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DeVos Art Museum

Join us for the Annual Children's Exhibition Reception on May 22, from 5-7 pm.

Each year, the NMU DeVos Art Museum celebrates our area schools that support art programs for elementary students. This annual exhibition, featuring talented elementary students’ artwork in all media, is organized by hardworking art teachers from local schools.

The participating schools include: Aspen Ridge Elementary School, AuTrain-Onota Public School, Birchview Elementary School, Cherry Creek Elementary School, Father Marquette Catholic Academy, Gilbert Elementary School, Graveraet Elementary School, K.I. Sawyer Elementary School, Lakeview Elementary School, North Star Montessori Academy, Powell Township School, and Sandy Knoll Elementary. Featuring Special guest, Project Knot work

The exhibition and event are free and open to all.

DeVos Art Museum

May 5 – May 24, 2025
Join us for the reception on May 22, from 5-7 pm

Each year, the NMU DeVos Art Museum celebrates our area schools that support art programs for elementary students. This annual exhibition, featuring talented elementary students’ artwork in all media, is organized by hardworking art teachers from local schools.

The participating schools include: Aspen Ridge Elementary School, AuTrain-Onota Public School, Birchview Elementary School, Cherry Creek Elementary School, Father Marquette Catholic Academy, Gilbert Elementary School, Graveraet Elementary School, K.I. Sawyer Elementary School, Lakeview Elementary School, North Star Montessori Academy, Powell Township School, and Sandy Knoll Elementary. Featuring special guest, Project Knot Work

The exhibition and event are free and open to all.

DeVos Art Museum

Friday, May 2nd, 7-9 PM

8 PM Awards Announced: Best of Show, sponsored by the Friends of the DeVos Art Museum

Featuring the following artists: 

Computer Art: Ejay Crandell

Digital Cinema: Quinn Alles, Haley Holland, Ainsley Patterson

Graphic Design: Emma Iles, Ashley Loomis

Human-Centered Design: Cole Adameak, Kate Cudney

Illustration: Lindsay Bulmann, Ethan Clark, Val Luxi, Amber Heiser,

Emerson Jermstad, Anna Laakso, Amara Meyskens, Sable Wood

Metals: Ben Gitchell

Photography: Stephanie Cramer, Ashlyn Nichols

DeVos Art Museum

April 17th - May 2nd, 2024
Closing Reception: Friday, May 2nd, 7-9pm

Featuring the following artists:

Computer Art: Ejay Crandell

Digital Cinema: Quinn Alles, Haley Holland, Ainsley Patterson

Graphic Design: Emma Iles, Ashley Loomis

Human-Centered Design: Cole Adameak, Kate Cudney

Illustration: Lindsay Bulmann, Ethan Clark, Val Luxi, Amber Heiser,

Emerson Jermstad, Anna Laakso, Amara Meyskens, Sable Wood

Metals: Ben Gitchell

Photography: Stephanie Cramer, Ashlyn Nichols

DeVos Art Museum

Join us on January 17, 2025, from 6-8 pm – Join us for the opening reception with the faculty!

Exhibition through January 17, 2025 – March 29, 2025

The 2025 Faculty Biennial Exhibition highlights a diversity of creative achievements by participating faculty from across the School of Art and Design.

The show features the following artists Tom Adolphs, Daric Christian, Tim Cleary, Alex Fekete, Jessie Fleury, Brian Kakas, Emily Lanctot, Stephan Larson, Christine Lenzen, Michael Letts, Gabrielle McNally, Jane Milkie, Christopher Lander Moore, Jason Schneider, Tracy Wascom, and Dale Wedig.

DeVos Art Museum

Exhibition through January 17th, 2025 - March 29th, 2025 

The 2025 Faculty Biennial Exhibition highlights a diversity of creative achievements by participating faculty from across the School of Art and Design.

