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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