An Art Sale to Benefit Haiti
Friday, February 12, 2010
6-9 pm
Cranbrook Academy of Art
Forum Gallery
Over 60 Cranbrook Artists are selling work priced between $25-$200. All proceeds from the sale will go to the Red Cross Relief Effort in Haiti. For more information, call 248-645-3300.
Cranbrook Academy of Art [SPRING] Edition Lecture Lectures
All lectures begin at 6 pm in Cranbrook Institute of Science Auditorium and are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Parking is available in the structure to the south of the entrance. The following lectures are scheduled for February. For a complete list, visit the Critical Studies page.
Tuesday, February 2
Charlie White
Associate Professor and Director, MFA Program, Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California
“The Discomfort of Looking”
Sponsored by the Photography Department
Charlie White is a photographer and filmmaker whose work has been exhibited internationally since 1999. White holds the position of Associate Professor, and is the Director of the MFA program, at the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Fine Arts. White was a fellow at the Yale Norfolk Summer Program in 1994, received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1995, and his MFA in 1998 from Art Center College of Design. White has had solo gallery exhibitions at the Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; FA Projects, London; Loock Gallery, Berlin; Brandstrom Gallery, Stockholm; as well as solo institutional exhibitions at The Santa Barabara Contemporary Arts Forum; Domus Artium in Salamanca, Spain; Oslo Kunstforening in Oslo, Norway; and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, in Ridgefield, CT. White’s first film, American Minor, 2008, was selected to screen at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. White’s work has been discussed and reviewed in periodicals and journals such as The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, Modern Painters, The New Yorker, Wired, lacanian ink, and EXIT Image and Culture. In addition, his works have been included in two Thames and Hudson surveys, The Photograph As Contemporary Art, by Charlotte Cotton, and The Body in Contemporary Art, by Sally O’Reilly. White’s most recent monograph, American Minor, was published by JRP|Ringier in Spring of 2009.
Sunday, February 7
Ezra Shales
Assistant Professor of Art History, Alfred University
3 pm
“Craft's Social Life”
Sponsored by the Ceramics Department
Ezra Shales teaches design, decorative arts, and material culture at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He has a Ph.D. from the Bard Graduate Center and has a forthcoming book titled “Made in Newark: Cultivating Industrial Arts and Municipal Identity in the Progressive Era” (Rutgers University Press, Spring 2010). The project recuperates the experimental exhibitions of arts and crafts in the public library, museum, schools, and department stores between 1900 and 1916, and argues that craft demonstrations were performative spectacles where women, immigrants, and industrialists both collaborated and competed to represent their identity in relation to civic enrichment.
Sunday, February 14
Industrial Facility
London-based design office of Designer Sam Hecht and Architect Kim Colin
3:00 pm
“Product as Landscape”
Sponsored by the 3D Design Department
Industrial Facility has developed projects for companies such as Herman Miller, Established & Sons, Epson, Issey Miyake, LaCie and Muji. With Muji, they hold the position of creative advisers for World Muji, since 2002. They also act as creative advisors to Herman Miller. Industrial Facility’s belief is in the importance of design as a means of simplifying our lives in an inspirational way. It achieves this by following a rigorous path of investigation and analysis that has been well documented, with over 40 international awards, including the IF Gold Award on three occasions. Industrial Facility’s work forms part of the permanent collections of the MoMA, New York; The Centre Pompidou, Paris; the State Museum of Applied Arts, Munich; the Museum Fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt; and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Sam Hecht was made a Royal Designer for Industry in 2008.
Artology Lectures - A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack
Friday, February 12
Henry Pollack
Professor Emeritus, Geophysicist and Nobel Laureate, University of Michigan, Department of Geological Sciences
"A World Without Ice"
7:00 pm
Book signing follows lecture
Dr. Henry Pollack and his colleagues on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore. Pollack has been a professor of geophysics at the University of Michigan for more than forty years, travels regularly to Antarctica, and has conducted scientific research on all seven continents and is also the author of Uncertain Science ... Uncertain World. Dr. Pollack will discuss his current research on climate change and his book A World Without Ice, in which he offers a compelling description of the delicate balance between ice and climate, and why its rapid disappearance portends serious consequences in our not-so-distant future.
Artology Lectures are sponsored by Cranbrook Art Museum and Cranbrook Institute of Science as part of Artology: The Fusion of Art and Science at Cranbrook. All lectures take place in the Cranbrook Institute of Science Auditorium and included with Museum admission.
Cranbrook Academy of Art [SPRING] Edition Lecture Series
In its inaugural year, the Academy’s Edition Lecture Series presents a program that reflects the current variety of contemporary thought and creative practice through the eyes of artists, critics, and scholars.
All lectures begin at 6 pm in Cranbrook Institute of Science Auditorium and are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Parking is available in the structure to the south of the entrance. The following lectures are scheduled for January. For a complete list, visit the Critical Studies page.
Tuesday, January 19
Dana Schutz
Painter
“An Evening with Dana Schutz”
Sponsored by the Painting Department
Born in Livonia, Michigan, Dana Schutz received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from Columbia University in New York where she now works and lives. She has had solo exhibitions of her paintings at The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Panic LFL Gallery, New York, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris and Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston. Her work is represented by the Saatchi Gallery.
Tuesday, January 26
Stuart Candy
Futurist at the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies and Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation
“Fragments of Future Worlds: The Art and Design of Experiential Scenarios”
Sponsored by the Humanities Program
Stuart Candy is a unique thinker and writer, a pioneer in both the practice and theory of experiential scenarios. Holding degrees in the history and philosophy of science, law, and political science, he brings this multidisciplinary background to the creation of experiences that embody compelling and provocative stories about how the world could change. With Jake Dunagan (Institute for the Future) he founded an ongoing, collaborative strand of public art projects called FoundFutures, which aims to make alternative futures vividly available to people in the midst of their everyday lives. He has presented at institutions including London's Royal College of Art and Yale University, currently works at the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies in Honolulu, and is the first research fellow of The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco. In 2009 he was elected to the Executive Board of the World Futures Studies Federation. His widely read blog, the sceptical futurist, (http://futuryst.com) investigates forward thinking, media, activism, and design.
David Buckland
Ice Texts, 2004-2005
Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change
January 31-June 13, 2010
ArtMembers Reception: Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:00 - 8:00 pm
Family Activities from 4–6 pm
Refreshments provided by Whole Foods Market
Cash bar from 6–8 pm
Temporary Exhibition Hall at Cranbrook Institute of Science
The exhibition is part of the series Artology: The Fusion of Art and Science at Cranbrook
Created by the artist David Buckland in 2001, the Cape Farewell project is widely acknowledged to be the most significant sustained artistic response to climate change anywhere in the world. “Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change” brings together specially-commissioned work from the artists who have voyaged with Cape Farewell on the 100 year-old sailing schooner, The Noorderlicht. Over the course of three expeditions in 2003, 2004 and 2005, the artists, including Antony Gormley and Rachel Whiteread, traveled to Spitsbergen and the Svalbard Archipelago in the Arctic. Inspired by the work of the on-board climate scientists and having experienced the effects of climate change in this cruel but fragile environment, each of the artists has responded in an unique way. Through images, sound, sculpture, dance and the power of the word, this exhibition expresses the wonder of nature together with the drama of destruction.
The exhibition “Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change” was created in partnership with the Natural History Museum, London. The exhibition is now embarking on a world tour with Barbican Touring Arts. The presentation at Cranbrook will be its North American première..
