Andrew Satake Blauvelt Awarded AIGA Medal

Director of Cranbrook Art Museum and Cranbrook Academy of Art Alumnus Honored for Illustrious Career Bloomfield Hills, Mich., June 15, 2022 – Cranbrook Academy of Art and Cranbrook Art Museum are pleased to announce that Andrew Satake Blauvelt (Design ’88) has been awarded an AIGA Medal, the most distinguished honor in the profession of communication design. […]

Cranbrook Art Museum Announces Summer Exhibition Series

Cranbrook Art Museum Announces New Artist-Designed Miniature Golf Course

“Cranbrook on the Green” will open to the public on the grounds outside of Cranbrook Art Museum on May 25, 2022. Bloomfield Hills, Mich., April 26, 2022 — This summer, Cranbrook Art Museum will invite visitors to experience a new dimension of its historic campus with the launch of “Cranbrook on the Green,” an artist-designed […]

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Cranbrook Art Museum Announces Summer Exhibition Series

Tunde Olaniran: Made a Universe Film and Exhibition Open June 18, 2022 Bloomfield Hills, Mich., April 14, 2022 — This summer Cranbrook Art Museum will present Tunde Olaniran: Made a Universe, the first film commissioned by the museum and its first project to traverse the spaces of the recording studio, the silver screen, and the […]

Laura Mott Named Chief Curator of Cranbrook Art Museum

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., April 28, 2022 – Cranbrook Art Museum has announced that Laura Mott has been promoted to the position of Chief Curator of Cranbrook Art Museum. She previously held the position of Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and Design at the museum. An accomplished curator and lecturer, Mott joined Cranbrook in 2013 and […]

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Cranbrook Art Museum Opens Homebody

New Exhibition Examines Our Relationship to Home HomebodyJanuary 26, 2022 – June 19, 2022 Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Jan. 20, 2022 – On January 26, 2022, Cranbrook Art Museum will open the new exhibition Homebody, which examines our relationship to the concept of “home.” Featuring nearly 30 works from 20 artists with connections to Detroit, the exhibition looks […]

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Cranbrook Art Museum Announces Four New Fall Exhibitions

The First Major Retrospectives of Legendary Fiber Artist Olga de Amaral and Legendary Detroit Artist Allie McGhee A Look at Michigan’s Modern Movement and the Building of Cranbrook Olga de Amaral: To Weave a RockAllie McGhee: Banana Moon HornOctober 30, 2021 – February 13, 2022 James Haefner: Michigan ModernOctober 6, 2021 – January 9, 2022Building […]

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Cranbrook Art Museum Partners with City of Detroit on Detroit Healing Memorial

With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932 New exhibition and book chronicle how Cranbrook Academy of Art radically reinvented art and design in America

Exhibition Dates: June 20–September 19, 2021 ArtMember Preview Days: June 18–19, 2021 “My endeavor was to make the Cranbrook development an eye-opener.”— George Booth as quoted by Eliel Saarinen (BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI — MAY 4, 2021) — This summer, Cranbrook Art Museum is pleased to debut With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932, the first book and largest exhibition to […]

Cranbrook Art Museum to Deliver 1,500 Take-Home Art Kits to Students in Pontiac and Detroit

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., March 16, 2021 – Cranbrook Art Museum announced today that it has begun distribution of “Art-Reach Kits” to students in the Pontiac and Detroit School Districts. More than 1,500 kits will be delivered, including a kit to every third and fourth-grade student in the school district of the City of Pontiac. Kits […]

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