Broad MSU Two Year Report (2012–2014)

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BROAD MSU TWO YEAR REPORT 2012 – 2014

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BROAD MSU TWO YEAR REVIEW

TWO YEAR REVIEW CONTENTS 04 Exhibitions 50 Collection & Acquisitions 60 Programming & Education 86 Outreach & Engagement 98 Two Year Review: By the Numbers

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State Universiy, 2013, photo courtesy Hufton + Crow

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IMRAN QURESHI: THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS Installation view at the Broad MSU, 2014, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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IN SEARCH OF TIME NOVEMBER 10, 2012 – FEBRUARY 10, 2013

In Search of Time features work from the Broad MSU collection and The Broad Art Foundation, as well as other borrowed artworks. The key loans from The Broad Art Foundation (including pieces by Ed Ruscha, Joseph Beuys, Toba Khedoori, Kara Walker, Anselm Kiefer, Damien Hirst, and Andy Warhol) serve as a celebration of the long history of collecting by the museum’s founding donors. By creating dialogues among artworks from the medieval period, the pre-Columbian world, and African, Asian, European, and North American cultures of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, this exhibition gives voice to the longing artists around the world have held for hundreds of years to express in some meaningful way their connection to time and memory.

ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION

Josef Albers, William Baziotes, Romare Bearden, Joseph Beuys, Albert Bierstadt, Brassaï, Jim Campbell, Larry Clark, John Coplans, Joseph Cornell, Benjamin Cottam, Salvador Dalí, Elliott Erwitt, Paolo di Giovanni Fei, Damien Hirst, E.O. Hoppé, Sam Jury, Toba Khedoori, Anselm Kiefer, Helen Levitt, Edouard Manet, Henri Jean Guillaume Martin, Barbara Morgan, Eadweard Muybridge, Fairfield Porter, E. Rieck, Ed Ruscha, Esteban Vicente, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol and midlate 20th century African sculptures. In Search of Time is curated by Michael Rush, Founding Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition features Salvador Dalí’s Remorse, or Sphinx Embedded in the Sand (1931), Paoli di Giovanni Fei’s The Crucifixion (ca. 1400), Andy Warhol’s Three Unidentified Men (1985), Fairfield Porter’s The Pump House (1973), Eadweard Muybridge’s Descending stairs, turning, cup and saucer in right hand (1887), and E.O. Hoppé’s Ford Factory, Detroit, Michigan (1926) from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Damien Hirst, The Kingdom of the Father, 2007. Courtesy The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica. © 2012 Hirst Holdings Limited and Damien Hirst. All rights reserved, ARS, New York/DACS London Photo credit: Randy Boverman, Portland


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GLOBAL GROOVE 1973 / 2012 NOVEMBER 10, 2012 – MARCH 10, 2013

In terms of the long sweep of art history, video art is a very new phenomenon. Born in the mid-1960s, when television and video technologies became available outside of broadcast studios, and pioneering artists Nam June Paik and Andy Warhol obtained their first portable video cameras, video art is now ubiquitous in the modern world . . . or at least videos have become so. YouTube alone launches 48 hours of video every minute! The art of video is another matter, and that is the subject of Global Groove 1973/2012, an exhibition that celebrates this art form by paying homage to its first major practitioner, Nam June Paik (1932–2006), and offering an overview of current examples of the genre by an international sampling of artists, some of whom are working under very difficult political constraints.

ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION

Bashar Alhroub (Palestinian Territories); Negar Behbahani (Iran); Berry Bickle (Zimbabwe); Sam Jury (Great Britain); Lee Yongbaek (South Korea); Li Ming (China); Basir Mahmood (Pakistan); Zwelethu Mthethwa and Matthew Hindley (South Africa); Nam June Paik (South Korea); The Propeller Group (Vietnam); Eve Sussman and Simon Lee (USA); Zhao Yao (China). Global Groove 1973/2012 is curated by Michael Rush, Founding Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition features Lee Yongbeak’s Angel Soldier (2011), Sam Jury’s Another Thing Coming 004 (2010), and Nothing is Lost 002 (2010) from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Lee Yongbaek, Angel Soldier, 2005. Courtesy the artist and Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul. © Lee Yongbaek


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MARCO BRAMBILLA EVOLUTION (MEGAPLEX) NOVEMBER 10, 2012 – FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Evolution (Megaplex), Brambilla’s first work to be executed in stereoscopic 3-D, illustrates sweeping movements of world conflict through a vast side-scrolling video mural that moves seamlessly between past, present, and future. The artist created this large-scale video collage—which is set to Sergei Prokofiev’s score for the ballet Romeo and Juliet—by remixing hundreds of individual channels of looped footage gathered from sources ranging from Hollywood blockbusters (E.T., Mad Max, Star Wars) to cult classics (Idiocracy, Zardoz, Salò). Using the lens of cinema to mine the bombastic spectacle of human history, Brambilla invites viewers to roam whimsically through the annals of time and offers a satirical take on the swagger of the big-budget “epic.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Marco Brambilla (b. 1960, Milan, Italy) studied film at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. His work has been exhibited internationally at such institutions as the Kunsthalle Bern, screened at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. Brambilla has been awarded both the Tiffany Comfort Foundation and Colbert Foundation awards for his video installations. He currently lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. Marco Brambilla: Evolution (Megaplex) is curated by Michael Rush, Founding Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Marco Brambilla, Evolution (Megaplex), 2010. Courtesy the artist and Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica. © Marco Brambilla


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IÑIGO MANGLANO-OVALLE RED FACTOR NOVEMBER 10, 2012 – FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is known for his architectural interventions, which often take the form of architecture-within-architecture. Red Factor features a large geodesic dome comprised of nylon fabric, aluminum tubes, and cable, all under precise tension. The geodesic hemisphere is a direct reference to Buckminster Fuller, the American architect, engineer, inventor, and futurist who began experimenting with these structures in the mid-1940s. The colorful bird, which is perched on the primary cable piercing the gallery space, is a Red Factor Canary, from the order of Passeriformes (known as perching birds). Its gaze is indifferent to the ideologically charged structures that hover above; instead, the bird focuses upon the viewer, who is perhaps the true subject of this work.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Manglano-Ovalle was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1961, and was raised in Bogotá, Colombia, and Chicago, Illinois. He earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1989). He has received many awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award (2001) and a Media Arts Award from the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (1997–2001), as well as a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1995). Manglano-Ovalle lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Red Factor is curated by Michael Rush, Founding Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition features Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s Red Factor (2012) from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Red Factor, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2012, photo courtesy Trumpie Photography


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MARJETICA POTRČ SOWETO HOUSE WITH PREPAID WATER METER NOVEMBER 10, 2012 – FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Marjetica Potrč’s interdisciplinary practice includes site-specific projects, drawings, and architectural case studies. Her work investigates, documents, and interprets contemporary approaches to urban planning and the distribution of resources such as energy and water. Soweto House with Prepaid Water Meter was inspired by the controversy surrounding the installation of prepaid water meters in the Soweto township of Phiri in Johannesburg in 2006. Potrč explains, “the Phiri water case shows us the future that may await other urban communities who as yet do not live under water-stressed conditions. Water is the most precious resource of our century: without water, there is no life.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Marjetica Potrč was born in Ljubljana in 1953. She graduated from the Department of Architecture in 1977, and from the Academy of Visual Arts in 1986, both at the University of Ljubljana. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the Americas, including in such major exhibitions as the Venice Biennial (1993, 2003, 2009), the São Paulo Biennial (1996, 2006), and Skulptur: Projekte in Münster, Germany (1997). Marjetica Potrč’: Soweto House with Prepaid Water Meter is curated by Michael Rush, Founding Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Marjetica Potrč’: Soweto House with Prepaid Water Meter, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2012, photo courtesy Trumpie Photography


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NGUYEN PHUONG LINH BOAT NOVEMBER 10, 2012 – FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Made of three tons of Vietnamese sea salt bound with water, Boat is inspired by the salt villages of northern Vietnam. Nguyen conceived of this work as “a sculpture in the shape of a simple boat made of solid salt. I like the idea of the boat because it has so many metaphors: an eye, a fish, a leaf, a piece of rice, a grave, a boat itself going to be dissolved in the sea. I didn’t think about cultural custom or censorship in this work but more about creating a minimal landscape in space.” The sculpture is intended to dematerialize while it is on view. As the water evaporates, the salt begins to crumble and dissolve, its disappearing form symbolizing the way that events in history may slip away from memory or exist only as fragmented forms in our minds.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in Hanoi in 1985, Nguyen Phuong Linh has exhibited and held artist residencies with the Borsa di Studio of the Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti (Turin, Italy) and Yunnan-Vietnam Female Artists Exchange program (Kunming, China). In Vietnam she has participated in group shows such as Chewing in 10+ at Nha San Studio and To be born at Campus Hanoi. Nguyen Phuong Linh: Boat is curated by Michael Rush, Founding Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Nguyen Phuong Linh: Boat, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2012, photo courtesy Trumpie Photography


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CHEN QIULIN SELECTED WORKS NOVEMBER 10, 2012 – FEBRUARY 24, 2013

In May 2008, just months before the Beijing Olympics, a devastating earthquake struck Sichuan Province, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Chen Qiulin’s Floating series responds directly to that catastrophe, adding a distinctly personal tenor to an event many only learned about through the media. These floating human figures, sculpted in papier-mâché made primarily with paper scavenged from the detritus of the disaster, have the rough surfaces of industrial materials. The sculptures’ movements evoke the graceful postures of dance and traumatic visions of bodies falling in space. Personal history drives Chen’s practice, but in creating such plays between opposites, she asks viewers to bring their own histories to their encounters with her work.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Chen Qiulin was born in China in 1975 and now lives and works in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. She graduated from the printmaking department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2000. She has had solo exhibitions at the Today Art Museum, Beijing; University Art Museum, University of Albany; Max Protetch, New York; Long March Space, Beijing; Big Factory, Shanghai; and Internet Affairs, Chengdu. In 2007 she was awarded an Asian Cultural Council grant. Chen Qiulin: Selected Works is curated by Michael Rush, Founding Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Chen Qiulin: Selected Works, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2012, photo courtesy Trumpie Photography


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JOCHEN GERZ THE GIFT: LANSING, MICHIGAN NOVEMBER 10, 2012 – JULY 21, 2013

Since October 29, 2012, local residents—the people who have built and will be part of this new museum—have had the opportunity to pose for portraits at an instant photo lab. The resulting photographs are printed immediately, inserted into frames, and installed here as a monumental wall of gridded portraits—an ever-changing collection of faces that continues to grow as more and more visitors sit for the camera. The Gift: Lansing, Michigan is ultimately both a portrait of a community and an investigation of the museum’s place within that community. The project breaks down the traditional divide between viewer and art object, literally making visitors part of a work of art.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jochen Gerz was born in Berlin in 1940. He currently lives and works in Ireland. Gerz is a member of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin, and an honorary professor at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts. Awards and honors include: German Critics’ Choice Award, Berlin 1996; Ordre National du Mérite, Paris 1996; Peter Weiss Award, Bochum 1996; Grand Prix National des Arts Visuels, Paris 1998. Jochen Gerz: The Gift: Lansing, Michigan is curated by Alison Gass, Curator of Contemporary Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition features Jochen Gerz’ The Gift (2012) from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: The Gift: Lansing, Michigan, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2012


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FRITZ HAEG DOMESTIC INTEGRITIES NOVEMBER 10, 2012 – FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Los Angeles-based artist Fritz Haeg is renowned for his commitment to collaborative, environmentally engaged, and educational art production. Here Haeg explores the patterns and rituals of local domestic landscapes, mapping the ways objects alter the conditions of being in a space and revealing the ways in which sharing local resources can create collective experiences. Domestic Integrities is centered on a spiral-stitched circular rug that will continue to grow over the course of the installation. Made of used and discarded textiles, including clothing, athletic gear, and bed linens donated or disposed of by local participants, it was produced as part of a community crochet project the artist organized with student groups and other volunteers in the months leading up to the opening of the museum.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Fritz Haeg (b. 1969) studied architecture in Italy at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his B. Arch. He was a Rome Prize fellow-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome from 2010–2011, a MacDowell Colony Fellow (2007, 2009, and 2010), Montalvo Arts Center fellow (2012), and nominated for National Design Awards in 2009 and 2010. Fritz Haeg: Domestic Integrities is curated by Alison Gass, Curator of Contemporary Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Fritz Haeg: Domestic Integrities, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2012, photo courtesy Trumpie Photography


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NAIZA KHAN KARACHI ELEGIES FEBRUARY 22 – MAY 26, 2013

Pakistani artist Naiza Khan captures the experience of living and working in Karachi, where everyday life has been disrupted by natural disaster, migration to the city, and political violence. For her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Khan will show oil paintings, sculpture, and video works that map the tragic geography of violence in Karachi and place the human figure within it. Khan uses the term “disrupted geography” to describe her oil paintings and video works, in which she layers striking images and words to create a dream-like topography. In artworks of extraordinary beauty, Khan’s work provides a complex and sensitive window onto life in one of the world’s most troubled cities.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, in 1968, Naiza Khan is based in Karachi, Pakistan. Raised in England, Khan trained at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, and Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally. Khan is currently a lecturer in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Karachi. Naiza Khan: Karachi Elegies is curated by Karin Zitzewitz, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by Dipti and Rakesh Mathur. Additional funding is provided by the Asian Studies Center at Michigan State University, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, and the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Naiza Khan: Karachi Elegies, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2013, photo courtesy Trumpie Photography


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GUILLERMO KUITCA DIARIOS FEBRUARY 22 – MAY 26, 2013

Since 1994 Argentinean artist Guillermo Kuitca has taken discarded canvases, stretched them over a round table in his studio, and, for periods of time ranging from about three to six months, drawn, doodled, and written on this surface, creating a personal diary. The completion of each Diario is governed by time rather than a consideration of form. Phone numbers, titles of paintings, email addresses, traces of objects that sat on the surface, and lists record the ebb and flow of life inside and outside the studio. The final artworks become a hybrid of intentionality and chance; they are narrative paintings without plots, abstractions without balanced compositions.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Guillermo Kuitca was born on January 22, 1961 in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Kuitca’s first exhibition was at the age of thirteen at Galeria Lirolay in Buenos Aires and he has continued a productive path over nearly four decades. Guillermo Kuitca: Diarios is curated by Brett Littman, Executive Director at The Drawing Center, New York.