Cranbrook Academy of Art [FALL] Edition Lecture Series 2009
Reflecting the current variety of contemporary creative practice, the [FALL] Edition Lecture Series presents a series of evenings with all forms of innovative inquiry. A part of the academic program at Cranbrook Academy of Art, the lectures are open to the public – inviting the community to share in the ideas and discussions of the Academy.
All lectures begin at 6:00 pm in the Cranbrook Institute of Science Auditorium and are free, unless otherwise noted. Please park in the public parking deck. For a complete listing of the series, please visit the Critical Studies page.
Sarah Thornton, Mark Pascale, Walter Hood, Eric Mattijssen, Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert will be lecturing in November as part of the Academy's [Fall] Edition Lecture Series
Tuesday, November 3
Sarah Thornton
Writer and Sociologist
“Seven Days in the Art World and Beyond”
Sponsored by the Critical Studies Program
Sarah Thorton has written about art, its world and market for many publications, including The Economist, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, and The New Yorker. She has contributed to BBC, CBS and ZDF television programs as well as numerous NPR and BBC radio shows. Thornton was a member of the faculty at Sussex University where she ran the MA in Media Studies, then a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2003, Thornton has been investigating the inner workings of the international contemporary art world. Her book, Seven Days in the Art World, is based on intensive ethnographic research, including in-depth interviews with over 250 people and hundreds of hours of participant observation.
Tuesday, November 10
Mark Pascale
Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago
“Print Matters”
Sponsored by the PrintMedia Department
Mark Pascale is a lithographer with an in-depth knowledge of contemporary and historical techniques of printmaking. Currently, he is Curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago, and concurrently Adjunct Professor of Art in Print Media, at School of the Art Institute. In addition to an impressive record of exhibitions and publications, Pascale remains active as a lecturer and presenter, nationally and abroad. Known for his in-depth knowledge of contemporary and historical printmaking techniques, Pascale has contributed expertise to several projects for the Art Institute, including most recently, an essay for "Jasper Johns: Gray" (2007), as well as several issues of Museum Studies.
Friday, November 13
Walter Hood
Architect
“Urban Landscapes and Provocations”
Co-sponsored by the University of Detroit Mercy, School of Architecture + NOMA Detroit with Cranbrook Academy of Art
This lecture takes place at the Genevieve Fisk Loranger Architecture Center in the School of Architecture. The lecture space is located in the Warren Loranger Building on the McNichols Campus at the corner of Livernois and McNichols. Use the Livernois Campus Entrance.
Walter Hood is Professor and former Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and principal of Hood Design in Oakland, CA. Hood has worked in a variety of settings including architecture, landscape architecture, art, community and urban design, planning and research. He was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome in Landscape Architecture, 1997. He has exhibited and lectured on his professional projects and theoretical works nationally and abroad. His work was recently featured in the Open, New Designs For Public Spaces, Van Allen Institute, NY, and his firm designed the gardens and landscape for the New De Young Museum, San Francisco with Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron. He is currently designing the landscape for the Autry National Museum in Los Angeles, CA; designing an archeological garden within the context of the South Lawn Project at the University of Virginia, and developing a set of monuments and markers for a six mile waterfront trail in Oakland, CA.
Tuesday, November 17
Eric Mattijssen
Artist / Educator
“On Beauty and Happiness”
Co-sponsored by the Metalsmithing and Print Media Departments
An artist living and working in Amsterdam, Erik Mattijssen is also a Lecturer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the Foundation and Design departments. He is a consultant for the Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam and a member of the AanZet and Jeanne Oostingrpijs juries. He has been a guest teacher at the Nola Hatterman Art Academy in Paramaribo, Suriname and the Hiko Mizuno College in Tokyo, Japan and has been on visiting fellowship to the Ballinglen Arts Foundation.
Tuesday, November 24
Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope
Architect and Artist
“Neighborhood”
Sponsored by the Critical Studies Program
Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope founded Design 99 in 2007 to investigate new models of contemporary art and architectural practice. The storefront space in Hamtramck situates their studio within a public, retail environment, amongst a commercial strip known for its ethnic diversity, affordable eateries, and array of dollar stores. Design 99 seeks out new opportunities in the community investigating art, architecture and design as well as publication projects and storefront experiments. Collaboration is key and Design 99 and Mitch’s collaborative project, "Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop", have been included in many international exhibitions and permanent collections including the Van Abbemuseum (The Netherlands), Smart Museum (Chicago), World Labor Museum (Austria), and Dresden Kunsthalle. Mitch and Gina’s other work includes the "Power House Project", investigating and developing new strategies for community stabilization and growth through creative practices and technologies, which has been featured in the New York Times, CNN’s AC360, ABC news 20/20, NPR, and Der Spiegel, among others.
Tuesday, December 1
Lane Relyea
Cranbrook 2009 Visiting Critical Studies Fellow and Associate Professor, Northwestern University
“Cosmopolitans and Nomads: The (Net)work of Art in the Age of Compulsory Circulation”
Part of the fellowship series, “D.I.Y. Culture Industry: Signifying Practices, Social Networks and Other Instrumentalizations of Everyday Art”.
Sponsored by the Critical Studies Program
Lane Relyea is the Fall 2009 Visiting Critical Studies Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art. An Associate Professor of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University, Professor Relyea has written for such magazines as Art Journal, Art in America, Artforum, Frieze and Parkett and has published monographs on contemporary artists. He is the former director of the Core Program at the Glassell School of Art in Houston and his book "D.I.Y. Culture Industry" is forthcoming from MIT Press.
Tuesday, December 8
Debbie Millman
President of design division at Sterling Brands
“Why We Brand, Why We Buy”
Sponsored by the 2-D Design Department
Debbie Millman has worked in the design business for over 25 years. She is President of the design division at Sterling Brands. She has been there for fourteen years and in that time she has worked on the redesign of global brands for Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, Campbell’s, Colgate, Hershey and Hasbro.
Debbie is also President of the AIGA, the professional association for design. She is a contributing editor at Print Magazine and she teaches at the School of Visual Arts. In 2005, she began hosting the first weekly radio talk show about design on the Internet. The show is titled “Design Matters with Debbie Millman” and it is featured on the Voice America Business Network. She is the author of two books, "How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer" and “The Essential Principles of Graphic Design”. Her new “Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design,” will be published by How Books in Fall of 2009.
Winged Migration: © Sony Pictures Classics
Artology Film Series
See a film on the big screen Friday nights at Cranbrook Institute of Science! The Artology Film Series includes four films inspired by themes explored in the exhibition Animal Logic: Photographs and Installation by Richard Barnes. From classic films to family favorites, there's a great movie for everyone to enjoy in the Artology Film Series. Admission to the Artology Film Series is included with admission to Cranbrook Institute of Science. All films start at 7 pm.
Bringing Up Baby
Friday, October 23
The Birds
Friday, October 30
The Jungle Book
Friday, November 27
Winged Migration
Friday, December 4
Artology Lectures
We invite you to join us for an in-depth look from the artists' perspectives of the work featured in the ongoing exhibition Animal Logic. The following lectures will take place in the Auditorium at the Cranbrook Institute of Science.
Richard Barnes
Sunday, October 4
Richard Barnes
Photographer
3:00 pm
"Animal Logic"
Sponsored by Cranbrook Art Museum and Cranbrook Institute of Science as a part of Artology: The Fusion of Art and Science at Cranbrook
*Lecture included with museum admission
Richard Barnes divides his time between commissioned photography and personal projects. While his commissioned work often looks at the way we inhabit and represent the built environment, many of his personal projects, most notably a series of photographs called "Animal Logic," look critically at both the natural world and the ways in which we attempt to institutionalize and classify nature within the museum. Based in New York, his work is the focus of several exhibitions this fall in Michigan, including a large mid-career survey at Cranbrook Institute of Science (October 4, 2009 - January 4, 2010) and two exhibitions at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Barnes was a recipient of the Rome Prize for 2005-2006 and his photographs of the cabin of Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a. the "Unabomber," were featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and awarded the Alfred Eisenstadt Award for Photography.
