A GATHERING
Artist susan c dessel’s BRICK IN A SOFT HAT, Series 2, Nos. 5, 2,3
On Exhibit May – December 2024
University of Michigan Museum of Art
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Viewing Hours
Thursday & Friday 10AM – 8PM
Saturday & Sunday 11AM-8PM
Closed Monday
Tuesday & Wednesday 11AM-5PM
The University of Michigan Museum of Art exhibition “A Gathering”, curated by Félix Zamora-Gómez, Irving Stenn Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy, features a diverse array of pieces acquired by the UMMA between 2019 and 2022. “A Gathering” unites art across a variety of themes and origins with rotating pieces on display.
Zamora-Gómez stated in the Michigan Daily, “… We wanted to have something for the Apse, which is … one of the main spaces in the museum … that showcases the other things that UMMA has been up to in terms of growing their collection and acquiring new works.”
Christopher Ankney, director of marketing and public relations for UMMA, told The Daily, “… The works of art the UMMA has acquired in the last five years … bring art to the community that speaks to the issues of our time and engages with current dialogues we’re having in society.”
“The artists’ engagement with issues that matter to them — such as global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change — gave us a means to envision who we want to be as a museum and civic institution, and informed our vision for the future of the collection,” the statement reads. “A Gathering presents a selection of these works — small crystals of time and imagination that we hope will prompt you to reflect on the present and recent past, shape the way you engage with the world, and reimagine the future.”
Zamora-Gómez said … his main goal with “A Gathering” is for visitors of all backgrounds to feel welcome at the museum. … I would love for people to be able to say, ‘I’ve seen this show of recent acquisitions with incredible stories that are being told by each and every of these pieces,…”
“… A Gathering is a bringing together of these newest acquisitions so the public can experience and enjoy them,” Ankney wrote. “But it is also our hope that this collection of art inspires something in visitors, whether that’s a reflection on who we want to be as individuals, what our role in society is and can be, the discovery of some new connection to a place or idea, …’ ” *
*The above excerpted from The Michigan Daily, “ New UMMA exhibit “A Gathering” provides a space to reflect and relax”, by Astrid Code. Aug. 8, 2023. https://www.michigandaily.com/news/campus-life/new-umma-exhibit-a-gathering-provides-a-space-to-reflect-and-relax/