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Soheap Pich | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series

This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI. Sopheap Pich is widely considered to be Cambodia’s most internationally prominent contemporary artist. In 1979, when the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia led to the ousting of the Khmer Rouge régime, he fled with his family to Thailand, spending four years in refugee camps before immigrating to the United States. Memories of traveling vast distances on foot and witnessing the devastation of war — broken bodies, ravaged landscapes, abandoned artillery, ruined buildings, and the breakdown of social and cultural institutions — underpin his early [...]

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Author Talk with Cheryl Wills

PBS Books sits down with Cheryl Wills to discuss her book "Isn't Her Grace Amazing!".

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Nkeiru Okoye | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series

This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI. Nkeiru Okoye is an American-born composer of African American and Nigerian ancestry. After studying composition, music theory, piano, conducting, and Africana Studies at Oberlin Conservatory, she pursued graduate studies at Rutgers University and became one of the leading African American women composers. An activist through the arts, Okoye creates a body of work that welcomes and affirms both traditional and new audiences. Nkeiru Okoye’s new commission When the Caged Bird Sings premieres on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 7:30 PM at UM’s Hill Auditorium, as a collaboration between UMS and the U‑M [...]

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Ken Aptekar | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series

Artist Ken Aptekar toys with historical paintings by using the history of art as his playground. He time-travels works from the past into the present by his repainting joined to his own texts. Here’s the idea: Paintings are nothing on their own, they start meaning something only when you start talking back to them.

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The State of Bipartisanship in America

Description: The week of March 11-15 is Civic Literacy Week in America. The concept of civics in the United States embraces disagreements and encourages a search for compromise. In recent years, that concept seems to have been forgotten, as the nation struggles with difficult issues that have spawned deep political division. Recently, two Governors who are calling on Americans to “Disagree Better” spokes at the Economic Club of Washington. Governor Spencer Cox of Utah is a Republican and the current chair of the National Governors Association, where he leads a civility initiative called "Disagree Better." Governor West Moore [...]

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Artemío Rodriguez | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series

This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 5:30 pm at the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI. Artemio Rodríguez is a Mexican artist who was born in Tacámbaro, Michoacán. He began his career as a printer’s apprentice with Juan Pascoe at his renowned letterpress studio Taller Martin Pescador (Kingfisher Workshop) in Tacámbaro, Michoacán. At the age of 21, Rodríguez immigrated to Los Angeles and became a printmaker at Self Help Graphics. He co-founded La Mano Press in 2002 in Los Angeles before relocating to Michoacán in 2008, where he co-founded La Mano Gráfica, a gallery and craft store. Rodríguez directs the Library of Illustrated Books (Biblioteca [...]

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