Live at Five!

Season Two

Episode 1: Tour of Juhani Pallasmaa’s Arrival Feature

Today's Live at Five tour will feature the Arrival Feature, by Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa. This project, dedicated in 1995, concludes last week's Live at Five tour of the Woodward Avenue Entrance Feature.

Image: Balthazar Korab, photographer. Cranbrook Archives.

 

S02E01: Tour of Juhani Pallasmaa’s Arrival Feature

Episode 2: Learn about the Cranbrook Japanese Garden

Kevin shares the history of the Cranbrook Japanese Garden and its iconic red bridge.

S02E02: Learn about the Cranbrook Japanese Garden and its iconic red bridge

Episode 3: Weaving Demonstration and History of the Cranbrook Loom

Live at Five is all about the history of the Cranbrook Loom and includes a live weaving demonstration. J

Image: A 1936 Cranbrook loom frames "Cranbrook Rug No. 1," Studio Loja Saarinen's first creation. Photo by P.D. Rearick, CAA '10.

S02E03: Weaving Demonstration and History of the Cranbrook Loom

Episode 4: Mark di Suvero’s “For Mother Teresa” Sculpture

Today's Live at Five tour will feature Mark Di Suvero's enormous "For Mother Teresa" sculpture outside Cranbrook Art Museum.

Mark Di Suvero "For Mother Teresa," steel and stainless steel, 1998.

S02E03: Weaving Demonstration and History of the Cranbrook Loom

Episode 5: Zoltan Sepeshy’s Paintings in Cranbrook Art Museum

Live at Five comes to you live from the Cranbrook Art Museum Collections Wing! Curator Kevin Adkisson will be discussing the works of Zoltan Sepeshy, the Hungarian-American painter, educator, and second President of Cranbrook Academy of Art (1946-1966).

S02E05: Tour Zoltan Sepeshy’s Paintings in Cranbrook Art Museum

Episode 6: Ceramic Highlights from the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House Collection

Live at Five features the ceramics of the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House. Highlights include work by Maija Grotell, John Glick, Gertrud and Otto Natlzer, J. T. Abernathy, Russel Wright, and Heath Ceramics.

S02E06: Ceramic Highlights from the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House Collection

Episode 7: Silver and Tableware with the Saarinens

Ready for dinner at home? Our Live at Five tour focuses on the plates, linens, silverware, and serving pieces designed by the Saarinen family for use at Cranbrook.

S02E07: Silver and Tableware with the Saarinens

Episode 8: Tour the Cranbrook Middle School for Boys

Since 1981, the Middle School for Boys has been located at the former Vaughan School (designed by J. Robert F. Swanson in 1930).

Image: Courtesy of Cranbrook Schools.

S02E08: Tour the Cranbrook Middle School for Boys

Episode 9: Cleaning and Caring for our House Museums Part One

Kevin is live from the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House to talk about how we clean the house and its collections inside. We're busy this week preparing Smith House and Saarinen House for tours to resume on Friday, and hope you will enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at how we care for our collection!

S02E09: Cleaning and Caring for our House Museums Part One

Episode 10: Cleaning and Caring for our Historic Houses Part Two

Kevin is live from the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House to talk about how we clean the house and its collections inside. We're busy this week preparing Smith House and Saarinen House for tours to resume on Friday, and hope you will enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at how we care for our collection!

S02E10: Cleaning and Caring for our Historic Houses Part Two

Episode 11: Saarinen House Garden Tour

Kevin Adkisson share a history of the Saarinen House garden.

Image: Overlooking courtyard of Saarinen House by Balthazar Korab, courtesy Cranbrook Archives.

S02E11: Saarinen House Garden Tour

Episode 12: Cranbrook House Gardens History and Tour

Curator Kevin Adkisson shares an historic overview of Cranbrook Gardens.

Enjoy all 40 acres of Cranbrook Gardens - featuring extensive plantings, fountains, statuary, lakes, and streams.

Free Admission / Cranbrook Gardens Hours: May through October | Open daily (including weekends and holidays) 7:00am - 7:00pm

https://housegardens.cranbrook.edu/etiquette

S02E12: Cranbrook House Gardens History and Tour

Episode 13: Morris Mill and the Altar of "Ate One Ment"

Live at Five shares the stories of the "Altar of Atonement" and the Morris Mill, both in the southeast corner of the homestead property.

