Art IN Sight
Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce
115 West Huron Street, 3rd Floor, Ann Arbor
Curated by Distinct Designs, Inc.

Paintings in oils and acrylics, nature scenes done in Motawi tiles, bronze sculptures of dance and even some eye-popping quilt art are on display at the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce. You will have a tough time picking out your favorite at this latest display in the rotating art show. All the works are done by local artists, bringing not only beauty but an often-inspiring sense of creativity.
 
This remarkable display is not just for Chamber staff, but it's for the general public as well. So plan to drop by soon and return often. A whole new collection will be hung on the Chamber's walls every six to nine weeks.

The art in these showings also may be purchased. And some of the pieces are quite reasonable. It almost goes without saying that an original work of art, whether large or small, is a major step up from that poster that's been hanging on your wall. For example, one quilt in this show features a map of Ann Arbor. Now imagine a quilted map of the city that highlights points of interest for your business or for someone you love. You could commission such a quilt. Here is a gift that could hardly be more original, or personal.

The general public is invited to stroll through the Chamber's halls weekdays any time between 9am and 5pm.

If your business is interested in purchasing art or participating in the Art IN Sight program, contact Diane Bennett at 734-427-3824.

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Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch
Thursday, August 21
Liberty Plaza @ the corner of South Division & Liberty
12pm – 2pm

Lunch in downtown Ann Arbor is rocking! Bank of Ann Arbor has teamed up with Ann Arbor's 107one and the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce to serve Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch, an outdoor summer concert series at Liberty Plaza. Enjoy top local bands as they perform Thursdays from 12pm - 2pm from June through September. Downtown restaurants are offering lunch specials that you can bring to the park and catch all the music.

Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch series is featuring Jill Jack.

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SEPTEMBER

Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch
Thursday, September 4
Liberty Plaza @ the corner of South Division & Liberty
12pm – 2pm

Lunch in downtown Ann Arbor is rocking! Bank of Ann Arbor has teamed up with Ann Arbor's 107one and the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce to serve Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch, an outdoor summer concert series at Liberty Plaza. Enjoy top local bands as they perform Thursdays from 12pm - 2pm from June through September. Downtown restaurants are offering lunch specials that you can bring to the park and catch all the music.

Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch series is featuring Bump.

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Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch
Thursday, September 11
Liberty Plaza @ the corner of South Division & Liberty
12pm – 2pm

Lunch in downtown Ann Arbor is rocking! Bank of Ann Arbor has teamed up with Ann Arbor's 107one and the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce to serve Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch, an outdoor summer concert series at Liberty Plaza. Enjoy top local bands as they perform Thursdays from 12pm - 2pm from June through September. Downtown restaurants are offering lunch specials that you can bring to the park and catch all the music.

Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch series is featuring The Roadhouse Revival Band.

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Flight of Fancy Art Birdhouse Festival
Closing Gala and Live Auction
Saturday, September 13
Tecumseh Country Club
5200 Milwaukee Road, Tecumseh

Birdhouse art work is on display now at businesses throughout Tecumseh. All proceeds will benefit the Tecumseh Center for the Arts.

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The Experience and Use of Wonder
Saturday, September 13
Rackham Amphitheater
915 East Washington, Ann Arbor
1pm – 5:30pm

The experience of wonder eludes words and dissolves conceptual categories. In it, we are transported from memory, reason and even desire. But wonder also has been an engine of worldly through and action, the “beginning of philosophy” that has by turns compelled conformity ad sparked revolution. This symposium will bring together foru innovative scholars – Robert Farris Thompson, Zoe S. Strother, Glenn Adamson and Norman M. Klein to discuss how wonder has been experienced and employed in several cultural and historical contexts in Europe, Africa and the Americas.

This event is sponsored by the Department of the History of Art, the Museum of Art and the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. 

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Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch
Thursday, September 18
Liberty Plaza @ the corner of South Division & Liberty
12pm – 2pm

Lunch in downtown Ann Arbor is rocking! Bank of Ann Arbor has teamed up with Ann Arbor's 107one and the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce to serve Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch, an outdoor summer concert series at Liberty Plaza. Enjoy top local bands as they perform Thursdays from 12pm - 2pm from June through September. Downtown restaurants are offering lunch specials that you can bring to the park and catch all the music.

Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch series is featuring Laith Al Saadi.