Mark Dion
Tuesday, October 20
Mark Dion
Artist
6:00 pm
“Survey of Recent Endeavors”
Sponsored by Cranbrook Art Museum and Cranbrook Institute of Science as a part of Artology: The Fusion of Art and Science at Cranbrook
Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1961. He received a BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford School of Art, Connecticut. Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. Appropriating archaeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion has received numerous awards, including the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2001). He has had major exhibitions at the Miami Art Museum (2006); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2004); and Tate Gallery, London (1999). His work was most recently displayed at Cranbrook Art Museum in the exhibition Weird Science: A Conflation of Art and Science (1999), for which Dion created installations utilizing objects and specimens from the Cranbrook Institute of Science. Dion lives and works in New York and Pennsylvania.
Richard Barnes
Man With Wolves, 2007
Archival digital print
Collection of Richard Barnes, courtesy Howard House Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
Animal Logic: Photography and Installation by Richard Barnes
Sunday, October 4, 2009 – Sunday, January 3, 2010
Temporary Exhibition Hall at Cranbrook Institute of Science
Joint ArtMembers’ and Institute of Science Members’ Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 3, 2009, 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. (with a cash bar from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.)
Artist’s Talk and Book Signing: Sunday, October 4, 3:00 p.m.
Cranbrook Institute of Science Auditorium
Animal Logic: Photography and Installation by Richard Barnes presents a mid-career survey of the work of acclaimed New York and San Francisco-based photographer Richard Barnes. This artist's work looks critically at both the natural world and the ways in which we attempt to institutionalize and classify nature within museums. The exhibition will showcase work from all of Barnes’s recent major photographic series, featuring surreal images of dioramas and artifacts from natural history museums.
Integral to Animal Logic will be new photography and installations utilizing the collections of Cranbrook Institute of Science. During three extended visits to Cranbrook in 2009, Barnes explored and photographed the Institute’s vast collection of over 150,000 objects distributed across nine fields of study, including items from the collections of Anthropology, Ornithology and Paleontology. The resulting photographs, as well as large selections of the objects themselves, will provide a rich context for Barnes’s mid-career survey. Visit www.cranbrookart.edu/museum for more information.
Artology Interventions: Gem and Mineral Hall
October 4, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Gem and Mineral Hall
Cranbrook Institute of Science
Learn about the science behind the materials used in some of Cranbrook Art Museum's most beloved art objects! Artology Interventions: Gem and Mineral Hall is the first in a series of installations which showcases works from the collection of Cranbrook Art Museum alongside related specimens from the Cranbrook Institute of Science.
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Artology: The Fusion of Art and Science at Cranbrook
From October 2009 through June 2010, Cranbrook Art Museum and Cranbrook Institute of Science will present a pioneering year of collaborative exhibitions and programming titled Artology: The Fusion of Art and Science at Cranbrook. The Artology exhibitions will showcase the work of artists whose practices intersect with science at a fundamental level, utilizing relevant concepts as varied as the methodology of scientific research and the beauty of natural phenomena as initial contacts for aesthetic investigation. Cranbrook Institute of Science’s temporary exhibitions hall will provide the home for the Artology which will include two large exhibitions—Animal Logic: Photography and Installation by Richard Barnes and Cape Farewell: Art and Climate Change—as well as a series of smaller interventions throughout the Institute’s galleries. For more information, www.cranbrookart.edu/museum.
Cranbrook Academy of Art announces the commencement speaker for 2009
Richard Sennett to address graduates on Friday, May 8 in the Greek Theatre
The Academy's commencement address will be delivered by Richard Sennett, a writer and professor, whose work focuses on “cultural studies.” Sennett, a leading author and speaker, is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, the Bemis Adjunct Professor of Sociology at MIT and Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Sennett is probably best known for his studies of social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the modern world. Sennett has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. In 2006 he was the winner of the Hegel Prize awarded by the German city of Stuttgart. His work has explored how individuals and groups make sense of material facts about where they live and the work they do. His writings and research have focused on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. Mr. Sennett trained at the University of Chicago and at Harvard University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1969. He then moved to New York where, in the 1970s he founded, with Susan Sontag and Joseph Brodsky, The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. He is the author of more than ten titles including most recently, the critically acclaimed book entitled "The Craftsman," which is a must read for all practicing artists. Sennett is married to sociologist Saskia Sassen.
Loose Canon: The 2009 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art
April 19-May 10
All galleries of Cranbrook Art Museum
Members’ Preview: Saturday, April 18
6-8 pm
Each April, as part of the requirements for earning either a Master of Fine Arts or Master of Architecture degree, the second-year students of the Academy present their thesis work in the annual Graduate Degree Exhibition. Established in 1932, the Academy of Art’s Graduate Program remains a “living studio of artistic invention” as envisioned by its founder, newspaper publisher and philanthropist George Booth.
Fresh: The 7th Annual Student Art Auction
Cranbrook Academy of Art
Saturday, April 25
7-10 pm Forum Gallery
Tickets $10
Cash Bar
Cranbrook Academy of Art is recognized the world over as producing some of the best young, emerging artists and designers on the contemporary art scene. Art lovers and collectors will enjoy this extraordinary opportunity to purchase 100 juried works by rising young stars in the art world. Work ranges from large installations to small ceramic teacups, all embodying the leading-edge style and technique of the Academy’s top artists.
Cranbrook Academy Awards
Thursday, May 8
5-6:30 pm
de Salle Auditorium
Please join us as we honor the Academy's outstanding 2009 graduates and announce the scholarship and fellowship awards to Academy students. Selected 2009 graduates will give presentations on their work and the 2009 Graduate Degree Show will be featured in the Cranbrook Art Museum galleries. Kindly RSVP by May 1, 2009 to artevents@cranbrook.edu or 248.645.3040.
Ideas & Process: Gallery Talks and Studio Tours
Led by Cranbrook Academy of Art Artists
April 19, 25, 26; May 2, 3, 9, 10.
1:30 pm
Meet at the Art Museum Front Desk. No reservations are required.
Join students from Cranbrook Academy of Art to tour of the Art Museum’s current exhibitions. The gallery talks will be followed by visits to the Academy’s studios, normally closed to the public.
Forum Gallery Openings
Friday nights through April 17
6-8 pm
New Studios Building
The student-run Forum Gallery offers an opening most Friday evenings of the academic year. Join graduate students of the Academy who present their work to their peers and the community at large. Free and open to the public.
Knoll Lecture Series
The 3D Design Department presents
Roy McMakin
Furniture Designer
Saturday, April 4
1:30 pm
deSalle Auditorium
The Knoll Lecture Series at Cranbrook Academy of Art, established through a generous endowment by Knoll International, each year brings a renowned designer to the Academy for a free public lecture to promote the importance of design as well as learning sessions with Academy students. Roy McMakin, an artist and designer who is known for whimsical and beautifully crafted painted furniture bearing his trademark - Domestic Furniture™.
