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Twelve Months in Stories: Reviewing 2025
December 1, 2025
Stories help us learn, connect, and us feel like we belong. We hope that the stories we have shared through our collection, the art in our buildings, our exhibitions, and programs continue to spark empathy, curiosity, and understanding throughout GVSU.
Fashion or Flop: The Art of Growing a Beard
November 1, 2025
Ungroomed facial hair was considered taboo until the Victorian beard movement, when people began to grow long, luscious beards and distinctive mustaches.
Untitled (That IS the title.)
October 3, 2025
Why would an artist choose to leave an artwork as �Untitled?� Don�t they want you to know the message they are trying to portray through their art?
Experimenting with an Artificial Intelligence Image Generator
September 1, 2025
We experimented with an artificial intelligence image generator as we prepared for our exhibition on art in the digital sphere.
The Virtual Canvas: Storytelling in the Digital Era
August 1, 2025
Artists have been the illustrators of important social, cultural, and religious narratives. Many join together threads of memory, imagination, myth, reflection, and creative expression that are further nuanced by audio, video, and digital techniques.
Mythic or Mundane: Bathers in Art
July 1, 2025
It remains a bit of a mystery why each generation of artists remains interested in the beauty of a bath session, but artists continue to reinvent the bathing scene in ways that reflect their time, their vision, and their relationship to the body.
Captured in Blue: A Brief History of Cyanotypes
July 1, 2025
Developed during a time when black and white photography was all that existed, cyanotypes� versatility, affordability, and color launched this technique into popularity.
Wings of Wax: The Greek Tragedy of Icarus in Art
June 1, 2025
While a great lesson in morals, the tragic death of Icarus has also been a popular story to portray among artists and authors since classical times- including some artists in the GVSU Art Museum Collection.