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Grand Rapids Art Museum Welcomes Cindy Meyers Foley as New Director and CEO
by (Grand Rapids Ar...)
Submitted 03-27-2023 under NONPROFITS
The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) Board of Trustees recently announced the appointment of Cindy Meyers Foley as its next Director and CEO. Foley comes to GRAM after a 17-year tenure at the Columbus Museum of Art, where she most recently served...
Powerful Art: Creating and Impacting Social Change
by (cicadmin)
Submitted 02-01-2023 under NONPROFITS
Thursday, February 9, 7-8:30 p.m. EST Art can inspire; it can also challenge our assumptions. Explore the history and the power of how the performing arts have created opportunities for social change. Presented by Edye Evans Hyde is the...
Wealthy Theatre and UICA Announce Return of Open Projector Night
by (wealthytheatre)
Submitted 09-20-2022 under LOCAL LIFE
In 2012, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA) introduced the first Open Projector Night - a seasonal event that provided both local and regional filmmakers with the chance to share their art with the community. Then, eight years later,...
The Grand Rapids Art Museum Celebrates the Creative Vision of Jim Henson in The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited
by (Grand Rapids Ar...)
Submitted 09-15-2022 under NONPROFITS
The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) recently announced the opening of The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited, with presenting support from PNC Bank. Organized by the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), the traveling exhibition...
Ebony Road Players Perform SHEEPDOG by Kevin Artigue at the Grand Rapids Art Museum
by (Grand Rapids Ar...)
Submitted 06-08-2022 under NONPROFITS
Ebony Road Players will perform Sheepdog (Kevin Artigue) at the Grand Rapids Art Museum on June 16, 17, and 18, 2022. Each performance will be followed up with a community dialogue around race, policing and mental health. This performance...
GRAM Announces First Major American Impressionism Exhibition in over a Decade
by (Grand Rapids Ar...)
Submitted 05-26-2022 under NONPROFITS
The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) recently announced the opening of In A New Light: American Impressionism 1870 – 1940 | Works from the Bank of America Collection, on view at the Museum from June 11 through August 27, 2022...
The Return of Absurdism
by (emilybeeman00)
Submitted 05-20-2022 under OPINION
I’m writing this on the toilet. Maybe you’re reading this somewhere like that, too. Maybe we’re connected somehow by our Catholic-imbued terror of an idle mind. Absurdism characterizes our time. I don’t just mean 2022,...
GRAM Presents An Extraordinary Legacy: The Miner S. and Mary Ann Keeler Collection
by (Grand Rapids Ar...)
Submitted 05-12-2022 under NONPROFITS
The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) recently announced the opening of An Extraordinary Legacy: The Miner S. and Mary Ann Keeler Collection, an exhibition of 65 works of modern and contemporary art at GRAM. Opening May 17 and on view through...
Artist Spotlight: snicka
by (Avenueforthearts)
Submitted 04-12-2022 under NONPROFITS
It was a sunny Tuesday morning when I first met snicka at the crowded Lyon St. Cafe in bustling Midtown Grand Rapids. Having never met her before, I had no idea what to expect. Right from our first encounter, I knew our meeting would go well,...
Quilted Works of Art by Carole Harris Opening at the Grand Rapids Art Museum
by (Grand Rapids Ar...)
Submitted 03-16-2022 under NONPROFITS
The work of Detroit-based fiber artist Carole Harris will be on view at the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) from March 17 to June 18, 2022, in Carole Harris: Bright Moments. The newest installment of GRAM’s Michigan Artist Series...