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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: James Klein and David Reid
DESCRIPTION:James Klein and David Reid \nJoin Cranbrook Academy of Art at deSalle Auditorium for a free\, public lecture with James Klein and David Reid on Tuesday\, April 21\, 2026\, at 6pm. Please enter through the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library; Cranbrook Art Museum’s galleries will be closed. \nKleinReid was founded in Williamsburg\, Brooklyn\, in 1993 by James Klein and David Reid. A pioneer in the ceramic design and maker movements\, the studio is widely credited with bringing an urban design aesthetic to American studio pottery; merging timeless art pottery methods and time-honored industrial techniques. \nJames and David’s work is included in the collections of museums and institutions (Museum of Art and Design\, NY\, The White House\, Hungarian University of Craft and Design\, New York Historical Society\, Museum of Contemporary Craft\, Portland\, OR) and private collectors. Their pieces have been shown in gallery and museum exhibitions\, and retail in design and shelter stores and galleries worldwide. As designers\, they’ve created collections for prestigious firms including Herman Miller\, Dansk\, Chella\, and Room&Board. \nThey’ve been profiled in periodicals and newspapers (Wallpaper\, Architectural Digest\, Vogue Living\, Casa Vogue\, Time\, Newsweek\, the NY Times\, San Francisco Chronicle) and on television. In 1999\, the duo approached one of its heroes\, design legend Eva Zeisel (then 93) with a proposal to collaborate. Their work together over the last twelve years of Ms. Zeisel’s life spawned a collection of over 20 designs\, a treasured friendship\, and brought her iconic work to a new generation. \nSupport Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Public Lecture Series\, which invites a range of artists\, designers\, architects\, critics\, writers\, curators\, and other professionals of national and international stature\, by donating to our Annual Fund!
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/public-lecture-james-klein-and-david-reid/
LOCATION:deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Avenue\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:OPEN STUDIOS 2026 - Registration Open!
DESCRIPTION:Visit Cranbrook Academy of Art and Cranbrook Educational Community campus on Saturday\, April 18\, 2026\, from 1-5pm! Event details and maps will be added as the event approaches.  \nOPEN STUDIOS is the only time of year the public can explore the studios of Cranbrook Academy of Art! Student artwork will be for sale. \n\nExplore the private studio spaces of Cranbrook Academy of Art artists. Studio Map.\nGraduate student art will be for sale in person\nFree admission to Cranbrook Art Museum\nFree admission to Cranbrook Institute of Science (paid admission is required for Special Exhibition\, the Acheson Planetarium\, and exploreLAB)\nFree Informal Tours at Saarinen House and Cranbrook House\nHear the sounds of the Detroit Opera‘s Resident Artists\, who will perform live outside of Cranbrook Art Museum throughout the afternoon.\nFood trucks! The Grilled Wrap and Tacos Hernandez return\, plus new this year\, Feinated Coffee.\n\nREGISTER ON EVENTBRITE \n  \nIf you are not able to join us for OPEN STUDIOS this year\, and are interested in future events\, please click here to sign up for email notifications. \nCheck-in Locations \nPlease park in one of our designated lots. A shuttle will drop you off at check-in and other locations. Parking Map. \nParking and Transportation \nMultiple free parking lots will be available. Please note that not all lots have shuttle service. \nAccessibility \nThe New Studios Building of Cranbrook Academy of Art\, Cranbrook Art Museum\, and Cranbrook Institute of Science are the only wheelchair-accessible areas during OPEN STUDIOS. The New Studios Building houses the Cranbrook Academy of Art Ceramics\, Fiber\, and Metalsmithing studios. \nOPEN STUDIOS is a free public event. Whether you are a repeat visitor or a new Cranbrook fan\, we appreciate your donations to our annual fund\, which supports many initiatives\, including OPEN STUDIOS. Click here to donate. \n 
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/open-studios-2026-save-the-date/
LOCATION:Cranbrook Academy of Art\, 39221 Woodward Ave\, Bloomfield Hills\, 48303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open House,Sale
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Germane Barnes - Turn the Mic Up
DESCRIPTION:Germane Barnes is a Chicago-born\, Miami-based licensed architect\, designer\, and founding principal of Studio Barnes\, a research-driven design practice that interrogates the intersections of architecture and identity. Through Studio Barnes\, Barnes examines architecture’s social and political agency\, blending rigorous historical research with speculative design to explore how the built environment shapes—and is shaped by—culture\, race\, and community. In addition to his professional practice\, Barnes serves as an Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Architecture Graduate Programs at the University of Miami School of Architecture\, where he mentors emerging designers and fosters critical discourse around architecture’s cultural and societal impact. \nThrough his dual role as educator and practitioner\, Germane Barnes continues to push the boundaries of contemporary architecture\, blending research\, design\, and