The Art of AdOrnaments, Snowfolks, and Creative Conifers 2022

Artists of all ages were invited to participate in the museum’s annual competition for handmade holiday ornaments, festive snow people and creatures, and decorated trees. The 2022 show features 43 delightful pieces by 35 regional artists.

The Art of AdOrnaments, Snowfolks, and Creative Conifers 20222023-01-03T08:51:36-06:00

On Fire: Surveying Women in Glass in the Late-Twentieth Century

With work drawn from RAM’s collection and centered on the 1980s and 1990s, this exhibition in RAM's street-facing Windows on Fifth Gallery outlines the concerns of women artists dedicated to exploring the sculptural, visual, metaphorical, and creative potential of glass.

On Fire: Surveying Women in Glass in the Late-Twentieth Century2023-03-13T17:39:46-05:00

Sketchbooks from RAM’s Collection: Exploring Process

This exhibition features sketchbooks by notable artists in RAM's collection that offer insight into creative practices and, sometimes, into an artist’s daily life.

Sketchbooks from RAM’s Collection: Exploring Process2023-02-13T10:23:24-06:00

Dynamic Duos: Collaborative Glass Artists from RAM’s Collection

Comprised of artwork from RAM’s collection, this exhibition investigates artistic practices and the particular challenges and rewards of working collaboratively. Yet it also raises questions about how such working processes break down assumptions about historical models that privilege a single artist.

Dynamic Duos: Collaborative Glass Artists from RAM’s Collection2023-02-13T10:23:14-06:00
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What’s Your Sign? RAM Virtual Community Art Show

Responding to the RAM exhibition, David R. Harper: Zodiac, Racine Art Museum and RAM’s Wustum Museum invited artists to take part in the third RAM Virtual Community Art Show. In response, 20 artists from around the country submitted work that somehow investigates astrological symbols.

What’s Your Sign? RAM Virtual Community Art Show2023-02-13T10:24:10-06:00

David R. Harper: Zodiac

This exhibition features a series of sculptural works by David R. Harper based on the signs of the zodiac. Harper uses imagery and metaphor to encourage people to think about how an object’s meaning can change based on who is interacting with it.

David R. Harper: Zodiac2023-02-13T10:23:08-06:00

Collection Focus: Randall Darwall

This exhibition debuts an archive of over 135 scarves, shawls, and garments by Randall Darwall (1948–2017) at the Racine Art Museum. In addition, as part of the archival supporting materials, RAM has been gifted textile works by other artists that served as inspiration for Darwall—several of which are included in this exhibition—and ephemera that documents his career.

Collection Focus: Randall Darwall2023-01-09T09:30:16-06:00

Wisconsin Photography 2022

RAM's Wustum Museum of Fine Arts continues a significant museum tradition with Wisconsin Photography 2022. This year's exhibition features 113 works by 81 artists.

Wisconsin Photography 20222022-11-28T09:49:36-06:00
  • Eleanor Moty Skyline Brooch 2022 Feat

Quiet Elegance: The Jewelry of Eleanor Moty

Featuring over 35 works, including several from RAM’s holdings as well as recently finished pieces, this exhibition owes its name to a recently-published monograph on the artist Eleanor Moty. It follows a similar arc to the book in representing Moty’s working career to-date—over 50 years of making.

Quiet Elegance: The Jewelry of Eleanor Moty2023-01-30T12:14:41-06:00

RAM Showcase: Russell T. Gordon and James Tanner

This exhibition—part of the RAM Showcase series—highlights the work of artists Russell T. Gordon and James Tanner, both of whom were educators with significant positions in their respective universities. While both of their works have been shown at RAM before, this exhibition is an opportunity to share more about the artists—reflecting a few moments of intersection between them.

RAM Showcase: Russell T. Gordon and James Tanner2023-02-13T10:27:48-06:00

Racine Art Guild Juried Competition 2022

The Racine Art Guild Juried Competitions are organized to demonstrate the creativity of the members of this group of practicing artists. Artworks selected for this show display an understanding of art techniques and presentation.

Racine Art Guild Juried Competition 20222022-08-17T12:15:32-05:00

Cultural Reflections: RAM Community Art Show

Cultural Reflections: RAM Community Art Show—developed in collaboration with the Black Arts Council of Racine—showcases work by 86 artists that used a wide variety of media to explore aspects of their culture, heritage, family traditions, or way of life. Through paintings, prints, collage, objects, and more, these artists share their inspirations, influences, and observations about the world connected to them.

Cultural Reflections: RAM Community Art Show2022-08-17T12:15:28-05:00

Racine Unified School District Exhibition 2022

The annual Racine Unified Student Art Exhibition at RAM's Wustum Museum features artwork created by area school children from grades K–12. Curated by the Unified School's art faculty, the exhibition demonstrates the excellence achieved by students and their teachers.

Racine Unified School District Exhibition 20222022-05-31T09:54:10-05:00

RAM 13th Annual International Peeps Art Exhibition

RAM presents the thirteenth edition of the popular exhibition showcasing art made from or inspired by adorably colorful marshmallow Peeps®. This year, more than 207 artists, families, and organizations from around the country created 162 pieces of Peeps® art for the only museum competition of its kind in the world.

RAM 13th Annual International Peeps Art Exhibition2023-01-10T10:55:45-06:00

Precedents: Past Meets Present in Contemporary Glass and Clay

Precedents offers new contexts for understanding how motifs resurface regularly through generations, how much variety is possible within the dynamic of a certain material and relative size, and how artists might look at each other’s work for inspiration.

Precedents: Past Meets Present in Contemporary Glass and Clay2022-09-26T10:03:33-05:00

Fool the Eye: Addressing Illusion in Contemporary Art

This exhibition, with works drawn from RAM’s collection, features contemporary interpretations of trompe l’oeil (fool or deceive the eye) technique.

Fool the Eye: Addressing Illusion in Contemporary Art2022-09-26T10:03:28-05:00

RAM Showcase: Abstraction

This show—part of the new RAM Showcase series of exhibitions—highlights contemporary artists of color whose work addresses intellectual, philosophical, and spiritual concepts through abstraction.

RAM Showcase: Abstraction2022-06-30T14:19:55-05:00

In the Round: Vessels and Sculpture from RAM’s Collection

In the Round showcases artwork that is best understood when contemplated from more than one angle—pieces whose stories and designs unfold as a viewer actively engages in exploring the whole thing.

In the Round: Vessels and Sculpture from RAM’s Collection2022-08-01T09:51:05-05:00

RAM Showcase: Objects

The unifying theme of this exhibition is that the works presented are objects—sculptural, functional, or both—made by artists from diverse backgrounds, all residing within the United States. Subject matter varies—from material exploration to personal narrative to function. While this work is not directly issue-oriented, the fact that the makers themselves, as artists of color, have experienced a wide range of implicit and explicit biases is a subcontext worthy of consideration. Seen through that lens, the story these objects tell is even more complex.

RAM Showcase: Objects2022-06-30T14:20:11-05:00

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