Following is a schedule of events for Kresge Art Museum for March 29-April 12.
Kresge Art Museum is located on the first floor of the Kresge Art Center at the intersection of Physics and Auditorium roads on the MSU campus.
Museum hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., except for Thursday, when it closes at 8 p.m. The museum is open Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. The museum will be closed April 3-4.
For additional information, call (517) 353-9834 or visit www.artmuseum.msu.edu.
Current Exhibits
Wood into Art
through April 21
Perspectives Gallery, Kresge Art Museum
Wood is one of the most widely available natural materials in the world. It has been used extensively by almost every culture in artistic production for more than 5,000 years. "Wood into Art" examines the ways in which artists have employed this versatile material from medieval to contemporary times. It focuses on the relationship between artist and medium in terms of process and materiality, while inviting parallels between geographically diverse regions. Presented in collaboration with MSU's Department of Forestry.
Friends of Kresge Acquisition Highlights
Ongoing throughout 2010
Online exhibition
Since its founding in 1975, the Friends of Kresge Art Museum has worked closely with KAM directors to provide financial support for acquisitions and educational programming. To honor Friends, this online exhibition features 40 Friends' acquisitions. The works of art span 2,500 years of history and represent a wide variety of media, and are some of the most important and well-known objects in the collection.
Discoveries: Research, Science and Seeing the Collection
Ongoing throughout 2010
Online Exhibition
The online exhibition reveals secrets behind several objects in the museum collection, uncovered by old-fashioned, gumshoe curatorial investigation.
Future Exhibition
MSU Department of Art and Art History Undergraduate Exhibition
April 10-25
Kresge Art Museum
Future events and programs
Gallery Walk: Wood into Art
5:15 pm.
April 8
Kresge Art Museum
MSU Department of Art & Art History Undergraduate Exhibition
April 10-25
Kresge Art Museum
The second of two annual collaborations between the MSU Department of Art and Art History and Kresge Art Museum, this exhibition showcases works of art created by undergraduate students in ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photography, sculpture and printmaking courses. Student Book Store is the awards and exhibit sponsor. There will be an opening reception 7-9 p.m. April 9 at Kresge.
Student Perspectives - Africa Here and Now: Contemporary Art and Identity
April 24 - May 9
Perspectives Gallery
Kresge Art Museum
Current events and programs
Gallery Walks: Wood into Art
5:15 p.m.
April 8
Perspectives Gallery
Kresge Art Museum
Department of Art and Art History Guest Lecture: Patrick McNaughton
7 p.m.
April 6
108 Kresge Art Center
A pre-eminent scholar in the field of African Art History, McNaughton specializes in the study of sub-Saharan Africa. His work has been honored by the Guggenheim Foundation, Smithsonian Institution and National Endowment for the Humanities.
Future events and programs
Creative Kids: Artists as Storytellers
Ages 8-11
1-3 p.m.
April 17
Kresge Art Center
View objects in the museum's collections that tell a story or represent a myth. Be inspired to write a short story and draw a scene using markers, colored pencils or paints.
Creative Kids is an ongoing weekend series of art-making programs for kids who are accompanied by an adult. These programs provide interactive experiences with visual arts led by the museum's staff. After a guided theme tour in the museum, kids respond to their viewing experience with hands-on art making activities. Cost is $3 for museum members; $4 for general public. Please register and pre-pay by calling Cari Wolfe at (517) 884-0653 or register via e-mail at wolfeca1@msu.edu.
Tour: Behind-the-Scenes at MSU's Collections- MSU Museum Cultural Collections
12:15-12:50 p.m.
April 20
Tour led by Lynne Swanson, collection manager, and Marsha MacDowell, curator. Meet in the first floor hallway, next to the elevator, in the MSU Museum's Cultural Collections Research and Resource Center in the MSU Central Services Building.
See samples of collections reflecting the arts and history of cultures local and global cultures: teapots, Native American baskets, contemporary African crafts, agricultural heritage, Michigan folk arts, ephemera of ethnic stereotypes, MSU historical collections, a world class collection of quilts and textiles and much more. Also see storage areas, research labs, and current curation projects involving students, faculty, staff and community volunteers.
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