This exhibition is organized by The Drawing Center, New York. Guillermo Kuitca: Diarios is made possible in part by Bettina and Donald Bryant, Jr.; Charles Van Campenhout and Risteard Keating; Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin; Solita and Steven Mishaan; Cindy and Howard Rachofsky; and an anonymous donor. Special thanks to Sperone Westwater, New York. The presentation of Guillermo Kuitca: Diarios at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University is made possible by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Guillermo Kuitca, Diario (20 October 2005 - 14 March 2006), 2005-6. Collection of the artist, courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York. © Guillermo Kuitca


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GEOMETRIES SELECTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION FEBRUARY 22 – MAY 23, 2013

Geometry deals with the measurement and properties of lines, shapes, and angles, and the relative position of forms within space. For the past 50 years these very same elements, though drawn from a field of mathematics, have been at the heart of abstract art making. The works in this gallery delineate the development of a systematic approach to abstraction in which basic geometries create simple patterns of lines, colors, and shapes that force us to question what it is we think we see.

ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION

Josef Albers, Kenneth Noland, Bridget Riley, Sol LeWitt, and Kristin Cammermeyer. Geometries: Selections from the Collection is curated by Alison Gass, Curator of Contemporary Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is entirely comprised of works from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Geometries: Selections from the Collection, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2013, photo courtesy Trumpie Photography


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PATTERN FOLLOW THE RULES MARCH 22 – AUGUST 11, 2013

Pattern is currently being reinvigorated as a significant space for artistic innovation. Each artist presented here begins with some system or set of rules, whether mechanical, technological, digital, or other, and, through rigorous repetitive action, creates objects that are equally rigorous in their optical repetition. With this comes a critical redefinition of pattern: These artists explore iterative generation of form, using a framework more akin to a mathematical pattern or a computer pattern than to a purely visual process focused on decoration or ornamentation. Yet the resulting compositions are highly decorative, visually dynamic, and spectacularly patterned in the traditional sense of the term. Regardless of the mode of making or the content within the form, each work in the exhibition asks us to reevaluate the way we see and experience the spaces we are in,

the objects we confront, and the relationship between vision and perception. ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION

Walead Beshty, Teresita Fernández, Mark Grotjahn, Shirazeh Houshiary, Zilvinas Kempinas, Jason Middlebrook, Mai-Thu Perret, Ara Peterson, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Alyson Shotz, Rudolf Stingel, Tam Van Tran, Garth Weiser, Pae White, and Christopher Wool. Pattern: Follow the Rules is curated by Alison Gass, Curator of Contemporary Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition features Hugh Scott-Douglas’s Untitlted (2013), Garth Weiser’s Hackers (2013), and Pae White’s There (2013) from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Generous support is provided by the MSU Federal Credit Union. Additional funding is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Pattern: Follow the Rules, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2013, photo courtesy Trumpie Photography


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ALYSON SHOTZ GEOMETRY OF LIGHT MARCH 22 – JUNE 23, 2013

In conjunction with the major exhibition, Pattern: Follow the Rules, Alyson Shotz will be installing her significant work, Geometry of Light, in the Education Wing. This work is made of various sized plastic lenses, mirrored beads and fishing line. Installed in a window filled space, the work transforms visually over the course of the day, responding to light, weather, and time of day. This is an optically spectacular artwork and Shotz has reworked it to render it site specific for the museum. Pattern: Follow the Rules is curated by Alison Gass, Curator of Contemporary Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Generous support is provided by the MSU Federal Credit Union. Additional funding is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Alyson Shotz: Geometry of Light, installation view at the Broad MSU, photo courtesy Trumpie Photography


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VARIATIONS ON A LINE (MOVING) MARCH 22 – MAY 26, 2013

The use of “patterns” has a long history in moving image art, predating Minimalism and other expressions of repetition, including performance. Duchamp’s first foray into film, Anemic Cinema, 1926, is a dizzying series of rotating discs, crosscut with nine nonsensical phrases reflecting the artist’s propensity for puns. The optical repetitions and manipulations are hypnotic. Film, after all, is a pastiche of second-by-second movements edited together to look as if the movements are continuous. The mainstay of American avant-garde cinema, Structuralism, is itself an ongoing examination of patterning: image after image (most often abstract) repeated and reworked endlessly (as in the work of Stan Brakhage) to create a demystified cinema that really is nothing

more than its constituent parts, thus eliminating any of the “emotionalism” of narrative cinema. ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION

Sharon Louden, James Whitney, John Whitney, and Stan Van Der Beeck. Variations on a Line (Moving) is curated by Michael Rush, Founding Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Generous support is provided by MSU Federal Credit Union. Additional funding is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Variations on a Line (Moving), installation view at the Broad MSU, 2013, photo courtesy Trumpie Photography


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2013 MASTER OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITION APRIL 12 – 28, 2013

The Master of Fine Arts Exhibition marks the culmination of a threeyear degree program that emphasizes extensive creative exploration under the supervision of a faculty guidance committee. Focused study in an area of concentration, as well as coursework in art history and related fields helps each artist situate their work within the larger discourse that characterizes the practice of art today. The creative research of Ryan Groendyk, Volodymyr Shcherbak, Steven Stradley, Deborah Wheeler, and Rebekah Zurenko stand as evidence of achievement and promise.

The 2013 MFA Exhibition is organized by the Department of Art, Art History, and Design and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Support for this exhibition is provided by The Graduate School at MSU, the John and Susan Berding Family Endowment, and the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Volodymyr Shcherbak, Run, 2013. Courtesy the artist


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COLLECTIVE REFLECTIONS, INDIVIDUAL MEMORIES APRIL 19 – 28, 2013

Collective Reflections, Individual Memories is an exhibition in the lower level galleries curated by students in Curatorial Practices in the Museum Studies program who explore the concept of memory with objects from the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and the MSU Museum collections. Collective Reflections, Individual Memories is curated by the Museum Studies Curatorial Practices course at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is entirely comprised of works from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and the Museum Studies Curatorial Practices course at Michigan State University. Support is provided by the College of Arts and Letters and the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Collective Reflections, Individual Memories, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2013


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BLIND FIELD JUNE 7 – SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

This exhibition takes up blindness as a critical category, a metaphor for the way in which the obstruction of perception can illuminate alternate modes of knowledge and experience. It features 18 artists working in Brazil who offer critical perspectives on processes of transition within contemporary society. ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION

Carlos Mélo, Lais Myrrha, Nicolás Robbio, Matheus Rocha Pitta, Thiago Rocha Pitta, Shima (Marcio Shimabukuro), Marcelo Sola, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, and Hèctor Zamora. Blind Field is curated by Tumelo Mosaka, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Krannert Art Museum and Irene V. Small, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Tatiana Blass, Carolina Cordiero, Maríla Dardot, Jonathas De Andrade, Cao Guimãraes, Andre Komatsu, Cinthia Marcelle, Rodrigo Matheus,

This exhibition is organized by Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sponsored in part by Office of the Provost and Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Francis P. Rohlen Visiting Artists Fund/ College of Fine and Applied Arts; Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies; College of Fine and Applied Arts Creative Research Award; Fox Development Corporation; Illinois Arts Council; School of Art + Design Visitors Fund; Jerrold Ziff Distinguished Lecture on Modern Art Fund; and Krannert Art Museum. The presentation of Blind Field at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University is made possible by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Blind Field, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2013, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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LISA WALCOTT LESS STILL JULY 19 – OCTOBER 20, 2013

This exhibition of recent works by Michigan-based kinetic sculptor Lisa Walcott is the first installment in the MSU Federal Credit Union Artist Studio Series, a new program organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and generously supported by MSU Federal Credit Union. Walcott uses simple mechanisms and banal materials to produce movement, offering interactive experiences that strike a playful balance between planned agitation, repetition, and unexpected displacements. Swarm and Vice Versa, for example, engage various sightlines throughout the museum, creating surprising relationships with the museum’s architecture. Throughout her work, Walcott explores mundane moments extracted

from familiar spaces, capturing the lyricism of the unseen and giving visual articulation to the unsaid. ABOUT THE ARTIST

Based in the Midwest, Lisa Walcott received her MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2010 and has continued to create and exhibit nationally. Lisa Walcott: Less Still is curated by Aimee Shapiro, Director of Education, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU as part of the MSU Federal Credit Union Artist Studio Series, a program that invites artists to interact with the community through site-specific installations and educational encounters that offers insight into artists’ creative processes. Generous support is provided by MSU Federal Credit Union. Photo: Lisa Walcott: Less Still, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2013, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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FUTURE TENSE THE BROAD MSU COLLECTS AUGUST 9 – NOVEMBER 3, 2013

We are a museum with a unique mission: to explore the most significant art being made around the world today and contextualize it with examples from the historical collection assembled by the Kresge Art Museum, MSU’s former campus art museum. By presenting the art of the twenty-first century in conjunction with works from earlier time periods and cultures, we aim to document and establish meaningful art historical narratives and explore the development of artistic innovations across both time and region.

ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION

Ross Bleckner, Miriam Cahn, Sophie Calle, Nick Cave, Benjamin Cottam, Thomas Berding, Nicole Eisenman, Inka Essenhigh, Jasper Johns, Joan Livingstone, Andrew Kuo, Allan McCollum, Tom Otterness, Sue Williams, and Terry Winters. Future Tense: The Broad MSU Collects is curated by Alison Gass, Curator of Contemporary Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is entirely comprised of works from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Andrew Kuo, The More You Know About Me, The More You’ll Think Twice Before Calling / I’d Be More Tolerable If I Smoked Weed Because ..., 2011. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Purchase funded by the Kathleen D. and Milton E. Muelder Endowment


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THE GENRES PORTRAITURE FEATURING HOPE GANGLOFF SEPTEMBER 6 – DECEMBER 1, 2013

New York–based artist Hope Gangloff (b. 1974) traffics in cultural signs and signifiers. Her paintings of twenty-first-century bohemians—primarily her friends and fellow artists caught seemingly unaware in moments of leisure—are reminiscent of both the subject matter and lush, colorful brushwork of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century painters such as Vincent van Gogh, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Edgar Degas. Such associations create an intriguing (if at times unintended) link between the historical avant-garde and post-postmodern hipsterism. A selection of Gangloff’s recent paintings are entangled in a nineteenth-century “salon style” hang with works from the Broad MSU collection. Turning the highly contemporary spaces of the museum into a Parisian salon of sorts, complete with a site-specific wall-mural of her own making, Gangloff explores the concept of an

exhibition itself as a form of conceptual installation. ABOUT THE ARTIST

Hope Gangloff studied fine art at Cooper Union in New York. After leaving art school, Gangloff worked in a bronze foundry and made illustrations for publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Spin Magazine, and Built by Wendy. Her work now hangs in galleries and museums around the world. The Genres: Portraiture featuring Hope Gangloff is curated by Alison Gass, Curator of Contemporary Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition features twenty-five works from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Hope Gangloff, Queen Jane Approximately, 2011. Private Collection, Texas. © Hope Gangloff


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REVELATIONS EXAMINING DEMOCRACY SEPTEMBER 20 – NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Broadly covering works produced between the 1980s and the present day, Revelations: Examining Democracy focuses on conditions within the United States and examines the fundamental tenets of democracy at large. This exhibition reveals the historical fissures, prevailing social attitudes, and political positions that have led to the rupture of core beliefs such as civil rights, equality, and justice that so many hold to be true. Consisting of works primarily from the Broad MSU collection, the contemporary American artists represented in this constellation of photography, prints, and mixed-media assemblages express a deep desire to recover collective ideals within the national consciousness. Engaging both the public and private spheres, the assembled works pose powerful questions about the experiences of marginalized communities, the role of capital and the position of the common

worker, the validity of industrialized warfare, and the excavation of overlooked cultural memories. ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION

Laylah Ali, Dotty Attie, Dawoud Bey, Neil J. Farkas, Tyree Guyton, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Jenny Holzer, Byron Kim, David Levinthal, Julie Mehretu, Lorna Simpson, Stan Strembicki, Bruce Thayer, James Van Der Zee, and Carrie Mae Weems. Revelations: Examining Democracy is curated by Yesomi Umolu, Assistant Curator, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition features twenty-two works from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Jenny Holzer, Selection from The Survival Series, 1983-85. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Purchase funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies


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FOCUS BEVERLY FISHMAN SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 – JANUARY 5, 2014

Beverly Fishman’s latest work focuses on wavelengths that are used in medicine, such as EKGs, EEGs, and other diagnostic tests. While these wavelengths are a physical representation of specific bodily functions, Fishman uses them to comment on how medical data becomes a more important representation of the patient than the actual person in our high tech, data driven, fast paced world. Icons of pharmaceuticals subtly collaged among the data along with bright and fluorescent colored stripes of barcodes reference the temptation of marketing and a consumer-driven culture that believes in and expects a cure for every disease and discomfort. All painted on polished reflective stainless steel, allows the viewers to glean a hint of themselves through the data and decide if there really is a pill to cure their ill.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Beverly Fishman is the Artist-in-Residence and Head of Painting at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She received her MFA degree from Yale University in 1980. Focus: Beverly Fishman is curated by Alison Gass, Curator of Contemporary Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition features Beverly Fishman’s Dividose B.B.H.V. (2011) from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Beverly Fishman, Dividose M.P.N.E., 2011. Courtesy the artist and Wasserman Projects, Birmingham, MI. © Beverly Fishman


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MICHELLE HANDELMAN IRMA VEP, THE LAST BREATH SEPTEMBER 20, 2013- MARCH 30, 2014

The Broad MSU presents the world premiere museum showing of Irma Vep, the last breath, a multichannel video installation by artist Michelle Handelman. Based on the silent film character Irma Vep from the film Les Vampires (dir. Louis Feuillade 1915) and the life of the actress who portrayed her, Musidora, Handelman’s work explores the shadow side of society—examining themes of criminal anxiety and the relationship between the artist and her creation (both fictional and real).

