After Exiting the history gallery at Ella Sharp Art and History Museum of Jackson, sophmore Alexia Tanner glances around at the other exhibits in the building. “I found the wedding dress extremely interesting,” Tanner said about a piece in the history exhibit. “It was not what you expect a wedding dress to look like because we typically we assume a white dress and huge, but this one was extremely small and was bright colored. It was really decorative and very interesting.” Emma Lockhart
Ella Sharp Art and History Museum of Jackson
Free Admission
All around Michigan, art museums are dotted about, filled with different exhibits, collections and galleries that satisfy any viewer’s taste, from Renaissance to modern art to videos. The brush strokes, structure and creative ideas put into these art pieces are anywhere from centuries old to a matter of years.
Instead of staying inside on the weekend and binging on Netflix, take the short trip into Jackson, Ann Arbor or Lansing to go to an art museum. Many boast free admission and stay open based on donations, featuring both local and global pieces. Some exhibits revolve around month to month national awareness holidays, like Black History Month. Other pieces featured on the white walls of the museums are college student art pieces. No matter which way you go, there is some art to fulfill a viewer’s interests in the tri-city area of Michigan.
Ella Sharp Art and History Museum of Jackson – Free Admission
The Ella Sharp Museum in Ella Sharp Park is a great example of current and modern art examples and exhibits. The museum currently holds modern art pieces like Sons: Seeing the Modern African American Male. The Sons exhibit by Jerry Taliaferro highlights the perceptions and realities of black men in the modern age. The perceptions and realities are separated into two different exhibits, almost linked together but separated by stairs.
In a room that stands in direct conflict to its title, “Never enough time,” consists of a collection of clocks that tick and echo simultaneously while portraying a clock repair shop.