Banff Mountain Film Festival World
Thursday and Friday
April 2-3
7:30 pm
de Salle Auditorium
Tickets on sale exclusively at MooseJaw Stores
Hot on the heels of the largest, and one of the most prestigious, mountain festivals in the world, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is making stops in about 285 communities and 30 countries across the globe. This year’s tour features a collection of the most inspiring and thought-provoking action, environmental, and adventure mountain films. Traveling from remote landscapes and cultures to up close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports, the 2008/2009 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world. Tickets on sale exclusively at MooseJaw stores in Birmingham and Rochester. $12 adults, $7 students with id and school children accompanied by an adult. For more information about the festival visit the website: http://www.mvpcollaborative.com/banff2009/.
David Zirin
Book Signing and Lecture
Dave Zirin
Sunday, March 29, 4 pm
deSalle Auditorium
One of the best young sportswriters in the United States, Washington-based Dave Zirin has been named the Press Action's 2005 and 2006 Sportswriter of the Year. He brings his blend of sports and politics to multiple television and radio programs, as well as print media including: ESPN's "Outside the Lines"; NPR's "Talk of the Nation" and "All Things Considered"; The Nation magazine; SLAM magazine; The Progressive; sportsillustrated.com; and for The Los Angeles Times. He also is the host of XM Satellite Radio's popular weekly show, "Edge of Sports." A renowned author, Zirin has recently published his new book, People's History of Sports in the United States. At Cranbrook, Zirin will speak about using the prism of sports to learn about US history.
Paul Pfeiffer
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 2007
Fuijiflex digital chromogenic print, 48 x 60 in
Courtesy of the artist and The Project New York
Curator's Talk
Behind the Scenes of Mixed Signals
Christopher Bedford
Sunday, March 8, 4 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Christopher Bedford is curator of the exhibition Mixed Signals. Formerly Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bedford now is Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts in Columbus, Ohio. He has written extensively on art for publications including Artforum, Art in America, and October. In this lecture, Bedford will talk about the concepts that structured the exhibition.
Alberto Alessi
Lecture
Alberto Alessi
Sunday, March 8, 2009
2 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Alberto Alessi is managing director of his family's company, Alessi SpA of Italy, which has produced some of the most iconic products in the field of houseware design. Alberto represents the third generation of the family to run the company, and one of his first projects when he joined in 1970 was to overhaul the company's corporate identity. He has since been instrumental in collaborating with key figures in the design world including Richard Sapper, Ettore Sottsass, Aldo Rossi and Michael Graves. In 1998, he received the Design Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Please help us welcome Alberto Alessi for his first visit to Cranbrook. Free with Museum admission. Students with ID free, $6 seniors, $7 general admission. ArtMembers@Cranbrook always free. For more information, 248-645-3320.
Check out Alberto Alessi's interview with Michael Hodges of the Detroit News this week: www.detnews.com/architectureblog
Artist Talk
Superheroes In Action
Mark Newport
Sunday, February 22, 4 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Mark Newport is Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. In this lecture, Newport will address the formal and conceptual development of his work, focusing on the influences of pop culture and personal experience.
Mark Newport
Flamer, 2008
Hand-knit acrylic yarn and buttons
80 x 23 x 6 inches
Don't miss Superheroes In Action featuring a special performance by Mark Newport on Saturday, January 31
Mark Newport: Superheroes In Action
February 1 - March 29, 2009
Art Members' Opening: Saturday, January 31, 2009, 6-8 pm
Mark Newport in Performance: 6-7 pm
North Gallery
Mark Newport: Superheroes In Action explores the innovative and engaging work of Mark Newport, Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Superheroes and comic book characters, both classic -- Batman, Captain America, the Rawhide Kid, Hawkeye -- and devised from Newport's imagination -- Argyleman, Sweaterman, Every-Any No-Man, Flamer -- provide the subject matter for oversized knitted costumes. In these works, Newport questions the iconic nature and heroic ability of the superhero through the use of typically feminine-gendered art forms, consequently posing larger questions about pop culture, masculinity, domesticity and craft. Mark Newport: Superheroes In Action offers these signature textile pieces, reinforcing that Newport, one of four artists to be represented in the Smithsonian American Art Museum/Renwick Gallery's prestigious 2009 Biennial Craft Invitational exhibition, is one of the most significant artists working in the landscape of contemporary fiber art. Mark Newport: Superheroes In Action will be accompanied by a book which showcases the artist's complete costumes, 2003-2008.
Mark Newport: Superheroes In Action was organized by Cranbrook Art Museum and curated by Emily Zilber, the Jeanne and Ralph Graham Collections Fellow. The book is sponsored in part by Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan, and Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Family Events...Bring the kids on Sunday and channel your own Superhero!
Comics and Superheroes
Sunday, February 1, 1-4 pm
Throughout the museum. See Front Desk for more information. Please contact Elena Ivanova to RSVP for workshop and Comic Marathon by calling 248-645-3314 or send an email to: eivanova@cranbrook.edu.
Calling all comic book collectors and superhero fans of all ages! Don't miss an opportunity to participate in a variety of exciting activities including:
The Best Superhero Costume Contest
1-3 pm
Come dressed up as your favorite super hero or super heroine. Prizes will be awarded at 3 pm. Children and adults welcome.
Comic Book Workshop
1-3 pm
Comic book legends from Spiderman to Batman got their start with a handful of colored pencils, a blank sheet of paper, and an artist with enough skill and passion to turn inspiration into art. Let your own super hero spring to life at Cranbrook Art Museum. The workshop will be conducted by Cranbook Academy of Art students. Students grades K-12 welcome. RSVP required.
24-hour Comic Marathon
Create a comic book in 24 hours! Contest participants have just 24 hours (from 1 pm January 31 until 1 pm February 1) to create a legend. Instructions will be given during a sneak preview of the exhibition Superheroes In Action on Saturday, January 31, at 11 am. Teens and adults welcome. RSVP required.
Grassroots Public Based Practice
Nato Thompson
Wednesday, January 28, 7 pm
Nato Thompson will discuss his work at Creative Time detailing his recent projects, Paul Chan's "Waiting for Godot" in New Orleans and "Democracy in America: The National Campaign". He will also discuss the upcoming Creative Time collaboration with the New Museum on Jeremy Deller's "It is what it is: Conversations about Iraq".
Nato Thompson works as curator at Creative Time, a public art organization in New York City. His writings on art and politics have been published widely and he has a forthcoming book from Autonomedia press titled, "Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Age of Cultural Product.
Catherine Opie
Josh, 2007
Chromogenic print, 30 x 22-1/4 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles
National première
Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports
February 1 through March 29, 2009
Main, Center, South and Waigner Galleries
ArtMembers’ Opening: Saturday, January 31, 2009, 6–8 pm
The exhibition Mixed Signals focuses on artists from the mid-1990s to the present who question the notion of the male athlete as the last bastion of uncomplicated, authentic identity in American culture during the preceding decades. Many works presented in the exhibition will be on display for the first time and are made by artists who have appropriated, riffed on, and variously re-presented athletic imagery. Mixed Signals demonstrates that the male athlete is a far more ambiguous, polyvalent figure in our collective cultural imagination than ever before.
Participating artists: Matthew Barney, Mark Bradford, Marcelino Gonçalves, Lyle Ashton Harris, Brian Jungen, Kurt Kauper, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Kori Kewkirk, Catherine Opie, Paul Pfeiffer, Marco Rios, Collier Schorr, Joe Sola, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Hank Willis Thomas.
Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York. The guest curator for the exhibition is Christropher Bedford, Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts in Columbus, Ohio. The exhibition, tour, and catalogue are made possible, in part, by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and the members of iCI.
