2008 CALENDAR

January 27, 2008 - March 9, 2008 (Sargent Wing Gallery)

A Sense of Place:
Landscapes from the Permanent Collection

This exhibition, featuring more than 70 works created over a period of three centuries, provides an opportunity to explore the historical significance of important American and European landscape paintings, drawings and prints collected by the Museum over the past 60 years.

January 27, 2008 - February 8, 2009 (Panelled Gallery – 1st Floor)

Unforgotten Past:
Images of the Native American

This exhibition presents a series of works by Eanger Irving Couse and selected from the Museum's permanent collection to demonstrate the artist’s methods and passion for capturing the culture and lifestyle of the Native American.

November 18, 2007 - March 3, 2008 (Gallery – 1st Floor)

Recent Acquistions to the Permanent Collection

Selection of paintings, photographs, ceramics and mixed media accepted into the permanent collection of the Museum in the past year.

March 30, 2008 - June 8, 2008 (Sargent Wing Gallery)

Lois Teicher: Retrospective 1979-2008

Lois Teicher's sculptures serve as the connecting link in a visual dialogue about tension and resolution in abstract forms. The way her geometric forms occupy space is significant to the works, as well as the material fabrication. This exhibition will feature 30 sculptures, one from each year, accompanied by models, photographs, and sketches by this living artist.

Lois Teicher is a Michigan artist and educator who has been honored with grants and awards from the Michigan Council for the Arts, Arts Foundation of Michigan, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York.

June 22, 2008 - September 7, 2008 (Sargent Wing Gallery)

Fourth Annual Michigan Invitational: Painting

This invitational will present the finest examples of contemporary painting being produced in Michigan. Over 60 artists with a connection to the state of Michigan by birth, residency, or schooling and who are currently employed by an academic institution will be invited to participate. The exhibition will feature examples of original, two-dimensional paintings created within the last five years in a variety of traditional and nontraditional media.

October 9, 2008 - November 9, 2008 (Sargent Wing Gallery)

Life as a Legend : Marilyn Monroe

This vivid and diverse exhibition of over 300 objects is exclusive to Michigan, Toledo and Northern Indiana. Marilyn Monroe’s rise to stardom is captured through works by more than 65 artists in styles ranging from fashion photography to Pop Art. Artists include Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Peter Blake, Richard Avedon, Bert Stern, Henri Cartier-Bresson and many others.

Though her life ended far too soon, the world’s fascination with Marilyn Monroe’s magnetic appeal and much publicized private life continues to thrive. There has never been another Marilyn, a unique personification of femininity, naïveté and sexuality. For decades artists have been inspired by Marilyn to create works complementing the instantly recognizable bombshell figure, platinum hair and dazzling smile. Marilyn Monroe personifies glamour and sensuality. This exhibition celebrates the many sides of this 1950’s glamour goddess, immortal legend, and Pop icon.

For sponsorships, corporate events and more information about Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe go to http://www.americanpopfestival.com

Ongoing (Ring Galleries – 2nd Floor)

ART FOR ALL: 2500 BCE – Present
Integrated ethnographic, American and European, paintings, sculpture, decorative and folk arts from our permanent collection.

Ongoing (Solarium Gallery – 1st Floor)

ART FOR ALL: Sculpture
Sculptures in several media, including marble, bronze, ceramics, wood, glass, steel, and assemblage, from the Museum's permanent collection.