Archived - Shows And Events

December 3, 2016 - January 29, 2017 - The artists in this exhibition depict men and women at work, mostly in factory settings. Many works are from the decade of the 1930s, the era of the Great Depression, which saw many changes to labor, from the picket line to the unemployment line.

November 20, 2016 - March 5, 2017 - The exhibition assembled draw heavily from the DIA’s world-class encyclopedic collection and range from rare examples of porcelain and metalwork to paintings, prints and sculptures. In a departure from traditional art exhibitions, their presentation will be complemented by multi-sensory interpretive elements that engage all five senses—the museum’s first-ever ex...

November 19, 2016 - March 19, 2017 - With this exhibition you will see a gallery transformed into a magical, "underwater" installation of colorful and glowing "fish, jellies, and coral" by Sayaka Ganz. Guided by sensitivity to the environment and human habits of discarding objects, Ganz rescues and repurposes plastic utensils and household items as the material of her sculptural creations. Slotted...

November 19, 2016 - March 19, 2017 - From the Vault is a series of exhibitions drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection of nearly 6,000 works of modern and contemporary art, architecture, craft, and design. For this installment of the series, we have chosen to focus on a small but significant sampling of recent and promised gifts to the Museum that help highlight key aspects of our unique and ...

November 19, 2016 - March 19, 2017 - This exhibition features four distinct rooms that examine key moments in the evolution of the twentieth-century domestic landscape. From Cranbrook’s formation during the Arts and Crafts movement and its pivotal role in the development of mid-century modernism in America to material explorations that birthed new types of living environments in the 1970s and form...

November 19, 2016 - March 19, 2017 - This exhibition is the culmination of a two-week project involving The Truth Booth, a portable, inflatable video recording studio in the shape of a giant speech bubble, which toured a dozen neighborhoods in Metro Detroit and Flint, Michigan in the summer of 2016. At each location, participants had up to two minutes to record a statement starting with the words,...

November 18 - January 8, 2017 - This exhibition showcases the artistic evolution, interests and practice of a representational artist who has traveled the world, taught in universities and published seminal books on sculptural technique.

November 11, 2016 - January 8, 2017 - Coming Home is a series of exhibitions featuring works by emerging and established Michigan artists. The exhibition celebrates Michigan’s role as a platform for inspiration, exploration, and creative development by highlighting a diverse group of working artists.

November 5, 2016 - February 19, 2017 - This exhibition ​represents work by five painters rebuts the idea that representational imagery has gone into hiding. According to exhibition curator Jerome Witkin, Bill Murphy, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Joel Sheesley, Tim Lowly, and Robert Birmelin continue to "hone to perfection a body of work that I feel will last beyond our time.

November 4 - January 1, 2017 - Artist and author Dave Eggers, along with metal artist Ben Wolf, have built a herd of animal-inspired vehicles for this exhibition focused on the intersection of transportation and education in order to build awareness and solutions to transportation challenges faced by students.