S02E13: Morris Mill and the Altar of "Ate One Ment"

Episode 14: Jonah and the Whale and Lake Jonah

A walk through of the three Jonah Pools, starting from the Jonah and the Whale Fountain by Carl Milles.

S02E14: Jonah and the Whale and Lake Jonah

Episode 15: Tour of Artist in Residence Iris Eichenberg's Home

Live at Five streams from the Academy Way home of Iris Eichenberg, Head and Artist-and-Residence of the Metalsmithing Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Kevin shares a fascinating look inside Eliel Saarinen's faculty housing, and at Iris' collection of contemporary art and furniture.

Image: Courtesy of The World of Interiors, 2017

S02E15: Tour of Artist in Residence Iris Eichenberg Home

Episode 16: Eero Saarinen Drawings in Cranbrook Archives

This Live at Five virtual tour will focus on Eero Saarinen’s drawings in Cranbrook Archives. Curator Kevin Adkisson will be broadcasting from the Archives Reading Room, sharing the drawings and stories of Eero’s greatest buildings.

S02E16: Eero Saarinen Drawings in Cranbrook Archives

Episode 17: Monreale Fountain at Cranbrook School

Live at Five is coming to you from the Monreale Fountain in the Cranbrook School Quadrangle. Hear the story of the fountain’s long-treasured presence on the Cranbrook campus.

Monreale Fountain in the Cranbrook School Quadrangle, 2019. Photography by Daniel Smith, CAA 2021.

S02E17: Monreale Fountain at Cranbrook School

Episode 18: Tour of Cranbrook House Oak Room Cartouches

This Live at Five comes to you from the Oak Room in Cranbrook House, featuring the stories behind the cartouches that adorn the room, commemorating important events in Cranbrook's history.

S02E18: Tour of Cranbrook House Oak Room Cartouches

Episode 19: Pewabic Pottery at Thornlea House

Live at Five returns to Thornlea House (home of Henry Scripps and Carolyn Farr Booth) to explore the Pewabic tile installations throughout the house.

S02E19: Pewabic Pottery at Thornlea House

Episode 20: Tour of the Trellis Bridge

Trellis Bridge, designed by Dan Hoffman and built by Ted Galante.

S02E20: Tour of the Trellis Bridge

Episode 21: May Morris Bedhanging at Cranbrook Art Museum

Live at Five features an exclusive from the Collections of the Cranbrook Art Museum, the May Morris bed hangings that once graced George Booth's bedroom in Cranbrook House.

George G. Booth's bedroom in 1923, featuring bed hangings by May Morris. Photographer John Wallace Gillies, Courtesy Cranbrook Archives.

 

S02E21: May Morris Bedhanging at Cranbrook Art Museum

Episode 22: Caldwell & Company Lighting at Cranbrook Hous

Live at Five focuses on Edward F. Caldwell & Company at Cranbrook House. Kevin explores the company's work in the house.

Edward F. Caldwell & Company lamp and portfolio cover in Cranbrook House Reception Hall, 2020. Photographer Daniel Smith, CAA '21.

S02E22: Caldwell & Company Lighting at Cranbrook House

Episode 23: Interior Tour of Kingswood School Cranbrook

Get ready, loyal followers! Live at Five gives the long awaited tour of the interior of Kingswood, the work of art that is Kingswood.

S02E23: Interior Tour of Kingswood School Cranbrook

Episode 24: Cranbrook Institute of Science Light Pylon

Join Curator Kevin Adkisson as he shares the story of the Cranbrook Institute of Science’s signature architectural feature, the Light Pylon designed by George Booth and Eliel Saarinen in late 1936.

Image: View of the Cranbrook Institute of Science learning light lab with light pylon in foreground, 2001. Copyright Balthazar Korab/Cranbrook Archives.

S02E24: Cranbrook Institute of Science Light Pylon

Episode 25: Johannes Kirchmayer’s Carved Overmantel at Cranbrook House

What do Albert Kahn, Arthur J. Stone, Frank Koralewsky, Nicola D'Ascenzo, and Johann Kirchmayer all have in common? Find out in this Live at Five with Curator Kevin Adkisson.