cultural critique. Studio Barnes stands as a testament to his commitment to exploring architecture’s potential to foster inclusivity\, address historical inequities\, and imagine new spatial futures. With a career distinguished by prizes\, fellowships\, and institutional recognition\, Barnes remains a leading voice in architecture today\, advancing conversations at the nexus of design\, identity\, and social impact. \n“Columnar Disorder” at the Art Institute of Chicago. \nBarnes’ design work has garnered national and international recognition for its thoughtful engagement with both form and social meaning. His projects have been exhibited at leading institutions\, including the Art Institute of Chicago\, the Museum of Modern Art’s Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America\, and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial. His work frequently addresses themes of diaspora\, Black identity\, and historical memory\, translating these concerns into compelling architectural experiences that challenge conventional narratives of space and design. \nBarnes has received numerous prestigious awards and fellowships. He is a recipient of the Architectural League Prize\, which recognized his innovative design research and creative contributions to the field. Barnes is also a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome (2019–2020)\, an honor that enabled him to advance his research on architecture\, identity\, and cultural memory through immersive study abroad. In addition\, he was selected for the inaugural cohort of The Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab (2021)\, a program created by Theaster Gates and sponsored by Prada\, highlighting his engagement with experimental\, socially responsive design. \nStudio Barnes’ work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. His architectural interventions and conceptual projects have been featured in The New York Times\, Architectural Record\, Domus\, and other influential publications\, with coverage highlighting both the conceptual rigor and social relevance of his work. One of his most widely recognized projects\, Griot\, was presented as part of Biennale Architettura 2023’s Laboratory of the Future\, earning international attention for its innovative integration of narrative\, history\, and community in architectural form. \nSupport Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Public Lecture Series\, which invites a range of artists\, designers\, architects\, critics\, writers\, curators\, and other professionals of national and international stature\, by donating to our Annual Fund!
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/public-lecture-germane-barnes-turn-the-mic-up/
LOCATION:deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Avenue\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304
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SUMMARY:ArtMembers Opening Preview Party - 2026 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the 2026 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art at Cranbrook Art Museum\, on Saturday\, April 11\, 2024\, from 6-9pm! Book ArtMember and General Public tickets using the button above. \nThe innovative work of the next generation of architects\, artists\, and designers will be on display at the 2026 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art. The Degree Exhibition showcases pieces that are the culmination of two years of studio work from a diverse group of graduates as they launch their careers. \n  \nRSVP through Cranbrook Art Museum \nCost: \nArtMembers: Always Free! Become an ArtMember of Cranbrook Art Museum. \nGeneral Public: $20/person
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/artmembers-opening-preview-party-2026-graduate-degree-exhibition-of-cranbrook-academy-of-art/
LOCATION:Cranbrook Art Museum\, 39221 Woodward Ave.\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Noah Breuer - Republishing the Archive (CANCELLED)
DESCRIPTION:This lecture has been cancelled due to travel delays. We appreciate your understanding. \nNoah Breuer \nJoin Cranbrook Academy of Art at deSalle Auditorium for a free\, public lecture with Noah Breuer on Wednesday\, March 25\, 2026\, at 6pm. Please enter through the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library; Cranbrook Art Museum’s galleries close at 5pm. \nIn his lecture\, “Republishing the Archive\,” Breuer will discuss cultural legacy\, authorship\, the tension between appropriation and contemporary artistic production. \nNoah Breuer is an American artist and Professor of Print Media at the University at Buffalo\, SUNY. His practice occupies the intersection of traditional printmaking and 21st-century digital technology\, utilizing this hybrid approach to examine themes of family identity\, labor\, and the Jewish diaspora. \nBreuer’s current research focuses on the cultural legacy of early-20th-century Jewish-owned textile printing companies in Czech Bohemia. Through what he describes as a “reclamation project\,” Breuer investigates his own family’s lost industrial history\, resurrecting and reinterpreting archival designs to explore the tension between ancestral memory and contemporary artistic ownership. \nSupport Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Public Lecture Series\, which invites a range of artists\, designers\, architects\, critics\, writers\, curators\, and other professionals of national and international stature\, by donating to our Annual Fund!
