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Fernando Laposse: Design for Rural Reality

Michigan Theater 603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Fernando Laposse specializes in transforming humble natural materials into refined design pieces. He has worked extensively with overlooked plant fibers such as sisal, loofah, and corn leaves. Laposse’s works are the result of extensive research which culminates in objects of ​“endemic design” where materials and their historical and cultural ties to a particular location and its people take […]

Guadalupe Maravilla: Sound As Medicine

Michigan Theater 603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Combining sculpture, painting, performative acts, and installation, Guadalupe Maravilla grounds his transdisciplinary practice in activism and healing. Engaging a wide variety of visual cultures, Maravilla’s work is autobiographical, referencing his unaccompanied, undocumented migration to the United States due to the Salvadoran Civil War. Across all media, Maravilla explores how the systemic abuse of immigrants physically manifests in the body, […]

Radical Conversations: Pablo Helguera, Jenna Bednar, Philippa Hughes & Lexa Walsh

Michigan Theater 603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

In a time of profound division, embracing diverse perspectives becomes a catalyst for meaningful change. How do we transcend boundaries to cultivate an environment committed to fostering honest, caring, and courageous conversations? How are artists responding to these questions through their work? Guided by the framing of U‑M Professor Jenna Bednar, artists Pablo Helguera, Philippa Hughes, and […]

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Michigan Theater 603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

In the summer of 1995, Chicago experienced an unthinkable disaster, when extremely high humidity and a layer of heat-retaining pollution drove the heat index up to more than 126 degrees. Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of this tragic heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course of […]