Join us for artist-led workshops in Wainger Gallery on select Thursdays! Each two-hour workshop will feature a different artmaking theme, drawing inspiration from artwork in our collection. Together we will look closely at artworks and learn about the artist’s intentions and processes before making our own works of art with guidance from visiting artists and museum staff.
This Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating more than just love—we’re cherishing great chair design! At Cranbrook Art Museum, we invite you to explore the connections between design, comfort, and connection. In collaboration with visiting artist Kim Swift (MFA 3D Design ’24), we’ll take a look at the Tree Chair for Two, tour chairs in our collection, and create our own prototypes or mini chairs using unique materials. It’s a creative way to celebrate design and the connections we cherish, just like the people in our lives!
Kim Swift’s practice is an ongoing experiment to find and nurture interconnected ways of being – expressed through objects, furniture, installation, painting, sculpture, environmental design and participatory programs. In an increasingly chaotic and disconnected world, she is looking to engage audiences in the questioning of existing realities and the imagining of new ones. Her projects explore the rituals of our shared experience – the objects we live with, the spaces we inhabit, and the systems we navigate every day. Each is made whole as people become active participants in building meaning around a work, providing ways to understand further and facilitate human connection.
$25 per participant, $20 for ArtMembers, intended for ages 16 and up. Pre-registration is required through our website.
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