Watercolor Wisconsin was started in 1966 to honor the depth and breadth of watercolor in the state. The 2024 exhibition—the 58th edition of the long-running show—features 80 works by 69 artists from across Wisconsin.

To add glow and glimmer to Main Street, RAM presents the annual crowd-pleasing RAM Holiday Tree.

Comprised entirely of works from RAM’s collection, this exhibition highlights art jewelry made from repurposed materials originally intended for a use other than adornment.

With over 35 pieces included, the exhibition highlights Polish fiber art in both a microscopic and macroscopic way—highlighting the efforts of artists from a certain area of the world who, in turn, also reflect global interests.

Spotlight on Sculpture: Dorothy Dehner and Margaret Ponce Israel focuses on one of RAM's strengths—women artists—by featuring steel and bronze sculpture created by two important New York-based figures who are being rediscovered today.

Milwaukee artist Nicole Acosta uses photography to tell stories of people of the global majority and gender-expansive folks who value hoop earrings, touching on themes of reclamation, power, belonging, and place.

Established in the 1970s and hosted biennially, Wisconsin Photography underscores RAM’s commitment to looking at contemporary art in a variety of forms. Celebrating the rich community of photographers and video artists living and working in Wisconsin, this juried exhibition features 96 diverse works by 35 artists.

The annual Racine Unified Student Art Exhibition at RAM’s Wustum Museum features artwork created by area school children from grades K–12. Curated by the Unified School’s art faculty, the exhibition demonstrates the excellence achieved by students and their teachers.

The largest exhibition to date dedicated to artists of color in RAM's collection, featuring works in clay, glass, and metal. The range of implicit and explicit biases experienced by the artists and the (un)conscious influence of their heritage add a unique layer of context to the included work.

In Between showcases artists via multiple works made of different materials and/or pieces that reflect a fluency between two and three dimensions, including wearables.

Drawn entirely from RAM’s collection, this exhibition—and the one that replaces it in the fall—highlights artists that repurpose materials originally intended for a use other than art.

In the late 1940s, contemporary glass production was given new energy as Frances and Michael Higgins reinvigorated the ancient practice of glass fusing. Racine Art Museum recently established an archive collection of 75 works created collaboratively and individually by the Higginses.

This juried exhibition at RAM's Wustum Museum showcases 107 works from 89 artists primarily residing throughout Racine, Kenosha, and Walworth counties.

This Windows on Fifth exhibition is a visual summary of the art and architecture that helped shape the early chapters of Racine Art Museum, blending objects from RAM's holdings with photographs of both the building designed by Brininstool + Lynch and the galleries filled with art.

Now in its 57th year, the exhibition was started in 1966 to honor the depth and breadth of watercolor in the State of Wisconsin.

On the surface, Gathering Voices is a cursory, media-specific look at 20 years of building RAM’s collection. Yet, with an emphasis on works acquired in the last five to seven years, it also highlights critical and more expansive directions to be taken.

This exhibition surveys art in Wisconsin from 1960 to 1990. Not only was this an exceptionally fertile time in the history of a state with a (surprising to some) rich and layered history of creative production, it is the period Don Reitz—an artist with a concurrent exhibition at RAM—taught in the ceramics department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.