Category Archives: Museums & Collections

Photo Friday: Touch by angela7dreams

March 19, 2010 – 2:45 pm

This photo is part of the 5 senses garden sculpture at the Children's Gardenat the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids.
If you've never been to the gardens be sure to put it on your places to visit in 2010. Currently you can check out "Butterflies Are Blooming" which is their most popular [...]

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Michigan's Rich African American Past

February 10, 2010 – 7:28 am

For years, February has been recognized as Black History Month. In nearly 250 years of living in Michigan, African Americans have made many important-and often overlooked–contributions to our state's past. One of the earliest records of African Americans living in Michigan came in the early 1760s when the British replaced the French at Detroit. [...]

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Michigan Books: Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg

January 21, 2010 – 4:53 pm

Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg (Hyperion). The fear of mental illness hits deep into the psyche, and that terror brings about this fascinating book of research into family genealogy, personal history and secrets long held. It all started when Detroit native Steve Luxenberg began to discover some discrepancies in [...]

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Celebrate Michigan's 173rd Birthday at the Michigan Historical Museum!

January 14, 2010 – 1:49 am

Michigan Library I by farlane
In 1837 Michigan became the 26th state in the Union. The Michigan Historical Museum in downtown Lansing will host its annual Statehood Day celebration on Saturday, January 23, 2010 and the public is invited to the family-friendly party from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The first 100 visitors get free birthday [...]

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Michigan Books: American Salvage: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell

January 12, 2010 – 11:25 am

American Salvage: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell (Wayne State University Press). In these stories about cold, lonely, working-class Michigan life, Campbell creates a world where salvation counterbalances loss and despair, and she leaves the reader with a sense of hope and belief things will get better. Campbell's daring stories and exceptional writing create an image [...]

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Art is Everywhere, for Everyone

December 29, 2009 – 11:27 am

Guardian by Ralph Krawczyk Jr
Our years of neglect of the ongoing structural problems in our budget has left Michigan in a position where we're cutting all kinds of services drastically. When you're taking millions from classrooms, public safety and basic human services for our most needy, it's hard to advocate against cuts for the arts.
However, [...]

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Let's Save Michigan poster contest

December 21, 2009 – 7:32 am

The AP reports that the Detroit Institute of Arts and Let's Save Michigan are calling on people to create posters in the fashion of Works Progress Administration artwork of the Great Depression to highlight turnaround efforts and rally Michigan residents to revive the state:
"There's so many different ideas about how to turn around Michigan," Let's [...]

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Noel Night: 37 Years of Holiday Merriment

November 19, 2009 – 11:30 am

The 37th annual Noel Night will take place on Saturday, December 5th from 5:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. in Midtown Detroit's Cultural Center Area. Over 40 institutions, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Science Center, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Detroit Historical Museum, and the Detroit Public Library, [...]

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Winners of the 2009 Grand Rapids ArtPrize

October 10, 2009 – 10:05 am

ArtPrize 09-Open Water no.24 by deviant_anomaly

ART PRIZE 2009-0032 by RichardD72

AND THE WINNER IS... by rkramer62

DETAIL FROM WINNERS CANVAS by bitsorf

The first-ever ArtPrize in Grand Rapids has ended with Open Water no. 24, a 6' x 19' oil painting by Ran Ortner being chosen as the winner by public vote from 1,262 artists who exhibited at [...]

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Michigan Goes Nationwide with Art & Wine

October 8, 2009 – 1:47 pm

ART PRIZE 2009 by RichardD72
Michigan has taken the national stage with one eye on the ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids and the other on it's burgeoning and award winning wine industry which gaining credibility amongst wine experts and wine lovers. This is truly a positive and a definite 180 degree flip from most of the [...]

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