymous Autonomous” Work in Progress Community DemoDecember 9-20, 2019Reception December 13, 5:00 pmDuderstadt Center Gallery  Anonymous Autonomous is a robotic art installation being developed by Katherine Behar, Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan, together with a team of U-M students. As the Fall 2019 semester draws to a