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September 24, 2016 - Dash Plaques and Goodie Bags to first 150 cars; Free Popcorn; Door Prizes, including Smart TV and gift cards. $15 Registration Fee includes free lunch. Children's Miracle Family will attend. Live radio broadcast onsite. All money goes to Children's Miracle Network.

July 15, 2016 - January 31, 2017 - This exhibit features photographs from a recent National Geographic story that explores the city of Detroit’s comeback since filing for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history in July 2013. Michigan State University alumna, Susan Ager, wrote the National Geographic article, “Taking Back Detroit.” The photographs from that story, taken by photographer Way...

June 4 - October 16, 2016 - This exhibition brings together important works from throughout Yan Xing’s career, as well a newly created site-specific work based on the Broad MSU’s historic art collection. Yan Xing (b. 1986) is part of a young generation of Chinese artists who were born after the Cultural Revolution, and with therefore no direct connection of the social, political and cultural issue...

May 16 - November 23, 2016 - This exhibition highlights two recent donations of Navajo weavings: saddle blankets collected in the 1930s by Dr. Franklin Thresher McCann and rugs collected in the 2000’s by Dr. Robert Uphaus. The bold designs, color palettes and weave structures of hand woven saddle blankets and rugs help us to understand how Navajo culture and weaving practices have changed over tim...

May 14 - November 27, 2016 - This exhibition debuts British artist Sam Jury’s new project, To Be Here, which develops from her time spent with exiled Sahrawi refugees near Tindouf, Algeria. Filmed over the course of a two-week residency, Jury used hand-held cameras to document the daily lives of individuals in the extreme conditions of the camps. The improvised nature of these vignettes is grounde...

May 14 - October 16, 2016 - Drowning World is a visual attempt to capture the magnitude of climate change through portraits of flood survivors taken in deep floodwaters with­in the remains of their homes or in submerged landscapes, in the stillness of once lively environments. Keeping their composure, the photographed sub­jects pause in front of Gideon Mendel’s camera, casting an unsettling yet en...

April 23 - May 15, 2016 - The 2016 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition marks the culmination of a three-year degree program that emphasizes extensive creative exploration under the supervision of a faculty guidance committee. Focused study in an area of concentration, as well as course work in art history and related fields, helps artists situate their work within the larger discourse that characterize...

April 16 - November 30, 2016 - The MSU Museum features three floors and 15 galleries of long-term and changing exhibitions that showcase museum objects, artifacts and specimens, as well as new collections acquisitions, traveling exhibitions, and innovative research by MSU faculty and students. The science and culture museum at MSU serves as a vibrant point of intersection, where visitors can engag...

April 1 - September 11, 2016 - This exhibition draws together a diverse array of artworks and cultural artifacts from the subcontinent of South Asia, providing a brief historical overview of this region by way of its visual and material culture. Generally, South Asia encompasses the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. However, national bou...

March 18 - June 5, 2016 - Exhibited as part of the Tree of 40 Fruit series, these living sculptures mature to grow over 40 different varieties of stone fruit including peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, and cherries. In The Michigan Trees, the artist collects species traditionally grown and developed throughout the state of Michigan. The resulting grove, where entire orchards are grafted onto o...