Mark Newport
Batmen, 2008
Mark Newport: Superheroes In Action
February 1 through March 29, 2009
North Gallery
Art Members’ Opening Saturday, January 31, 2009, 6–8 pm
Mark Newport: Superheroes In Action explores the innovative and engaging work of Mark Newport, Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Superheroes and comic book characters both classic – Batman, Captain America, the Rawhide Kid, Hawkeye – and devised from Newport’s imagination – Argyleman, Sweaterman, Every Any No Man, Flamer – provide the subject matter for oversized knitted costumes. In these works, Newport questions the iconic nature and heroic ability of the superhero through the use of typically feminine-gendered art forms, consequently posing larger questions about pop culture, masculinity, domesticity and craft.
Stella Waitzkin
New Exhibition Opening December 20
Form as Content: The Book as Object in Art and Design
Works from the Collection of Cranbrook Art Museum
Opens Saturday, December 20, 2008, and runs through Sunday, March 22, 2009
deSalle Gallery
The designers and artists featured in this exhibition all ask a related question: what does it mean to bypass the book’s primary function as a conveyor of content and instead examine the power and meaning of the book through its form? Works in the exhibition range from Jane Lackey’s eviscerated dictionaries to Stella Waitzkin’s ghostly cast resin tomes.
Be the first to preview the spectacular Warhol Exhibition Opening in October
A special ArtMember's opening will be held Friday, October 10, 5:30-8:30 pm for the upcoming exhibition Andy Warhol: Grand Slam Paintings, Photographs, Prints and Films. Please join us for this special opportunity to see the exhibition before it opens to the general public. Warhol will be on view in the Upper Main, Center, North, and South Galleries of Cranbrook Art Museum and open to the public on October 19, 2008 and will have a staggered closing January 4 through 11, 2009.
Kathryn Coulson Memorial Service
Saturday, September 20
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Reflecting Pools
5PM
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, September 20 at Cranbrook Academy of Art to honor the memory of Kathryn Coulson, who passed away unexpectedly in late June. Kathy served as Administrative Assistant at the Academy for more than 10 years is remembered lovingly "as the lady at the front desk" by students, alumni, staff, and faculty. The memorial service will be held in conjunction with a Forum Gallery exhibition that will feature work by current students. The art work in the exhibition will be offered for sale and will benefit the Kathy Coulson Scholarship Fund. A reception in the Forum Gallery will follow the service.
Contribution's to "Kathy Coulson Fund" (please have check made out to "Cranbrook Academy of Art") can be sent to:
Kathy Coulson Fund
Cranbrook Academy of Art
39221 Woodward Avenue
P O Box 801
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303-0801
For more information, please contact Bob Yares, Alumni Manager, 248-645-3309.
Glenn Adamson
The Grand Finale of the Summer Exhibition Season
Sunday, September 14 at 4:00 pm, deSalle Auditorium
“Modern Craft: What Next?”
A closing lecture and book signing by Glenn Adamson, the Victoria & Albert Museum
The lecture will be followed by a book signing for Adamson's new book, Thinking Through Craft.
Join us for the grand finale to mark the close of the critically acclaimed summer exhibitions with a lecture by Glenn Adamson, Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria & Albert Museum, who will discuss craft's role in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, design, contemporary art, and the crafts. Adamson has lectured and written extensively on craft, most recently in his book entitled Thinking through Craft, which is an engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Dispensing with clichéd arguments that craft is art, Adamson persuasively has made a case for defining craft in a more nuanced fashion.
The lecture is co-sponsored by Cranbrook Art Museum and Cranbrook Academy of Art's Departments of Ceramics and Fiber.
Sunday, September 7
Hop on Board: A Behind the Scenes Bus Trip to the Toledo Museum of Art
Join us as we travel to the Toledo Museum of Art and visit the extraordinary glass collection and the critically acclaimed exhibition, Collecting at Winterthur: Henry Francis du Pont's American Vision. Toledo's glass collection is considered one of the most comprehensive and historically significant collections in the world and features work from the ancient Mediterranean, Islamic and European (from Renaissance to contemporary) periods. We will tour the collection with the Museum's Curator of Glass, Jutta Page. The tour will be followed by a private glass-blowing demonstration and lunch at the Museum’s café. Following lunch, we will be joined by Steve Nowak, the Museum's Director of Interpretive Programs and Exhibitions, who will take us on an in-depth tour of the exhibition, Collecting at Winterthur: Henry Francis du Pont's American Vision, featuring works from one of America’s leading collections of decorative arts.
The bus will leave from the parking lot of Cranbrook Art Museum at 9:15 am sharp and will return at 5:15 pm. Space is limited to 15 people. Fees (all-inclusive, non-refundable): $90 for ArtMembers, $100 for non-members per person. Reservation and payment are required by September 5, 12 pm noon. For reservations and more information, please call Elena Ivanova at 248-645-3314.
Exhibitions on View at Cranbrook Art Museum
George and Mira Nakashima
Conoid Bench, 1961
Craft in America: Expanding Traditions
June 14 – September 14, 2008
Main, Center and North Galleries
Information:
248-645-3040.
Craft in America: Expanding Traditions celebrates the rich legacy of an American art form. The exhibition is a landmark historical survey, touring nationally, which features exemplary works that focus on the aesthetic achievements in the field. Spanning more than one hundred years, beginning with the Industrial Revolution, Craft in America explores the many cultures and movements that have contributed to the development and refinement of American crafts during the last century. The history of Cranbrook and the Academy of Art figure centrally in this exhibition, which features more than seventeen objects from the Collection of Cranbrook Art Museum, and work by Cranbrook faculty and graduates including Eliel and Loja Saarinen, Ed Rossbach, John Glick, Marianne Strengell, Jack Lenor Larsen, Gerhardt Knodel, Harry Bertoia and Harvey Littleton. Other artists represented in the exhibition, which features over 150 works, include Ron Nagle, Gertrude and Otto Natzler, Peter Voulkos, Wendell Castle, Sam Maloof, George and Mira Nakashima, and Wharton Esherick.
Craft in America: Expanding Traditions is organized by Craft in America, Inc., Los Angeles, and Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions (CATE), Pasadena, California.
Richard De Vore
#1094, 2004
Photographers: Tim Thayer and R.H. Hensleigh
Richard De Vore: Retrospective and "Last Works"
June 14 – September 14, 2008
South Gallery
The elegant and sensual forms of the artist Richard De Vore (1933–2006) transformed the landscape of contemporary ceramics. Over the course of a prolific career, De Vore established himself as one of the predominant artists working with clay, blurring the boundaries between fine art and ceramic traditions to produce a body of work that is conceptual, sensual and emotionally charged. De Vore began to explore these issues while at Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he not only attended the Academy from 1955-1957, working with the famed ceramist Maija Grotell, but also took the helm of the department as Grotell’s successor, a position he held between 1966 and 1978. From 1978 until his death in 2006, De Vore was on the faculty of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.
The retrospective features selections from the collection of Maxine and Stuart Frankel who worked with De Vore to create the largest and most comprehensive collection of the artist’s work.
The exhibition is organized by Cranbrook Art Museum and co-curated by Art Museum Director Gregory Wittkopp and Jeanne and Ralph Graham Collections Fellow Emily Zilber. It is accompanied by a full-color monograph with major essays
by Emily Zilber, Art in America Senior Editor
Janet Koplos, and the writer and former Richard De Vore student Robert McGowan (CAA 1973). The catalogue is generously sponsored by the Max Protetch Gallery and Gilbert and Lila Silverman. Additional support for Richard De Vore provided
by Ted Hadfield and Wendy MacGaw.
