Community Calendar

Please join us on Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from 12:00-1:30 PM in the Michigan League - Koessler Room for the DHRC's October panel focusing on The Hazards of Human Rights Reporting: Reports from the Field. This panel will discuss the challenges of reporting on human rights abuses by governments and other actors. Our panelists will offer comparative insights from their field experience and lessons for all of us seeking to understand violations happening beyond our borders.

This event is free and open to the public and is in-person only.

Moderator:
Lynette Clemetson
Director, Wallace House Center for Journalists

Panelists:
Tenzin Pema
Tibetan Journalist; Former Director of Radio Free Asia - Tibetan Service
Knight-Wallace Fellow

Clavel Rangel Jimenez
Venezuelan Journalist; Co-Founder of Venezuelan Amazon Journalists Network
Knight-Wallace Fellow

Co-sponsors:

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
Wallace House Center for Journalists

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

2 Stones Events will be bringing in metro Detroit’s finest jazz artists for a new series — Sessions @ The Vinyl Society, in the heart of downtown Detroit’s Paradise Valley. Two shows every Wednesday: 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. — and NEVER a cover charge!
Oct. 1 Paul Keller Trio
Oct. 8 Heather Black Project
Oct. 15 Ben Sharkey
Oct. 22 Noah Jackson & Full Circle
Oct. 29 Jim Alfredson's Dirty Fingers

Gary Graham is an American fashion designer and artist. He founded his eponymous women’s wear line in New York City in 1999, gaining notice for its exquisite detailing, fine craftsmanship, and historical erudition. For twenty years, his designs were sold at his Tribeca retail flagship store and through luxury retailers worldwide. He now produces small-batch collections in his rural upstate New York studio under the moniker GaryGraham422, drawing inspiration from historical figures and antique textiles to create visionary 21st-century fashion.

Alongside his design work, he maintains a robust artistic practice. Working with institutions such as the Old Manse, Hancock Shaker Village, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, and the American Folk Art Museum, Graham has created installations, clothing collections, drawings, and sculpture inspired by these sites’ histories, architecture, and curated objects. His talk, Extracting Ghosts, will focus on his research-based, site-specific work.

He has collaborated with artists such as Kara Walker (costume design for her 2024 – 2026 installation Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and Meredith Monk (the 2015 sound installation The Conversation at the Peabody Essex Museum). His work is held in the permanent collections of the Peabody Essex Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, the Phoenix Art Museum, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. In his only foray into reality TV, he was a finalist on season two of the Amazon fashion design competition series Making the Cut.

Graham earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. He currently holds a teaching position in the Textiles Department at the Rhode Island School of Design.

With support from Design Core Detroit.

This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.

Series presenting partners: Detroit PBS, ALL ARTS, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.

You won't want to miss this family friendly 5K "Fore the Cause" that will be held on Green Oaks Golf Course. The event will be timed by A2 Race management. Whether you are a competitive runner or just want to get out and walk/run with family and friends, this is the race for you! You will make your way around the course passing fairways, bunkers, ponds and greens. this course is fully enclosed and will be on natural surfaces.

Medals will be given to the top 3 finishers in each age category (age breakdown dependent on number of registrations).
Will be held rain or shine. Race day registration opens at 7:00am. Race starts at 8:00am

All proceeds from this event benefit the Art Serafinski Scholarship Fund. The scholarship named in honor of former longtime director Art Serafinski, has a purpose to provide youth recreation opportunities with our department.

This scholarship is need-based and designed to allow children up to age 17 to participate in our recreation classes and leagues at a discounted rate if eligible. Those eligible will receive 50% off their registration fees and up to $250 in aid per child per calendar year.

The Michigan Art Gallery at Schmidt's Antiques proudly announces the opening of a major retrospective exhibition featuring over fifty never-before-seen European and American landscape paintings as well as portraits by renowned Ann Arbor artist Leon Makielski (1885–1974).
The European works were painted during Makielski’s early years studying and traveling across the continent, primarily in Paris. The American works include atmospheric scenes from Vermont, painted during travels to New England around the time Makielski met poet Robert Frost, and landscapes from Virginia, drawn from visits to his family in Appalachia.
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 6th, 2025 / 3PM-7PM
Public Exhibition & Sale: Open every Saturday until October 11th / 9AM-5PM
Works will be available for purchase in the gallery and online at www.michiganartgallery.com.
*Please note: This sale is on the third floor of our gallery, which is a converted 1910s barn without elevator access. Please email info@schmidtsantiques.com or call 734-434-2660 with any inquiries regarding access.
To learn more about The Michigan Art Gallery, please contact:
The Michigan Art Gallery at Schmidt's Antiques 5138 W. Michigan Avenue Ypsilanti, MI 48197 @michiganartgallery @schmidtsantiquesinc (T) 734-434-2660 (E) info@schmidtsantiques.com

Join the Kelsey Museum for our Fall Family Day as we explore what archaeology is, the technology archaeologists use to uncover the past, and the challenges facing the field today! We will have archaeologists on-site to showcase the technology and robotics they employ to investigate both land and sea.

This event is free and open to the public and will feature hands-on activities and gallery tours. We encourage FIRST® Robotics LEGO® League groups to attend. Learn more at https://myumi.ch/Q6njG.

Alla Boara seeks to bring recognition and new life to Italy’s diverse history of regional folk music. Their modern arrangements of traditional folk songs are variously surprising, playful, mournful, tender and bewitching.

Their dynamic work aims to inspire audiences of all ethnic heritages to treasure their musical roots and consider historical songs’ contemporary cultural relevance. The group has received critical acclaim for its originality and accessibility.

Nearly fifty years ago, a groundbreaking moment changed the course of history. On
October 7, 1975, President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-106, opening enrollment
to women at all US service academies.

On the 50th anniversary of that signing, Kathleen Kornahrens will tell of her experience
as a member of the first class to include women at the US Air Force Academy. She will
be joined by her classmate Colonel Gail Colvin, USAF (Ret.) to examine the legacy of
President Ford’s signature.

Following the talk there will be a sale and signing of Kathleen’s book, “Bring Me Men…”
Brought Women: Marching with the First Female Cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Thursday, October 9
3:00 – 5:00 pm: Check in, Meet and Greet
4:30 pm: $10 table sale #1
Dinner On Your Own
6:00 – 8:00 pm: Photo Exhibit Opening with Cheryl Chedister

Friday, October 10
9:00 – 5:00 pm: Argus Museum Open to the Public
Off-site – Photo Walk with Jared Haas
Photo Contest: Shoot in Ann Arbor: turn film in at 4:00 pm Friday, October 10
4:00 – 7:00 pm: Drop-in Open House
5:00 pm: $10 table sale #2
6:00 pm: On-site informal dinner (suggested donation)
7:00 pm: Presentation: Jason Kluttz, X-Ray photography

Saturday, October 11
9:30 am: Meet and Greet breakfast (suggested donation)
9:30 am: Silent Auction Opens
10:00 am: Presentation: Cheryl Chedister - Photographic Show presentation and discussion
11:00 am: Presentation: Argus Museum updates, Fundraising Efforts/Results, updates on the museum revamp.
Noon: On-site informal Lunch (suggested donation)
1:00 pm: $10 table sale #3 or Free table
2:00 pm: Keynote Presentation: Jim Widergren - Around the World in 1976: Discovering Photography with an Argus C3
4:00 pm: Annual Membership Meeting with Zoom
6:00 pm: On-site informal dinner (suggested donation)
Photo Contest Results
7:00 pm: Live Auction
7:30 pm: Silent Auction ends
8:00 pm: Close