Past Exhibitions
We All Live Downwind
Sep 6, 2022 – Dec 22, 2022
We All Live Downwind is an exhibition of photographic collages created by Detroit artist and legal activist Shanna Merola. Her images are made up...
Hidden Water
Mar 1, 2022 – Aug 31, 2022
Through research at Michigan State University, the “Hidden Water” exhibit aims to increase public awareness of the connections water has to our everyday lives....
Beyond the Black Panther: Visions of Afrofuturism in American Comics
Feb 1, 2021 – Aug 13, 2022
Most people are familiar with Marvel's Black Panther, and some are aware of its connections to Afrofuturism, a framework to understand how the black imagination...
Kindred: Traditional Arts of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians
May 18, 2022 – Jul 30, 2022
In partnership with the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, the exhibition “Kindred: Traditional Arts of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa...
The Observation Experiment
Mar 1, 2022 – Apr 1, 2022
Through MSU Museum collections and the research of graduate students at Michigan State University, the exhibition “The Observation Experiment” explores the various ways we...
Under One Sky: Global Connections in an Adire Quilt
Dec 17, 2018 – Apr 1, 2022
This exhibit features the quilt “Midnight Sky,” created by Adesola Kilani Falade in 1997 in Osogbo, Nigeria. Falade is an artist of the...
Tracked and Traced
Sep 10, 2021 – Dec 23, 2021
With the advent of the 21st century, new technologies expedited the ways in which governments, corporations, and individuals surveilled people, places, and things throughout...
Domicology: Creating a Sustainable Built Environment
Dec 19, 2023 – Mar 30, 2024
Domicology is the study of the life cycle of the built environment. Through this exhibition, we will explore the ways we can shift our...
The Tree of Peace Saves the Earth
Jul 5, 2023 – Apr 4, 2024
This exhibition showcases the quilt The Tree of Peace Saves the Earth, quilted by Alice Olsen Williams, an Anishinaabe/Norwegian member of Curve Lake First...