Honoring RAM’s 10th anniversary, From the Ground Up offers materials—floor plans, photographs, blue prints, ephemera, and a building model—that document the development of the new museum for Racine leading up to its grand opening in 2003

Featuring artists at various phases in their careers and objects crafted from a variety of different media, Twenty-First Century Heirlooms is a large-scale exhibition that offers a context for exploring what we value today and why.

RAM presents an untraditional exhibition—now in its fourth year—showcasing art made from or inspired by fluffy, sugarcoated marshmallow PEEPS®. This year’s exhibition features 110 entries that demonstrate the talent of more than 145 artists.

Whether narrative scenes or abstract forms, these works explore the formal, symbolic, and metaphoric potential of intense contrasts.

For its tenth anniversary and in honor of the area’s rich artistic legacy, RAM is pleased to bring together the work of two acclaimed artists who call Racine their hometown.

For its tenth anniversary and in honor of the area’s rich artistic legacy, RAM is pleased to bring together the work of two acclaimed artists who call Racine their hometown.

This exhibition features prints by prominent modern artists, such as Robert Motherwell and Richard Hamilton that take on James Joyce as subject.

This Collection Focus series exhibition offers a look at 20 works by late Canadian artist Rosita Johanson (1937-2007) created in the 1990s and early 2000s, forming an archive of her working methods and subject matter over a prolonged period of time.

This exhibition premieres an impressive array of fiber pieces never before seen in the museum’s galleries, and includes artists who have been working with textiles for decades—pushing the boundaries of the media and offering different ways for understanding the materials.

RAM’s Wustum Museum continues a Racine tradition with the opening of Wisconsin Photography 2012—a statewide competition organized by the museum since 1979.

Selected artworks that respond to the wonder, mystery, and presence of the natural world by incorporating animals into their artistic explorations as subject, pattern, decoration, and symbol.

Gustav Reyes Brooch 3 from the ARC Series, [...]

This traveling exhibition features the work of renowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes (1925–2016), who has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Jurors Lynn Basa and Lanny Silverman selected the 125 pieces by 95 artists on display in this year's juried watercolor exhibition.

This exhibition premieres a gift to the permanent collection of over forty 20th-century colorful Russian lacquer boxes from donor Wendy Lee McCalvy.

Featuring over 200 objects made of polymer, including adornment, vessels, and furniture, Terra Nova: Polymer Art at the Crossroads reflects a short but sweet period in the history of creative endeavors.

A glimpse into local talent, this juried exhibition showcases work from artists residing throughout Racine, Kenosha, and Walworth counties, along with RAM members living in or outside the area. This year's show features 117 accepted pieces by 103 artists.

Using a wide variety of media—including linen, wax, glass, paper, porcelain, paint, and metals—each artist represented in Field of Vision creates a rich and varied composition inspired by landscape, light and space.

This show combines works on paper—watercolors, graphics, and photographs—with sculptural objects from RAM’s collection. In addition to addressing the concept of still life in various ways, it reveals the diversity of the collection.