Tony Hepburn
Korea Gate 1 and 2, 2005
Photographer: Tim Thayer
Tony Hepburn: The Cranbrook Years, 1992-2008
June 14 – September 14, 2008
Wainger Gallery
This spring marks the completion of the groundbreaking artist Tony Hepburn’s last year as Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Ceramics Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, a position he has held since 1992. To celebrate Hepburn’s tenure at the Academy, as well as the innovative work in clay that he has pioneered since his arrival, Cranbrook Art Museum will present a selective retrospective of Hepburn’s work over the last sixteen years.
Toshiko Takaezu
Collection of Twelve Vessels and Jars, 1970-2000
Photograph courtesy of Cranbrook Art Museum, Photographers: R.H Hensleigh and Time Thayer
Toshiko Takaezu: A Gift to Cranbrook
June 14 – September 14, 2008
Lower Main Gallery
Long recognized as one of the foremost ceramic artists of the twentieth century, Toshiko Takaezu (CAA 1954) investigates and questions the idea of the vessel form and decoration in her work, drawing on both Eastern and Western aesthetics and the natural world for inspiration. To celebrate the recent gift of fourteen outstanding pieces
by the artist, Cranbrook Art Museum will present its entire collection of thirty-one works,
a comprehensive selection that spans the breadth
of Takaezu’s remarkable career. The collection
of new work includes remarkable vessels dedicated to Takaezu’s teacher at Cranbrook, the ceramist Maija Grotell, as well as the former Director of the Academy of Art and artist Gerhardt Knodel.
Noun, Verb, Adjective: Cranbrook Defines Craft
June 14 – September 14, 2008
deSalle and Silverman Galleries
The story of Cranbrook is the story of craft. As both a guiding concept and in practice, the idea of craft was essential to the foundation of Cranbrook, which modeled its utopian, creative vision on previously-existing Arts and Crafts communities in the United States and Europe. Craft continues to exist as a governing force in the production of contemporary work on the campus. The exhibition Noun, Verb, Adjective: Cranbrook Defines Craft does not aim to present a conclusive definition for the word. Instead, by looking at works from the collections of Cranbrook Art Museum and Cranbrook Archives, it explores the myriad ways in which artists and patrons at Cranbrook have grappled with the meanings that have been ascribed to the word craft.
Noun, Verb, Adjective: Cranbrook Defines Craft is curated by Jeanne and Ralph Graham Collections Fellow Emily Zilber.
For more information regarding admission, location, and hours for Cranbrook Art Musuem please click here.
An American Summer: Music on the Green
Thursdays in July (17, 24, 31), 7:00-8:30 pm
South Lawn of Cranbrook Art Museum, Triton Pools
Free admission to the concerts, Art Museum and Saarinen House. Cash bar and refreshments available.
The concert series is presented by Cranbrook Art Museum and the Arts League of Michigan in partnership with Smooth Jazz V98.7. For more information please contact Elena Ivanova, Curator of Education at Cranbrook Art Museum, at 248-645-3314 or eivanova@cranbrook.edu
Women in Jazz
July 17
Some of Detroit's finest jazz musicians will be showcased including Ursula Walker, Shahida Nurullah and Naima Shamborguer with the Buddy Budson Trio.
Brass from Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings
July 24
A quintet of brass musicians from Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings will perform music from four centuries, ranging from Gabriel Canzoni to Scott Joplin rags.
Un Voyage dans les Rêves: A Journey through a Dream
July 31
Composed by trumpeter Kris Johnson and performed by a jazz and string quartet, Un Voyage dans les Rêves is a musical representation of the various realities experienced while asleep. By taking the listener through one night, this work brings to life the alternate worlds and possibilities that comprise a dream.
William Massie: An American House 08
May 3 – October 31, 2008
Member’s Preview and Open House
Friday, May 2, 5-8 pm
The lawn of Cranbrook Art Museum
Take a tour of An American House 08, the first in a series of ten prefabricated houses designed and constructed by William E. Massie— the award-winning Architect-in-Residence and Head of the Architecture Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Massie has become well known in the design world for exploring and inventing new technologies and applying them to the construction and design of buildings. In 2002, Massie was selected as the winner of the Museum of Modern Art’s Young Architects Program Competition and his work has been shown in leading museums around the world. The plans for An American House 08 were intricately generated through a Computer Numerically Controlled machine, which can cut into solid materials with an accuracy that is within a thousandth of an inch of the architect’s drawings. The design and building of the house suggests a radical turn away from conventional architectural practice and making. It was first constructed in the architect’s Pontiac studio, then disassembled and moved to the Cranbrook campus in March of 2008 where it underwent further refinement. An American House 08 features modular construction, innovative lighting, and interior elements as well as contemporary furniture.
2008 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art
April 19-May 9
Members’ Preview: Friday, April 18, 6-8 pm
All galleries of Cranbrook Art Museum
Each April, as part of the requirements for earning either a Master of Fine Arts or Master of Architecture degree, the second-year students of the Academy present their thesis work in the annual Graduate Degree Exhibition. The Academy’s prestigious two-year Master’s Degree Program includes approximately 150 students working with ten Artists-in-Residence, each of whom heads one of the Academy’s ten departments: Architecture, Ceramics, 2D Design, 3D Design, Fiber, Metalsmithing, Painting, Photography, Print Media, and Sculpture.
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
Through March 30, 2008
Cranbrook Art Museum presents the North American premiere of the exhibition Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, which explores the work of one of the most prolific, unorthodox, and controversial masters of 20th-century architecture. Shaping the Future examines the architect’s wide-ranging career -- which was based in Bloomfield Hills -- from the 1930s through the early 1960s. Saarinen’s international array of buildings will be featured, as well as his path-breaking designs for furniture and his master plans for civic centers and universities.
Eero Saarinen chair designs at the exhibition
Model for the Gateway Arch
Forum Gallery Openings
Friday nights through April 18, 6-8 pm
New Studios Building
The student-run Forum Gallery offers an opening most Friday evenings of the academic year. Join graduate students of the Academy who present their work to their peers and the community at large. Free and open to the public.
Lectures and Special Events
Cranbrook Academy of Art
6th Annual Student Art Auction
Sunday, May 4
Silent Auction: 3-6pm (Forum Gallery)
Live Auction: 4pm (deSalle Auditorium)
Cranbrook Academy of Art is recognized the world over as producing some of the best young, emerging artists and designers on the contemporary art scene. Art lovers and collectors will enjoy this extraordinary opportunity to purchase work by rising young stars in the art world. Work ranges from large installations to small ceramic teacups, all embodying the leading-edge style and technique of the Academy’s top artists.
Cranbrook Academy of Art 8th Annual Video Festival
Friday, April 25, 7 - 9 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Video has evolved into a technically beautiful, flexible, accessible, and often clandestine medium that works like magic in the hands of artists and storytellers and provides a powerful tool for communication in the hands of artists. Video continues to evolve into new mediums like CD-ROMs, DVDs, web sites, streaming video, HD and 24P. This student-run festival features a night of short videos at the cutting edge of the art world as produced, directed and created by graduate students from among the Academy ten departments who have shared their visions with the public since 2000.
The Painting and Sculpture departments at the Cranbrook Academy of Art presents
Laura Hoptman, Curator at the New Museum
Thursday, April 10, 7 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Cranbrook Art Museum
The 3D Design Department presents
Hollywood Production Designer
Alex McDowell
Thursday April 3, 7pm
deSalle Auditorium
An advocate of immersive film design, the acclaimed Hollywood production designer Alex McDowell integrates digital technology and traditional design technique, creating a production design process that allows for unprecedented control over the look of the final film. McDowell began incorporating digital design into his work with Fight Club. He sophisticated the process in 1999 with a fully integrated digital design department for Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, creating an intensely researched world of 2054. For Spielberg's "The Terminal," he set up another cutting-edge art department to realize a full size airport terminal, the largest architectural set ever built for film. Please join us for this rare behind-the-scenes look at production design by one of Hollywood’s leading men.
