Press Room

Media Guidelines

All media requests for interviews and information, including all phone and e‑mail requests, photography, and videotaping requests must be coordinated through the GRAM’s Communications Department. Please refer to Media Contacts & Guidelines for the most up-to-date information.

Media inquiries can be directed to:

Elizabeth Payne
Communications Manager
616.831.2917
lpayne@artmuseumgr.org

Press Releases

A painting of an overgrown old house, surrounded by trees and other greenery

GRAM Announces First Major American Impressionism Exhibition in over a Decade

May 24, 2022

Installation view of An Extraordinary Legacy: The Miner S. and Mary Ann Keeler Collection at GRAM.

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

May 10, 2022

An abstract quilt work with red and purple patterned fabrics.

Quilted Works of Art by Carole Harris Opening at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

Feb 17, 2022

Dana Friis-Hansen, GRAM Director and CEO, to Step Away from Leadership Role on January 1, 2023

Dec 17, 2021

GRAM Presents Forty Years of Groundbreaking Photography by Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems

Dec 08, 2021

A colorful print by Jasper Johns of a dripping target on a red background.

Grand Rapids Art Museum Presents ‘An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960 – 2018’

Sep 23, 2021

A hand-woven black ash basket by Cherish Parrish on a black background

GRAM’S Michigan Artist Series Highlights the Black Ash Basketry of Kelly Church and Cherish Parrish

Aug 19, 2021

An image of GRAMs exterior with artist Oaklee Thieles large-scale artwork banners hanging out front.

Grand Rapids Art Museum Presents ArtPrize 2021 Exhibition with Disability Arts Organization, DisArt

Aug 09, 2021

Deborah Butterfields sculpture, Blackjack, in the galleries ar GRAM on a pedestal. A row of other paintings and photos are shown hanging in the back on a dark green wall.

GRAM Invites Indigenous Community Members to Participate in Paid Land Acknowledgement Project

Jul 20, 2021

A woman sings for a small group of people outside GRAM

GRAM on the Green with WYCE Returns this Summer

Jul 09, 2021

Two black and white portraits next to one another. On the left, a Black man in his 50s, and on the right, a young Black boy around age 12. Both are sitting in church pews and looking directly into the camera.

Grand Rapids Art Museum to Receive $35,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

May 26, 2021

A large red quilt with the word FREEDOM written 7 times

Grand Rapids Art Museum Presents American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection

May 11, 2021

Grand Rapids Art Museum Welcomes Spring with Biannual Celebration of Art and Floral Design

Mar 10, 2021

Grand Rapids Art Museum Appoints New President and Vice President to its Board of Trustees

Mar 10, 2020

Two woman look at a book on display in a gallery at GRAM

GRAM Announces Participation In National Internship Programs for Underrepresented Students

Feb 24, 2020

‘A New State of Matter: Contemporary Glass’ Opens at GRAM Jan 25

Jan 07, 2020

A child in a paper crown grins while working on an art project at GRAMs Family Day

Grand Rapids Art Museum Offers Free Admission for Ages 17 and Under During Winter Break

Dec 17, 2019

An drawing of a giant octopus wrapping its tentacles around a building during a flood

Work of Acclaimed Author and Illustrator David Wiesner Arrives at GRAM this Fall

Oct 02, 2019

UICA’S Juana Williams Guest-Curates Grand Rapids Art Museum Exhibition

Sep 25, 2019