College and her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is an associate professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Michelle Handelman: Irma Vep, the last breath is curated by Michael Rush, Founding Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Michelle Handelman is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. She received her MFA from Bard

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Michelle Handelman: Irma Vep, the last breath, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2013, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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IMAGE AND IMAGINATION IN THE EUROPEAN WILD WEST OCTOBER 4 – FEBRUARY 9, 2013

The western genre comics with the longest continuous runs are British (Desperate Dan, 1937– ), Belgian (Lucky Luke, 1946– ) and Italian (Tex, 1948– ). All of these titles are practically unknown in America. Perhaps this is because they are works of imagination that routinely disregard details of landscape, geography, chronology, and possibility. To European readers, apparently, the American West is so remote that ordinary rules of verisimilitude need not be applied. Or maybe they’re just making fun of us. For Library purposes those reasons

don’t matter. Our library has been building a collection of European western comic books for 15 years now, and in these cases are displays of four important titles, plus samples of a dozen others drawn from our collection of over 500 European western volumes. Image and Imagination in the European Wild West is curated by Randall Scott, Librarian, Michigan State University Library Special Collections Division.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Image and Imagination in the European Wild West, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2013, photo courtesy Madeline Rosemurgy


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SHARON HAYES RICERCHE: THREE OCTOBER 18, 2013 – MARCH 9, 2014

Blurring the traditional language of documentary film making and the broader visual and narrative freedom of the realm of video art, Sharon Hayes has come to the artistic forefront in her consistent investigation of the way language and speech function in relationship to broad issues of politics and identity, both personal and collective. This single channel video installation is inspired by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s seminal film, Comizi d’Amore, 1963—a documentary work in which people from all social backgrounds are interviewed about issues of sexuality. Ricerche: three trains a more focused gaze on a unique sector of American educational society that elucidates notions of the developing identity of young people from around the world and their relationship to norms, expectations, upended traditions, and progressive expressions of freedom in gender politics and sexual identity.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

From 1999–2000, Sharon Hayes participated in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art and received an MFA in from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003. Her work has been shown worldwide, including at the Guggenheim Museum and the Tate Modern in London. Sharon Hayes: Ricerche: three is curated by Alison Gass, Curator of Contemporary Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Sharon Hayes, Ricerche: three, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin. © Sharon Hayes


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LEBBEUS WOODS, ARCHITECT NOVEMBER 22, 2013 – FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Architect Lebbeus Woods dedicated his career to probing architecture’s potential to transform the individual and the collective. His visionary drawings depict places of free thought, sometimes in identifiable locations destroyed by war or natural disaster, but often in future cities. Woods had an enormous influence on the field of architecture over the past three decades, and yet the built structures to his name are few. The extensive drawings and models on view present an original perspective on the built environment—one that holds high regard for humanity’s ability to resist, respond and create in adverse conditions.

of Architecture (1960–64). Woods was a professor of architecture at Cooper Union, where taught until his death in 2012. His works are held in the collections of major museums internationally, including MoMA, the Whitney, MAK Vienna, and the Getty Research Institute. Lebbeus Woods, Architect is curated by Joseph Becker, Assistant Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Helen Hilton Raiser Associate Curator of Architecture and Design Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in Lansing, Michigan, Woods studied at the Purdue University School of Engineering (1958–60) and the University of Illinois School

This exhibition is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This exhibition is made possible by support from Bill and Linda Demmer, the Broad MSU’s Elizabeth Halsted Endowment Fund, Nellie Holmes Loomis Endowment Fund, and the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Lebbeus Woods, Architect, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2013, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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THE GENRES

STILL LIFE FEATURING JESSICA JACKSON HUTCHINS DECEMBER 13, 2013 – MARCH 23, 2014

Portland based artist, Jessica Jackson Hutchins transforms the stuff of her own domestic life and other scavenged objects in large-scale installations using ceramics, papier-mâché, and pieces of her family’s clothing to build these work into additive assemblages of sorts. Intrigued by issues of her own experience of motherhood along with longstanding formal struggles in the history of art, Hutchins’ work is simultaneously intimate and vast, melding the personal and universal. For this project, Hutchins’ three-dimensional objects, which are often abstractly figurative in their fluid forms and in their use of objects designed for the body to wear or interact with, are examined more in the context of their relationship to a practice of two-dimensional stilllife painting and ceramic objects. Through the project, questions of

what constitutes a still life are examined and the category is broadened to engage vast issue of domesticity and object-hood. ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jessica Jackson Hutchins (b. 1971, Chicago, IL) holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Most recently, her work has been included in solo projects at the ICA Boston and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and in numerous group exhibitions. The Genres: Still Life featuring Jessica Jackson Hutchins is curated by Alison Gass, Curator of Contemporary Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition features Jessica Jackson Hutchins’ Trojan Horse (2013) from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: The Genres: Still Life featuring Jessica Jackson Hutchins, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2014, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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MARGARET EVANGELINE SABACHTHANI JANUARY 17 – MARCH 30, 2014

New York-based, Louisiana-born painter Margaret Evangeline has long experimented with aesthetically resistant material and an expanded painting practice that uses gunshots to transform polished stainless steel panels. The resultant marks—appearing simultaneously as scars and embellishments—break the continuity of these pristine minimalist forms. The fourteen powder-coated aluminum bars assembled in Evangeline’s series of wall sculptures Sabachthani were shot through with 5.56mm M4 rifles and 9mm Beretta M9 pistols at Joint Base Balad in Iraq. These were not the randomly fired shots found in war-torn pockets around the globe; instead, they were staged by the artist. A tremendous beauty lies within these painted slabs that have been

eviscerated by an irrevocably violent human action. The beauty isn’t in the rupture but in the testimony these singular objects, now shot through, give to all of us who have experienced the shock of the impossibly fast transitions in our lives. Margaret Evangeline: Sabachthani is curated by Michael Rush, Founding Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition features Margaret Evangeline’s Sabachthani II, Sabachthani III, and Sabachthani XIII (2012) from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Margaret Evangeline, Sabachthani I, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Elizabeth Moore Fine Art, New York, NY.


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SHINIQUE SMITH ARCADIAN CLUSTERS FEBRUARY 7 – JUNE 2014

Shinique Smith takes physical stock of fibreculture and the possibilities of line. Working widely across painting, drawing, collage, video, and installation, Smith creates ecosystems of cooperative corporality. Her works evoke embodied artifacts with consciences of genteel street smarts. Graffiti, secondhand finds, and neo-tribalism interact with Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Japanese calligraphy to create playful alterations between supertext and subtext, evoking the textile weaves of Smith’s oft-used materials themselves. In an exhaustive effort to process and restore culture, Smith creates menageries that glom high and lowbrow expressions and bury them at the human center.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Shinique Smith (b. 1971, Baltimore MD) is an artist living and working in Hudson, New York. The artist has had more than 20 solo exhibitions, most recently at James Cohan Gallery in New York and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Shinique Smith: Arcadian Clusters is curated by Aimee Shapiro, Director of Education, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU as part of the MSU Federal Credit Union Artist Studio Series, a program that invites artists to interact with the community through site-specific installations and educational encounters that offers insight into artists’ creative processes. Generous support is provided by MSU Federal Credit Union. Photo: Shinique Smith: Arcadian Clusters, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2014, photo courtesy Charlie Edwards


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EMEKA OGBOH ÁLÁ APRIL 3 – APRIL 6, 2014

An emerging Nigerian sound and video artist, Emeka Ogboh (b. 1977) is known for his ongoing Lagos Soundscapes project—a captivating portrait of the famed mega-city rendered through its aural infrastructure. Utilizing field recordings taken mostly spontaneously during his daily jaunts in his hometown, Ogboh creates immersive works that document and archive the rich tapestry of peoples, cultures, and histories that make up one of the world’s most cosmopolitan locations. Composed of an intoxicating blend of traffic sounds, street music,

commuter chatter, and the calls of hawkers and street sellers, Lagos Soundscapes suggests that Lagos possesses a unique acoustic character that sets it apart from other global metropolises. Emeka Ogboh: Àlà is curated by Yesomi Umolu, Assistant Curator, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the April 2014 conference Digital Media, New Cinemas, and the Global South organized by Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. Support and funding for the exhibition is provided by the Humanities Innovation Center at the MSU College of Arts and Letters. Photo: Emeka Ogboh: Àlà, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2014, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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2014 MASTER OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITION APRIL 4 – 13, 2014

The Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition marks the culmination of a threeyear degree program that emphasizes extensive creative exploration under the supervision of a faculty guidance committee. Focused study in an area of concentration, as well as coursework in art history and related fields, helps the artists situate their work within the larger discourses that characterize the practice of art and design today. The creative research of Lena B. Ellis-Boatman (Printmaking), Peter Lusch (Graphic Design), Wade Folger MacDonald (Ceramics), Bahareh

Karamifar (Painting), Jefferson Kielwagen (Sculpture), and Elise Toups (Painting) stands as evidence of their achievements and promise. In 2014, the annual Master of Fine Arts Prize was awarded to an outstanding candidate by guest juror Laura Mott, Curator of Contemporary Art and Design, Cranbrook Art Museum.

The 2014 MFA Exhibition is organized by the Department of Art, Art History, and Design and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Support for this exhibition is provided by The Graduate School at MSU, the John and Susan Berding Family Endowment, and the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Elise Toups, Rat Maze, 2014. Courtesy the artist


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WORKING AMERICA, UNEXPECTED STORIES APRIL 18 – 27, 2014

In this exhibition of 30 objects from the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum and the MSU Museum, students in Curatorial Practices in the Museum Studies Program explore social, economic, cultural and environmental issues related to work in America since the early 20th century. The American dream and the immigrant experience; native traditional craft and objects made for tourists; shop girls from the

1930s; and mythic heroes are contrasted to tell stories of the American workforce and how it has evolved and changed. Within the exhibition examples of Michigan work are highlighted. Working America, Unexpected Stories is curated by the Museum Studies Curatorial Practices course at Michigan State University.

This exhibition includes John Pfahl’s Bethlehem # 72, Lackawanna, NY (1988); Frank Paulin’s Carnival Worker with Attitude (1957); Charles and Ray Eames’s Eames Molded Lounge Chair (1960s), and Leg Splint (1942); Red Grooms’s Extra! Extra! Read All About It! (2003); Marion Post Wolcott’s Tenant Farmer’s Children, One with Rickets, Wadesboro, North Carolina (1938, printed 1987); Luis Cruz Azaceta’s Lotto: The American Dream (1992); Bruce Thayer’s Work-Force (1984); William Gropper’s Joe Magarac (1947) and Paul Bunyan (1939); E.O. Hoppé’s Ford Factory, Detroit, Michigan (1926); Lewis Hine’s Newsboy and Man (1910); Luis Alfonso Jiménez’ Steelworker (1993); a selection of photographs from the Ewing Galloway Company; Kenneth Hayes Miller’s Saleswomen (ca. 1930); and Kyra Markham’s The Fit Yourself Shop (1935) from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and the Museum Studies Curatorial Practices course at Michigan State University. Support for this exhibition is provided by the College of Arts and Letters and the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Frank Paulin, Carnival Worker with Attitude, 1957. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State Univeristy, Gift of Bruce and Silke Silverstein.


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POSTSCRIPT WRITING AFTER CONCEPTUAL ART MARCH 21 – SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art features the work of over 50 artists and writers exploring the artistic possibilities of language. A major current underlying the exhibition argues that the field of literature known as “conceptual writing” can be seen as engaging in a provocative dialogue with the field of contemporary art, producing new insights into the meaning of both literature and art. Postscript is the first exhibition to examine the work of conceptual writing, investigating the roots of the movement in the art of the 1960s and 70s and presenting contemporary examples of text-based art practices.

