A new exhibit in the Kruizenga Art Museum, Black Lives Matter, Black Culture Matters, features fifty works of art that address a variety of topics in African American history and culture from the end of the Civil War to the present. The exhibition attempts to provide some historical context for the current Black Lives Matter protests …
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Kruizenga Art Museum Supports the Big Read with “Truth to Power” Exhibition
Speaking truth to power is what a new Kruizenga Art Museum exhibition does through powerful art from Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. The exhibit supports this month’s NEA Big Read Lakeshore theme as the month long event focuses on Julia Alvarez’s “In the Time of Butterflies.”
Object Lesson: Christ’s Life by Rembrandt van Rijn
Lent is a time for prayer and reflection on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. On April 9, the Kruizenga Art Museum opened a focused exhibition of etchings by the 17th-century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn that includes eight poignant scenes from the life of Christ. These beautiful images may inspire special contemplation as …
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Object Lessons: Mexican People Portfolio
In 1946, the Taller de Grafica Popular (People’s Graphic Workshop) in Mexico City published a portfolio titled Mexican People that consisted of twelve lithographic prints by ten different artists depicting scenes of Mexican working life. The purpose of the portfolio was to help Americans better understand the peoples and cultures of Mexico as both countries …
Object Lessons: Calculus in the KAM
How is art relevant to calculus and calculus relevant to art? Every semester for the past two years, Dr. Stephanie Edwards, professor of mathematics and chairperson of the department, has been bringing her Calculus I and II classes to the Kruizenga Art Museum to consider exactly these questions. To answer the first question — how …
Hope Connections Play Critical Role in Exhibit at the Kruizenga Art Museum
The exhibition, Living Tradition: Contemporary Ethiopian Christian Art at the Kruizenga Art Museum until Saturday, December 15, would never have happened without critical contributions from four current and former Hope College students.