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Friday May 17 All Day

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Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection

“Deep Roots, New Shoots” features 40 African artworks created between the 1960s and the early 2020s, all of which belong to the Kruizenga Museum’s permanent collection. The artworks span the length and breadth of the African continent, from Morocco to South Africa and Nigeria to Ethiopia. They represent a diverse variety of artistic styles and movements, and reflect a broad range of themes and issues, including celebrations of ethnic and national pride, struggles against various forms of inequality and injustice, and critical reflections on the enduring impacts of colonialism and global consumerism.“As European colonial rule in Africa came to an end during the 1950s and ’60s, African artists in newly independent countries across the continent grappled with the question of how to make art that was both distinctly African and distinctly modern,” explained Charles Mason, who is the director and the Margaret Feldmann Kruizenga Curator of the Kruizenga Art Museum. “Those artists wanted to create new forms of art that were rooted in indigenous African cultures and aesthetics, but that also reflected international styles and practices. Africa is a huge continent, so naturally there was a lot of variation in how African artists went about creating modern forms of art. In this exhibition I have tried to show that range by including works from 15 different countries across the continent.”As African artists became more integrated into the international art world, Mason noted, their focus expanded from how to make art that is simultaneously African and modern to how to make art that is globally relevant and commercially viable in a highly competitive market.“Much of the African art created in the last 20 or 25 years is very in tune with global trends,” he said. “It is still distinctly African, but a lot of it deals with big transnational issues, like human rights, environmental problems, the impact of COVID, and so forth.”The artworks featured in the exhibition are part of a larger collection of traditional and modern African art that the Kruizenga Art Museum has formed over the past 10 years as part of its mission to expose Hope College students to global cultures. Mason shared that when he was an undergraduate, many American museums displayed only traditional forms of African art.“I didn’t want to do that at the Kruizenga,” he said. “I want our collection to show how African art and cultures are continuing to evolve in ways that are relevant to us all.”The museum acquired the artworks through a combination of gifts and sponsored purchases supported by donors who share Mason’s vision for building a well-balanced international art collection.“I am very grateful to all the donors who made this exhibition possible,” Mason said. “It is unusual for a museum of our size and relatively young age to have such a diverse range of modern and contemporary African art, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to share the collection with the public in this exhibition.”The Kruizenga Art Museum functions as an educational resource for Hope College and the greater West Michigan community. The museum features two public galleries as well as a study room and climate-controlled storage space for its 7,000-object permanent collection. It is named in honor of a leadership gift from the late Dr. Richard and Margaret Kruizenga of Holland, both of whom graduated from Hope in 1952.

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Friday May 17 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Transforming Matter: Incarnation, Sacraments, and Saints in Catholic Art and Devotion

The public is invited. Admission is free.“Transforming Matter” was curated by five students from the Hope Catholics student organization working under the supervision of Dr. Jared Ortiz, who is the Lavern ’39 and Betty DePree ’41 Van Klay Professor of Religion. The exhibition, which opened on Friday, Jan. 12, features 25 artworks that reflect different aspects of Catholic theology and religious practice. Artworks in the exhibition include paintings, prints, sculptures and liturgical objects that range in date from the late 15th to the early 21st centuries. All of the artworks in the exhibition belong to the Kruizenga Art Museum’s permanent collection.“The Christian religion is gritty,” Ortiz said. “God became flesh and appeared as a baby born in a barn in a forgotten corner of the Roman empire. He lived through every stage of human existence in order to restore every stage of human life back to communion with God. He was killed on a cross and buried in a stone tomb, but rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven. God did this to save us, that is, to redeem us from sin and death. This is the great mystery of Christianity: God became what we are so that we can become what he is. The exhibition curated by my students explores the many ways that God enters into created reality to transform it for our salvation.”The exhibition is divided into five thematic sections: Incarnation, Sacraments, Saints, End Times and the Global Church. Each section contains a selection of artworks that illustrate different aspects of the section’s theme. The artworks were chosen by the five student curators both for their relevance to the themes and for their aesthetic qualities and how they look displayed together.“The pieces we considered came from all over the world and were varied in their artistic style, reminding me of the universality and diversity of the Catholic Church,” said student curator Karlie Platz. “I think the artwork we chose reflects visibly the often-invisible reality of a God who has entered and always continues to enter into our human condition.”Among the highlights of the exhibition is an engraving created by French artist Claude Mellan in 1649. It depicts the Veil of Veronica, a cloth that is said to have had the face of Jesus Christ divinely imprinted on it after it was used by a kindly woman to wipe Christ’s face as he was carrying the cross to Golgotha.Another notable artwork in the exhibition is a silver monstrance — a vessel used to display the Eucharistic host — that was created by artists in the Philippines in the late 18th century. This exhibition marks the first time that the monstrance, and several other artworks, have been made available for public viewing.The Kruizenga Art Museum functions as an educational resource for Hope College and the greater West Michigan community. The museum features two public galleries as well as a study room and climate-controlled storage space for its 7,000-object permanent collection. It is named in honor of a leadership gift from the late Dr. Richard and Margaret Kruizenga of Holland, both of whom graduated from Hope in 1952.

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Saturday May 18 All Day

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Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection

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Saturday May 18 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Transforming Matter: Incarnation, Sacraments, and Saints in Catholic Art and Devotion

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Tuesday June 4 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

This exhibition features a selection of the artworks that have been donated from the Kamansky-Wheaton collection over the past 10 years. The artworks were chosen by KAM curator Charles Mason to demonstrate the quality of the collection and to illustrate the range of sto......More

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Wednesday June 5 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

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Thursday June 6 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

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Friday June 7 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

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Saturday June 8 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

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Sunday June 9 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

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Monday June 10 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

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Tuesday June 11 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

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Wednesday June 12 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

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Thursday June 13 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

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Friday June 14 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

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Saturday June 15 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

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Sunday June 16 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

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Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

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Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection

Transforming Matter: Incarnation, Sacraments, and Saints in Catholic Art and Devotion

Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection

Transforming Matter: Incarnation, Sacraments, and Saints in Catholic Art and Devotion

Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

Object Lessons: Selected Gifts from the Kamansky-Wheaton Collection, 2014-2024

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