& Lytle Shaw, Christian Bök, Marcel Broodthaers, Pavel Büchler, Luis Camnitzer, Ricardo Cuevas, Tim Davis & Robert Fitterman, Mónica de la Torre, Craig Dworkin, Tim Etchells, Ryan Gander, Michelle Gay, Kenneth Goldsmith, Dan Graham, Alexandra Grant, James Hoff, Seth Kim-Cohen, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Tan Lin, Gareth Long, Michael Maranda, Helen Mirra, Jonathan Monk, Simon Morris, João Onofre, Michalis Pichler, Paolo Piscitelli, Vanessa Place, Kristina Lee Podesva, Seth Price, Kay Rosen, Joe Scanlan, Dexter Sinister, Frances Stark, Joel Swanson, Nick Thurston, Triple Canopy, Andy Warhol, Darren Wershler, and Eric Zboya.

ARTISTS AND WRITERS IN THE EXHIBITION

Mark Amerika & Chad Mossholder, Carl Andre, Fiona Banner, Erica Baum, Derek Beaulieu, Caroline Bergvall, Jen Bervin, Jimbo Blachly

Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art is curated by Nora Burnett Abrams and Andrea Andersson.

This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. The presentation of Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University is made possible by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2014, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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WORDPLAY CONCEPTUAL PRACTICES IN PRINT FEBRUARY 28 – SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Comprising nearly two dozen publications from the collections of the Michigan State University Libraries, this display explores the capacity of language to reflect on the human experience while upending literary and artistic traditions. Together, the publications on view in Wordplay share an interest in drawing inspiration from the past to test the present boundaries of the written word. Their pursuits, in turn, continue to pave the way for new generations of conceptual practitioners. Wordplay: Conceptual Practices in Print is organized by Yesomi Umolu, Assistant Curator, with Jenny Carty, Curatorial Research Assistant, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is presented in response to themes explored in Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, on view at the Broad MSU from March 21 to September 21, 2014. The curators of Wordplay are grateful for the close collaboration of Peter Berg, Head of Special Collections and Associate Director for Special Collections & Preservation, MSU Libraries; and Terrie Wilson, Head of the MSU Fine Arts Library. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Wordplay: Conceptual Practices in Print, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2014, photo courtesy Madeline Rosemurgy


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IMRAN QURESHI THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS MAY 9 – AUGUST 24, 2014

For his project at the Broad MSU, Imran Qureshi created an indoor installation—his first in an American art museum. Forms and images appropriated from his earlier work are printed on thousands of sheets of paper that are then crumpled and gathered to form a site-specific mountain that fills the space of a thirty-foot-high gallery. As viewers walk around the immense structure they discover that this mountain has been sliced along a sharp angle following the gallery’s wall to create an intimate, tunnel-like space. This duality between grand and intimate scale is present throughout the exhibition, emphasized by Qureshi’s pairing of a commissioned miniature painting with the massive installation. The installation also includes a series of red and gold paintings presented in tandem with never-before-seen video works that give viewers insight into the slow, careful, and meditative process

of making that the artist employs. ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, in 1972, Qureshi rose to international prominence in 2011 with a major installation at the Sharjah Biennial in which he translated this traditional mode of making into a large, architecturally scaled and site-specific installation. Qureshi was named Deutsche Bank’s 2013 “Artist of the Year.” Imran Qureshi: The God of Small Things is curated by Alison Gass, Curator of Contemporary Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition features Imran Qureshi’s And how many rains must fall before the stains are washed clean…(2014), and Here and There (2014) from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Imran Qureshi: The God of Small Things, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2014, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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MITHU SEN BORDER UNSEEN APRIL 25 – AUGUST 31, 2014

A prominent voice in contemporary art from India, Mithu Sen upends common approaches to gender and sexuality by exploring the broad connotations of physical attributes like hair, the backbone, and teeth. Extremely visceral, her work is also disquietingly pretty, often using striking pinks and reds. For her first US solo museum presentation, Sen uses false teeth and dental polymer to create a large-scale gumlike sculpture that opposes the geometric lines of the gallery space. Playing with the histories of minimalism and materiality in 20th century art, Sen’s sculptural intervention is primed to provoke curiosity and deep contemplation.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mithu Sen (b. 1971, West Bengal, India), is a New Delhi-based artist who stands as a crucial feminist voice in contemporary Indian art. An alumnus of Kala Bhavan, Shantiniketan, she has had three solo exhibitions at Lakeeren Art Gallery, Mumbai (2003), Machintosh Gallery, Glasgow (2001) and Art India Style, New Delhi (2000). Mithu Sen: Border Unseen is curated by Karin Zitzewitz, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University.

This exhibition features Mithu Sen’s Border (Unseen) (2014) from the Broad MSU’s permanent collection. This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Michigan State University India Council, the Dr. Delia Koo Global Faculty Endowment administered by the Asian Studies Center, and the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Mithu Sen: Border Unseen, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2014, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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RALLI QUILTS APRIL 25 – AUGUST 41, 2014

Featuring examples from the MSU Museum’s renowned quilt collection, Ralli Quilts examines the connection between the visual tradition of quilt making and the quilters themselves. In certain locales and cultures, artists have used the characteristic component techniques of quilt making to produce textiles that are strongly associated with their communities. Exuding cultural pride and signifying communal identity, quilts tell histories through their patterning and methods of production. In southern Pakistan and western India, quilts known as ralli (after the local word ralanna, meaning to mix or connect) are made for functional and ritual purposes. They are constructed using patchwork, appliqué, and embroidery techniques, and have colorful designs that

reflect motifs found in ancient pottery of the region. They are visual feasts of color and pattern that reveal traces of their makers. The selection of ralli quilts presented in this exhibition includes a number that were acquired from Dr. Patricia Ormsby Stoddard, an MSU alum and the author of Ralli Quilts: Traditional Textiles from Pakistan and India (2003). Ralli Quilts is curated by Marsha MacDowell, Lynne Swanson and Mary Worrall from the MSU Museum.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: Ralli Quilts, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2014, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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THE LAND GRANT FLATBREAD SOCIETY SEPTEMBER 5 – OCTOBER 12, 2014

The best art has always taken up the most significant issues of the artist’s day and reframed vital ideas in ways that fundamentally shift people’s awareness and perceptions of their own world. Echoing some of the major concerns facing a global world today, in recent years artists and architects have increasingly turned to food and land as a means of promoting social and political activism. “Social Practice” is the most common term for this kind of artistic output and demarcates creators whose work extends beyond the traditional boundaries of aesthetic/object-based practice, but rather involves performance, community gathering, and ephemeral materials. Within a significant artistic framework, these projects educate participants and even instigate

grass-roots remedies to major global crises—an artistic approach to thinking globally and acting locally. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Amy Franceschini, Tara McDowell, Boris Portnoy, Stijn Schiffeleers, and Lode Vranken. The Land Grant: Flatbread Society is curated by Alison Gass, Curator of Contemporary Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Flatbread Society is a project initiated and rooted in Oslo by Futurefarmers as part of Slow Space, a public art programme for Bjorvika harbour in Oslo produced by Situations and commissioned by Bjorvika Infrastruktur. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: The Land Grant: Flatbread Society, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2014, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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THE LAND GRANT FOREST LAW AUGUST 29, 2014 – JANUARY 11, 2015

As part of its newly inaugurated artists’ residency and commissioning program The Land Grant, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University presents an ambitious new research project by Swiss artist Ursula Biemann (b. 1955). For her first major commission in the United States, Biemann has conceived a mixed-media installation that draws from research she carried out with architect and urbanist Paulo Tavares in the oil and mining frontier along the rainforest of southern Ecuador. This area near the Peruvian border is considered the sovereign land of indigenous nations, and is currently under threat of exploitation from various national and international

actors who seek to gain access to its untapped resources. Through the display of a synchronized double video tableaux, maps, and an array of materials and samples collected in this embattled territory, Biemann unravels the complex assemblage of land rights, ecological and mineral wealth, and private and public interests that animate the physical, mythical, and legal dimensions of the tropical forest. The Land Grant: Forest Law is curated by Yesomi Umolu, Assistant Curator, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: The Land Grant: Forest Law, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2014, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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JOHN AKOMFRAH IMAGINARY POSSESSIONS SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 – FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Pioneering filmmaker, director, and theorist John Akomfrah engages with questions of memory and identity to create moving-image works that address the histories of the African diaspora. The first substantial presentation of his recent work at a U.S. museum, John Akomfrah: Imaginary Possessions presents three distinct films and a new commission that deftly excavate the fragmented identities of colonial subjects while challenging the received codes of cinematic representation. In its inventive staging of works across two galleries, this exhibition engenders multiple viewing modalities and cinematic experiences to underscore the fluidity of image and narrative in Akomfrah’s oeuvre.

committed to giving a voice and presence to the legacy of the African diaspora in Europe. His poetic and polyphonic films create sensual visual and audio experiences while developing a filmic language to understand the trauma and sense of alienation of displaced subjects, one that moves away from the rhetoric of resentment to propose new agents and perspectives. John Akomfrah: Imaginary Possessions is curated by Yesomi Umolu, Assistant Curator, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

For the last 30 years John Akomfrah (b. 1957, Accra, Ghana) has been

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by the British Council and the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: John Akomfrah: Imaginary Possessions, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2014, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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FUTURE RETURNS CONTEMPORARY ART FROM CHINA OCTOBER 30, 2014 – MARCH 8, 2015

Over the past three decades China has experienced profound socioeconomic changes that have prompted calls to revisit, reconsider, and redefine the nation’s identity. Although there remains a strong local understanding of Chinese history and heritage, the homogenization of the country’s urban geography and the rapid dissipation of rural life have dramatically altered the cultural landscape. Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China explores the impact of these transformations by bringing together works by contemporary Chinese artists that address China’s metamorphosis from a traditional society into an ultra-modern nation.

ARTISTS AND FILMMAKERS IN THE EXHIBITION

Chen Weiqun, Dong Jun, Geng Yi, He Yunchang, Jiang Ji’an, Jin Yangping, Jizi, Li Junhu, Lin Xin, Liu Lining, Miao Xiaochun, Pei Li, Qu Yan, Su Xinping, Sui Jianguo, Tian Bo, Wang Chuan, Wang Huangsheng, Wang Yang, Xu Bing, and Zhou Qinshan. Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China is curated by Dr. Wang Chunchen, Adjunct Curator, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Generous support is provided by MSU’s College of Arts and Letters. Additional funding is provided by Dr. Linda Nelson; Beijing Caissa Culture Communication Co., Ltd.; and the Ministry of the People’s Republic of China, China Arts and Entertainment Group. Photo: He Yunchang, Nirvana: Flesh, 2013. Courtesy the artist


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EAST LANSING 2030 COLLEGEVILLE RE-ENVISIONED NOVEMBER 14, 2014 – AUGUST 16, 2015

In East Lansing 2030 | Collegeville Re-Envisioned architects, landscape architects, and urban designers from across the country join us in envisioning a future East Lansing. Since November 2013, each month a new designer has presented their past work and ideas as part of an ongoing discussion of themes as they relate to East Lansing. The exhibition features the completed designs of the speculative projects. Participants selected the themes—as well as programs and sites—for their projects with the most potential impact as a means of speculating on the long-term future. Visiting the area and beginning their work in sequence, each designer responds not only to East Lansing as it appears today, but also to the real world projects underway and the designs being developed by preceding participants. The designs collectively envision what could occur incrementally over the course of

the next few decades. Out of this process emerges both a speculative vision of a future East Lansing and the connections between that and the daily decisions negotiated by a community. PARTICIPANTS

UrbanLab, Chicago IL; PLY Architecture, Ann Arbor MI; DIGSAU, Philadelphia PA; LEVENBETTS Studio, New York NY; WXY Studio, New York NY; Bionic Landscape, San Francisco CA; Stoss, Boston MA; and Min|Day, San Francisco CA, Omaha NE. East Lansing 2030 | Collegeville Re-Envisioned is curated by Alec Hathaway, Associate Curator of Architecture and Design, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by SuttonAdvisors, PLC and the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Photo: WXY, East Lansing Bend, project for East Lansing 2030 | Collegeville Re-Envisioned, Dusk View


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DAY AFTER DEBT A CALL FOR STUDENT LOAN RELIEF NOVEMBER 23, 2014 – APRIL 12, 2015

Realized in response to the debt culture that has grown around the demand for higher education in the United States, and the pressures that it places upon graduates, Kurdish artist Ahmet Öğüt has enlisted leading contemporary artists to produce imaginative responses to this crisis. Presented by the Broad MSU and the Istanbul-based art organization Protocinema, Day After Debt is a series of sculptures designed and produced by Öğüt, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Dan Perjovschi, Martha Rosler, Superflex, and Krzysztof Wodiczko that function as collection points for public contributions to student loan relief. Located in interstitial spaces throughout the museum, the donations collected from these sculptures will fund The Debt Collective, a debt cancelling initiative launched by Strike Debt’s Rolling Jubilee. Aside from

cancelling debt, this collective creates a platform for debtors that aims to offer more possibilities for organization, advocacy, and resistance to those struggling with student loan debt. All works in exhibition commissioned by Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and Protocinema, courtesy the artists and Lombard Freid Gallery, New York; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York; Galerie Lelong, New York; Johann König Gallery, Berlin. Day After Debt: A Call for Student Loan Relief is curated by Mari Spirito, Founding Director of Protocinema.

