Cranbrook Museum unveils Edward Gorey artworks | Oakland Press

As the director of library and academic resources for the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Judy Dyki’s duties include surveying gifts potential donors offer the library. One such recent gift from an alumnus, who graduated from Cranbrook back in the 1960s and asked not to be identified, ultimately led to a new exhibit opening in the […]

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Nick Cave “Here Hear” Featured on PBS’s Art21

On Friday, September 16 the new ART21 special featuring Cranbrook Art Museum's Nick Cave: Here Hear project debuted.

“Unsettled: The Work of Edward Gorey” Opening at Cranbrook Art Museum

Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Aug. 30, 2016 — On September 18, Cranbrook Art Museum will open its latest exhibition, Unsettled: The Work of Edward Gorey, on view in the Museum’s deSalle Gallery through March 12, 2017. The exhibition is a collaboration between Cranbrook Art Museum and the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library.Gorey is known for his masterful pen-and-ink drawings that illustrate his captivating books, conjuring a vaguely Edwardian world of handcars, boater hats, and Dickensian children.The exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum will feature many of Gorey’s classic texts as well as his experiments with the physical structure of the book—split-pages, doubled-books, accordion formats, postcard sets, and miniature books.

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2017 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

The most innovative work from the next generation of architects, artists, and designers will be on display at the 2017 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art. The Degree Exhibition showcases pieces that are the culmination of two years of studio work from a diverse group of more than 60 graduates as they launch […]

‘The Truth Booth’ gathers voices and perspectives from across metro Detroit | KnightBlog

Since July 31, the Detroit metro area has been visited by “The Truth Booth,” an ongoing interactive project conceived by Cause Collective, and brought for a two-week intensive visit to Michigan by a $60,000 Knight Arts Challenge grant awarded to the Cranbrook Art Museum. Laura Mott, curator of contemporary art and design at Cranbrook, worked […]

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Collective art project in Flint allows residents to speak their mind | WNEM TV 5 Flint

You may see an enormous speech bubble around Mid-Michigan.The collective art project arrived from Detroit and will be spending a few nights in the Vehicle City."It's giving everybody a chance to say what's on their mind," said Daniel Ashbury, Flint resident.He turned his two cents into a piece of art. It was made possible with the Truth Booth, a traveling recording studio. It encourages people to come in and speak their minds.

What does the truth mean to you? | NBC 25 News Flint

The Truth Booth has landed in Flint.It's an inflatable video recording booth, in the shape of a large speech bubble. You head inside, pin on a microphone, push record, and then speak your truth.Yes it's art. That's what organizers say.

‘Truth Booth’ art exhibit, social experiment comes to Flint | WJRT ABC 12 Flint

An art exhibit and social experiment has come to Flint, Michigan this week.The project was started by artists with the Cause Collective. They're currently touring a "Truth Booth" around the country, with hopes of visiting all 50 states by Election Day.Their stop in Michigan will be the longest on the tour.

Truth Booth encourages truth telling at AANM |Dearborn Times-Herald

Curious visitors arrived at the Arab American National Museum to share their truth in the Truth Booth art installation Aug. 3.The portable, inflatable booth shaped similar to a cartoon speech bubble with the word “truth” on the outside served as a video recording studio for anyone willing to participate.

‘The truth is … ‘ art project filming in Detroit now – Aug. 13 | FOX 2 Detroit

An inflatable video recording studio will be in Detroit and the Flint area over the next week and a half. Everyone is invited to visit the Truth Booth and make their statements completing the sentence, "The truth is ... ."The responses will be compiled together and used in an art video installation that will be at Cranbrook Art Museum in November of 2016."Everyone treats the Truth Booth differently," says Laura Mott with Cranbrook Art Museum. "It really depends on the person. Some people use it really as a confessional; others use it as a place to kind of share stories of joy and laughter and compassion; other people really use it as a platform to talk about difficult issues."