Calendar of Programs & Events

The museum will close for the holidays on December 22nd and reopen on January 5th. We hope to see you in the new year!

Upcoming Exhibitions 2026

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January

January 31st through June 27th, 2026
Sketches to Sculptures, Rendered Reality: Sixty Years with Marshall M. Fredericks
Location: Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum

Sketches to Sculptures: Rendered Reality, Sixty Years with Marshall M. Fredericks is an exhibition of 31 small sculptures and 36 related drawings and sketches that showcases the creative process of Fredericks both as designer and sculptor. From simple pencil sketches to presentation drawings, the creative mind of Fredericks is on display as he transforms two-dimensional ideas on paper into three-dimensional sculptures. While many of the drawings in this exhibition resemble the final sculpture they would become, others only hint at elements of their outcome or point to a different outcome entirely. This exhibition is comprised of four genres that represent most of Fredericks’ work: architectural, commemorative, spiritual and whimsical. The exhibition was organized from the collections of the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at Saginaw Valley State University.

This unique exhibition represents a 60-year body of work by Marshall M. Fredericks (1908-1998), a 20^th century traditional figurative sculptor whose sculptures are located in California, Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, DC, Wisconsin, Denmark, England, Freeport Grand Bahama Island, Japan, Norway and Sweden.  The exhibition features 30 bronze sculptures; 2 bronze reliefs; an anodized aluminum relief; archival reproductions of 35 drawings and sketches by Marshall Fredericks; a photograph and a letter; and black and white photographs in situ of seven of Fredericks’s sculptures.

Sketches to Sculpture, Rendered Reality: Sixty Years with Marshall M. Fredericks offers a unique opportunity to look at the creative process of a traditional figurative sculptor from the early informal sketches, to presentation drawings, to small bronze sculptures.