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/public-lecture-noah-breuer-republishing-the-archive/
LOCATION:deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Avenue\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Rubén Ulises Rodríguez Montoya
DESCRIPTION:Rubén Ulises Rodríguez Montoya \nJoin Cranbrook Academy of Art at deSalle Auditorium for a free\, public lecture with Rubén Ulises Rodríguez Montoya\, In the Garden of Earthly Delights: I Bend to Paradise\, on Wednesday\, March 11\, 2026\, at 6pm. Please enter through the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library; Cranbrook Art Museum’s galleries close at 5pm. \nIn the Garden of Earthly Delights: I Bend to Paradise – A Vampire surreptitiously boards the last spaceship to ever leave Earth after Earth is no longer viable. The ship explodes in space because of its immortality. The Vampire is the sole survivor of the blast\, and The Vampire must learn to reconstitute itself and learn to survive with the technology of the ship. \nRubén Ulises Rodríguez Montoya is an artist based in Mexico City. Montoya received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2020. He creates sculptures that are fantastic beings centered around anthologies and social issues concerning border culture\, abjection\, adaptation\, and mestizaje. Montoya’s practice is aided by Speculative Fiction\, Nahualismo\, Sci-Fi\, and the labor of his family. His work hybridizes and creates parallels between land\, human\, and animal as a way to investigate the process in which violence eradicates\, erases\, and erodes communities of color. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo exhibition of new work (ICA San Diego\, 2025–2026). Recent exhibitions include Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024 (El Museo de Barrio\, 2024–2025)\, and Skinchangers: Begotten of my Flesh (2024). \nSupport Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Public Lecture Series\, which invites a range of artists\, designers\, architects\, critics\, writers\, curators\, and other professionals of national and international stature\, by donating to our Annual Fund! \nRubén Ulises Rodríguez Montoya\, “Okay Pei Mei\, here I come” / I will swallow the sun.2024
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/public-lecture-ruben-ulises-rodriguez-montoya-in-the-garden-of-earthly-delights-i-bend-to-paradise/
LOCATION:deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Avenue\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Julia Kunin
DESCRIPTION:Join Cranbrook Academy of Art at deSalle Auditorium for a free\, public lecture with Julia Kunin on Thursday\, March 5\, 2026\, at 6pm. \nJulia Kunin lives in Brooklyn\, NY\, and works frequently in Hungary. She earned a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA from The Mason Gross School of the Arts\, Rutgers University.  Her work explores themes of queerness\, feminism\, and the body.  Her ceramic sculptures reference Hungarian ceramics made at the Zsolnay factory both during the Art Nouveau period and during the socialist era. \nSolo exhibitions include: Laughing Castles at Klaus Von Nichtssagend gallery\, NY\, NY\, Dream Machines at Mindy Solomon Gallery\, Miami\, FL\, Rainbow Dream Machine at McClain Gallery\, Houston\, TX (2020 -2021); Mechanical Ballet at Kate Werble Gallery\, NY\, NY (2021); Les Guerilleres Sandra Gering Gallery\, NY\, NY (2015); Golden Grove\, Barry Whistler Gallery\, Dallas\, TX (2013); Nightwood\, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery\, NY\, NY (2012); Against