CRANBROOK ART MUSEUM IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Cranbrook Art Museum is building for the future! In December 2008 we started a construction project that will result in the complete renovation of our landmark 1942 Eliel Saarinen-designed museum, including the installation of climate control and the addition of a new state-of-the-art Collections Wing. During construction, our galleries are closed through Spring 2011.
SIGN UP FOR OUR MONTHLY E-NEWSLETTER
If you would like to receive a monthly email of public events, please contact kkennedy@cranbrook.edu to be added to the distribution list.
ARTOLOGY: THE FUSION OF ART AND SCIENCE AT CRANBROOK
While Cranbrook Art Museum is under construction, we will be presenting a series of pioneering exhibitions in collaboration with Cranbrook Institute of Science. Presented in the Institute’s 5,000 square-foot Temporary Exhibition Hall, Artology includes two major exhibitions—"Animal Logic: Photography and Installation by Richard Barnes" (Fall 2009) and "Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change" (January 31 - June 13, 2010)—as well as interventions throughout the Institute. For more information on Cranbrook Institute of Science, visit http://science.cranbrook.edu/.
Artology and the exhibitions "Animal Logic: Photography and Installation by Richard Barnes" and "Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change" are generously sponsored by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, the Erb Family Foundation and the MASCO Corporation Foundation.
CAPE FAREWELL: ART & CLIMATE CHANGE
ArtMembers’ Opening Reception: Saturday, January 30, 4 – 8 pm
Family Activities with Refreshments provided by Whole Foods Market from 4 – 6 pm
Cash Bar from 6 – 8 pm
Public Exhibition Dates: Sunday, January 31 – Sunday, June 13, 2010
Temporary Exhibition Hall at Cranbrook Institute of Science
Cape Farewell Pioneers a Cultural Response to Climate Change
Created by artist David Buckland in 2001, Cape Farewell has lead five expeditions to the High Arctic, the frontline of climate change. From these expeditions has sprung an extraordinary body of artwork: a film co-produced by the BBC, Art from the Arctic; Cape Farewell’s first major book title, Burning Ice; educational resources for GCSE; a UN award-winning website; and the exhibition “Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change.” The project is widely acknowledged to be the most significant sustained artistic response to climate change anywhere in the world.
The exhibition, which makes its North American première here at Cranbrook, brings together specially-commissioned work from the artists who have voyaged with Cape Farewell on the 100 year-old sailing schooner, The Noorderlicht. 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 a unique way. Science informs us that the health of our planet is in decline, but understanding and communicating these changes may demand another approach. Through images, sound, sculpture, dance and the power of the word these artworks express the wonder of nature together with the drama of destruction. The common message they share is that we mourn the loss of our decaying environment, but are inspired to change the way we live in a bid to save it.
You can find out more about the continuing Cape Farewell project at www.capefarewell.com. The accompanying book, Burning Ice, is available in the Science Shop at Cranbrook Institute of Science.
Artists, Writers and Musicians in the Exhibition
Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey, Kathy Barber, David Buckland, Peter Clegg, Siobhan Davies, Gautier Deblonde, Max Eastley, Nick Edwards, Antony Gormley, Alex Hartley, David Hinton, Ian McEwan, Michèle Noach, Shiro Takatani, and Rachel Whiteread.
Acknowledgments and International Sponsors
“Cape Farewell: Art and Climate Change” was created in partnership with the Natural History Museum, London, where it was presented in 2006, following Cape Farewell’s first three expeditions to Spitsbergen and the Svalbard Archipelago in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Within the UK, the exhibition toured to the Liverpool Biennial of Visual Arts, The Sage Gateshead and the Bodleian Library Oxford. In 2007 “Art and Climate Change” toured to the Kampnagel Cultural Complex in Hamburg, in partnership with the British Council. With its opening at the Fundacion Canal, Madrid, the exhibition now is embarking on a world tour with Barbican Touring Arts.
The international tour of the exhibition is supported by the Natural History Museum, London, and the Arts Council England. The exhibition was organized by Barbican International Enterprises, London. The Barbican Centre is provided by the City of London Corporation as part of its contribution to the cultural life of London and the nation.
Cranbrook Sponsors
The presentation of “Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change” in Michigan is part of Artology: The Fusion of Art and Science at Cranbrook, a year-long series of exhibitions, lectures, films and educational programs organized collaboratively by Cranbrook Art Museum and Cranbrook Institute of Science. Artology is generously sponsored by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, the Erb Family Foundation and the MASCO Corporation Foundation.
