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RAM Holiday Tree 2024

To add glow and glimmer to Main Street, RAM presents the annual crowd-pleasing RAM Holiday Tree.

RAM Holiday Tree 20242025-01-08T11:45:19-06:00
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Spotlight on Sculpture: Dorothy Dehner and Margaret Ponce Israel

Spotlight on Sculpture: Dorothy Dehner and Margaret Ponce Israel focuses on one of RAM's strengths—women artists—by featuring steel and bronze sculpture created by two important New York-based figures who are being rediscovered today.

Spotlight on Sculpture: Dorothy Dehner and Margaret Ponce Israel2024-11-18T11:45:46-06:00
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Nicole Acosta: HOOPS—Beyond the Aesthetic Lies the Story

Milwaukee artist Nicole Acosta uses photography to tell stories of people of the global majority and gender-expansive folks who value hoop earrings, touching on themes of reclamation, power, belonging, and place.

Nicole Acosta: HOOPS—Beyond the Aesthetic Lies the Story2024-11-25T10:25:29-06:00

Wisconsin Photography 2024

Established in the 1970s and hosted biennially, Wisconsin Photography underscores RAM’s commitment to looking at contemporary art in a variety of forms. Celebrating the rich community of photographers and video artists living and working in Wisconsin, this juried exhibition features 96 diverse works by 35 artists.

Wisconsin Photography 20242024-11-25T10:24:45-06:00
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Racine Unified Student Art Exhibition 2024

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 Student Art Exhibition 20242024-06-27T10:06:59-05:00
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Craft in Color

The largest exhibition to date dedicated to artists of color in RAM's collection, featuring works in clay, glass, and metal. The range of implicit and explicit biases experienced by the artists and the (un)conscious influence of their heritage add a unique layer of context to the included work.

Craft in Color2025-01-13T10:09:39-06:00

Zero Waste: Objects

Drawn entirely from RAM’s collection, this exhibition—and the one that replaces it in the fall—highlights artists that repurpose materials originally intended for a use other than art.

Zero Waste: Objects2024-10-14T08:52:47-05:00

RAM Showcase: Patrick Nagatani

Comprised of pieces spanning multiple decades—specifically 1977 – 2006—the archive features various types of photographs. This exhibition debuts selections from the archive in stages—consecutively showcasing the Nagatani/Ryoichi Excavations Series, Chromatherapy Series, and works related to nuclear power.

RAM Showcase: Patrick Nagatani2024-10-14T08:53:25-05:00

Collection Focus: Frances and Michael Higgins

In the late 1940s, contemporary glass production was given new energy as Frances and Michael Higgins reinvigorated the ancient practice of glass fusing. Racine Art Museum recently established an archive collection of 75 works created collaboratively and individually by the Higginses.

Collection Focus: Frances and Michael Higgins2024-10-14T08:52:19-05:00

RAM Showcase: Kinngait Prints

Part of the RAM Showcase series of exhibitions centering the work of artists of color, this exhibition is a sampling of prints from RAM's collection created by Inuit artists in Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset).

RAM Showcase: Kinngait Prints2024-08-12T11:50:51-05:00

Racine and Vicinity Show 2024: All Media Juried Exhibition

This juried exhibition at RAM's Wustum Museum showcases 107 works from 89 artists primarily residing throughout Racine, Kenosha, and Walworth counties.

Racine and Vicinity Show 2024: All Media Juried Exhibition2024-10-03T13:57:25-05:00
  • Viola Frey Exhibition Installation

RAM’s First 20 Years: A Visual History of the Art and Architecture

This Windows on Fifth exhibition is a visual summary of the art and architecture that helped shape the early chapters of Racine Art Museum, blending objects from RAM's holdings with photographs of both the building designed by Brininstool + Lynch and the galleries filled with art.

RAM’s First 20 Years: A Visual History of the Art and Architecture2024-07-23T12:50:53-05:00

Watercolor Wisconsin 2023

Now in its 57th year, the exhibition was started in 1966 to honor the depth and breadth of watercolor in the State of Wisconsin.

Watercolor Wisconsin 20232024-04-15T09:57:33-05:00

Wisconsin Artists: 1960-90

This exhibition surveys art in Wisconsin from 1960 to 1990. Not only was this an exceptionally fertile time in the history of a state with a (surprising to some) rich and layered history of creative production, it is the period Don Reitz—an artist with a concurrent exhibition at RAM—taught in the ceramics department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Wisconsin Artists: 1960-902024-02-05T09:01:19-06:00
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Collection Focus: Don Reitz

This exhibition chronicles the career of Don Reitz, an innovative and beloved ceramicist who spent 1962–88 living and working in Wisconsin while actively teaching at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Collection Focus: Don Reitz2024-07-30T14:37:54-05:00
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Variations on a Theme: Artists’ Books at RAM

As part of RAM’s Twentieth Anniversary celebrations in 2023 and acknowledging a specialty focus of the institution, this exhibition surveys artists’ books from the collection.

Variations on a Theme: Artists’ Books at RAM2024-01-16T11:20:16-06:00
  • Nicole Zimmer Trip To The Moon

RAM 15th Annual International PEEPS® Brand Art Exhibition

The fifteenth edition of this popular, non-traditional exhibition features 123 creative and entertaining entries inspired by colorful PEEPS® Brand marshmallow candy.

RAM 15th Annual International PEEPS® Brand Art Exhibition2024-12-18T15:24:24-06:00
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RAM Artist Fellowship and Emerging Artist Exhibition 2023

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. The sixth biennial exhibition features the work of Peter F. Aymonin, Lisa Bigalke, Maureen Fritchen, Jojin Van Winkle, and Kelly Witte.

RAM Artist Fellowship and Emerging Artist Exhibition 20232023-12-28T11:48:04-06:00

RAM Showcase: Four Jewelers and the Artists of Color Acquisition Fund

Part of the recently formed RAM Showcase exhibition series, this first show to focus solely on new artists of color in the collection features the work of Lorena Angulo, Tanya Crane, Seulgi Kwon, and Georgina Treviño

RAM Showcase: Four Jewelers and the Artists of Color Acquisition Fund2024-04-22T15:17:47-05:00
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