Nature\, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery (2007); Crimson Blossom Deutches Leder Museum\, Offenbach\, Germany (2002). \n \nRecent two-person exhibitions: Kaleidoscope Eyes with Mara Held\, at McClain Gallery in Houston\, TX (2023); Wild Chambers with Yevgeniya Baras\, at Mother Gallery\, NY\, NY (2022). Recent group exhibitions include: Painting Deconstructed\, Ortega Y Gasset projects\, Brooklyn\, NY (2024);  I’ll Be Your Mirror\, Queer Biennial\, Detroit\, MI (2024); Getting to Ick\, Hesse Flatow Gallery\, NY\, NY; Behind this Mask\, Another Mask curated by Sam Adams at Abigail Ogilvey Gallery\, Los Angeles\, CA; Queer Clay at AMOCA\, LA\, (2023); Conversing in Clay\, at LACMA\, Los Angeles\, CA. \nKunin was a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary in 2013. She has received numberous awards including a Trust for Mutual Understanding grant to Hungary\, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant\, a residency at Art Omi\, and the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Artist Residency. Fellowships include: The MacDowell Colony\, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation\, CEC Artslink grant to The Republic of Georgia\, Artist Residency in Wiesbaden\, Germany\, Yaddo\,  The Millay Colony\, Vermont Studio Center\, The Core Program in Houston\, TX\,  and Skowhegan. \nJulia Kunin currently has a series of ceramic lamps at Ralph Pucci International and he is also a member of the board of FIAR\, The LGBTQ Fire Island artist residency. Her work was recently acquired by the Everson Museum of Art\, Syracuse\, NY\, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, LACMA\, and by The Museum of Art and Design\, in New York\, NY. Her work was reviewed by Roberta Smith in the New York Times\, October 2022\, Yevgeniya Baras and Julia Kunin at Mother Gallery. \nSupport Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Public Lecture Series\, which invites a range of artists\, designers\, architects\, critics\, writers\, curators\, and other professionals of national and international stature\, by donating to our Annual Fund!
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/public-lecture-julia-kunin/
LOCATION:deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Avenue\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Mireia Luzárraga
DESCRIPTION:Mireia Luzárraga \nJoin Cranbrook Academy of Art at deSalle Auditorium for a free\, public lecture with Mireia Luzárraga on Tuesday\, February 17\, 2026\, at 6pm. Please enter through the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library; Cranbrook Art Museum will be closed. \nMireia Luzárraga (Madrid\, 1981) is an architect and educator\, and co-founder of TAKK\, an architecture and research studio based in Barcelona and New York\, together with Alejandro Muiño. Her work investigates how architecture can contribute to more equitable ways of living through feminist and ecological approaches to design. She is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP\, where she directs the First Year Core Design Studio\, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo. She was named a Design Vanguard 2024 and selected for Forbes’ 50 Architects to Watch. She is co-editor of 100 Words for Water and co-curator of the Catalan Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. \nSupport Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Public Lecture Series\, which invites a range of artists\, designers\, architects\, critics\, writers\, curators\, and other professionals of national and international stature\, by donating to our Annual Fund!