“DISAPPEARING ARCTIC” EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS COMBINE ART AND SCIENCE FOR K-12 CLASSROOMS
Increasing heat indexes, diminishing polar ice coverage, rising sea levels—the science is undeniable. But sometimes it takes an artist to show it!
In conjunction with the Artology exhibition, “Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change,” Cranbrook Art Museum is offering “Disappearing Arctic,” a set of interdisciplinary educational programs for students in grades K-12. Through these new tours and art-making activities for classes visiting Cranbrook Institute of Science, students will explore video art and photography about the arctic and connect art with the science of climate change and the role that humans can play in both causing and correcting the problem.
Each 45-minute program offers students a chance to explore innovative artworks inspired by the arctic landscape north of Norway which is at the epicenter of climate change. Through in-gallery discussion, students will gain a new understanding of the science of climate change and its impact on the earth. Students in grades K-8 will follow these discussions with art-making activities, allowing students to see creative expression as a way to speak up for the environment. High School students will translate their reactions to the exhibition into an in-gallery writing project.
To learn more about the tours and art-making activities, as well as the “Disappearing Arctic” curriculum links to not only Art and Science, but also to English Language Arts and Social Studies, please open the following documents.
Please click here for the Grades K-5 Lesson Plan Outline and Curriculum Links
Please click here for the Grades 6-8 Lesson Plan Outline and Curriculum Links
Please click here for the Grades 9-12 Lesson Plan Outline and Curriculum Links *COMING SOON*
How Do I Sign Up My Classroom?
The program fee, which includes museum admission, for the “Disappearing Arctic” educational programs is $8 per student. Minimum group visit size is 20 paid students, with a maximum of 30 students per group. For more information about booking these programs presented by Cranbrook Art Museum at Cranbrook Institute of Science, visit on-line http://science.cranbrook.edu/educational/group/program.asp or call (248) 645-3210, Monday through Friday, 8am to 4pm.
MASCO Scholarships Available for “Disappearing Arctic” Educational Programs
Through a grant from the MASCO Corporation Foundation, and gifts from a special group of champions of Cranbrook Art Museum’s outreach programs, classrooms that otherwise might not be able to take advantage of the “Disappearing Arctic” educational programs may be eligible for bus and program fee scholarships. These scholarships are available to all public schools in the following school districts in Macomb, Oakland and Wayne Counties.
Macomb County: Center Line, East Detroit, Roseville and Van Dyke.
Oakland County: Ferndale, Hazel Park, Oak Park, Pontiac and Southfield.
Wayne County: Detroit, Clarenceville, Ecorse, Hamtramck, Highland Park and Wayne/Westland.
The bus scholarships, which provide up to $125 per classroom, will be reimbursed by Cranbrook Art Museum upon receipt of an invoice from the school district’s transportation department received at least two weeks in advance of the scheduled tour. Realizing that each bus typically costs more than $125, schools are encouraged to bring two classrooms on one bus so that they are eligible to receive up to $250 total for the two classrooms. The program fee scholarships cover all “Disappearing Arctic” program and admission fees at Cranbrook Institute of Science. In return, the classroom will be asked to send a thank you letter to Cranbrook Art Museum (sent from either the classroom teacher or the school’s principal) and complete a post-visit survey. Thank you letters from the individual students also would be appreciated and will be shared with the scholarship’s sponsor.
The bus and program fee scholarships are available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information or to register a class, please call the Group Reservations Office at Cranbrook Institute of Science at 248-645-3210.
THE CHANGING EARTH: CONTEXT FOR THE MODERN WORLD
January 31 - June 13, 2010
Cranbrook Institute of Science
Organized by Cranbrook Institute of Science, “The Changing Earth” exhibition complements the Cape Farewell project by exploring the local expression of climate changes over the course of the Earth’s history and presenting evidence for the growing role of humanity as a major force for change in the Earth System.
ARTOLOGY INTERVENTIONS: GEM AND MINERAL HALL
Through June 13, 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" showcases works from the collection of Cranbrook Art Museum alongside related specimens from the Cranbrook Institute of Science.
ARTOLOGY LECTURE SERIES
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.