Cranbrook House Carved Overmantel, Cranbrook House Library, 2017. Photographer: P.D. Rearick, CAA '10.

S02E25: Johannes Kirchmeyer’s carved Overmantel at Cranbrook House

Episode 26: Cranbrook Academy of Art Architecture Department Studio Tour

This Live at Five tour is a special broadcast from Cranbrook Academy of Art's Architecture Department! Join curator Kevin Adkisson as he tours the studios and workshops used by the Architecture students.

Special thanks to students Daniel Smith and Jing-Ying Su and Architect-in-Residence Gretchen Wilkins for helping host our Live at Five!

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Architecture Department, 2020. Photographer: Daniel Smith, CAA '21.

S02E26: Cranbrook Academy of Art Architecture Department Studio Tour

Episode 27: Melissa Webb’s Installation at the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House

This Live at Five Virtual Tour focuses on a temporary weaving, light, sound, and sculpture installation at the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House, created by Cranbrook Academy of Art Fiber Department student Melissa Webb.

S02E27: Melissa Webb’s Installation at the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House

Episode 28: Tour of Thornlea Studio

Thornlea Studio was designed by Henry Scripps Booth as his architectural studio and currently houses collections from the Cranbrook Archives.

S02E28: Tour of Thornlea Studio

Episode 29: Learn about the Knoll Model 70 or Womb Chair

Kevin Adkisson highlights the Womb Chair, designed by Eero Saarinen in 1948 at family friend Florence Knoll's request for "a chair that was like a basket full of pillows - something she could really curl up in."

Image: Womb Chair in the Saarinen House Master Bedroom, 2017. Photo by Kevin Adkisson.

S02E29: Learn about the Knoll Model 70 or Womb Chair

Episode 30: Brookside Pickle Hut and Log Jam Arch

Visit Brookside School's Pickle Place by Dan Hoffman, 1995-96. Pickle Place (also know as Pickle Hut), an unusual structure on an island in the Rouge River reachable by footbridge, is a special sanctuary to provide a unique place for Brookside students to dream.

S02E30: Brookside Pickle Hut and Log Jam Arch

Episode 31: Plywood Furniture at Cranbrook

Did you know that Cranbrook designers were on the cutting edge of plywood furniture design in the 1930s and 1940s? Kevin Adkisson is going to do a show and tell in Cranbrook Art Museum's vault on just that topic.

Image: FSW (Folding Screen-Wood) by Charles Eames and Ray Kaiser Eames for Herman Miller, Inc., designed in 1946 [CAM 1992.12]. Collection Cranbrook Art Museum, Museum Purchase with funds from the Imerman Acquisition Fund.

 

S02E31: Plywood Furniture at Cranbrook

Episode 32: Gary Griffin Gates at Academy Way

Live at Five features the Academy Way gates. Join Kevin to learn about the history and restoration of the gates at the end of Academy Way by Gary Griffin, Metalsmithing Artist-in-Residence from 1984 to 2006.

The gates, necessitated by the opening of the Woodward Entrance, were design from 1996 and 1998 and installed in 2000. They were restored in 2020 by James Viste, a student Griffin’s and 1997 graduate of the Academy of Art.

S02E32: Gary Griffin Gates at Academy Way

Episode 33: Tour Studio Loja Saarinen

This Live at Five will be an exciting adventure. Kevin Adkisson will be broadcasting from the historic home of Studio Loja Saarinen. Join Kevin for this rare look at the space that is today the Studio of Head of the 2D Design Department, Artist-in-Residence Elliott Earls.

What a looming presence! These eight allegories of weaving were painted on the ceiling in the Weaving Room of Studio Loja Saarinen around 1928 by Katherine McEwen, noted Detroit painter and member of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts (she also painted the frescos at @christchurchcranbrook).

S02E33: Tour of Studio Loja Saarinen

Episode 34: Speculative Histories Student Show at the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House

Live at Five is a sneak peak of the exhibition Speculative Histories: New Work from Cranbrook Academy of Art Students and Artists-in-Residence

S02E34: Speculative Histories Student Show at the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House

Episode 35: Tour Edison House, Cranbrook’s “New Idea Home”

Have you ever wondered what that low-set modern structure built into the eastern hillside by the Cranbrook Institute of Science was? Well, wonder no more. Curator Kevin Adkisson takes you inside Edison House, "Cranbrook’s New Idea Home" of the 1960s.