This exhibition is organized by the Broad MSU. Support is provided by SAHA, Istanbul, Haro Cumbusyan, Bilge Öğüt, Marty and Rebecca Eisenberg, and the Broad MSU’s general exhibitions fund. Special thanks Pelin Tan, Koray Duman, and Laura Hanna and Christopher Casuccio from Strike Debt. Photo: Day After Debt: A Call for Student Loan Relief, installation view at the Broad MSU, 2014, photo courtesy Aaron Word


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MITHU SEN: BORDER UNSEEN Installation view at the Broad MSU, 2014, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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PERMANENT COLLECTION 2012 – 2014

In the last two years, the Broad MSU has acquired 383 works to add to its permanent collection. Prior to the formation of the Broad MSU in 2012, the museum had less than 40 works from the 21st century. Through endowment purchases and gifts, the museum has increased significantly its holdings of the art of our time. In support of the museum’s exhibition program, many works have been acquired directly from the artists whose work has been on display in the Broad MSU. Older works were also added to the collection as gifts, especially in the area of photographs, enhancing the collection in its depth and breadth, so that we can make manifest our commitment to sharing our collection with diverse audiences—from our visitors, the faculty, staff and students of the university along with the public at large.

The collection is used frequently by the faculty of MSU for teaching purposes: from having the students learn how to do a visual analysis of a work of art, to planning an exhibition, to viewing conservation x-rays of an Old Master Painting before and after conservation. Information on objects in the collection has been requested often in the last two years for scholastic research by scholars, resulting in published works that enhance the knowledge of our holdings. Works from the collection have been lent to local and domestic venues along with international loans to Winnipeg, Canada, and Lyon, France.

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COLLECTION NOTABLE LOANS 2012 – 2014

2012 Grand Rapids Art Museum (Grand Rapids, Michigan) Jasper Johns and Allan Kaprow prints Rauschenberg in Context Flint Institue of Arts (Flint, Michigan) Theodoros Stamos and Friedel Dzubas paintings Abstract Expressionism: Then and Now

2013 University of Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland) Trevor Paglen photograph Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki & Trevor Paglen

Musée des Beaux-Arts (Lyon, France) Joseph Cornell sculpture Joseph Cornell and Surrealism in New York MSU Museum (East Lansing, Michigan) 23 ceramics, 1 sculpture, 2 pieces of furniture, 1 print East Lansing Modern

2014 Winnipeg Art Gallery (Winnipeg, Canada) Salvador Dalí painting Dalí Up Close

Salvador Dalí, Remorse, or Sphinx Embedded in the Sand, 1931. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Gift of John F. Wolfram. © 2012 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York


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ACQUISITIONS IMRAN QURESHI Born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Imran Qureshi is considered one of the leading figures in developing a contemporary aesthetic that integrates twenty-first-century themes with the motifs and techniques of miniature painting, a practice that flourished in the Mughal courts of the Indian subcontinent in the late sixteenth century. Qureshi learned the extraordinarily careful methods of traditional miniature painting through extensive training at the National College of Arts in Lahore. From the outset he began playing with history by updating his small miniatures to reflect a contemporary moment. While still alluding to this tradition of book illustration, Qureshi expanded his practice into painting abstract forms such as shapes, plants, scissors and missiles. Inspired by weekend trips to flea markets and prevailing violence in the Middle East, Qureshi’s work became increasingly

emotive and unstructured relishing in the freedom that contemporary painting allows. Following a terrorist bombing at his local market in Lahore, Qureshi began using a deep blood-red paint in his site-specific installations. Splashing interior courtyards, walls, and rooftops, the artist layered foliate motifs emerging from the abstract spatters—a symbol of hope emerging from tragedy. These installations are haunting reminders of the prevalence of violence within both Pakistani history and our own society. Here and There is representative of the artist’s abstract and gestural painting style but is still infused with traditional techniques and motifs. From afar, the blood-red paint resembles the aftermath of a horrific crime, but upon closer inspection intricately painted foliate forms become legible, emerging as signs of life.

Imran Qureshi, Here and There, 2014. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Purchase funded by the Emma Grace Holmes Endowment, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photogrpahy / Hope Gangloff, Ignacio Quiles, 2013. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Purchase funded by the Nellie M. Loomis Endowment in memory of Martha Jane Loomis


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ACQUISITIONS E.V. DAY New York-based installation artist E.V. Day uses sculpture as a means to explore themes of sexuality and humor. Through the manipulation of iconic imagery from popular culture, Day transforms gender stereotypes and playfully illuminates contradictions of societal roles. Her work typically involves the suspension of found objects, such as in Divas Ascending, a 14-sculpture installation at Lincoln Center created from costumes retired from the archives of the New York City Opera, and Bride Fight, two dueling bridal gowns suspended in the air, exhibited at the Lever House as part of their collection in 2006.

This work is similar to her recent installation titled Semi-Feral which is comprised of two suspended skeletons of saber-toothed tigers. Envisioning an aerial cat fight, Semi-Feral remarks on the strange voyeurism connected with witnessing women fight, playing out the scenario through these historically ferocious cats. The artist was also inspired by fossil discoveries in the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, and envisions these objects as primitive relics that infiltrate our contemporary environment. Salivator carries with it these primal sensibilities, yet emerges livelier than the collection of hanging bones, as it bares its fangs and a fleshy-pink tongue.

Salivator is a five foot high animal-like sculpture that appears to be rising out of or melting into a puddle. Bearing resemblance to dog-like drool, this sculpture simultaneously attracts as it repels its viewers.

E.V. Day, Salivator, 2003. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Purchase, funded by the Kathleen D. and Milton E. Muelder Endowment / Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Trojan Horse, 2013. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Purchase funded by the Nellie M. Loomis Endowment in memory of Martha Jane Loomis, photo courtesy EatPomegranate Photography


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ACQUISITIONS SAM JURY Working across painting, photography, video, and installation, British artist Sam Jury creates beautiful yet haunting images of everyday life. Her work explores the ways in which the notion of ‘reality’ has been affected by the proliferation of mass media, virtual environments, and technology in contemporary society.

fascination with the effect of the camera lens as the photorealist. In the same manner that her predecessors took advantage of the medium to create paintings that inherit the surface texture and composition of the photograph, Jury exploits the expanded functions of digital camera and film.

Working primarily through staged scenes or documented performances, Jury uses digital manipulations of still and moving images to create fantastical snapshots of fleeting landscapes and portraits. Using a combination of techniques, Jury lends an ethereal and timeless quality to her subjects, resulting in ambiguous articulations of time and place. Jury’s practice is indebted to the tradition of realism, more specifically to the recent history of photorealism that was the bedrock of Americana in the 1960s and 1970s. Jury shares the same

Nothing is Lost interrogates the history of portrait painting. Instead of working with a with a single sitter over the course of a number of sittings as is customary, Jury’s portraits are the result of superimposing numerous images, some culled from the internet and others from staged scenarios, onto each other. This final composite image appears at once specific and uncanny, making it difficult to discern the identity of the subject through qualifiers of gender, age or race.

Sam Jury, Nothing is Lost 002, 2010. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Purchase funded by the Emma Grace Holmes Endowment / Danny Lyon, Memorial Day Run, Milwaukee, 1966. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Gift of Jim Agah and Wendy Sohorec Agah (BA School of Communications 1989)


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PROGRAMMING ONGOING FAMILY DAY Initiated in August 2012, Family Days are offered both inside and outside of the museum walls. On the first Saturday of every month, families with children of all ages can enjoy making art with professional teaching artists, family-targeted museum tours, and a variety of interactive activities in our expansive Education Wing. Family Day is presented by Farm Bureau Insurance.

DIALOGUES: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND CULTURE Series of lectures and conversations that showcase cross-disciplinary perspectives on art, architecture, and culture. Renowned specialists from different fields of study and Broad MSU staff are invited to utilize exhibited works as a springboard toward re-contextualizing and broadening the scope of contemporary thought.

COMMUNITY FESTIVALS

COLLECTION SHOW AND TELL

The Broad MSU Education Team offers art activities for children of all ages at community festivals including: East Lansing Arts Festival, Summer Solstice Jazz Festival, Lansing Pride, Old Town Jazz Festival, and Old Town Blues Festival.

In this monthly series, someone from the Broad MSU selects a work from our collection and shares what they think is special about it.

GESSO The GESSO program is based on the premise that art and visual literacy act as a strong foundation for academic learning. GESSO helps 2nd and 3rd grade students build deeper connections across subjects through arts integration and hands-on projects, while meeting state and national educational core standards.

DOCENTS The Broad MSU’s docent training program is offered yearly for community members and students. Following training, docents present engaging and interactive tours of the museum and serve as an interpretation guide for museum visitors.

ALTERED Our new Altered series presents the opportunity to experience contemporary art in a whole new way—through the lens of an engineer, jazz musician, or even a neurosurgeon. We’re recalculating the traditional museum tour with a modified “al-tour-nate” experience led by local celebrities and experts in varying fields.

THE ART OF . . . Art can be anything and can happen anywhere—it is in this spirit that we present The Art of . . . series, where we feature a skill, profession, or activity and take a more focused look at the art within it. The Art of . . . series will allow guests to explore these topics in new ways while learning about and participating in non-traditional mediums.

NEW IN SOUND The Broad MSU provides comprehensive interactive tours for a variety of audiences including groups with special needs, K–12 school groups, and ElderHeART tours for people with dementia and Alzheimer’s.

The New in Sound series presents live concerts and site-specific performances with genre-defying guest musicians and ensembles. Encompassing a range of recent trends in instrumental techniques, the series offers new ways to listen to music of the past and present.

NEW IN STUDENT PRODUCTION SERIES

NEW IN FILM

PUBLIC TOURS

New in Student Production Sundays are devoted to the work of MSU students as the Education Wing becomes a laboratory to develop and showcase their ongoing work.

TRENDING NOW The Broad MSU is a platform for dialogues across a wide range of topics within the fields of art, architecture, and visual culture. To instigate these conversations, we endeavor to bring the best thinkers and makers from around the world to talk with us about art making, architecture, design, and global conditions.

The New in Film series presents films and documentaries accompanied by conversations that highlight emerging voices and international perspectives.


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PROGRAMMING EDUCATION HIGHLIGHTS EDUCATOR OPEN HOUSE

ARACHNO-BROAD-IA

December 8, 2012 Private reception in the Education Wing for teachers, school administrators, and educators.

October 23, 2014 A night of frightening fun for all ages as the Broad MSU celebrates East Lansing’s Great Pumpkin Walk.

THE CREATIVE EDUCATORS SUMMIT

MICHIGAN ART EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

April 24, 2013 The Broad MSU partners with the DeWitt High School Creativity Group to present the third annual Michigan Creative Educators Summit at the Broad MSU.

BROAD MSU SUMMER ART CAMP 2013 June 17 – July 12, 2013 Children and youth learn about Broad MSU’s collection and take over the Education Wing as their own studio space.

DREW CAMERON: COMBAT PAPER February 21, 2014 San Francisco-based artist and Iraq war veteran Drew Cameron discusses his work, Combat Paper. February 22, 2014 Papermaking workshop for veterans and their families with the artist using old uniforms or other discarded fabrics to learn the ancient process of turning clothing rags into paper. February 23, 2014 Drop–in workshop led by Drew Cameron exploring the ancient process of turning clothing rags into paper.

MICHIGAN CREATIVE EDUCATORS SUMMIT May 1, 2014 The 2014 Michigan Creative Educators Summit features innovative K-12 school-based project learning and new trends in education; co-hosted by the DeWitt Creativity Group and the Broad MSU.

BROAD MSU SUMMER ART CAMP 2014 June 16 – August 15, 2014 Children and youth learn about the Broad MSU’s collection and take over the Education Wing as their own studio space.

November 13, 2014 The Broad MSU hosts a reception for the 2014 Michigan Art Education Association Conference.


