Past Exhibitions

Art in Bloom 2025

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Each year this blood shall change and blossom: Christopher Myers on Myth and Migration

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Andrea Fraser’s Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk

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Brick by Brick: The Creative Art of LEGO®

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A Prayer, A Wish, A Spell for Those You Carry: A Participatory Performance by Danielle C. Wyckoff

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Fashion Forward: KCAD + GRAM COLLAB

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Lee Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray: Rendez-Vous

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Talent Within: GRAM Volunteer Art Show

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Stephen Frykholm: The Herman Miller Picnic Posters

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Jess T. Dugan: Look at me like you love me

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American Glass Now: 2024

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The Outwin: American Portraiture Today

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League of Women Voters: Go Vote Poster Contest

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Mario Moore: Revolutionary Times

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Warrington Colescott: Attack Artist

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ACTion Art 2024

March 19 & 21, 2024

Border Cantos | Sonic Border

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Sky Hopinka: Mnemonics of Shape and Reason

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The Decisive Moment: Sports Photography from GRAM’s Collection

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Uncharted Ways Through: Maps, Land, and the Image

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Underneath Everything: Humility and Grandeur in Contemporary Ceramics

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Wealthy Theatre Presents: Experimental Film Selections from Open Projector Night

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Animal Allegories

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ArtPrize 2023 with Chapel of Ghouls

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Everything Beautiful in its Time: Six Centuries of Prints from the Jansma Collection

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Selections from the 2023 Festival of the Arts Regional Arts Exhibition

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Ellsworth Kelly & Jack Youngerman: Surrounding Shapes

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Message from Our Planet: Digital Art from the Thoma Collection

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2023 Language Artists: Weather Wonders Student Exhibition

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Julie Goldstein: Virtual Memory

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Nocturnes: Night Scenes from GRAM’s Collection 

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Object Oriented: Still Lifes from GRAM’s Collection

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Art in Bloom 2023

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ACTion Art 2023

March 21 & 23, 2023

Françoise Gilot: Sympathetic Resonance

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Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder

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Make a Picture: A Selection of Michigan Photographers from GRAM’s Collection

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Rethinking Monuments: American Sculpture in its Time, 1850 – 2000

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Dark Days, Bright Skies: Isolation and Quarantine

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Salvador Dali: The Twelve Tribes of Israel

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The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited

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Andrea Dezsö: Family Friends

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Living Artfully: Gifts from Dana Friis-Hansen and Mark Holzbach

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Stephen Frykholm’s Picnic Posters

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Talent Within: GRAM Volunteer Art Show

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Language Artists: Weather Wonders

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In a New Light: American Impressionism 1870 – 1940 | Works from the Bank of America Collection

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An Extraordinary Legacy: The Miner S. and Mary Ann Keeler Collection

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WMCAT Teen Fashion Studio: Palettes Past

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ACTion Art 2022: Perspectives

March 29 & 31, 2022

Carole Harris: Bright Moments

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Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue

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Seen and Not Seen

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This Land: American Landscapes from GRAM’s Collection

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An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960 – 2018

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A Way to Make Pictures

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ArtPrize 2021 at GRAM:
My Dearest Friends Project

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An Interwoven Legacy: The Black Ash Basketry of Kelly Church and Cherish Parrish

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Living Artfully: Jim and Mary Nelson

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Living Artfully: Jon and MaryAnn McDonald

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Selections from the 2021 Festival of the Arts Regional Arts Competition

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A Summer Potluck: Stephen Frykholm’s Picnic Posters

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Design Highlights from the Permanent Collection

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ACTion Art: An exhibition by Artists Creating Together

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American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection

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Placed/​Displaced: Works Exploring Home from GRAM’s Collection

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Heroes: Now and Then

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Hand and Machine in Harmony: Regional Arts & Crafts

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Her Ideas, Her Stories: Women Artists from GRAM’s Collection

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In Black and White

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Mathias J. Alten: An Enduring Legacy

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In Their Own Words

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Useful Beauty: Design Highlights from the Permanent Collection

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Beauty, Drama, and Nature: Ukiyo‑e Prints from GRAM’s Collection

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A New State of Matter: Contemporary Glass

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Looking (at•into•through) Glass

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David Wiesner & The Art of Wordless Storytelling

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Worth a Thousand Words: Storytelling with GRAM’s Collection

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Relevant: Abstraction from GRAM’s Collection

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Billy Mayer: The Shape of Things

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Alexander Calder: Pour La Grande Vitesse and other Works on Paper

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Melanie Daniel: Only Four Degrees

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Maya Lin: Flow

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Nicholas Krushenick: Iron Butterfly

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Self, Symbol, Surrogate: Artist Portraits from GRAM’s Collection

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A Decade at the Center: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions

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A Legacy of Love: Selections from The Mabel Perkins Collection

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Dylan Miner: Water is Sacred // Trees are Relatives

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Anila Quayyum Agha: Intersections

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Oswaldo Vigas: Transformations

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Mirror Variations: The Art of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian

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Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle

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Carl Wilson: Her Purse Smelled Like Juicy Fruit and Other Tales

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Andy Warhol’s American Icons

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Christian Marclay: Video Quartet

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Finders Keepers: West Michigan Collects

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Black Waves: The Tattoo Art of Leo Zulueta

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Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion

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The Collection in Context

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Maureen Nollette: Honorable Ordinaries

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Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

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Michael Pfleghaar: Reinforcing Objecthood

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