Image: When the Thomas Alva Edison House was first built in 1966, Cranbrook photographer Harvey Croze snapped a shot of the kitchen desk in use. Kevin and our photographer Daniel Smith (CAA 2021) could not resist recreating the photo in 2021, complete with PPE and an iPhone.

S02E34: Speculative Histories Student Show at the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House

Episode 36: Highlights from Speculative Histories Exhibition in Saarinen House

Kevin Adkisson showcases the works installed in Saarinen House that were a part of Speculative Histories: New Work from Cranbrook Academy of Art Students and Artists-In-Residence, the fourth intervention of new, site-specific work by Cranbrook Academy of Art students, alumni, and Artists-in-Residence staged within the historic homes of Cranbrook.

S02E36: Highlights from Speculative Histories Exhibition in Saarinen House

Episode 37: Carl Milles’ Sculptures along Academy Way

A tour of Carl Milles' sculptures along Academy Way, recently uncovered from their winter shroud.

S02E36: Highlights from Speculative Histories Exhibition in Saarinen House

Episode 38: Carl Milles’ Courtyard and Fountains

Live at Five returns with a tour of the Milles' garden (not to be confused with Millesgården Museum) and the fountains by Carl Milles on the Cranbrook campus.

S02E38: Carl Milles’ Courtyard and Fountains

Episode 39: On the set of the Center’s new film Carl Milles: Beauty in Bronze

Live at Five is coming to you from a film set. Curator/producer/writer/star Kevin Adkisson shows you behind-the-scenes as ELKHORN ENTERTAINMENT assists the Center and Millesgården in creating a brand new film that provides a special insider’s look into the life and work of Carl Milles.

S02E39: On the set of the Center’s new film Carl Milles Beauty in Bronze

Episode 40: Carl Milles in the Cranbrook Art Museum Vault

At the Center, we have Carl Milles on the brain. May 22, 2021, we premiered our new film Carl Milles: Beauty in Bronze at our Global House Party. In honor of CM, Kevin shows us rarely seen Carl Milles sculptures stored in the Plaza Vault at the Cranbrook Art Museum, including "Orpheus" (pictured) and why he is not installed in the "Orpheus Fountain".

S02E40: Carl Milles in the Cranbrook Art Museum Vault

Episode 41: The Sculptures of Mario Korbel at Cranbrook House & Gardens

Can anyone tell us where this sculpture hides in Cranbrook Gardens? Kevin Adkisson will introduce us to sculptor Mario Joseph Korbel (1882-1954) and his work in and around Cranbrook House. This sculpture, "Diana" created in 1924 by Korbel, is waiting for you to discover.

S02E40: Carl Milles in the Cranbrook Art Museum Vault

Episode 42: Greek Myths and Cranbrook Art

Greek Day extended! Fresh off his popular tour with the Middle School for Girls, Kevin Live at Five viewers to his Greek Day tour of Campus.

S02E41: The sculptures of Mario Korbel at Cranbrook House & Gardens

Episode 43: Julius Schmidt and the Cranbrook Cannon

As the CAM Registrar Corey Gross so eloquently put it, "Just another day of installing a cannon on the grounds of a school." The Center and the Art Museum joined forces to reinstall the Cannon sculpture in front of the dorms at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Kevin will share the story of how this unique work was created and used at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

S02E43: Julius Schmidt and the Cranbrook Cannon

Episode 44: Cranbrook’s Custom Street Lights

Live at Five will explore Cranbrook campus lighting, specifically created for Cranbrook.

S02E44: Cranbrook’s Custom Street Lights

Season Three

Image: Christ Church Cranbrook, Baptistry Ceiling. P.D. Rearick, CAA '10, photographer.

 

The Kentish Special

A Virtual Tour of Cranbrook, Kent

Image: St. Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook, Kent, England. Kevin D. Adkisson, photographer.

 

Season One

Image: Cranbrook Kingswood Lower School Brookside's Lone Pine Road Elevation. Daniel Smith, CAA '21, photographer