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, 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.