by Megan Mesack | Mar 17, 2025
Tomashi Jackson combines practices of painting, printmaking, and sculpture with archival research in areas of public infrastructure policy. The work interrogates intersections between formal languages of visual art and political languages driving histories of segregation, voting rights, education, transportation, labor, and housing in the United States. Considering color as both chromatic and social, Jackson’s work embraces compositional abstraction to investigate the interaction of color and its impact on the perceived value of human life in public space.
by Megan Mesack | Mar 7, 2025
Graduates and soon-to-be grads are welcome to come and learn what kind of knowledge, support, and inspiration CCS provides that keeps you connected and moving forward in your career! Join us for networking, lunch, and an engaging keynote speech by 2008 Industrial...
by Megan Mesack | Feb 14, 2025
You are invited to an exclusive symposium with renowned creative professionals as part of the Toyota Lecture on Design Series. The event will include several short lectures and moderated sessions, featuring notable Entertainment Arts designers and Illustration artists from across the country.
by Megan Mesack | Jan 27, 2025
Thomas Murray and Kristal Hale, textile collector and textile conservator respectively, will speak on the history of Sumatran ship cloths.
by Megan Mesack | Oct 4, 2024
Francis Vallejo is an award-winning, Detroit native, American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national publications, art galleries, and museums. Vallejo earned his Bachelor’s degree from Ringling College of Art + Design and his M.A. from Savannah College of Art + Design. He has since created artworks for a host of notable clients and exhibits. Vallejo’s Jazz Day, written by Roxane Orgill and published by Candlewick Press, was the recipient of the Boston Globe Horn Book award for Best Picture Book. His illustrated book, Anansi Boys, written by Neil Gaiman, and published by The Folio Society, has won Spectrum Gold, the D&AD Pencil, and other awards. He recently received a prestigious 2023 Kresge Visual Arts Fellowship. He currently serves as Section Lead & Associate Professor of Illustration at the College for Creative Studies.
by Megan Mesack | Oct 2, 2024
Three CCS alumni from varying design backgrounds will come together for a conversation centering the rise of AI in design industries, and how the use of AI has affected their own practices and sectors. The panel will be moderated by CCS Provost, Tim Flattery (‘87, Transportation Design).
by Megan Mesack | Sep 23, 2024
Join us for an exciting evening with Daniel Casey as he shares his insights and experiences in film. This event will take place on Thu Oct 03 2024 at 7:00 PM on CCS’s Ford Campus in the Walter B. Ford II Building, Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium. Don’t...
by Megan Mesack | Sep 11, 2024
Mai Xiong, a 2007 Alumna of the College for Creative Studies’ Communication Design department and current Michigan State House Representative, will be speaking about key issues impacting American democracy. She will discuss the role of state and federal constitutions...
by Megan Mesack | Aug 7, 2024
LaKela Brown traces the origin of her current work through examination of subjects, materials, and processes, which encompass the foundation of her practice. In her Woodward Lecture, Brown will speak about ethnobotany, adornment, and molding and casting as a form of record keeping.
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