The show features the following artists Tom Adolphs, Daric Christian, Tim Cleary, Alex Fekete, Jessie Fleury, Brian Kakas, Emily Lanctot, Stephan Larson, Christine Lenzen, Michael Letts, Gabrielle McNally, Jane Milkie, Christopher Lander Moore, Jason Schneider, Tracy Wascom, and Dale Wedig.

On Friday, March 21, 2025, at 1 pm – Join us for “Still Alive”: Metamorphosis of Dutch Baroque Still Life in Japanese and American Art, a talk by Dr. Mitsutoshi Oba.

DeVos Art Museum

Join us on October 10, 2024, at 6 PM for an engaging talk with the artist, Jack Deo, followed by a reception.

This historic photographic exhibition features local legends, friends, neighbors, and everyday heroes of the past. Gestures, expressions, clothing, props, and backdrops reveal rich narratives about the subjects, photographers, and the times. The portraits were taken in Upper Peninsula photo studios between 1890 and 1910 by photographers including Charles Cole and Brainard F. Childs at Childs Art Gallery in Marquette and Ishpeming; John William Nara at Nara Studio in Calumet; Gustav A. Werner at Werner Studio in Marquette and Ishpeming, and Theodore Sexton at Sexton Studio in Garden.

DeVos Art Museum

Join us on Thursday, September 26, 2024, at 5:30 PM for an artist talk and reception at the DeVos Art Museum, featuring Liz Ward and Robert Ziebell as they discuss their work on display.

Across Time and Place features Liz Ward and Robert Ziebell's recent multi-media approaches to interpreting and understanding place. Residents of Eagle Harbor, Michigan, and San Antonio, Texas, their works examine the nuance of place and focus on the richness of our world today and yesterday.

Robert Ziebell is an American artist who has worked in the field for over thirty-five years. Ziebell is a lens-based artist who bridges still and motion imagery to create new visual languages. Ziebell's work has been shown in numerous US museums, galleries, film festivals, and abroad.

Liz Ward is an American artist who works across various media, scales, and sites. Her work explores the meaning of landscape through layers of human, natural, and environmental history, memory, and experience. Ward has been in over two hundred group shows and has completed over thirty solo exhibitions in galleries, alternative spaces, and museums.

DeVos Art Museum

Please join us on Thursday, May 9, 2024, for the reception of the Annual Children's Exhibition at the Devos Art Museum. This event is free and open to the public. 

Each year, the NMU DeVos Art Museum celebrates our area schools that support art programs for students. This annual exhibition, featuring talented elementary students’ artwork in all media, is organized by hardworking art teachers from local schools.

Participating Schools:

• AUTRAIN-ONOTA PUBLIC SCHOOL

• FATHER MARQUETTE CATHOLIC ACADEMY 

• GWINN AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Gilbert Elementary School and K.I. Sawyer Elementary School)

• ISHPEMING PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Birchview Elementary School)

• MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Graveraet Elementary)

• NEGAUNEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Lakeview Elementary School)

• NICE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Aspen Ridge Elementary School)

• NORTH STAR MONTESSORI ACADEMY 

• POWELL TOWNSHIP SCHOOL

DeVos Art Museum

Each year, the NMU DeVos Art Museum celebrates our area schools that support art programs for students. This annual exhibition, featuring talented elementary students’ artwork in all media, is organized by hardworking art teachers from local schools.

Reception: May 9, 5 - 7 pm

Participating Schools:

• AUTRAIN-ONOTA PUBLIC SCHOOL

• FATHER MARQUETTE CATHOLIC ACADEMY 

• GWINN AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Gilbert Elementary School and K.I. Sawyer Elementary School)

• ISHPEMING PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Birchview Elementary School)

• MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Graveraet Elementary)

• NEGAUNEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Lakeview Elementary School)

• NICE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Aspen Ridge Elementary School)

• NORTH STAR MONTESSORI ACADEMY 

• POWELL TOWNSHIP SCHOOL