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Museum holds a treasure trove of art
Everyone, from volunteers to fullbring out the artwork we house and
time staff, leaves a mark whether it is
share it with everyone in Northeast
small and barely visible to visitors or in- Michigan.
delible and permanent like our Avenue
While learning some institutional hisof Shops exhibit. The marks made by
tory about the Besser Museum, I found
people over time
out that in the 1970s
add up to the sum
to the mid-1980s, the
of what the Besser
museum brought the
Museum is today
newest and occasionand what it will beally challenging art excome tomorrow.
hibits to Northeast
When I started
Michigan. In addition,
working at the muelective purchasing of
seum, I had just
artwork was made on
moved back to the
occasion from those
area after getting
exhibitions.
my Bachelor’s DeThe cool part is we
gree in Art History
are now regularly
from Kendall Colshowing more of the
lege of Art and Dework that has been
sign in Grand
hidden in storage since
Rapids. I will admit
the work first arrived
to being ignorant of
at the museum.
what art was held
With the success of
By Danyeal Dorr
in the collections at
our first Adopt-an-ArtBesser Museum Curator
the Besser Muwork fundraiser, we
of Collections & Exhibits
seum.
are able to share our
When I found
Salvador Dali illustraone room containtions of Dante’s “Diing a Rivera, Lichtenstein, Dali, Renoir, vine Comedy” this year. It is the first
Cezanne, Warhol, Chihuly and much
time the museum has exhibited all of the
more, I will admit to being stupefied.
Dali works that we have.
Since discovering this treasure trove of
We will also announce our next
artwork, it has become a personal misAdopt-an-Artist candidate, so if you
sion of mine to promote it whenever
want us to get more great art out of storpossible.
age, you can still help.
Upon becoming the collections and
I’m also excited to mention that we
exhibits curator here at the Besser Muare working to make some of our exhiseum, I have taken every chance to
bition space more functional and accom-
Happy 50th Anniversary!
modating for the
artwork we aspire
to present. In the
interim, like anyone
on a budget, we are
making good use of
what we already
have access to.
So stop in to
check out the amazing work by Salvador Dali, and
work by several
local artists such as
Bruno Hirzel. It is
going to be an exciting time for the
arts at the Besser
Museum this year
and in the near future.
Besser Museum’s annual Juried Art Show, shown hanging
in Wilson Gallery, hosted over 90 artist entries in 2015.
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