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/public-lecture-mireia-luzarraga/
LOCATION:deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Avenue\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: David Antonio Cruz
DESCRIPTION:David Antonio Cruz \nJoin Cranbrook Academy of Art at deSalle Auditorium for a free\, public lecture with David Antonio Cruz on Wednesday\, February 11\, 2026\, at 6pm. Please enter through the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library; Cranbrook Art Museum’s galleries close at 5pm. \nDavid Antonio Cruz is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting\, drawing\, performance\, and site-specific installations. Drawing on a mix of queer discourse\, fashion\, history\, and pop culture\, his work interrogates Western traditions of representation and invites subjects to pose as a form of resistance and play\, queering the act of posing. Cruz’s recent solo exhibitions include “stay\, take your time\, my love” at ICA San Francisco (2025); “hauntme” at Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (2025); and “When The Children Come Home” at ICA Philadelphia (2023). \nHis work has been included in notable group exhibitions at the ICA Boston\, Newark Museum of Art\, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University\, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery\, El Museo del Barrio\, the Ford Foundation\, the Brooklyn Museum\, McNay Art Museum\, and the Kemper Art Museum. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include the Wave Hill Gardens Museum\, Bronx\, NY (2026). \nRecent residencies and fellowships include Joan Mitchell Artist-in-Residence\, New Orleans\, LA (2025); Latinx Artist Fellowship (2025); Anderson Ranch Arts Center\, Snowmass Village\, CO (2025; 2024); the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Award (2018); Neubauer Faculty Fellowship\, Tufts University\, Boston (2018); BRIC Workspace Residency\, Brooklyn (2018); Gateway Project Spaces\, Newark\, NJ (2016); and the LMCC Workspace Residency\, New York (2015). Cruz is a 2025 Outwin Boochever National Portrait Competition prizewinner. Cruz lives and works in New York City\, where he is the Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University. \nSupport Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Public Lecture Series\, which invites a range of artists\, designers\, architects\, critics\, writers\, curators\, and other professionals of national and international stature\, by donating to our Annual Fund! \nDavid Antonio Cruz\, Can you stay with me tonight\, cause you are here\, 2021.
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/public-lecture-david-antonio-cruz/
LOCATION:deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Avenue\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Sreshta Rit Premnath
DESCRIPTION:Sreshta Rit Premnath \nJoin Cranbrook Academy of Art at deSalle Auditorium for a free\, public lecture with Sreshta Rit Premnath on Wednesday\, January 21\, 2026\, at 6pm. Please enter through the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library; Cranbrook Art Museum’s galleries close at 5pm. \nSreshta Rit Premnath is an artist from Bangalore living in Brooklyn and Williamstown. He has had solo exhibitions at venues including MIT List Visual Arts Center\, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati\, Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego\, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis\, Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver\, Nomas Foundation in Rome and Usdan Gallery at Bennington College. He is the founding editor of Shifter\, a platform that convened public discussions and produced topical publications from 2004-2021. He is the Chair of Studio Art at Williams College. \nSupport Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Public Lecture Series\, which invites a range of artists\, designers\, architects\, critics\, writers\, curators\, and other professionals of national and international stature\, by donating to our Annual Fund! \nExhibition view of “Overbody” at Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery at Bennington College. Photo by: Alon Koppel Photography
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/public-lecture-sreshta-rit-premnath/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251220T110000
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SUMMARY:3rd Annual Cranbrook Academy of Art Metalsmithing Ring Sale & Winter Student Art Sale
DESCRIPTION:The Annual Cranbrook Academy of Art Metalsmithing Ring Sale returns on Saturday\, December 20\, 2025. Shop handmade rings by current Metalsmithing students in Forum Gallery (New Studios Building\, enter from Cranbrook Art Museum parking lot). Rings cost $30 to $100 each plus tax. Credit/debit cards and digital wallets only. \nThe sale will open at 11am and remain open until 5pm or until all rings are sold out. \nStudents from other departments will also be selling their work in Forum Gallery\, these works may include paintings\, drawings\, small sculptures\, and more. \nCranbrook Art Museum and Cranbrook Institute of Science’s annual Winter Solstice celebration also takes place on Saturday\, December 20\, 2025. Enjoy access to both institutions and numerous making activities\, musical performances\, and more for one ticket price. Learn more and register through Cranbrook Art Museum.
