Panel Discussion: Collecting Design

On Saturday, September 20, join leading curators Andrew Satake Blauvelt (Director, Cranbrook Art Museum), Katherine White (Curator of Design, The Henry Ford), and Shelley Selim (Curator of Automotive, Industrial, and Decorative Design, Detroit Institute of Arts) for a lively conversation exploring how different types of institutions—contemporary art museums, history museums, and encyclopedic museums—approach collecting design.

In anticipation of "Eventually Everything Connects: Mid-Century Modern Design in the US," Cranbrook Art Museum expanded its permanent collection with nearly 50 new works of mid-century furniture, lighting, textiles, and product design. These acquisitions focus on designers who have been historically underrepresented in museum collections, including Bill Lam, Evelyn Ackerman, Olga Lee, and Miller Yee Fong.

This is the final public program for the exhibition, which closes Sunday, September 21, 2025. Attending this program is free with museum admission.

You may also like the following events from Cranbrook Art Museum:

• This Thursday, 14th August, 06:30 pm, Poolside Performance: Tales from Thonis-Heraclion in Bloomfield Hills
• Next Friday, 22nd August, 11:30 am, Curator-Led Tour: Eventually Everything Connects in Bloomfield Hills
• Next month, 5th September, 05:00 pm, Curator-Led Tour: Eventually Everything Connects in Bloomfield Hills

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