Alex Mandli Digital Age Artifact From The Italianate Series
Alex Mandli
Digital Age Artifact from the iTalianate Series, 2022
Earthenware
Photography: Courtesy of the Artist

Futures Reimagined: RAM Community Art Show

June 14 – August 5, 2023
at RAM’s Wustum Museum

Artwork can be used to revisit the past and document and comment on the present but it can also be used to envision the future. As RAM celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2023, considerations of the past are inevitable but there are also opportunities to think about what comes next. For the 2023 community-focused exhibition, RAM’s Wustum Museum invites artists to share their ideas about what a potential future—realistic or fantastical, possible or impossible—could look like. Is it a world where people use spaceships like cars? Is it a time when you and your dog can hike Mount Everest? Is it a moment when wrongs from the past are made right? Do you imagine what you will look like or what you will be doing in 20 or 30 years?

This exhibition is organized with Scott Terry of Mahogany Gallery in Racine and is inspired by the theme of Mahogany Gallery’s 2nd Annual Wisconsin Black Art and Culture Expo, Black Futures. As a part of Futures Reimagined, Terry will be inviting artists to participate in the next iteration of the Expo theme, Black Futures II.

If you have taken a class within the last five years at RAM’s Wustum Museum, you are invited to enter one work of art. Or, sign up today for an art class or workshop to become eligible. RAM instructors, Racine Art Guild members, Racine school teachers, and RAM active volunteers, members, and staff are invited, too.

Futures Reimagined: RAM Community Art Show

June 14 – August 5, 2023
at RAM’s Wustum Museum
Alex Mandli Digital Age Artifact From The Italianate Series
Alex Mandli
Digital Age Artifact from the iTalianate Series, 2022
Earthenware
Photography: Courtesy of the Artist

Artwork can be used to revisit the past and document and comment on the present but it can also be used to envision the future. As RAM celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2023, considerations of the past are inevitable but there are also opportunities to think about what comes next. For the 2023 community-focused exhibition, RAM’s Wustum Museum invites artists to share their ideas about what a potential future—realistic or fantastical, possible or impossible—could look like. Is it a world where people use spaceships like cars? Is it a time when you and your dog can hike Mount Everest? Is it a moment when wrongs from the past are made right? Do you imagine what you will look like or what you will be doing in 20 or 30 years?

This exhibition is organized with Scott Terry of Mahogany Gallery in Racine and is inspired by the theme of Mahogany Gallery’s 2nd Annual Wisconsin Black Art and Culture Expo, Black Futures. As a part of Futures Reimagined, Terry will be inviting artists to participate in the next iteration of the Expo theme, Black Futures II.

If you have taken a class within the last five years at RAM’s Wustum Museum, you are invited to enter one work of art. Or, sign up today for an art class or workshop to become eligible. RAM instructors, Racine Art Guild members, Racine school teachers, and RAM active volunteers, members, and staff are invited, too.

Exhibitions at RAM are made possible by:

Platinum Sponsors

Judith and David Flegel Fund
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Ron and Judith Isaacs
Nicholas and Nancy Kurten
Windgate Foundation

Diamond Sponsors

Osborne and Scekic Family Foundation
Ruffo Family Foundation

Gold Sponsors
Anonymous
David Charak
Silver Sponsors
Art Bridges
A.C. Buhler Family
Andis Foundation
Baird
Lucy G. Feller
Ben and Dawn Flegel
Annette Hirsh Family
J. Jeffers & Co.
Dorothy MacVicar
RDK Foundation

Jan Serr and John Shannon
Bronze Sponsors

Anonymous
Susan Boland
Virginia Buhler
Butcher & Barrel/Amos Los Tacos
Educators Credit Union
Express Employment Professionals
Get Behind the Arts Studio Tour
William A. Guenther
Tom and Sharon Harty
Tony and Andrea Hauser
David and Judy Hecker
Bradley Lynch
Carlotta Miller
Larry and Barbara Newman
The Norbell Foundation
The Prairie School
Georgiana Treivush
Twin Disc, Inc.
Deb and Will Walker

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