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.}

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.}

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).

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.

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!

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.}

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.

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}

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.}

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.

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.}

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.

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.}

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.

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.}

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.}

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).

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.}

Episode 37: Carl Milles’ Sculptures along Academy Way

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

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.

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.

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.