The annual Racine Unified Student Art Exhibition at RAM’s Wustum Museum has been featuring artwork by Racine Unified School District students since 1942. Curated by each school’s art faculty, the exhibition demonstrates the excellence achieved by K–12 students and their teachers.

Now in its 59th year, Watercolor Wisconsin was started in 1966 to honor the depth and breadth of watercolor in the state.

This exhibition presents a selection of Native American and First Nations baskets from across North America, including a piece by Wisconsin-based artist Liandra Skenandore.

To add glow and glimmer to Main Street, RAM presents a re-imagined annual crowd-pleasing favorite, RAM Festive Forest.

From The Archives showcases eight Wisconsin-based artists with recently established archives at RAM—Jerrold Belland, Lisa Englander, Caren Heft, Alex Mandli, Michael Nitsch, Bill Reid, Susan M. Sorenson, and Marc Wollman—each of whom have long-standing and impactful connections to RAM and Wustum

This exhibition features the winning drawings from the Rasmussen Diamonds and RAM Designed by Me competition alongside their real-life counterparts, showcasing the craftsmanship of local artisans while also giving the young creatives a first opportunity at having work on display in a museum setting.

Sponsored by a grant from the Osborne and Scekic Family Foundation, the RAM Artist Fellowship Program showcases the diversity and vitality of the Racine/Kenosha visual arts.

Shades of Gray presents landscapes, figural studies, abstractions, and stories told through both image and text. The works in this exhibition rely primarily on a palette of black and white.

This exhibition features artists investigating the biological through artificial materials, such as polymer or acrylic yarn, or organic-based media, like fibrous handmade paper, pencils, or ceramic.

Interested in the past but also looking to investigate and innovate, contemporary artists sometimes use the teapot form specifically because it is both easily understood and ripe for experimentation.

Duets: RAM Pairs Contemporary Craft Artists plays with that idea by purposefully pairing the work of various contemporary artists—visually or conceptually-related works are shown side by side in order to simultaneously highlight similarities and differences.

Spurred by an interest in investigating color, form, and texture, this nationally known wood artist, Norm Sartorius, has focused on “the character of the raw pieces of wood." RAM highlights a gift of 44 Sartorius letter openers in this exhibit.

Polymer Art: Recent Acquisitions showcases artworks new to Racine Art Museum (RAM) since the donation of over 200 polymer pieces in 2011. These recent gifts have introduced new artists to the collection and expanded upon existing bodies of work by incorporating different types of objects or broadening the scope of years represented.

Interested in investigating new roles for jewelry, artists found ways to incorporate paper and plastic— as well as other materials—into their practice as they subverted ideas of preciousness and suggested new meanings for adornment.

New Acquisitions: Contemporary Art Jewelry celebrates recent gifts from a handful of dedicated collectors and donors.

From oversized body parts and clay vessels to an abnormally large bronze pear, these works from RAM’s collection encourage viewers to consider how size affects their expectations and opinions.

This exhibition debuts a new-to-RAM archive of works created by Isaacs between 1968 and 2020. This grouping—the scope of which is unmatched at any other organization—includes early acrylic on canvas paintings, a drawing, art jewelry, and over 20 painted wood constructions.

Racine Art Guild juried exhibitions demonstrate the creativity of this local organization’s members. The 62 works selected for this show display an advanced understanding of art techniques and presentation.

While traditional museum etiquette expects visitors to observe from a distance, this exhibition encourages guests to break from convention. Activating the senses beyond sight alone, these 26 works by artists in RAM’s community encourage close connections through various combinations of touch, sound, and smell.