Bloomfield Hills, Mich., May 5, 2026 — Detroit artist Akea Brionne will open her first solo museum exhibition, Akea Brionne: A Dreaming Hour, at Cranbrook Art Museum on June 20. Brionne is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of lens- and fiber-based media, and is a 2023 graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art photography department. An opening celebration will […]
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Read ArticleBloomfield Hills, Mich., April 2, 2026 — Cranbrook Art Museum presents Labyrinth/Laboratory: Selections from the Cranbrook Collection, a new ongoing exhibition of work by Cranbrook Academy of Art alumni and faculty that shows how artists across generations connect through their ideas, materials, and processes. With a focus on work produced from the 1960s to the present, Labyrinth/Laboratory features 47 works, including […]
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Read MoreHarry Bertoia (1915–1978) was one of the most imaginative artists and designers of the twentieth century. Harry Bertoia: Void and Matter is a monographic survey of the artist’s work, from his abstract monoprints, organic jewelry, and innovative wire furniture to his freestanding metal sculptures, large-scale commissions, and groundbreaking sounding sculptures. The exhibition celebrates the 90th […]
Ceramics has been foundational to Cranbrook Academy of Art since its inception. In 1928, founder George Gough Booth established arts and crafts workshops that included ceramics. In 1938, Finnish-born artist Maija Grotell was appointed as head of the department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, which would prove a serendipitous move. Though Academy President Eliel Saarinen insisted on an equivalence between the […]
Acclaimed artists Olga de Amaral (b. 1932; Weaving, 1954–55) and Anne Wilson (b. 1946; BFA Fiber, 1972) both studied in the renowned Fiber program at Cranbrook Academy of Art nearly 20 years apart. Featuring selections from Cranbrook Art Museum’s collection, Drawing in Thread references their shared interest in exploring architectural space and celebrating the most elemental component of fiber: the thread. […]
In 1925, George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth, the founders of Cranbrook, invited Finnish-born architect Eliel Saarinen to begin transforming their country estate into an ambitious campus of educational, artistic, and scientific inquiry. The endeavor was a collaborative project shaped by the Saarinen family, including sculptor and textile artist Loja Saarinen and their children, Pipsan and […]
Monumental Color: Cecily Brown, Sam Gilliam, and Joan Mitchell brings together significant artworks by three quintessential Abstract artists. The exhibition showcases the museum’s holdings of these artists alongside loans from the Masterworks Foundation, an initiative to share one of the largest private collections in contemporary art with public audiences. It will spotlight Cranbrook Art Museum’s […]
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Read MoreBorn and raised in metro Detroit, Anna Sui reinvented fashion and pop culture with her signature rock-and-roll romantic label in the 1990s and has remained an artistic fashion icon ever since. The World of Anna Sui at Cranbrook Art Museum represents the international American fashion designer’s return to the city, a cultural hub of rock […]
Based in Metro Detroit, Akea Brionne (b. 1996) is an interdisciplinary research-driven artist working at the intersection of lens and fiber-based media. Her practice explores the relationship between colonial and imperialist histories and their reverberations into cultural storytelling, identity politics, and assimilation. Through observations focusing on the African Diaspora with a particular interest in Afro […]
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