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PROGRAMMING EXHIBITION-RELATED JOCHEN GERZ: THE GIFT: LANSING, MICHIGAN November 10 and November 11, 2012 Photography Sessions In collaboration with studio assistants from the MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design, the public is invited to participate in The Gift: Lansing, Michigan, by sitting for a portrait December 6, 2012 Curator Talk: Curator of Contemporary Art Alison Gass December 16, 2012 Portrait Distribution Day of festivities culminating in the distribution of photographs

FRITZ HAEG: DOMESTIC INTEGRITIES September 30, October 2, October 3, October 28, November 3, November 4, November 25, November 30, December 2, and December 9, 2012 Community Workshops Communal activity of crocheting the rug, accompanied by simple meals prepared by the artist December 7, 2012 An Evening with Artist Fritz Haeg

NAIZA KHAN: KARACHI ELEGIES February 25, 2013 Artist Talk with Naiza Khan March 16, 2013 Professional Development Workshop for High School Teachers in connection with Naiza Khan: Karachi Elegies

March 13, 2013 Dialogues: Mark Sullivan and Tammy Fortin Mark Sullivan, Associate Professor and Director of the Computer Music Studios at the MSU College of Music, in conversation with Tammy Fortin, Curatorial Program Manager, on Guillermo Kuitca’s Diarios and their relation to narrative, memory, and the creative process

PATTERN: FOLLOW THE RULES March 27, 2013 Curator Talk: Curator of Contemporary Art Alison Gass April 13, 2013 Pattern & Poetics: Reading and Panel Discussion Readings by three distinguished contemporary poets, Diane Wakoski, Rob Halpern, and Brenda Iijima, followed by a moderated panel discussion and Q&A with moderators, Stephanie Glazier and Tammy Fortin May 17, 2013 MSU Museum Curator Mary Worrall on Pattern and Quilts Mary Worrall discusses the MSU Museum’s exhibition Patterns of Inquiry and the Quilt Index as these projects pertain to the exhibition, Pattern: Follow the Rules May 22, 2013 Endless Imagery Panel Discussion An interdisciplinary panel including Adam Brown, Professor of Art, Art history and Design; Robert Root-Bernstein, Professor of Physiology, MSU; Jonathan Hall, Professor of Mathematics, MSU; and Alison Gass, Curator of Contemporary Art, Broad MSU

ALYSON SHOTZ: GEOMETRY OF LIGHT

April 9, 2013 Curator Talk: Karin Zitzewitz

June 5, 2013 Artist Talk: Alyson Shotz in conversation with Curator of Contemporary Art Alison Gass

GUILLERMO KUITCA: DIARIOS

2013 MASTER OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITION

April 13, 2013 Writing and Drawing Workshop Workshop featuring a walkthrough of the exhibition, as well as a writing and drawing exercise with Broad MSU staff and Stephanie Amada of MSU’s Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Department

April 12, 2013 MFA Opening Reception and Live Music with Yogurt Culture and Henry & Hazel Slaughter April 17 and April 23, 2013 MFA Exhibition Artist Talks


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PROGRAMMING EXHIBITION-RELATED BLIND FIELD July 11, 2013 Walkthrough with Co-Curators Tumelo Mosaka and Irene Small July 26, 2013 Blind Field’s Bike Fields Bike ride exploring Lansing and East Lansing’s “blind fields”

LISA WALCOTT: LESS STILL September 18, 2013 Artist Talk and Reception, in conjunction with the MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design annual Guest Lecture series Artist workshops with REACH Community Arts Center Studio Visits with Department of AAHD Graduate Students

FUTURE TENSE: THE BROAD MSU COLLECTS September 1, 2013 Newly Acquired Bike Ride The Newly Acquired Bike Ride uses Future Tense: The Broad MSU Collects, to explore Lansing’s “newly acquired” businesses

THE GENRES: PORTRAITURE FEATURING HOPE GANGLOFF September 6, 2013 Exhibition Opening Artist Hope Gangloff in conversation with Curator of Contemporary Art Alison Gass, followed by a concert featuring Michigan bands Wayne Szalinski and The People’s Temple

FOCUS: BEVERLY FISHMAN September 27, 2013 Exhibition Opening & Artist Talk with Beverly Fishman Artist workshops with MSU Childhood Development Lab

MICHELLE HANDELMAN: IRMA VEP, THE LAST BREATH September 20, 2013 Exhibition Opening & Artist Talk with Michelle Handelman

September 28 – October 4, 2013 Les Vampires Marathon Marathon screening of Louis Feuillade’s classic silent serial film, Les Vampires (1915) October 2, 2013 An Evening with Tom Gunning Tom Gunning, Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, discusses Irma Vep, the last breath and its relation to Louis Feuillade’s 1915 film, Les Vampires

IMAGE AND IMAGINATION IN THE EUROPEAN WILD WEST October 20, 2013 Zine Panel Discussion Opportunity for area “zinesters” to discuss the trajectory of zine history and how they operate today, focusing on the community aspect of zine culture and how they act as community-builders

SHARON HAYES: RICERCHE: THREE February 14, 2014 Fifty Shades of Green Moderated in the round by Deanna Hurlbert, Director of the MSU LBGT Resource Center, students discuss their own views on the politics of sex and sexuality at MSU

LEBBEUS WOODS, ARCHITECT November 22, 2013 Exhibition Opening featuring Curator Talk and Reception January 23, 2014 Dialogues: Lebbeus Woods & Visionary Architecture Joseph Rosa, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and John McMorrough, Associate Professor at University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning in conversation with Alec Hathaway, Associate Curator of Architecture and Design December 5, 2013 X is for Xenakis: The Logical vs. The Mythological An evening celebrating the relationship between architecture and music with a performance of four works by architect and composer Iannis Xenakis


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PROGRAMMING EXHIBITION-RELATED THE GENRES: STILL LIFE FEATURING JESSICA JACKSON HUTCHINS February 11, 2014 Artist Talk with Jessica Jackson Hutchins

MARGARET EVANGELINE: SABACHTHANI January 17, 2014 Artist Talk with Margaret Evangeline March 22, 2014 Artist Talk and Sonic Response Artist talk followed by a sonic response to Sabachthani by Zac Brunell, from the MSU College of Music, who interprets Evangeline’s white panels as the “page,” and the gunshots as the “notes”

SHINIQUE SMITH: ARCADIAN CLUSTERS February 7, 2013 Artist Talk and Reception Held in conjunction with the Department of Art, Art History, and Design annual Guest Lecture Series Studio Visits with Department of AAHD Graduate Students Artist workshops with REACH Community Arts Center

EMEKA OGBOH: ÁLÁ April 4, 2014 Artist Talk: Emeka Ogboh Conversation between emerging Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh and Broad MSU Assistant Curator Yesomi Umolu; presented as part of the Digital Media, New Cinemas and the Global South symposium organized by Michigan State University’s College of Arts & Letters and the Humanities Innovation Center, and the University of Michigan

2014 MASTER OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITION April 12, 2014 Opening Reception The Broad MSU gets defunkt to celebrate the opening of the 2014 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition April 8 and April 9, 2014 MFA Exhibition Artist Talks

POSTSCRIPT: WRITING AFTER CONCEPTUAL ART January – April 2014 Live Readings by the Broad MSU Writing Residents Series of five readings presented by Writing Residents in response to Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art; the Writing Residency is a partnership with the MSU Department of English and the MSU Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures March 21, 2014 On the Couch with Broad MSU Curators and Special Guests Nora Abrams, Ian Alteveer, and Paulina Pobocha April 18, 2014 Fiction 440: Postscript Edition For this special Postscript Edition, all submitted stories contain some variation of the word “translate” or the word “transcribe,” and also reference either “art” or “museum” April 23, 2014 Concert: Polygon Collaborative concert created by MSU College of Music graduate students, Philip Rice and Patrick Bonczyk, that explores the artistic possibilities of language May 30, 2014 Defunkt Workshop Work with Broad MSU educators to craft your own literary works in the spirit of the exhibition July 19, 2014 Expanded Writing: A Postscript Symposium Dive deeper into the ideas of writing and the themes of Postscript in this engaging one-day symposium

IMRAN QURESHI: THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS April 28 – April 30, 2014 Collaborative Making Work with artist Imran Qureshi to build an indoor installation May 9, 2014 Exhibition Opening featuring Artist Talk and Reception August 1, 2014 A Border Seen: Dividing India and Pakistan The documentary Wagah focuses on life on the India/Pakistan border, held in conjnction with Imran Qureshi: The God of Small Things and Mithu Sen: Border Unseen


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PROGRAMMING EXHIBITION-RELATED MITHU SEN: BORDER UNSEEN August 1, 2014 A Border Seen: Dividing India and Pakistan The documentary Wagah focuses on life on the India/Pakistan border, held in conjnction with Imran Qureshi: The God of Small Things and Mithu Sen: Border Unseen April 25, 2014 Public Talk with Mithu Sen and Curator Karin Zitzewitz

RALLI QUILTS April 26, 2014 Curator Talk with Co-Curators Marsha MacDowell, Ph.D., Curator of Folk Arts, MSU Museum and Professor, Department of Art, Art History, and Design; Lynne Swanson, Collections Manager for Cultural Collections, Assistant Curator of Folk Arts, MSU Museum; and Mary Worrall, Curator of Cultural Heritage and Education Team Co-Manager, MSU Museum

THE LAND GRANT: FLATBREAD SOCIETY September 5, 2014 Bike n’ Brew at the Broad MSU An evening of bikes, brews, music, and art—learn about local hop growing and bike-powered beer brewing with Windmill Pointe Brewing Company, plus a performance from Lansing-based band Cheap Girls October 3, 2014 Sonic Salon: Thollem McDonas Thollem McDonas utilizes farming tools and other implements to explore their sonic nature and create an instruction-based and participatory, site-specific concert

followed by a threshing party and live music from Vetiver and members of the Lansing Unionized Vaudeville Spectacle October 11, 2014 Material Encounters: What We Make FBS artists, local makers, and other specialists in a discussion about what we make, how we make it, and what inspired the methodology October 12, 2014 Symposium: Food as Thought Examine contemporary viewpoints on the nature of farming and agriculture, our changing relationship to grains, and the commodity of natural resources

JOHN AKOMFRAH: IMAGINARY POSSESSIONS September 19, 2014 Artist Talk: Filmmaker and Artist John Akomfrah in conversation with Assistant Curator Yesomi Umolu September 29, 2014 Bambuti features Efe Bes Detroit-based Efe Bes and his Bambuti troupe combine elements of hip hop, house, jazz, and techno with traditional African drumming and dance October 3, 2014 Specters of History Symposium A group of leading scholars, writers, and filmmakers whose work reveals new links between aesthetic practice and the lived experience of history

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October 9, 2014 Artisan Distillery Workshop Kris Berglund, University Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at MSU, leads a workshop on artisan distilling of wheat spirit at the Red Cedar Distillery

October 30, 2014 Exhibition Opening Adjunct curator Dr. Wang Chunchen and founding director Dr. Michael Rush speak about the exhibition, followed by a reception featuring a performance by the Silk Road Chinese Orchestra

October 10, 2014 Bread Making Workshop Award-winning pastry chef Boris Portnoy leads a workshop on bread mixing, proofing, and baking outside in the sculpture garden

March 1, 2015 The Orchid Ensemble

October 10, 2014 Artist Conversation & Threshing Party Artist Amy Franceshini leads a conversation about the exhibition,

Future Returns Documentary Film Series The Broad MSU will present five documentary films that portray daily life in contemporary China, while considering the entangled relationship of its past, present, and future


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PROGRAMMING EXHIBITION-RELATED January 13, 2015 Where Should I Go? Director Li Junhu shares the story of a rural family who travels from their hometown to the city. Driven by the pursuit of increased educational opportunities for the children, the family becomes aware of the tremendous gap between hopes for a better future and their present economic reality. Exactly which road should they follow? Should they return to the countryside or stay in the city? January 27, 2015 Classmates In 1978, director Lin Xin graduated from Tongchuan Coal Mine Middle School. Thirty years later, he encounters his old classmates and records their individual lives and history. Set amidst the backdrop of China’s historic reforms, a story unfolds that is unique to those who came of age in the new era and reveals the events that have come to shape their lives. February 10, 2015 The Lost River Centered in a remote village on the Loess Plateau in Shaanxi Province, director Tian Bo revisits his hometown to tell the tale of this ancient village in the process of development. From communal rituals to the election of a village committee to agricultural policy, The Lost River unveils the old and new within the village’s transformative development. February 24, 2015 China Gate The story of young Chinese students engaged in intensive study, China Gate highlights youth who seek to change their social status through education. Director Wang Yang filmed in three separate regions in China, juxtaposing a small county school with a highlypressured large city, to capture the struggle of hardworking Chinese youth and the spirit that keeps them fighting against all odds. March 3, 2015 Flood Addressing the impact of water conservancy and flood prevention programs initiated by the Chinese government, director Dong Jun introduces us to the people living along Weihe River’s southern region. Flood looks closely at the first dam constructed in China 40 years ago and uncovers how the Sanmen Gorge Dam dramatically altered the Weihe River and the livelihood of those living off the surrounding land. February 2015 Chinese-language tours of Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China led by MSU international students

EAST LANSING 2030 | COLLEGEVILLE RE-ENVISIONED November 2013 – July 2014 Series of nine discussions with architects, landscape architects, and urban designers invited by the Broad MSU to develop speculative design projects envisioning the future growth of East Lansing November 15, 2014 UniverCITY A collaborative event that investigates how a university and a city together shape a place January 30, 2015 Ecologies and Economies A detailed look at the systems and relationships that make up East Lansing and the American college town

THE LAND GRANT: FOREST LAW August 28, 2015 Artist Talk with Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares

DAY AFTER DEBT: A CALL FOR STUDENT LOAN RELIEF January 20, 2015 In Conversation: Day After Debt Artist Ahmet Öğüt; Mari Spirito, Curator, Protocinema; Laura Hanna, Debt Collective; and Steve Do, Student Loan Financial Advisor, MSU, discuss the exhibition and offer a forum to students, educators, and the wider community to address the pressure student debt places upon graduates


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PROGRAMMING SERIES COUNTDOWN TO THE BROAD LECTURE SERIES October 13, 2011 Gregory Volk Surprising Kayaks and Enthralling Volcanoes: On the Importance of International Art December 8, 2011 Peter Plagens In a Niche and Liking It: Painting in the 21st Century

BROAD WITHOUT WALLS June 28, 2012 Artist Kristin Cammermeyer in conversation with Curator of Contemporary Art Alison Gass July 19, 2012 Dollar-Bin DJ Night in Old Town Special guests DJ Stinkwiggle from San Francisco and John Olson of Wolf Eyes spin the finest in bargain-bin vinyl from local record stores and thrift shops July 26, 2012 Summer Dance Party with Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang Live music featuring propulsive rhythms from Sierra Leone by way of Brooklyn at Old Town’s former Mustang Bar

NEW IN OLD TOWN FILM SERIES

October 3, 2014 Specters of History Symposium A group of leading scholars, writers, and filmmakers whose work reveals new links between aesthetic practice and the lived experience of history October 3, 2014 Teza Screening (directed by Haile Gerima), followed by a discussion with the director

