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Bringing the World to Hope

Ten years of the kruizenga art Museum

August 29鈥揇ecember 13, 2025

The Kruizenga Art Museum (KAM) first opened its doors on September 8^th, 2015 with a mission to educate, engage, and inspire the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of Hope College鈥攁s well as the larger communities of Holland and West Michigan鈥攂y exhibiting art from a wide variety of world cultures and historical periods. The motivation for this ambitious mission came directly from the museum鈥檚 namesake donors, Richard and Margaret Kruizenga, both of whom graduated from Hope in 1952. At their first meeting in 2013, KAM Director Charles Mason asked Dick Kruizenga why he and Margaret wanted to help build an art museum at Hope College. Kruizenga explained that the broad-ranging liberal arts education they received at Hope had prepared them well to work, live, and travel all over the world, and they felt that establishing an art museum would enrich the campus and foster an even greater understanding of global cultures among future generations of Hope students.

Over the past ten years, the KAM has lived into its mission of bringing the world to Hope by organizing more than 50 exhibitions of artworks reflecting a diverse range of countries and cultures. Most of the exhibitions have been built around artworks belonging to the museum鈥檚 permanent collection, which has grown from around 1,000 objects in 2015 to nearly 10,000 objects today. The exhibitions have ranged in size from less than a dozen artworks to more than 100. Some exhibitions have been narrowly focused on individual artists or genres of art. Others have been broad surveys of art representing particular places, periods, or themes. The museum always tries to balance its exhibition schedule so that students will be exposed to a variety of artworks and ideas at the KAM over the course of their four years at Hope.

This exhibition features selected 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鈥檚 contents. Additional information about the KAM鈥檚 past exhibitions and their contents can be found on the museum鈥檚 website.

The KAM is immensely grateful to all the donors whose gifts of artworks and funds have supported the museum鈥檚 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. Student participation in the exhibitions is made possible by the John H. Dryfhout 鈥�64 Internship Endowment and the David and Jane Armstrong Focus Exhibition Endowment.