Sine of the Times: A live electronic music and digital film performance by Chris
McNamara, Walter Wasacz and Jennifer A. Paull
Friday, March 28, 7 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Windsor-native Chris McNamara is a member of the Canadian-U.S. laptop collective, Thinkbox and currently teaches in the University of Michigan’s Screen Arts and Cultures Department. His installation, Magic City, was exhibited in the "Shrinking Cities" exhibition both in Berlin (2004), and at Cranbrook Art Museum in 2007. Walter Wasacz is a writer/editor/ photographer and co-founder of Paris '68, a sonic-art collective based in Detroit and Pittsburgh. His work was also featured at the Art Museum during the "Shrinking Cities" exhibition in 2007. McNamara and Wasacz are joined in this performance by sound and visual artist Jennifer A. Paull of Hamtramck, who has been performing with Paris '68 since 2006.
Finnish Reggae and Other Sauna Beats: Music by Conga Se Menne
Saturday, March 15, 8-10 pm
deSalle Auditorium
This event is sponsored by
The Finlandia Foundation National and The Finnish American Club of Detroit
The band members of Conga Se Menne live and work along the chilly and invigorating banks of Lake Superior. It is rare to find world-class musicians hailing from the small northern college town of Marquette, Michigan. Defying the expected, Derrell Syria and the members of Conga Se Menne’s original songs carry the flavor of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in lyrical silliness and the spirit of it's hearty residents. They play with a mastery of melodic syncopation and the band’s musical style is a melting pot of ethnic styles including Blues, Funk, Latin, Reggae, Rock, Caribbean beats and Finnish sounds. They are best known for their island beat percussion blending smoothly with melodious keyboards, sonorous horns and big-shouldered guitar work - all mixing with an influence of traditional styles.
Interactions-International: Women, Art, Criticism
A Two-Day Conference/Conversation among Artists, Theorists, and Critics
Afternoon Sessions Free and Open to the Public
Thursday, March 13, 2008
2:00—5:00 pm
Institute for Research on Women and Gender
University of Michigan
2239 Lane Hall, 204 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI
Friday, March, 14, 2008
2:00—5:00 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Cranbrook Academy of Art
32991 Woodward Avenue
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
Participants:
Iris Eichenberg, Metals, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Beverly Fishman, Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Johanna Frank, English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing, University of Windsor
Renée c. Hoogland, IRWG & English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
Lucy Hartley, English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
Jane Kennedy, documentary filmmaker, South Africa
Bastienne Kramer, Ceramics, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Netherlands
Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf, Art History, School of Creative Arts, University of St. Francis
Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Gender Studies, Indiana University
Suzanne Matheson, English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing, University of Windsor
Heather McGill, Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Ulrike Möntmann, Visual Artist, Netherlands
Gina Lori Riley, School of Dramatic Art, University of Windsor
Judith Roof, English & Film Studies, Michigan State University
Lucia Saks, Screen Arts & Culture, University of Michigan
Julie Sando, Visual Arts, University of Windsor
Sigi Torinus, Visual Arts, University of Windsor
Patricia Yeager, English Language and Literature, University of MichiganSponsored by:
University of Michigan:
Global Turns Gender Returns Program
Institute for Research on Women and Gender
International Institute
Screen Arts & Cultures Program
Department of English
Department of Women’s StudiesCranbrook Academy of Art:
Department of MetalsmithingDirector, Reed Kroloff
University of Windsor:
Humanities Research Group
Dr. Stephen Pender, Research Leadership Chair
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Department of English
Windsor International, IDRETSteinSemble Performance Group
Conference committee: Johanna Frank, Renée C. Hoogland, Judith Roof
For more information, please visit www.steinsemble.com
The Fiber and Photography Department present
Liz Cohen
Thursday, March 13, 3 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Three years ago, Liz Cohen began building a car: a lowrider so complicated that even the owner of the shop she works in said he wouldn't attempt it. Her "Trabantimino" is an East German Trabant 601 Deluxe that transforms, through hydraulics into a Chevy El Camino-- meaning it changes from one failed-utopian car, representing socialism, into another, representing the American determination to have it all.
The Photography Department presents
Jason Salavon
Thursday, March 13, 1:30 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material in an effort to present new perspectives on the familar. His projects unearth unexpected pattern while exploring the relationship between the part and the whole or the individual and the group. Salavon earned his MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BA from The University of Texas at Austin. He is currently Asst. Professor of Art at the University of Chicago.
“An American House 08--Some Assembly Required"
Lecture and Virtual Tour by William Massie
Friday, March 7, 7 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Join Architect-in-Residence William Massie for a lecture and virtual tour of "An American House 08," the first in his series of ten prefabricated houses that is slated to be open for tours at Cranbrook Art Museum on Friday, May 2 (see above). In this presentation, Massie will offer insight about the ongoing construction of "An American House 08" and the cutting-edge technologies he used in the design and building of the project. A three-screen projection system will be used to provide a virtual walk-through of the house. Massie will also talk about his future plans for subsequent buildings.
Twentieth Century Design: Looking to the Twenty-First Century
John Bloom Memorial Lecture
James Zemaitis, Director of 20th Century Design, Sotheby’s, New York
Thursday, February 28, 7 pm
deSalle Auditorium
James Zemaitis’s talk will explore the development of the contemporary design market, tracing major stylistic and economic trends from the 1950s to the present and offering insight on emerging trends in collecting 20th century decorative arts and design. Zemaitis will also speak about the Bloom Collection from a personal perspective, reflecting on his own friendship with John Bloom that was forged over the creation of his collection. Acting as an advisor to Bloom in many of his purchases, Zemaitis will connect Bloom’s “steadfast and enduring” passion for the decorative arts and design to more general issues relevant to today’s collectors, both novice and seasoned.
The Cranbrook Connection:
Uncovering the John Bloom Bequest
to Cranbrook Art Museum
Emily Zilber, Jeanne and Ralph Graham Collections Fellow at Cranbrook
Art Museum
Sunday, February 17, 3 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Ever wonder how curators integrate newly acquired objects into a museum’s permanent collection? Join us for a behind-the-scenes lecture and exhibition tour focused on the John Bloom Collection’s Cranbrook connection! Many of the artists and movements represented in the exhibition From Frank Lloyd Wright to George Nakashima: Uncovering the John Bloom Bequest to Cranbrook Art Museum have clear ties to Cranbrook’s history. From the similar collecting interests held by Bloom and Cranbrook founder George Booth in the Arts and Crafts and Art Deco movements, to Bloom’s enthusiasm for iconic modern pieces by Cranbrook alumni including Florence Knoll (CAA ’39), the Eames’ (CAA ’41 and ’39), and contemporary work by Cranbrook students, learn how the Bloom bequest has found an ideal home at Cranbrook. A tour through the exhibition follows this lecture.
The Painting Department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art presents
Jon Brummit
Saturday, February 9, 4 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Cranbrook Art Museum
Jon Brummit is an alumni of the Painting Department (CAA '99) and was selected to particpate in the upcoming 2008 Whitney Biennial . He has presented solo and collaborative works widely in the US and abroad at venues including 21 Grand, Lisa Dent Gallery, Southern Exposure, MOCADetroit, Novi Sad Contemporary Museum, SFMOMA, and YBCA.