LATE NIGHT FILM PICNIC March 16, 2013 Late Night Film Picnic: Searching for Sugar Man Searching for Sugar Man tells the incredible true story of Rodriguez, the greatest 70s rock icon who never was May 11, 2013 Late Night Film Picnic: Lemmy Over four decades, Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister remains the living embodiment of the rock and roll lifestyle, and this featurelength documentary tells his story, one of a hard-living rock icon who continues to enjoy the life of a man half his age July 26, 2013 Late Night Film Picnic: Hour of the Star Based on the novel of the same name by Clarice Lispector, this acclaimed feature film directed by Suzana Amaral portrays a young Brazilian woman searching for romance and fulfillment in Sao Paulo

August 2, 2012 Keep the Lights On, a film by Ira Sachs

NEW IN FILM

August 9, 2012 Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

October 20, 2012 Thomas Köner: Live Soundtrack to E.A. Dupont’s Das alte Gesetz

August 16, 2012 The Ambassador, a film by Mads Brügger

March 14, 2013 The Short Films of Bahar Behbahani: Saffron Tea, Ride the Caspian, and Suspended, including introduction and Q&A with the artist

BLACK FILM AS SOCIAL ACTIVISM SERIES The Broad MSU and the MSU Film Studies program present an ongoing film series that examines contemporary black film as a means of social activism. March 15, 2014 The Stuart Hall Project Screening Directed by filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah, The Stuart Hall Project, is a stirring film that charts the life and work of the influential cultural theorist Stuart Hall (1932-2014)

March 22, 2013 There’s No Place like Home The story of one man’s quest to win James Naismith’s original rules of basketball at auction and bring the rules “home” to Lawrence, Kansas, where Naismith coached and taught for over 40 years March 29, 2013 The Other Half of Tomorrow Sadia Shepard’s portrait of contemporary Pakistan as seen through the perspectives of Pakistani women working to change their country


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PROGRAMMING SERIES April 25, 2013 Beauty is Embarrassing Chronicles the vaulted highs and the crushing lows of a commercial artist Wayne White struggling to find peace and balance between his work and his art June 28, 2013 Oscar Niemeyer: A Vida E Um Sopro (Life is a Breath of Air) Niemeyer reflects on his long life and prolific output, sharing his thoughts on his buildings in Brasília, his ideals for a fairer society, and his philosophical contemplations on the nature of existence September 25, 2013 Fruitvale Station Special screening of Fruitvale Station at Studio C! followed by a panel discussion featuring professors, activists, and community members November 16, 2013 The General Line Screening with Live Musical Score by Dhalgren The General Line started as a celebration of the collectivization of Soviet agriculture and was created for the purpose of persuading such communities to adapt to modern methods of machinery March 14, 2014 Crypsis (directed by Pat Bird, Bad Trip Films) Conceived with classical influences in mind and shot on location at the Broad MSU, Crypsis weaves the nebulous story of Jack Griffin, a deranged scientist mutated by his own experiments

JAZZ AT THE BROAD MSU

Brooklyn-based composer and artist Zach Layton presents Stridulitrum, a work for bowed electric guitar, electronics, and insects June 7, 2013 New in Sound: Bridges to Choro Bridges to Choro was started by Carlos Eduardo Mello, Professor of Trombone and Music Technology at University of Brasilia, and MSU alums during Mello’s time as a visiting scholar at MSU July 27, 2013 New in Sound: Russian Romance featuring flutist, Maxim Rubstov Classical music program features acclaimed flutist, Maxim Rubtsov of the Russian National Orchestra and composer Sergei Kvitko on piano August 17, 2013 New in Sound: Beyond Pluck Beyond Pluck challenges initial perceptions of the harp while accompanied by a program that visualizes their sound in real time

SONIC SALON October 3, 2014 Sonic Salon: Thollem McDonas Thollem McDonas utilizines farming tools and other implements to explore their sonic nature and create an instruction-based and participatory, site-specific concert December 6, 2014 Sonic Salon: Philip Rice, Jon Anderson, and Zac Brunell Composers Philip Rice and Jon Anderson respond to the museum’s architecture through vocal and electroacoustic music

February 17, 2013 Taylor Herron Quartet March 30, 2013 Rodney Whitaker September 12, 2013 Etienne Charles: Creole Soul

NEW IN SOUND March 15, 2013 New in Sound: Dither Dither, a New York based electric guitar quartet, is dedicated to an eclectic mix of experimental repertoire which spans composed music, improvisation, and electronic manipulation May 19, 2013 New in Sound: Zach Layton’s Insect Chorus Concert

MISCELLANEOUS MUSIC December 10, 2013 The MSU Children’s Choir Holiday Concert Eclectic evening of entertainment including various holiday songs, skits, readings, and an opportunity to sing along with the MSU Children’s Choir March 28, 2014 Thollem + Chase Brian Chase, drummer for Yeah Yeah Yeahs and member of NYC improv and experimental scene, teams up with pianist and composer, Thollem McDonas, to forge extreme, blues, punk rock, and folk allusions with abstract maximalism May 31, 2014 Live Music with Brian Vander Ark of the Verve Pipe


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PROGRAMMING SERIES Outdoor performance by Michigan native Brian Vander Ark, in conjunction with Lansing’s Be A Tourist In Your Own Town June 21, 2014 Kozmic Picnic and Second Line Parade Grab your blankets and snacks for the space age sounds of Planet D’s Sun Ra Centennial Band, then march with Chicago’s Lowdown Brass Band in a Second Line Parade from the museum to Ann Street Plaza December 19, 2014 Cocoa + Classics Bring the whole family to warm up with a cup of hot cocoa and sing along to your favorite holiday hits as performed by The Honey Badgers—don’t forget your dancing shoes

PANEL DISCUSSIONS November 12, 2013 Examining Civil Rights Panel of faculty, students, civil rights advocates, and community activists explore the contemporary state of civil rights in our society November 20, 2013 Members Night: Behind the Scenes at the Broad MSU Broad MSU staff members offer an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how the museum works May 2, 2013 How We Built It Panel Discussion Panel of team members including the local architect, the construction company, and others offer a behind-the-scenes discussion of the challenges, revelations, and tactics that made the Broad MSU a reality from conception to completion

DIALOGUES: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND CULTURE January 30, 2013 Curator of Contemporary Art Alison Gass and Director of Education Aimee Shapiro in conversation with Dr. Gladys Beckwith, a founder of the Michigan Women’s Studies Association February 1, 2013 Deanna Hurlbert, Director of the MSU LBGT Resource Center, explores intersecting identities across race, class, culture, faith, body, age, politics, and sexuality and gender expression using Damien Hirst’s The Kingdom of the Father as an inspiring backdrop

February 8, 2013 Phoebe Schenker, San Francisco-based architect and designer for EHDD Architecture, and Curator of Contemporary Art Alison Gass discuss the role of women in architectural practice, including a look at architect Zaha Hadid February 13, 2013 Dr. Joan B. Rose, Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research at the MSU Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, in conversation with Founding Director Dr. Michael Rush on Marjetica Potrč’s Soweto House with Prepaid Water Meter March 13, 2013 Mark Sullivan, Chair of Composition in the MSU College of Music, will be in conversation with Tammy Fortin, Broad MSU Curatorial Program Manager, on the subject of Kuitca’s Diarios and their relation to narrative, memory, and the creative process April 14, 2013 Courtney Fink, Executive Director of Southern Exposure, in conversation with the Flint Public Art Project and Lansing Art Works on the importance of artist-run space in today’s art world

TRENDING NOW November 28, 2012 Broad MSU Perspectives with Founding Director Michael Rush December 5, 2012 Curator of Performances and Public Programs Dan Hirsch in conversation with David Dinnell of the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Jeremy Rigsby of the Media City Film Festival in Windsor, Ontario September, 2013 Broad MSU Assistant Curator Yesomi Umolu March 19, 2013 Lisa Sutcliffe, Curator of Photography, Milwaukee Art Museum July 25, 2013 Curator of Contemporary Art Alison Gass on the 55th Venice Biennale

STUDENT-FOCUSED PROGRAMMING January 12, 2013 MSU Students Take Over the Broad Ring in a new year and a new semester at the Broad MSU with DJs


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PROGRAMMING SERIES spinning all night, snacks and drinks in the cafe, and fun activities created for students

History Slam—the winning object goes on view in the museum for an extended period of time

April 7, 2013 Fashion Show by the Apparel and Textile Design program in the MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design

COLLECTION SHOW AND TELL

April 19, 2013 Spartan Film Showcase Featuring work by MSU student and alumni filmmakers May 3, 2013 Student Dance Performance Curated by Sherrie Barr A celebration of movement and architecture with 11 student dancers

February 8, 2014 Associate Curator of Architecture and Design Alec Hathaway on Carceri d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), Plate II by Giovanni Battista Piranesi March 8, 2014 Docent Dr. Deanna Haney on Faith Ringgold’s Jo Baker’s Birthday

August 20, 2013 Welcome Back Students We’re staying open late for students to enjoy an evening of fun with music, refreshments, and salon-style drawing activities

April 12, 2014 Assistant Curator Yesomi Umolu on a photograph by Seydou Keïta

March 1, 2014 Bling the Broad Break out the haute couture and walk the red carpet for a fabulous evening of style and a screening Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring

June 14, 2014 Manager of Education Leyna Lightman on Miriam Cahn’s Angeböt

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August 9, 2014 Curatorial Assistant Katja Rivera on Día de Todos Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) by Manuel Alvarez Bravo

June 27, 2014 The Art of: BBQ with Brad Curlee, Spartan Signature Executive Chef July 25, 2014 The Art of: Gelato with James Sumpter, Executive Chef of the new Italian restaurant, Tannin August 22, 2014 The Art of: Gardening with Daedre Craig, Annual Trial Garden Manager at the MSU Horticulture Gardens November 19, 2014 The Art of: Observation with Teresa Dunn, MSU Associate Professor of Painting

May 10, 2014 Docent Barb Sjolander on Roadside Stand by Charles Culver

July 12, 2014 Docent Sheri Beecroft presents an early 1920s Pewabic Pottery piece crafted in Detroit by Mary Chase Stratton

November 8, 2014 Docent Maria Adelman on Betye Saar’s Cryptic Confessions: The Answer December 13, 2014 Docent Kay Woodring on Lunch Break by Tyree Guyton

MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAMMING

December 12, 2014 The Art of: Hair Design with HEAT Blow Dry and Beauty Boutique

August 23, 2013 Summer’s a Drag Kick off Michigan Pride with a lip syncing competition and local drag queens and kings at the Broad MSU; hosted by Ace DeVille, with special guest, Maria

COLLECTION-FOCUSED PROGRAMMING

February 1, 2014 Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon Four hours of updating Wikipedia entries related to contemporary art and feminism, in conjunction with New York-based gallery, Eyebeam

April 5, 2013 March Madness Art History Slam 64 objects from the Broad MSU collection face-off in the first ever Art

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PROGRAMMING SERIES Single? Attached? Looking for something different to do this Valentine’s Day? Grab your sweetheart and check out the “sweet art” at the Broad MSU! May 22, 2014 Altered featuring Michael Stratton Ready to get altered? This special members-only tour is led by a monthly guest who will guide you through the exhibitions, showing you the work through their unique lens. This month’s tour guide: psychotherapist and jazz radio host, Michael Stratton. June 19, 2014 Broad Bike Ride with the Lansing Bike Party Hit the road with the Broad — we’re biking from the museum to the Lansing City Market for some eats, in conjunction with the Garden Project’s Third Thursday Potluck Summer 2014 Yoga at the Broad MSU Stretch your mind, body, and spirit outside in the sculpture garden with special guest instructors


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COLLABORATIONS MSU COLLEGES AND UNITS AFRICAN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES Fruitvale Station screening ASIAN STUDIES CENTER Naiza Khan: Karachi Elegies Mithu Sen: Border Unseen Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China BROAD CHINA BUSINESS SOCIETY Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China CHINA ENTREPRENEUR NETWORK AT MSU Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China CHINESE AMERICAN CROSS CULTURAL EXPERIENCE Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China CHINESE STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China CHINESE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China COLLEGE OF ARTS & LETTERS Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China HASTAC Conference Digital Media, New Cinemas and the Global South New in Student Production series Expanded Writing: A Postscript Symposium COLLEGE OF MUSIC Sonic Salon Series New in Sound Series New in Student Production Series Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Curator Talk: Bisi Silva CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT COUNCIL FOR THE PROMOTION OF ARTS Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China

DEPARTMENT OF ART, ART HISTORY, AND DESIGN Master of Fine Arts and Faculty Triennial Guest Lectures The Land Grant: Flatbread Society Student Fashion Show DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Broad MSU Writing Residency Specters of History Symposium

MSU DAIRY STORE Grand Opening MSU GLOBAL The Land Grant MSU MUSEUM Ralli Quilts MSU NEIGHBORHOOD AND CHINESE CONVERSATION CLUB Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China

DEPARTMENT OF ENTYMOLOGY BUG HOUSE Arachno-BROAD-ia New in Sound: Zach Layton

MSU SURPLUS STORE Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China

DEPARTMENT OF WRAC Broad MSU Writing Residency

MSU WE54 Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY Jennifer Monson’s Live Dancing Archive

OFFICE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS International Coffee Hour Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China

FILM STUDIES PROGRAM Specters of History Symposium The Stuart Hall Project screening Black Film as Social Activism Series The Land Grant programming An Evening with Tom Gunning Les Vampires Marathon screening