Sunday, January 31
David Harwood
Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Nebraska (Lincoln)
1:00 pm
David Harwood is the T.M. Stout Chair of Stratigraphy and a Professor of Geosciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has visited Antarctica numerous times since 1983 and is currently the U.S. Principal Investigator of the $30 million ANDRILL (Antarctic Geological DRILLing) Program. This international team, which involves more than 300 scientists, recently drilled the two deepest drill holes in Antarctica. Dr. Harwood will discuss Antarctica’s climate from the initial study of the core, which reveals a remarkable history of how the Antarctic ice sheets responded to past times of global warmth and how they may respond in the future.
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.
Tuesday, April 6
David Buckland
Artist and Director/Curator of Cape Farewell
"Burning Ice: Art and Climate Change"
6:00 pm
Cranbrook Institute of Science Auditorium
David Buckland is a designer, artist, and film-maker whose lens-based works have been exhibited in numerous galleries in London, Paris, and New York and collected by prestigious museums including the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Getty Collection, Los Angeles. Since 2001, David Buckland has created and now directs the Cape Farewell project, bringing artists, scientists, and educators together to collectively address and raise awareness about climate change. As part of the project, more than fifty artists, musicians, architects, and writers have sailed with Buckland into the High Arctic to witness the frontline of climate change. The expeditions have been the subject of a BBC documentary and the exhibition resulting from these expeditions is now on view at Cranbrook.
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 artist, critics and scholars. All lectures begin at 6:00 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.
Tuesday, January 19
Dana Schutz
Painter
“An Evening with Dana Schutz”
Sponsored by the Painting Department
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
For a complete schedule of the [SPRING] Edition Lecture Series, please see the list on the Academy of Art website.
2010 GRADUATE DEGREE EXHIBITION AT MOCAD
In the Spring of 2010, the not-to-be-missed annual “Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art” will be presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). The exhibition will be open to the public April 18 through May 9, 2010, with a "Members' Only" reception on Saturday, April 17, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. MOCAD is located at 4454 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, 48201. For more information visit mocadetroit.org.
SAARINEN HOUSE TOURS
Saarinen House, Eliel Saarinen's 1930 Art Deco masterwork and the home and studio of both Eliel and Loja Saarinen and their son Eero Saarinen, is open each year for public and private tours. Public walk-in tours are available each year May through October. The house will reopen for the 2010 Tour Season on Saturday, May 1, 2010. Although the schedule is subject to change each year, walk-in tours (which depart from Cranbrook Institute of Science) typically are offered Thursday through Sunday each week, with tours at 1:00 p.m. all four days and an additional tour on Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. Please check our Web site in April for more details.
NEW MEMBER BENEFITS
Far from going dark during construction, we have crafted a series of exhibitions, programs and lectures that are guaranteed to engage our visitors with new and extraordinary opportunities. In fact, the time has never been better to join our membership group, ArtMembers@Cranbrook, and experience all that the worlds of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum have to offer. For more information about memberships, including our new reciprocal benefits with Cranbrook Institute of Science and twelve Michigan and Canadian art museums, please call our Membership Office at 248-645-3333 or send us an email at ArtMembers@cranbrook.edu.
Expect the unexpected and join us at Cranbrook!
CRANBROOK ART MUSEUM STAFF DIRECTORY
Cranbrook Art Museum
39221 Woodward Avenue
P.O. Box 801
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48303-0801
USA
Recorded Information: 248-645-3323
Fax: 248-645-3324
Email: ArtMuseum@cranbrook.edu
Web site: www.cranbrookart.edu/museum/
Denise Collier
Administrative Manager
(p) 248-645-3319
(e) dcollier@cranbrook.edu
Roberta Frey Gilboe
Registrar
(p) 248-645-3311
(e) rgilboe@cranbrook.edu
Marsha Gilman
Chief Advancement Officer
Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum
(p) 248-645-3214
(f) 248-645-7744
(e) mgilman@cranbrook.edu
Kelly Lewis-Gump
Director of Annual Giving and Membership
Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum
(p) 248-645-3333
(f) 248-645-7744
(e) kgump@cranbrook.edu
Felicia Molnar
Public Relations Manager
Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum
(p) 248-645-3329
(f) 248-645-3591
(e) fmolnar@cranbrook.edu
Abigail Newbold
Preparator
(p) 248-645-3370
(e) anewbold@cranbrook.edu
Gregory Wittkopp
Director
(p) 248-645-3315
(e) gwittkopp@cranbrook.edu
Emily Zilber
Assistant Curator
(p) 248-645-3770
(e) ezilber@cranbrook.edu
Cranbrook Academy of Art
Administrative Offices: 248-645-3300
Website: www.cranbrookart.edu
