As part of our commitment to the arts, we're sponsoring a diverse range of programs at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).
Supporting Art at UMMA
Throughout the 2006—2007 season, we're sponsoring UMMA programs at South U, a temporary exhibition space that will be used while the museum's historic home in Alumni Memorial Hall is closed for renovation and expansion.
Recent UMMA Exhibitions
Our sponsorship of the 2006—2007 season at UMMA follows our recent support of past UMMA-organized exhibitions, which include the following:
- Jacob Lawrence, May—September 2005: An exhibition focused on 16 graphic works, all recent acquisitions of the museum's. Works featured in the exhibition included prints from the Transit series (1998), completed just two years before the artist's death, as well as prints developed for a children's book about Hiroshima. The works spanned 45 years of the artist's career.
- Paisley and Peacocks, June—October 2005: An exhibition focused on the woven textiles and embroideries of the Kashmir and Punjab provinces. The works reflected the thousands of hours of painstaking hand-worked detail that each textile required and showcased a stunning collection of these beautifully designed works.
- Walker Evans, October—December 2005: This exhibition focused on the extraordinary body of work created during a three-week trip to Alabama in the summer of 1936, when Evans was on assignment for Fortune magazine. The works captured the spirit of the grinding poverty of the Depression, seen through the eyes of three families in rural Alabama.
- Asian Landscapes, January—April 2006: These four exhibitions explored how landscape imagery shapes memories of culture and place by featuring both traditional (painting and prints) and contemporary media (photography) from Japan, China and Southeast Asia. The iconic images in this suite of exhibitions—spanning three centuries—each embodied profound truths about their respective cultures.
