Alex S. Mandli
Digital Age Artifact from the iTalianate Series, 2022
Underglaze on 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 while also envisioning the future. As RAM celebrates its Twentieth 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 invited 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 invited artists who identify as Black or of the African diaspora to participate in the next iteration of the Expo theme, Black Futures 2. He encouraged artists to consider themes of blackness in the future—what will a change in humanity look like? What would such a change feel like? How do Black histories influence Black futures?

More About the Exhibition

Exhibition Checklist (PDF)

Press Room

Artists in the Exhibition

Brookfield: Anastasia DeTemple; Caledonia: Rebecca Klinzing; Glendale: Philip Fischer; Harland: Debby Peck; Indianapolis, IN: Israel Solomon; Kenosha: Lisa Bigalke, Paul Brnak, Kimberly Duddridge, Darcy Geddes, Rachelle Graham, Amy Misurelli Sorenson; Madison: Jerry Jordan; Milwaukee: Sabina Archaniolowicz, Ney Tait Fraser, Tom Hoffman, David Kacala, Louis Orr, Sarah Phillips, Nick Schroeder, Kiefer Ledell Waterman; Mount Pleasant: Eileen Black, Patricia Guttenberg, Celia Amantea Schulz, Emma Widmar; Oak Creek: Michael Gehrke; Pisgah Forest, NC: Carol Preston; Pleasant Prairie: June Ambro; Racine: Jill Castillo, Margo Cuisinier, P.M. Fallon, Wesley Fallon, Shelby Gall, Alexander Greiveldinger, Diane Hamlin, Ann Henkes, Charles Hoffman, Alex S. Mandli, Karen Mathis, Janet Mrazek, Penny Nichols, Steven Pfeiffer, Keira Pflederer, Suzanne Schackelman, Ruby Schulmeister, Stephen Smiley, Susan M. Sorenson, Kelly Witte, Marc Wollman, Jennifer Zygmunt; San Diego, CA: Mensah Bey; Shorewood: Patricia Algiers; Silver Lake: Betty Baird; Spring Prairie: Veronica Gagliano Averkamp; Whitefish Bay: Michael Havice; Wind Point: Catherine Gaspero; Woodstock, IL: Cary Franklin Gaspar

Futures Reimagined: RAM Community Art Show

June 14 – August 5, 2023
at RAM’s Wustum Museum
Alex S. Mandli
Digital Age Artifact from the iTalianate Series, 2022
Underglaze on earthenware
Photography: Courtesy of the Artist

Artwork can be used to revisit the past and document and comment on the present while also envisioning the future. As RAM celebrates its Twentieth 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 invited 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 invited artists who identify as Black or of the African diaspora to participate in the next iteration of the Expo theme, Black Futures 2. He encouraged artists to consider themes of blackness in the future—what will a change in humanity look like? What would such a change feel like? How do Black histories influence Black futures?

More About the Exhibition

Exhibition Checklist (PDF)

Press Room

Artists in the Exhibition

Brookfield: Anastasia DeTemple; Caledonia: Rebecca Klinzing; Glendale: Philip Fischer; Harland: Debby Peck; Indianapolis, IN: Israel Solomon; Kenosha: Lisa Bigalke, Paul Brnak, Kimberly Duddridge, Darcy Geddes, Rachelle Graham, Amy Misurelli Sorenson; Madison: Jerry Jordan; Milwaukee: Sabina Archaniolowicz, Ney Tait Fraser, Tom Hoffman, David Kacala, Louis Orr, Sarah Phillips, Nick Schroeder, Kiefer Ledell Waterman; Mount Pleasant: Eileen Black, Patricia Guttenberg, Celia Amantea Schulz, Emma Widmar; Oak Creek: Michael Gehrke; Pisgah Forest, NC: Carol Preston; Pleasant Prairie: June Ambro; Racine: Jill Castillo, Margo Cuisinier, P.M. Fallon, Wesley Fallon, Shelby Gall, Alexander Greiveldinger, Diane Hamlin, Ann Henkes, Charles Hoffman, Alex S. Mandli, Karen Mathis, Janet Mrazek, Penny Nichols, Steven Pfeiffer, Keira Pflederer, Suzanne Schackelman, Ruby Schulmeister, Stephen Smiley, Susan M. Sorenson, Kelly Witte, Marc Wollman, Jennifer Zygmunt; San Diego, CA: Mensah Bey; Shorewood: Patricia Algiers; Silver Lake: Betty Baird; Spring Prairie: Veronica Gagliano Averkamp; Whitefish Bay: Michael Havice; Wind Point: Catherine Gaspero; Woodstock, IL: Cary Franklin Gaspar

Sample of Work in the Exhibition

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Installation View

Exhibitions at RAM are made possible by:

Platinum Sponsors

The Estate of Karen Johnson Boyd
David Charak
Judith and David Flegel Fund
Ron and Judith Isaacs
Nicholas and Nancy Kurten
Racine Community Foundation logo
Barbara Waldman
Windgate Foundation

Diamond Sponsors

City of Racine’s Grow Racine Grant
Ruffo Family Foundation
Ruth Arts Foundation

Gold Sponsors

Anonymous
Tom and Irene Creecy
Richard and Patricia Ehlert
Osborne and Scekic Family Foundation
Reliance Controls Community Fund
Trio Foundation of St. Louis
W.T. Walker Group, Inc.

Wisconsin Arts Board 50th Anniversary Logo

Silver Sponsors

Anonymous
Baird
Beta Diagnostic Labs
A.C. Buhler Family
Lucy G. Feller
Ben and Dawn Flegel
Jim Harris
Sharon and Tom Harty
Horizon Retail Construction, Inc.
Johnson Financial Group
Dorothy MacVicar
Jan Serr and John Shannon

Bronze Sponsors

Ellen and Joseph Albrecht
Susan Boland
Dave’s Wine Garage
Educators Credit Union
Express Employment Professionals
Bill and Debbie Keland
Susan Manalli
Jean and Alex Mandli, Jr.
Norbell Foundation
Cathy Stanghellini
Twin Disc

Media Sponsor

Radio Milwaukee logo

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