Forum Gallery

The Forum Gallery is a student-run gallery located on the campus of Cranbrook Academy of Art. The mission of the Forum Gallery is to provide a context for the display of current MFA student artwork and curatorial endeavors. The gallery is an exhibition opportunity available to all students during the academic year, with new shows weekly. The Forum Gallery space connects students from all departments with museum visitors, a tangible link between the evolution of process and finished work.

The Forum Gallery is located on the main level of the New Studios building, adjacent to the Cranbrook Art Museum. Check often to see new image galleries from Forum Gallery exhibitions and openings.

Forum Gallery openings

Every friday, 5 PM - 8PM, in the New Studios Building

The student-run Forum Gallery offers a opening each week of the academic year. Join graduate students of the Academy who present edgy work to their peers and the community at large. Free and open to the public.

Forum Gallery

Forum Gallery Fall 2007 Schedule

9.28 - 10.2
Intention
Ten Artists, Ten Objects, Ten Days

10.5 - 10.16
Exquisite Narratives
An open call collaboration focusing on narratives and plot construction, molded after the game exquisite corpses.

10.12 - 10.16
In Habit
A collaboration in the creation of a space that acts simultaneously as a protective environment and garment

10.19 - 10.23
Brick Project
Collaboration between the ceramics and architecture departments

10.26 -10.30
The Greatest Sculpture Show on Earth
The artist featured and the caliber of the work included leads to the selected title of the show

11.2 - 11.6
Hotel Pontiac
Nine people, Six departments, One mansion in Pontiac

11.9 - 11.13
Invisible Links
Jewelry/Metalsmithing department presents us with an alternate presentation of a hybrid group of work with visible and invisible links

11.16 - 11.20
Legacy
A juried show that showcases the vision of Eero Saarinen through the eyes of the students at CAA

11.20 - 11.27
Annual Light Show
3D department exhibits the latest conceptual visions of the function and aesthetics of the light

11.30 - 12.4
Transmoprhicationalshiftolution
This exhibition brings all of the transformative influences of contemporary photographic practice, process, exhibition and ideas

12.7 - 12.11
Necessity: Mother Of All Invention
What do we need to survive? This juried open call group exhibition presents work that responds to this question

12.14 - 01.1
In The Age Of Immaturity
This exhibition puts to the test childhood fort building at its best

Forum Gallery Spring 2007 Schedule

2.2- 2.6
Aesthetic Anesthesia
Donald Cameron will show a selection of his paintings that present violent content through post- digital aesthetics

2.9- 2.13
Tracing Residue
Suk Jin Choi and Nancy Vandevender Fergerson present their overlapping of ideas of concealment and disguise shown through the history of the decorative arts altered through omission.

2.16- 2.20
Month of Silence
Features work by the 2D department after a hermetic month of creative silence.

2.23- 2.27
Copy Me
Anna So Young Han will exhibit her paintings based on the ideas of simulacra, copies of copies, and simulated reality.

3.2- 3.6
Environ-meant
A juried exhibition that asks how artists relate today to the natural world – be it pastoral or urban.

3.9- 3.13
Annual Cranbrook Chair Show
An annual juried exhibition of innovative seating design

3.16- 3.20
Tawdry Tendencies
Features work focusing on the reinvention of the narrative through design oriented methods.

3.30- 4.3
Show and Sell
Curated by Michael Glowacki, expand on the impact of t-shirt and poster design and have a chance to buy some kickass artwork from your colleagues for cheap. Cash only.

4.6- 4.10
Suburban Glitter
Curated by MB, this exhibition showcases two emerging artists from Detroit. Elizabeth Ladd and Dylan Spaysky. The work operates within two very different worlds focusing on the politics of suburban melodrama and drag culture.

3.13- 4.17
Show me what you’re working with
A juried show focusing on material and materiality, giving preference to work that utilizes, accentuates, and maintains a conceptual inquiry rooted in the use of exploration of a specific material.

4.27- 4.29
Super Zero
Samuel Rowlett presents his large- scale paintings and drawings dealing with imagery based on boyish figures of memory that collect their powers from the articles of their past- present.

Tiffany Bolk

Tiffany Bolk, Lori's Birthday
From The Polaroid Show: Instant Gratification.
On view October 8-13. 2002

Forum Gallery Fall 2006 Schedule

9. 22-9.27
Please join Ceramics artist Suk Jin Choi for her solo exhibition. Ms. Choi will be showing works composed using traditional Korean tools such as "dogae" and "geungae."

9.29-10.4
Print/Media exhibition. The work explores the new dynamic(s) and dialogue(s) between incoming and second year students.

10.4-10.10
Squeaky Clean
Through collaborative and individual work, first year students in the ceramic department investigate the concept of “Squeaky Clean” as the re-enter the academic setting with a clean slate.

10.13-10.17
The Grid Squid, his Family, Friends, Enemies, Kings and Slaves.
Paintings drawings and video by Jeffery Matthews and Mark Sengbusch.

10.13
The Orthodontics
The Orthodontics is a band that plays all of your favorite dentist chair hits.

10.20-10.24
Drawing on Environments features 1st year 3-D design student’s drawings that comment on design's role in the environment by exposing the gap between the physical world and the imaginary world.

10.27-10.31
Social Fabrication
Ffeatures art that is interested in the contexts and subtexts, which make up how we view and interact with the world and how this affects greater issues of identity and collective society.

11.3-11.7
Loop
Photography’s answer to the modern dilemma of our existential crisis. Current work by students in the Photography department at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

11.10
Objects of Light
A collection of lighting by students of the 3-D design department.

11. 11
Rollerskate Shorts
Video/ Rollerskating performance located outside in the circle drive between dorms 2 and 3.

11.15-11.28
FIRST ANNUAL NATIONAL MFA JURIED INVITATIONAL
This fall the Forum gallery is excited to be hosting the First Annual National MFA Juried Invitational. Nationwide, degree-seeking students, who are currently involved in pursing their Masters Degree in Art have been invited to submit artwork to be juried by Detroit Gallerists Suzanne Hilberry and Paul Kotula. The purpose of the exhibition is both to present a survey of the work being produced by American artists emerging from the academia, and to reinforce and develop a larger network of exchange among Cranbrook students and the rest of the nation.

11.29-12.5
Under Construction/ Under the Influence
Assembly and Disassembly in the Basement. Students in the Metalsmithing department use the wall as a jumping off point.

12.8
Wayne Exchange

1.19-1.23
David Hendren will present a drawing of a video feedback loop in which he will present an image that is never static or finished.

1.26
Brookside 5th grade Fiberwork
5th grade students from Brookside elementary will exhibit fiber art produced under the instruction of Cranbrook fibers student Emilee Lord.

2.1-26
Aesthetic Anesthesia works by Donald Cameron
Paintings ‘advocate responsible content in digital media by presenting violent content through post digital aesthetics, exaggerating the way digital media renders violence aesthetic or entertaining.

2.8-2.13
Tracing Residue
Artists Suk Jin Choi and Nancy VanDevender Ferguson will exhibit an installation of digital wallpaper, metallic cutout drawings, and clay. The how will explore an overlapping of their ideas of concealment and disguise, shown through the history of the decorative arts altered through omission.