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Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Concert
Roots
Saturday, September 20
Michigan Theater
603 East Liberty, Ann Arbor
8pm

In this season of commemoration, the A²SO completes its Naxos CD project with Felter’s Three Poems by Walt Whitman, a Bicentennial evocation of the yearning for innocence in times of war. Louis Nagel brings to life the raw intensity and rich sound of Ravel’s neoclassical Piano Concerto. Finally, the A²SO rounds out the concert with Dvorak’s cheery homage to his Bohemian roots, his Symphony No. 8.

This concert is co-sponsored by Borders and Comerica Bank.

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The Infinite Landscape: Master Photographers from the UMMA Collection
Saturday, September 20 – Saturday, January 3
UMMA Off/Site Exhibition Space
1301 South University Avenue, Ann Arbor

In anticipation of UMMA’s reopening in spring 2009, this exhibition will preset some of the most compelling landscape images from the Museum’s own renowned collection. Since the dawn of photography, practitioners have used the medium as a tool to make sense of our surroundings and create meaning within the larger world. From a selection f classic views by such artists as Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan and William Henry Fox Talbot to the contemporary sublime of Michael Kenna, these images reflect 19th – 20th-centruy European and American artists responding to the natural environment. The exhibition is made possible in part by the University of Michigan Credit Union and Ernestine and Herbert Ruben.

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Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch
Thursday, September 25
Liberty Plaza @ the corner of South Division & Liberty
12pm – 2pm

Lunch in downtown Ann Arbor is rocking! Bank of Ann Arbor has teamed up with Ann Arbor's 107one and the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce to serve Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch, an outdoor summer concert series at Liberty Plaza. Enjoy top local bands as they perform Thursdays from 12pm - 2pm from June through September. Downtown restaurants are offering lunch specials that you can bring to the park and catch all the music.

Bank of Ann Arbor's Sonic Lunch series is featuring Dave Sharp.

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OCTOBER

Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Concert
Music of the Northern Lights
Thursday, October 18
Michigan Theater
603 East Liberty, Ann Arbor
8pm

Sibelius’ only concerto, the Violin Concerto, heats up the cold Scandinavian night. Danish composer, Carl Nielsen’s dramatic Symphony No. 4, known as The Inextinguishable, culminates with a powerful “battle between two sets of timpani.” Romantic Danish composer Gade was a friend of Mendelssohn and instructor of Nielsen and Grieg. Audience members will enjoy his Hamlet Overture, which is full of melodic beauty.

This concert is sponsored by the Ray and Eleanor Cross Foundation.

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NOVEMBER

Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Concert
The Orchestra is Here to Play
Sunday, November 9
Michigan Theater
603 East Liberty, Ann Arbor
4pm

Join the A²SO and Gemini in this Family Concert as San and Laz share their warmth, humor and fun. Sing along wit music from around the world and original songs about growing up. Also, featured, you’ll hear Gemini’s entertaining and educational The Orchestra is Here to Play, which highlights the instruments of the orchestra for kids. Plus, our Ann Arbor connections continue wit a performance by the Ann Arbor Youth Chorale, under direction of Shayla Hottinger Powell.

The Family Concert Series is co-sponsored by Dickinson Wright and the Bernard L. Maas Foundation 

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Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Concert
Dances Scared & Profane
Saturday, November 15
Michigan Theater
603 East Liberty, Ann Arbor
8pm

Welcome to the stage Primor Sluchin, a world-class harpist and one of the only women to play in the famed Berlin Philharmonic. Handel’s only Harp Concerto offers improvisatory musing and exposed, rolling solos. By contrast, Debussy’s Dances Sacre et Profane is a chromatic exploration of Spanish and Portuguese dance. Tchaikovsky’s Suite No. 3 also has dance influences and presents a colorful and emotional “walk in a garden.” The Magic Harp by Schubert, also known as the Rosamunde Overture, is a warm-hearted and good humored work of a true master.

 This concert is sponsored by Toyota.

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DECEMBER

25th Annual Holiday Art & Craft Festival
Saturday, December 6
Ann Arbor City Club
1830 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor
9am – 4pm

There will be over 50 juried exhibitors from Michigan in attendance.

Cost: $3; children 12 and under free

For more information, please contact Penny O’Malley at 734.878.9044.

Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Concert
Sing-Along with Santa
Saturday, December 6
Bethlehem United Church of Christ
423 South 4th Street, Ann Arbor
4pm

The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra has a special relationship with Santa. Each year he sleds in from the North Pole to meet with the children of Ann Arbor at the Sing-Along. He loves to see the youngsters and sing with them in all his favorite carols. This Family Concert will include music by an A²SO soloist, treats and photos with Santa!

This concert series is sponsored by Dickinson Wright.

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