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Bringing the World to Hope: Ten Years of the Kruizenga Art Museum

August 29–December 13, 2025

The Kruizenga Art Museum (KAM) first opened its doors on September 8th, 2015 with a mission to educate, engage, and inspire the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of Hope College by exhibiting art from a wide variety of world cultures and historical periods. This exhibition is a retrospective, featuring highlights from 19 exhibitions that were shown at the KAM during the fall and spring academic semesters from 2015 to the present. The exhibitions are arranged chronologically and include brief descriptions of each show’s contents.The KAM is immensely grateful to all the donors whose gifts of artworks and funds have supported the museum’s first ten years of exhibitions. The museum also thanks all the students who participated in the exhibitions as interns and guest curators, and the faculty members who mentored them.

A white plate with a blue mountainscape

Telling Their Stories: Student-curated Focus Exhibitions

August 29–December 13, 2025

In Spring 2023, the KAM launched a new series of small focus exhibitions in which students from Hope College’s various multicultural student organizations (MSOs) were invited to select artworks from the museum’s collection and to write labels explaining why they chose the artworks and what the artworks mean to them. The first student group to participate in the new exhibition series was Women of Color United (WOCU). Other student groups that have participated in the series since Spring 2023 include the Black Student Union (BSU), the Asian Student Union (ASU), the Latino Student Organization (LSO), and Prism (Hope’s LGBTQ+ student group). Telling Their Stories and other KAM focus exhibitions are supported by the David and Jane Armstrong Focus Exhibition Endowment.

Mithila stlye dot painting of a mother and daughter walker walking in the rain

ABOUT OUR EXHIBITIONS

The Kruizenga Art Museum galleries are typically installed with a mix of temporary exhibitions and permanent collection displays. These exhibitions and displays are planned to complement course offerings in the college’s academic curriculum and usually change, partially or completely, at the beginning of each semester.

The museum’s exhibitions are further augmented by lectures, artist demonstrations, film series, musical concerts, dance and theater performances and other relevant educational programs. An endowment gift from Holland residents Dave and Jane Armstrong provides funding for at least one exhibition-related lecture every year, while other programs are made possible through annual gifts and campus partnerships.