Join leading curators Andrew Satake Blauvelt (Director, Cranbrook Art Museum), Katherine White (Curator of Design, The Henry Ford), and Shelley Selim (Curator of Automotive, Industrial, and Decorative Design, Detroit Institute of Arts) for a lively conversation exploring how different types of institutions—contemporary art museums, history museums, and encyclopedic museums—approach collecting design. Each curator will highlight recent acquisitions and share insights into the evolving priorities shaping their collections.
In anticipation of Eventually Everything Connects: Mid-Century Modern Design in the US, Cranbrook Art Museum expanded its permanent collection with nearly 50 new works of mid-century furniture, lighting, textiles, and product design. These acquisitions focus on designers who have been historically underrepresented in museum collections, including Bill Lam, Evelyn Ackerman, Olga Lee, and Miller Yee Fong.
This is the final public program for the exhibition, which closes Sunday, September 21, 2025. Attending this program is free with museum admission.
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