RAM Showcase: African Adornment
This exhibition is comprised of objects with layered and potentially uncomfortable histories. Specifically, these works are from a group of incised metal bracelets and neckpieces from West Africa that span the eighteenth through twentieth centuries.
Stitched Stories: Narrative Quilts and Textiles
Stitched Stories: Narrative Quilts and Textiles brings together quilted, woven, and embroidered works from RAM’s collection that tell stories through fabric and thread.
Handcrafted: RAM Community Art Show
Stitched Stories: Narrative Quilts and Textiles brings together quilted, woven, and embroidered works from RAM’s collection that tell stories through fabric and thread.
RAM Showcase: Cynthia Toops
Cynthia Toops is a polymer art pioneer who has been pushing the boundaries of the medium since the 1980s.
Michael Velliquette: Intuitive Patterns
Wisconsin-based Michael Velliquette has created an installation for RAM’s Windows on Fifth Gallery that reflects his interest in color theory, pattern-making, and papercraft.
Amanda Browder: Zig & Zag
Premiering during the inaugural In/Between multi-arts festival, Amanda Browder’s large-scale installation Zig and Zag weaves RAM’s acrylic-paneled façade with multi-colored fabric, offering a new perspective on a familiar building.
Wood You Believe It?: Painted Wood from RAM’s Collection
Through both traditional and experimental approaches, Wood You Believe It? brings together furniture, art jewelry, sculpture, and wall-hanging works from RAM’s permanent collection to explore the wide range of possibilities that emerge when paint meets wood.
Welcome Home, Toshiko: The Toshiko Takaezu Archive Debuts at RAM
By all accounts, Takaezu’s holdings at RAM comprise the largest collection of her work in a North American institution but, most importantly, they reflect a singular voice who helped expand the potential of a material not always associated with artistic vision.
SPARK! Creative Engagement Conference
Join us for the bi-annual SPARK! Creative Engagement Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, on November 9 and 10. Hosted by the SPARK! Alliance and Arts for All Wisconsin at the MyArts building, this gathering brings together professionals in creative engagement to share ideas, strategies, and best practices for connecting with people living with memory loss.