Please Note: Admission to GRAM will be $5 during ArtPrize (September 12 – October 3). The Museum’s second floor will be closed September 14 – 26 for installation.

Press Releases & Updates

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
Director of Communications and External Affairs
616.831.2917
lpayne@artmuseumgr.org

Press Releases

A geometric painting of black, white, and yellow shapes

GRAM Presents Oswaldo Vigas: Transformations

Light shines out of a large box, casting detailed patterns and shapes on all four walls around it.

‘Intersections’ by Anila Quayyum Agha Returns to GRAM with ‘The Art of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian’

Children sit on the ground around a sculpture listening as someone talks to them about the artwork

GRAM to Receive Art Works Grant from National Endowment for the Arts

A painting shows fish, fossils, and a shipwreck under the surface of the water

Painter Alexis Rockman Celebrates Global Importance of Great Lakes, Identifies Threat to Ecosystem with New Series

Four people look at and point towards a painting hanging on the wall at a gallery

GRAM Celebrates 10^th Anniversary of New Building with Free Public Celebration Day

A stylized image of an astronaut next to the American flag on the moon. The colors are made to be more bold - the astronauts suit being pink and the surface of the moon being a bright blue

Andy Warhol’s American Icons and Christian Marclay: Video Quartet Opening at GRAM

A group of people look at and talk about artwork in a gallery

GRAM Joins the Symphony Scorecard

Black text on a red and blue background reads Artprize nine

GRAM Presents 16 Artists During ArtPrize Nine

2017 July Robert Branch

GRAM Hires New Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operations Officer

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Women Leaders Honored at Grand Rapids Art Museum

A painting by Alexis Rockman of a dystopian nature landscape featuring a lake, woods, and many flora and fauna.

GRAM to Receive Award from National Endowment for the Arts

Four young white people standing in Rosa Parks Circle at GRAM on the Green in 2017. They are smiling for the camera and cheers-ing with beer bottles of Founders All Day IPA.

GRAM on the Green 2017 Lineup Announced

A brightly colored illustration of a man surrounded by a whimsical invention with many moving parts including a clock, a rocket, a spoon, and a bird.

The Art of Rube Goldberg Arrives at GRAM

A view of the exterior of GRAMs building, with a sign that reads WOOD TV Media Arts Center

GRAM launches Media Arts Center partnership with WOOD TV8

A floral arrangement is displayed in a gallery alongside paintings

Art in Bloom Returns to the Grand Rapids Art Museum

Two people sit on the beach, their backs tattooed by Leo Zulueta

Grand Rapids Art Museum Presents Black Waves: The Tattoo Art of Leo Zulueta

A black and white image of Director Marcelo Lehninger directing an orchestra

Grand Rapids Art Museum Welcomes New GRS Music Director Marcelo Lehninger

Many pairs of brightly colored sneakers are aligned in rows

Grand Rapids Art Museum Presents Finders Keepers: West Michigan Collects

A New Director of Learning and Creativity at GRAM

Two children stand in a museum gallery, one dressed as a skeleton and one as a vampire

The Seriously Most Amazing Halloween Party of All Time!

Yellow text on a blue background reads Past Present Future

ArtPrize Eight at GRAM: Past/Present/Future

A short, gold dress, with abstract elements jutting out throughout the outfit.

Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion

A couple dances outside to music being played for a group of people

GRAM on the Green

A statue from the GRAM collection position in front of a blue background with text saying the collection in context

The Collection in Context