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Blue Water believes that, even in a sea of digital media, relationships still matter, which is why we work hard to stay in touch with editors, writers and reporters. As a result, our clients are regularly featured in major media outlets, along with those that reach a highly targeted audience unique to their work.

Healthcare Design: DesignGroup transforms Norton Children’s Hospital
DesignGroup led the renovation of the fourth floor of Norton Children’s Hospital into the Jennifer Lawrence Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU), a specialized unit for pediatric heart patients requiring intensive care.

Newly conserved Soviet-era painting illuminates diplomatic history
In 2018, the Chazen added a new work, Reconnaissance Attack by Latvian artist Arkadaii Soloviev, to the Davies Collection. The first addition to the Davies Collection since the collection’s establishment, the painting depicts Soviet troops with guns drawn moving through a snow-covered landscape. Reconnaissance Attack was given to Davies by Joseph Stalin’s Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, in 1943.

The Wall Street Journal: Midnight in Paris at the Dalí Museum
Lance Eslund reviews Midnight in Paris: Surrealism at the Crossroads: 1929, which opened at The Dalí Museum in February 2020. An exhibition that is “More than melting watches,” Midnight in Paris “reveals the breadth of the movement before it exploded onto the global scene.”

The Chazen Museum of Art’s director blogs for AAM
A few years into her tenure as director of the Chazen Museum of Art, Dr. Amy Gilman has witnessed the power of listening, research and experimentation, and partnerships. She shares her thoughts in this post: “What it means to be a university museum in the 21st century.”

President Lynnette Werning receives strategic planning certification
Our founder and president Lynnette Werning recently completed an 18-month Strategic Planning Professional certification.

American Fine Art Magazine: Midnight in Paris at The Dalí Museum
The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, examines the surrealist movement and its protagonists in the exhibition Midnight in Paris: Surrealism at the Crossroads, 1929, through April 9.

‘The Inside World: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Memorial Poles’ opens Jan. 24
The Fralin Museum of Art and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection are partnering to present 112 memorial poles by 55 artists from remote Aboriginal communities in the tropical northern region of Australia known as Arnhem Land.

Midnight in Paris opens Nov. 23 at The Dalí Museum
Through a host of 20th-century works from the renowned Centre Pompidou in Paris, Midnight in Paris brings to life the personal relationships and the intellectual passions that threatened to tear apart the newly formed artistic movement called Surrealism.

Dramatic Photos Make U.S. Debut at the Chazen
Belgian-Beninese photographer Fabrice Monteiro’s The Prophecy is a multiyear project created to raise awareness about the environment and consequences of mass consumption. The series of 13 large-scale photographs, set mostly in Africa, will be on view at the Chazen Museum of Art from Oct. 5, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020.

Scuttlebutt: Amber’s at AMM!
Our own Amber Hendrickson has been in Grand Rapids the last few days at the Association of Midwest Museums conference. She teamed up with our friends at Grand Rapids Art Museum for a poster presentation and enjoyed the networking and learning opportunities.

The Wall Street Journal: Alice Schille at CMA
Kyle MacMillan reviews Columbus Museum of Art’s In a New Light, an exhibition that “revives the reputation of [American watercolorist] Alice Schille.”

Civil & Structural Engineer: DesignGroup’s Mitchell Hall comes to life
A new state-of-the-art facility named for Columbus native and noted restaurant developer Cameron Mitchell opened August 12. The building is expected to double the Columbus State Community College’s Hospitality and Culinary Arts enrollment capacity.