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/3rd-annual-cranbrook-academy-of-art-metalsmithing-ring-sale/
LOCATION:Cranbrook Art Museum\, 39221 Woodward Ave.\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sale
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Jay Heikes - Raspberry Puree
DESCRIPTION:Jay Heikes \nJoin Cranbrook Academy of Art at deSalle Auditorium for a free\, public lecture with Jay Heikes on Tuesday\, December 2\, 2025. In his lecture\, Heikes will discuss his 2024 exhibition\, Devolve\, at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York\, NY\, mutating into his 2025 exhibition\, Second Wave\, at Adams and Ollman in Portland\, OR. \nPlease note that Cranbrook Art Museum’s galleries will be closed. Enter the lecture through the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library doors. \n\nThroughout his materially innovative and richly conceptual practice\, Jay Heikes continuously reimagines an atlas of signs and symbols and stories\, largely of his own devising. Drawing on art’s divergent histories—from the material and alchemical preoccupations of Arte Povera to the revolutionary critique of Russian Constructivism to the Romantic fascination with the sublime—Heikes examines themes of evolution and regeneration\, stasis and corrosion\, entropy and transformation.\n\nAcknowledging that there are no truly new ideas to be had\, Heikes turns to what has already been; his practice is in a continual state of borrowing\, transposing\, appropriating\, and reinterpreting old ideas and forms and narratives using a kaleidoscopic array of media\, remaining perpetually open to transformation within his work and within himself.\n\n\n\nHeikes’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Joslyn Art Museum\, Omaha\, NE; the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, CA; the Aspen Art Museum\, CO; and the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia\, PA. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Photography\, Chicago\, IL; the Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis\, MN; the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, IL; MoMA PS1\, Long Island City\, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts\, NY; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art\, New York\, NY. \nHe was also featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial\, curated by Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne\, at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York NY. Heikes earned an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from the University of Michigan. He lives in St. Paul and works in Minneapolis\, MN. \nSupport Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Public Lecture Series\, which invites a range of artists\, designers\, architects\, critics\, writers\, curators\, and other professionals of national and international stature\, by donating to our Annual Fund! \nJay HeikesPopular Creeps\, 2024oil paint and water-based ink on nylon screen45 1/4h x 33 1/4w x 1 7/8d in114.94h x 84.45w x 4.76d cmJH_017Courtesy of the artist\, Adams and Ollman Gallery.
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/public-lecture-jay-heikes-raspberry-puree/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T193000
DTSTAMP:20260427T205530
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Tongji Philip Qian - The Diary of An Encounter Which Seemed to Have Never Happened
DESCRIPTION:Tongji Philip Qian \nJoin us for a free\, public lecture from Visiting Artist Tongji Philip Qian. In his lecture\, The Diary of An Encounter Which Seemed to Have Never Happened\, he will discuss fluid interpretations of artist responsibilities\, locating and subsequently negotiating with the intersections among rigid “truth\,” package “identity\,” and time- and location-specific pursuit of freedom. \nTongji Philip Qian is a multidisciplinary artist and the co-founder of TPQ Studio. His artistic practice extends the limit of artmaking through conceptual lenses such as speed\, labor\, internationalism\, and immigration. His art writing\, on the other hand\, studies movements commonly associated with Minimalism\, Post-Minimalism\, and Conceptual art. \nTongji Philip Qian’s current exhibition\, Alloyed Commitments at the Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago. Read more about the project in a review by New City Art or the University of Chicago’s student newspaper\, the Chicago Maroon. Other recent projects include Neighborly Passport Keep Right Except to Pass (2023)\, Questionnairing Reality (2021)\, and Art Beside a Single Handshake (2020). His work is housed in a number of public and private collections\, such as the Asia Art Archive in America\, Center for Book Arts\, and the RISD Museum. \nSupport Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Public Lecture Series\, which invites a range of artists\, designers\, architects\, critics\, writers\, curators\, and other professionals of national and international stature\, by donating to our Annual Fund! \nImage courtesy Today Clothing\, Ann Arbor\, MI; Photo by Bob (Robert Heishman and Robert Salazar)
