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

Cranbrook Art Museum is proud to partner with the City of Detroit’s Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship, the TCF Convention Center, and the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy to present the “The Healing Memorial” installation, a large-scale public art installation to recognize all forms of loss that have occurred throughout the COVID-9 pandemic. The project is led by artist and Cranbrook Academy of Art alumna Sonya Clark and curated by Laura Mott, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and Design at Cranbrook Art Museum. It will launch on Saturday, June 19, at a Juneteenth Celebration on the Dequindre Cut in Detroit from 2–6pm (near the Lafayette and St Aubin entrance). Visitors can create colorful, hand-made personal dedications out of fabric that will come together to form a dramatic installation at the Huntington Center in downtown Detroit. The floor-to-ceiling installation will be adorned by these pouches and contain a written dedication—such as a blessing, keepsake, ...

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Exhibition Dates: June 20–September 19, 2021ArtMember 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 expansively chronicle the school’s nearly 90-year history as a radical experiment in the education of artists. On view from June 18–September 19, the exhibition will occupy the entire museum.The result of a four-year research project, the With Eyes Opened exhibition features more than 275 works by more than 220 artists representing the Academy’s various programs of study—architecture, ceramics, design, fiber, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. However, in keeping with the Academy’s interdisciplinary spirit, all of the museum's galleries combine works from different disciplines and mix historic and contemporary pieces, bringing into dialogue different artistic visions and voices across the arc ...