Harry Bertoia – Coffee and Tea Service – 1940

About the Director

Andrew Satake Blauvelt is a curator, historian, critic, designer, and educator whose practice spans the fields of art and culture. He is Director of Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, MI, leading the institution’s transformation into a vibrant and diverse cultural destination and community partner. Since his arrival in 2015 …

J. Robert F. Swanson – Candelabrum

William Morris – A Collection of Seventy-Two Wallpaper Samples

Cranbrook Academy Art Presents Alumni Achievement Award to Vivian Beer

Bloomfield Hills, Mich., February 10, 2016 – Cranbrook Academy of Art has named Vivian Beer (Metalsmithing ‘04) the 2016 recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award. This is the fifth time the Academy has bestowed the award, which seeks to recognize alumni who have achieved excellence early in their career. Sonya …

Andrew Blauvelt interview | SLICE Ann Arbor

Cranbrook Art Museum Director Andrew Blauvelt is interviewed for the “Meet the People Behind the Ideas” feature in SLICE Ann Arbor.

Eliel Saarinen (Designer), Tea Urn and Tray

Experimental Mindset: An Interview with Andrew Blauvelt | Art in America

There’s change in the air at the Cranbrook Art Museum, where Andrew Blauvelt, a 1988 MFA graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art’s design department, begins his new job as director this month. He succeeds Gregory Wittkopp, who has held the dual role of director of the Cranbrook Art Museum and …

Jewellery Exhibition Focuses on Early Work by Harry Bertoia | Dezeen

An exhibition at the Cranbrook Museum of Art outside Detroit examines the jewellery of the mid-century American sculptor and designer Harry Bertoia. The show, called Bent, Cast & Forged: The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia, includes more than 30 pieces of jewellery and several monotype prints from his early career. It …

Experiencing Architecture Through ‘Hippie Modernism’ and Retrospectives | New York Times

In 1965, four artists bought seven acres in southeastern Colorado, intending to make live-in works of art. Their communal project came to be known as Drop City, where residents lived in zonohedron domes of their own creation, sometimes constructed of automobile roofs and other scavenged materials. One dome, made of …