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/public-lecture-tongji-philip-qian-the-diary-of-an-encounter-which-seemed-to-have-never-happened/
LOCATION:deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Avenue\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251108T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251108T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T205530
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SUMMARY:15th Annual Cranbrook Academy of Art Ceramics Cup Sale
DESCRIPTION:2025 Cup Sale poster. Design Anna Gukov (Ceramics 2027). \nThe Annual Ceramics Cup Sale returns on Saturday\, November 8\, 2025. The sale supports artists in the Ceramics program and their travel during the Academic year. \nThe sale will take place in Cranbrook Art Museum’s ArtLab on its lower level. Please use the art museum parking lot or the Cranbrook Institute of Science’s parking deck. Museum admission is not required for entry to the sale\, but you are welcome to purchase gallery admission at the museum’s front desk to enjoy their current Fall exhibitions. \nVisitors should be prepared to wait in line as capacity in the ArtLab is limited. \nAll cups cost $30 plus tax. Credit/debit cards\, Apple Pay\, Google Pay or Samsung Pay are preferred; checks are not accepted. Boxes and packing for visitor cup purchases will be provided by students managing the sale. \n 
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/15th-annual-cranbrook-academy-of-art-ceramics-cup-sale/
LOCATION:Cranbrook Art Museum\, 39221 Woodward Ave.\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sale
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T193000
DTSTAMP:20260427T205530
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Letha Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Letha Wilson \nJoin us in Cranbrook’s deSalle Auditorium for a free\, public lecture by Letha Wilson. \nLetha Wilson will present a large selection of her artworks\, spanning over twenty years\, and share some of the inspirations\, ideas\, and interests behind her artistic practice. She will discuss her unique approach to landscape photography and how she combines it with sculptural processes and materials. Wilson frames her work at the intersection of photography and sculpture: she takes landscape photographs (often from the American West) and then physically manipulates them — folding\, tearing\, embedding them into concrete or steel — to challenge the flat-image convention. Her studio practice has a strong emphasis on material experimentation\, where tests and trials lead to discoveries and unexpected results. \nLetha Wilson was born in Hawaii\, raised in Greeley\, Colorado\, and currently lives and works in Taghkanic and Brooklyn\, New York. She received her BFA from Syracuse University and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City\, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. Her work has been shown at many venues including Mass MoCA\, North Adams\, MA; the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University\, CA; Columbus Museum of Art\, OH; the Center for Maine Contemporary Art\, Rockland; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum\, Lincoln\, MA; and the Nasher Museum at Duke University\, Durham\, NC. Solo and two-person exhibitions have been held at GRIMM Gallery in New York and London\, Galerie Christophe Gaillard\, Paris\, FR\, Higher Pictures Generations\, New York\, and Sperone Westwater\, New York. Her outdoor sculptures have been installed in the City of Las Vegas\, NV\, Riverside Park\, New York\, NY\, the Rochester Institute of Technology\, NY\, and the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego\, CA. \nWilson has been awarded artist residencies at MacDowell\, Yaddo\, Walentas Studio Program\, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts\, and Headlands Center for the Arts\, and she received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography in 2014 and 2019. For the academic year 2025\, Letha was appointed the Stuart B. Cooper Endowed Chair of Photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA). Her work has been reviewed in Artforum\, Art in America\, the New York Times\, The New Yorker\, and Artsy\, among others. Wilson’s artwork has been acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art\, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA\, The Loeb Center at Vassar College\, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University\, and the New York Public Library\, among others. \n  \nSupport Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Public Lecture Series\, which invites a range of artists\, designers\, architects\, critics\, writers\, curators\, and other professionals of national and international stature\, by donating to our Annual Fund!
URL:https://cranbrookart.edu/event/public-lecture-letha-wilson/
LOCATION:deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Avenue\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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