Speculative Histories Virtual Opening and Lecture | Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research

Join Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research and Cranbrook Academy of Art for the opening of the upcoming exhibition, Speculative Histories, the fourth intervention of new, site-specific work by Cranbrook Academy of Art students, alumni, and Artists-in-Residence staged within the historic homes of Cranbrook!

This year, some fifty artists from each of the Academy’s eleven departments are participating. For the first time, works will be installed across all three of Cranbrook’s historic house museums: Cranbrook House (1908/1918), Saarinen House (1930), and the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Smith House (1950/1968). The new work is being created in dialogue with the art, architecture, and stories of each home’s residents: Cranbrook founders George and Ellen Booth, architect and designers Eliel and Loja Saarinen, and Detroit schoolteachers Melvyn and Sara Smith.

TICKET INFO
Free Admission
Lecture will be Password-Protected
Advance Registration is Required

SPEAKERS
Iris Eichenberg, Head of Metalsmithing Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Kevin Adkisson, Associate Curator, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research

HOSTED BY
Susan Ewing, Director, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Gregory Wittkopp, Director, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research

Untitled (2016-2018) by Adam Shirley, CAA Metalsmithing 2010, installed in Cranbrook House for the special exhibition, A Line of Beauty, February 2018. Photograph by Eric Price. Courtesy Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research.