Join CCS for the Woodward Lecture Series on October 28, featuring Dr. Kellie Jones in conversation with Zoë Hopkins. The discussion centers on October Files: David Hammons (2025), a landmark anthology on the acclaimed contemporary artist.
Join CCS for the Woodward Lecture Series: Carlos Diaz on October 11. In When the Land Speaks, Diaz explores landscape photography as a lens for history, culture, and memory, followed by his solo exhibition opening at Center Galleries.
Join CCS for the Toyota Lecture Series: Michael Ford on September 27. Known as The Hip Hop Architect, Ford shares over two decades of work at the intersection of hip hop culture and design during Detroit Month of Design.
Join CCS for Design by Desire: Design Visions Forecast & Exhibition Discussion on September 17. Artist Cristin Richard shares insights on design trends, technology, and creative practice during Detroit Month of Design.
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.
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.
Thomas Murray and Kristal Hale, textile collector and textile conservator respectively, will speak on the history of Sumatran ship cloths.
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.
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).
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