Cranbrook Art Museum Announces New Summer Exhibition “Akea Brionne: A Dreaming Hour”

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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Akea Brionne: A Dreaming Hour

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 […]