OFFICE OF CHINA PROGRAMS Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY Bike n’ Brew

FINE ARTS LIBRARY Wordplay: Conceptual Practices in Print

OISS PROJECT EXPLORE Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China

HONG KONG STUDENT ASSOCIATION Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China

RCAH Specters of History Symposium New in Student Production Series

HORTICULTURE GARDENS The Art of Gardening HUMANS OF EAST LANSING Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND PROGRAM Curator Talk: Bisi Silva LBGT RESOURCE CENTER 50 Shades of Green Dialogues: Deanna Hurlbert Examining Civil Rights panel discussion

RESIDENTIAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & PRESERVATION Image and Imagination in the European Wild West Wordplay: Conceptual Practices in Print STUDENT ORGANIC FARM The Land Grant Programming


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COLLABORATIONS UNIVERSITY CLASSES USING THE COLLECTION FALL 2012

SUMMER 2014

BUS101, Broad College of Business, Leaders in the Making HA430, History of Art, Dutch and Flemish Prints HA430, History of Art, Dutch Paintings

Summer School University of Michigan Museum of Art Staff

WINTER 2013 HA209, History of Art, History of Photography HA488, History of Art, Curatorial Practices HA230, History of Art, Renaissance and Baroque Art RCAH, Women and the Arts

SPRING 2013 HA488, History of Art, Curatorial Practices STA460, Studio Art, Frank Lloyd Wright and Eames Objects RCAH, Women and the Arts HA209, History of Art, History of Photography

SUMMER 2013 Summer School

FALL 2013 HA230, History of Art, Renaissance and Baroque Art HA250, History of Art, American Art HA430, History of Art, Dutch and Flemish Prints HA250, History of Art, American Art STA370, Studio Art, Photography I HA490, History of Art, Independent Study HA430, History of Art, Baroque HST260, History, Encounters in the Age of Discovery HA430, History of Art, Dutch Paintings

WINTER 2014 HA209, History of Art, Ancient Art

SPRING 2014 HA488, History of Art, Curatorial Practices HA230, History of Art, Renaissance and Baroque Art HA271, History of Art, African Art, Symbols and Provenance JRN410, Journalism, Photojournalism II HA250, History of Art, American Art JRN410, Journalism, Photojournalism II HA250, History of Art, American Art JRN410, Journalism, Photojournalism II

FALL 2014 STA440, Studio Art, Advanced Ceramics HA250, History of Art, American Art, Japanese Prints HA209, History of Art, History of Photography STA440, Studio Art, Advanced Ceramics HA430, History of Art, Dutch and Flemish Prints HA230, History of Art, Renaissance and Baroque HA209, History of Art, History of Photography LB492, Lyman Briggs College, Engineering Armageddon HA430, History of Art, Dutch Paintings University of Michigan Art History Graduate Students

SPRING 2015 HA488, History of Art, Curatorial Practices HA209, History of Art, Ancient Art


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COLLABORATIONS COMMUNITY & LOCAL BUSINESSES ART FOR CHARLIE FOUNDATION

O’LEARY PAINT

Family Day and Children’s Art Exhibition

The Art of Gardening

CITY OF EAST LANSING

ONE LOVE GLOBAL INC.

Imran Qureshi’s Fragmented Kozmic Picnic & Second Line Parade

Fruitvale Station screening

CITY PULSE

Kozmic Picnic & Second Line Parade

Bike n’ Brew

DEWITT CREATIVITY GROUP 2014 Michigan Creative Educators Summit

FICTION 440

PLANET D’S SUN RA CENTENNIAL BAND PUBLIC POLICY ASSOCIATES, INC. Fruitvale Station screening

REACH ART CENTER

Fiction 44: Postscript Edition

Lisa Walcott: Less Still Shinique Smith: Arcadian Clusters

FUSION SHOWS

RED HAVEN

Musical performances

Material Encounters: What We Make

GREATER DETROIT CHINESE ASSOCIATION

SPARTAN SIGNATURE CATERING

Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China

The Art of BBQ

GREATER LANSING CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

TANNIN

Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China

HEAT BLOW DRY AND BEAUTY BOUTIQUE The Art of Hair

IMPACT 89FM

The Art of Gelato

THE HONEY BADGERS Cocoa + Classics

THE RECORD LOUNGE

Bike n’ Brew Musical performances

Musical performances Flat Black and Circular Bike n’ Brew

LANSING BIKE PARTY

THE RED CEDAR DISTILLERY

Blind Field’s Bike Fields Broad MSU Bike Ride

Artisan Distillery Workshop

MESSAGE MAKERS

Bike n’ Brew

Musical performances

MICHIGAN CREATIVE EDUCATORS 2014 Michigan Creative Educators Summit

MUSIC MANOR Bike n’ Brew Musical performances

TOP HOPS FARM TURNING POINT OF LANSING Fruitvale Station screening

WINDMILL POINTE BREWERY Bike n’ Brew


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COLLABORATIONS SPONSORS GRAND OPENING Barton Malow Gagosian Gallery A. Alfred Taubman Whirlpool Corporation Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan / Blue Care Network Marian Goodman Gallery MSU Federal Credit Union

ARTIST STUDIO SERIES MSU Federal Credit Union

FAMILIES AT THE BROAD MSU Farm Bureau Insurance

NAIZA KHAN: KARACHI ELEGIES Dipti and Rakesh Mathur American Institue of Pakistan Studies Asian Studies Center

GUILLERMO KUITCA: DIARIOS Bettina and Donald Bryant, Jr. Charles Van Campenhout and Risteard Keating Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin Solita and Steven Mishaan Cindy and Howard Rachofsky

PATTERN: FOLLOW THE RULES MSU Federal Credit Union

ALYSON SHOTZ: GEOMETRY OF LIGHT

2013 AND 2014 MASTER OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITIONS The John and Susan Berding Family Foundation Endowment The Graduate School of Michigan State University

FOCUS: BEVERLY FISHMAN Accident Fund

LEBBEUS WOODS, ARCHITECT Bill and Linda Demmer

EMEKA OGBOH: ÀLÀ The Humanities Innovation Center

MITHU SEN: BORDER UNSEEN Michigan State University India Council Dr. Delia Koo Global Faculty Endowment

THE LAND GRANT: FLATBREAD SOCIETY Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs National Endowment for the Arts

THE LAND GRANT: FOREST LAW Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs National Endowment for the Arts Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation

JOHN AKOMFRAH: IMAGINARY POSSESSIONS British Council

MSU Federal Credit Union

FUTURE RETURNS: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM CHINA

VARIATIONS ON A LINE (MOVING)

Dr. Linda Nelson MSU College of Arts and Letters Beijing Caissa Culture Communication Co., Ltd. Ministry of the People’s Republic of China China Arts and Entertainment

MSU Federal Credit Union

BLIND FIELD Office of the Provost and Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs Francis P. Rohlen Visiting Artists Fund Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies College of Fine and Applied Arts Creative Research Award Fox Development Corporation Illinois Arts Council School of Art + Design Visitors Fund Jerrold Ziff Distinguished Lecture on Modern Art Fund Krannert Art Museum

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COLLABORATIONS TOURS K-12 Jackson National Life Spartan Child Development Center Tutor Time Okemos Okemos Nursery Okemos Montessori Stepping Stones Montessori Alaiedon Elementary Bennett Woods Elementary (GESSO) Cole Academy Cumberland Elementary (GESSO) Donley Elementary EE Knight Elementary Gier Park Elementary (GESSO) Kendon Elementary (GESSO) Lansing Charter Elementary (GESSO) Lansing STEM Academy (GESSO) Lyons Avenue School (GESSO) Marble Elementary (GESSO) Mason Elementary North Aurelius Elementary Reo Elementary (GESSO) Riddle Elementary (GESSO) St. John’s Lutheran School St. Thomas Aquinas Parish School (GESSO) Westwood Elementary Willow Elementary (GESSO) Clawson Middle School Montrose Middle School Olivet Middle School Waverly Middle School Avondale High School Cody High School Dewitt High School Eastern High School East Lansing HS Fowler High School Freeland High School Okemos High School Special Ed Waverly High School Western Options High School Holt Public Schools Saline Area Schools Mount Hope Elementary School (GESSO) Cavanaugh Elementary School (GESSO)

NON-MSU COLLEGES / UNIVERSITIES Alma College American Art School Cranbrook Academy of Art Ferris State University Kendall School of Design Grand Rapids Community College US Green Building Council Grand Valley State University Art Department Lansing Community College Communication Art and Media Department Lansing Community College Arts Education Department Lansing Community College Center for Transitional Learning Lansing Community College Early College Program Lawrence Tech Group Olivet College Art Education Honors Peking University Saginaw Valley State University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute University of Michigan Kelsey Museum of Archaeology University of Michigan Taubman College University of Michigan-Dearborn Museum Studies Western Michigan University Extended University Programs

ARTS INSTITUTIONS Cranbrook Art Museum Detroit Institute of Art Grand Rapids Art Museum Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts

COMMUNITY GROUPS Allen Neighborhood Center Market Capital Region Community Foundation Downtown Development Authority East Lansing Rotary Club Friendship Force of Greater Lansing Haslett/Okemos Rotary Club

Hunter Park Youth Lansing Pride Lansing Area Girl Scouts League of Women Voters of the Lansing Area

BUSINESSES / SPECIAL INTEREST 4H Foundation Ann Arbor City Club Asian Pacific American Women’s Association Birmingham/Bloomfield Art Tours CAP Tour Northern Nut Growers Association Chicago Architecture Foundation Deckle Edge Art Group Delta Kappa Gamma of Livingston County Dykema Law Firm Greater MLK Holiday Commission Jenny Lind Club of Michigan Junior League of Detroit Lake Trust Credit Union Michigan Association of Counties Michigan Association of Family and Consumer Sciences Michigan Economic Development Corporation Michigan Millers Michigan Press Women Mid-Michigan Mensa Red Hat Groups Rehman Financial Group Steelcase Design Studio Swiss Consulate in Detroit WISE Women Working Women Artists Young Women for Change Michigan Art Education Association

SENIOR / SPECIAL NEEDS Adults with Autism Allen Neighborhood Center Senior Group Alzheimer’s Association Burcham Hills Retirement Brookdale Sterling House Senior Living Capital Area Center for Independent Living Fox Run Senior Center Glacier Hills Seniors


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Hope Academy for Senior Professionals Hospice Group Oak Park Senior Citizen Older Persons Commission (OPC) Prime Time Seniors

RELIGIOUS GROUPS Birmingham Temple First Presbyterian Church of Holt Jewish Community Center Detroit Jewish Historical Society of Detroit Mt. Hope Methodist Church Shaarey Zedek Congregation South Church Lansing

MSU GROUPS Alpha Delta Kappa Alumni Association Art, Art History, and Design Department Arts Integration Educators Program ASMSU Association of Collegiate Conference and Events Directors-International Bailey Scholars Biomedical Lab Diagnostics Program Broad Business School Board Bug House Campaign Leadership Summit Campus Tour Guides/Spartan Ambassadors Career Services Department CIC Academic Leaders Program College of Arts and Letters Alumni College of Arts and Letters Alumni Board College of Natural Sciences College of Social Science College of Social Science Alumni Association Controllers’ Office Department of Community Sustainability Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation, and Resource Studies (CARRS) Department of Education Department of Languages and Linguistics Destination State Conference Management English Department

English Language Center Future Nurses Summer Enrichment GEAR-UP/College Day Program German Conversation Group Global Center of Advanced Learning Grandparents University Health Services Hmong American Student Association Honors College Alumni Board Information and Technology Services Institute for Public Policy and Social Research International Spouse Connection Group Land Management Landscape Architecture MSU Retirees Association Museum Studies Program National Superconducting Cyclotron Native American Institute NEH Institute (in the RCAH) OBGYN Kin Keepers Office of Admissions Office of Sponsored Programs Office of the Provost Peckham Mentoring Program Philanthropic Educational Organization Political Science Department Pre-College Leadership Program Religious Studies Department Remote Sensing and Geographic Info Systems Retreat Saturday Morning Art Program (smART) School of Planning, Design and Construction Science Festival Spartan Child Development Center Study Abroad Office THATcamp (Arts Education) Transitions Central University Activities Board VIPP Malaysia Delegation Women’s Studies MSU Science Festival MSU Take Your Child to Work Day

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3,556

2,828

AREA SCHOOL CHILDREN

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

26

BUSINESS & SPECIALINTEREST GROUPS

10

COMMUNITY GROUPS

7

RELIGIOUS GROUPS

18

NON-MSU COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

5

ARTS INSTITUTIONS


BROAD MSU TWO YEAR REVIEW

DEVELOPMENT & MEMBERSHIP

5,036 400 DONORS

MEMBERS

28

NAMED SPACES

$48K

MEMBERSHIP DUES

EXHIBITIONS THE MUSEUM HAS EXHIBITED A TOTAL OF

822 WORKS BY

347 ARTISTS FROM

38 COUNTRIES ACQUISITIONS 2012

2013

2014

50 WORKS

186 WORKS

147 WORKS

17 PAINTINGS 13 DRAWINGS 11 PRINTS 5 SCULPTURES 3 PHOTOGRAPHS 1 VIDEO

144 PHOTOGRAPHS 21 PRINTS 17 PAINTINGS 11 SCULPTURES 2 VIDEOS 1 COLLAGE

69 PHOTOGRAPHS 61 CERAMICS 8 SCULPTURES 5 PAINTINGS 3 PRINTS 1 VIDEO

99


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