Joan Backes: Falling Leaves and Painted Branches
This exhibition, featuring Milwaukee-born artist Joan Backes, marries the natural color, shape, and pattern of leaves and branches with human interference.
This exhibition, featuring Milwaukee-born artist Joan Backes, marries the natural color, shape, and pattern of leaves and branches with human interference.
This exhibition celebrates a gift of 65 glass pieces, donated by Los Angeles area collectors Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser.
This exhibition includes the work of familial artists—couples, parents and children, or siblings—drawn primarily from RAM’s collection, and with a concentration of collaborative ceramic work borrowed from emerging artists, twin brothers Kelly and Kyle Phelps.
Featuring work with phenomena that may be floating, transforming, or imprecise—as if somehow moving through another dimension.
This exhibition explores the intersection of art with cultural subjects that inspire devoted “fan” followings—specifically the science fiction and fantasy-based themes of Doctor Who, Star Wars, superheroes, and steampunk.
In the collections of an internationally-known art museum and a preparatory school are pieces from the groundbreaking collection and exhibition, OBJECTS: USA.
Body Language: New Acquisitions of Figurative Work reflects our desire to study, analyze, and respond to the human body as form and content. Whether clay, fiber, or paint on canvas, the works in this exhibition underscore the enduring artistic interest in the body as subject.
One of the Racine Art Museum’s most popular shows, Watercolor Wisconsin is a statewide competition organized by the museum annually since 1966. This year's show featured 114 pieces by 100 Wisconsin artists.
A glimpse into local talent, this juried exhibition showcases work from artists residing throughout Racine, Kenosha, and Walworth counties, along with RAM members from outside the area.
The show features artists that use a variety of media and techniques to craft stories that discuss the human condition through exaggerated, surreal, perplexing, imaginative, or dreamy scenarios.
Drawn from RAM’s strong and diverse holdings of ceramics, Bodies at Rest is a sampler of artists addressing the body—and ultimately, the human condition—in both form and content. This exhibition took place at NCECA's 48th Annual Conference in Milwaukee, WI, March 19–21, 2014.
RAM Museum Store special exhibition. All works on display in this exhibition were on sale.
A mid-career retrospective for an innovative artist who has pushed the possibilities of clay by combining two-dimensional narrative with three-dimensional ceramic form.
Well-known for his work in ceramics, Frank Boyden has long been versed in print-making. Comprised of recent gifts to RAM’s collection, this exhibition emphasizes Boyden’s narrative investigations in print media.
Featuring contemporary sculpture, pottery, and adornment that utilize shiny materials, such as lustre glazes and gold.
This large-scale group exhibition emphasizes the depth and richness of RAM’s holdings in contemporary sculptural and functional clay.
One of the museum's most popular shows, Watercolor Wisconsin is a statewide competition organized by the museum annually since 1966. This year's show features 125 pieces by 95 Wisconsin artists.
Ken Loeber manipulates metal-as well as other media such as coral, pearls, and shells-into compelling adornment, hollowware, and flatware. Embarking on what has been described as a "sculptural exploration of mass and space."
This exhibition presents over 15 photographs, now in the collection of the Racine Art Museum, captured by Michael Pry during Harley Davidson Motorcycle Company’s centennial celebration.
Meant to showcase the diversity and vitality of the Racine/Kenosha visual arts community, the biennial fellowships provide support for the professional development of the community's artists. Representing a diverse range of styles and media, this exhibition features the work of Jerrold Belland, Doug DeVinny, Kimberly Greene, and Kathleen Laybourn.

