Code “carnival glass” for room reservation (reserve by October 4,2015)  2:00 pm Seminar Daniel Peterson.  Below are some of the activities: Glass History & Related Factories Business meeting to follow seminar 6:00 pm Banquet Followed by Banquet Speaker  Steve Gregg on Lettered Carnival Auction preview to follow Banquet Speaker

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November 15, 2015 - June 30, 2016 - Why do some species have bigger brains than others? Do social animals have bigger brains? This exhibition uses modern technologies, including computerized tomography, digital measurement, and 3D reconstruction, to examine MSU research on brain size evolution in mammalian carnivores, a group that includes lions, hyenas, wolves, and wolverines. The exhib...

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January 4, 2016 - October 31, 2016 - This exhibition  shows rejecting tradition and embracing more body-conscious styles, the young American "flapper" wore her newly won freedom to vote, earn, and learn on her body: short dresses and clear stockings, bobbed hair, and a head-hugging cloche. The cloche - a bell-shaped hat considered "clever" and "smart" - framed th...

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March 5 - August 7, 2016 - The Artist as Activist is the first major museum exhibition to bring together a comprehensive body of work by Mahbubur Rahman and Tayeba Begum Lipi, two of Bangladesh's foremost contemporary artists.  As activists they question the social values, expectations, and conventions that are part of their everyday lives, challenging the viewer on both universal and per...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 uns...

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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 g...

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