Friends of Kresge Art Museum Grand Rapids Day Trip
June 11, 2008

Join the Friends of KAM for a day in Grand Rapids. First stop: coffee and sweets at the home of Mary Ann Keeler to see her modern art collection. Next on the agenda is a visit the new Grand Rapids Art Museum to experience the building and the collection, as well as a docent-guided tour of Rapid Exposure: Warhol in Series. Lunch follows at Leo’s Restaurant in downtown Grand Rapids. The day concludes at the Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park with a docent-led tour of the exhibition Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures and time to explore the gardens. 

Gallery Walk: Silk Road to Clipper Ship
June 12, 2008
Kresge Art Museum, 12:10 p.m.

Creative Kids: Summer Art Camp
June 16–20, 2008
108 Kresge Art Center, 9 a.m.–12 p.m.

Led by art educators, art historians and museum docents, participants of Kresge Art Museum's Summer Art Camp will EXPLORE, ENJOY, and CREATE original art during the course of a week. By experiencing different ways of looking at art through interactive tours and activities in the museum, kids will then make their own original work in the studios of the MSU Department of Art. At the end of the week, participants will host an exhibition of their own artwork and tour friends and family through the museum.

THIS PROGRAM IS NOW FULL.

Lecture: Re-imagining the Silk Road
in the Twenty-First Century
June 24, 2008
118 Psychology Bldg., 7 p.m.

Dr. Catherine Ryu, Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, Department of Linguistics and Languages, MSU leads a lecture considering the exhibition theme in relation to the circulation of ideas, objects, and people in the increasingly globalized contemporary world order. Ryu’s work reassesses the Silk Road as a conceptual metaphor used to analyze the interweaving of technology and knowledge and the dissemination of knowledge and power.