Friends and Colleagues:
Eero Saarinen, Charles Eames
and Irwin Miller
With Eames Demetrios and Will Miller
Thursday, February 7, 7 pm
Reception to follow in the
New Studios Building.
deSalle Auditorium
Among the most important relationships in Eero Saarinen’s life, personally and professionally, were his relationships with architect and designer Charles Eames and with successful businessman and philanthropist Irwin Miller, the CEO of Cummins Engine Company, from Columbus, Indiana. Join us on this evening of memory sharing as Eames Demetrios and Will Miller talk about their famous grandfather and father, respectively. The evening’s program also includes the screening of the never before seen footage made by Charles Eames during his years at Cranbrook. The program will conclude with a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Aluminum Group, home and office chairs designed by Charles and Ray Eames.
The Metalsmithing Department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art presents 4 Talks
Lisa Gralnick, Cindi Strauss, Eija Mustonen and Rian de Jong
February 1, 1 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Cranbrook Art Museum
Refreshments will follow in the Metalsmithing studio
Ideas & Process: Gallery Talks
and Studio Tours Led by
Cranbrook Academy of Art Artists
January 20 and 26;
February 3, 9, 16, 24
1:30 pm
Meet at the Art Museum Front Desk
Join students from Cranbrook Academy of Art to tour the exhibition Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future. The gallery talks will be followed by visits to the Academy’s studios, normally closed to the public.
Eero Saarinen and Associates: Inside the Office
Panel Discussion
Sunday, January 27, 2–4 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Join former members of the Saarinen Office as they share their memories about working with Eero Saarinen. Speakers will include architect Robert Ziegelman, architecture photographer Richard Knight, model builder James Smith, and Eero’s nephew, architect Robert Swanson. This program is organized jointly by Cranbrook Art Museum and the Birmingham Historical Society in conjunction with three exhibitions, Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future and Richard Knight: Photography at Cranbrook Art Museum and Eero Saarinen: The Local Legacy at the Birmingham Historical Museum.
The Photography Department presents
Jason Fulford
Friday, January 25, 3 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Cranbrook Art Museum
Photographer Jason Fulford has contributed to Harper's, Life, and The New York Times Magazine, and runs J&L Books, a small press that publishes collections of art and photography. His work has been exhibited in New York, Seattle, Copenhagen, Budapest, Atlanta and Kansas City. Fulford's photographs have also graced the covers of books published by every major publishing house. A graphic designer and freelance commercial photographer as well as an artist, Fulford is the author of three books including Crushed (2003).
In the Architect’s Own Hand: Eero Saarinen Drawings
in the Cranbrook Collection
Hosted by Cranbrook Archives and Cranbrook Art Museum
Sunday, January 20, 1:30–3:30 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Explore how an architect’s ideas take shape as you look through the extensive array of drawings by Eero Saarinen in the collections of Cranbrook Art Museum and Cranbrook Archives. These images, many of which have never been on display to the public, illustrate the evolution of process in a variety of design projects, from full-scale buildings to rooms to pieces of furniture. It’s an exciting journey through the creative process.
Ongoing Exhibitions at Cranbrook Art Museum
From Frank Lloyd Wright to
George Nakashima:
Uncovering the John Bloom Bequest
to Cranbrook Art Museum
January 26–March 22, 2008
From the earliest works of Frank Lloyd Wright to the more contemporary furniture of George Nakashima, Michigan native John Bloom (1935–2006) spent his life studying and collecting important objects of decorative art and design that span the course of the 20th century. He lived and worked with the objects that he loved, always hoping that these exceptional pieces would someday find a home at Cranbrook. Bloom ultimately bequeathed his collection to Cranbrook Art Museum. The collection as a whole reflects Bloom’s strong interests in the decorative arts of the Arts and Crafts movement, Art Deco metalwork, and mid-century design. Highlights of the Bloom bequest include seven stained glass windows from a variety of major buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, a Luc Lanel-designed Art Deco vase for the prominent French manufacturer Christofle, and furniture by Modern masters such as Mies van der Rohe, Nakashima, Charles and Ray Eames, Finn Juhl and Vladimir Kagan. The exhibition showcases masterpieces never seen together before in a public exhibition, offering the visitor a rare opportunity to view the 20th century decorative objects through the eyes of this passionate collector.
Richard Knight: Photographing Saarinen
January 26– March 22, 2008
Members’ Preview
to meet the Artist:
Friday, January 25, 6–8 pm
Wainger Gallery
Richard Knight’s photographs offer an unprecedented glimpse behind the scenes at the architectural practice and office of Eero Saarinen and Associates. His photographs cover the period from 1957 to Saarinen’s death in 1961, when Saarinen was working on iconic projects like the Dulles International Airport Terminal, the former TWA Terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. Working as Saarinen’s “house photographer,” Knight documented in black and white photographs both the professional process and personal dynamics of this celebrated office. Many of the photographs featured in this exhibition are collected in a recent monograph and personal memoir by Richard Knight published by William Stout Publishers, San Francisco, titled Saarinen’s Quest: A Memoir. The book, which will be available for purchase in The Store at Cranbrook Art Museum, includes a foreword on Saarinen’s artistic vision and office culture by the world-renowned architect Cesar Pelli, who began his career in the architect’s office in Michigan.
Knight, who lives in California, is known today for his creative work as a sculptor. Before working for Eero Saarinen, he studied design at Cranbrook Academy of Art in the mid-1950s.
The presentation of Richard Knight: Photographing Saarinen at Cranbrook is supported, in part, by the LEF Foundation, San Francisco, and Light Waves Imaging, Berkeley, California.
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
Through March 30, 2008
Upper Galleries
From the soaring concrete vaults of the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport in New York to the 630-foot-tall Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the iconic designs of Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) captured the aspirations and values of mid-20th-century America. Potent expressions of national power, these and other Saarinen-designed structures—including the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan—helped create the international image of the United States in the decades following World War II.
Cranbrook Art Museum is proud to present the North American première of the first major retrospective ever mounted on the career of Eero Saarinen. A native of Finland, Eero arrived at Cranbrook in the mid-1920s with his parents—the renowned sculptor and weaver Loja Saarinen and architect and educator Eliel Saarinen—and eventually based his entire professional career in Bloomfield Hills. Cranbrook’s National Historic Landmark campus, in particular the
Art Museum designed by Eliel in 1942, serves as the backdrop for this homecoming and survey of one of the 20th century’s most productive and unconventional masters of architecture.The exhibition is organized by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki and the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., with the support of the Yale University School of Architecture. Assa Abloy is the global sponsor of the exhibition project. Major sponsorships for the presentation of the exhibition at Cranbrook are provided by the General Motors Foundation and Knoll. Additional sponsorship for the exhibition at Cranbrook is provided by Roncelli, Inc.
Films at Cranbrook Art Museum
Three Films on
Eero Saarinen
Saturdays and Sundays, 2 pm Through March 30, 2008
deSalle Auditorium
(The screening schedule and film descriptions are available at the Museum’s front desk.)
The Gateway Arch: A Reflection of America Civil Pictures, St. Louis.
Winner of four 2007 Mid-America Emmy Awards.
Monumental Reflections
KETC/Channel 9
The Gateway to the West
Studio Anssi Blomstedt, Finland
[FLAK]Detroit and
Cranbrook Art Museum present: Detroit @ 00:55
Friday, February 22, 7 pm
deSalle Auditorium
Detroit @ 00:55 is a collection of 55 second-long films that explore Detroit and beyond made by members of [FLAK]Detroit, a cultural forum of creative individuals dedicated to promoting inventive, sensitive and humane visions.
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