department news
09.14.16
Exhibition: Posters of Discontent III
University Gallery September 07-October 12. Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 28, 4:30-6:30pm09.02.16
A Celebration of the Arts: Calendar of events for the year.
https://issuu.com/emucmta/docs/arts_cal_16-17_finalproof-2 This link will take you to our digital calendar.
The School of Art & Design,
The School of Communication, Media & Theatre Arts and
School of Music & Dance are proud to present a year of arts events.
09.02.16
Resonance: Ceramics Alumni exhibit and reception
Friday, September 23, 2016 5:30 - 7:30pm This exhibition features work from over 25 alumni mentored by former EMU Ceramic Professors Susanne Stephenson & John Loree. Join us for an alumni and donor reception with gallery talk by co-curator Steve Glazer (BFA 1976) Ford Gallery
03.09.16
Janet Koplos lecture today
Janet Koplos, co-author of Makers: A History of American Studio Craft, was for 18 years a staff editor at Art in America magazine, remains a contributing editor to the magazine, and also served as guest editor of American Craft magazine before its departure from New York. Among her credits in ceramic criticism are essays for books and catalogs on Toshiko Takaezu, Karen Karnes, Kathy Erteman, Richard De Vore and Tom Turner and Barbara Diduk. She is an author of The Unexpected: Artists Ceramics of the 20th Century (published in Holland) and is completing a book on American functional pottery, research for which was supported with a grant from the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design in North Carolina.
Koplos has also written extensively on other craft mediums as well as on American, Japanese and Dutch contemporary art. She lived in Japan in the '80s and published Contemporary Japanese Sculpture in 1990. She has written about 2,500 articles, reviews and essays in more than two dozen periodicals over the last 30 years, writing on Martin Puryear, Leslie Dill, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Oliver Herring, Rona Pondick, Ursula von Rydingsvard and David Nash, among others. She lectures, critiques and juries frequently, and occasionally teaches and curates. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism and Mass Communication and holds a masters degree in art history from Illinois State University. She was named an Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council in 2010. In 2013 she relocated from New York City to St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2015 she received and Art Writers Grant from the Warhol Foundation and Creative Capital to support research for a book on the New Art Examiner, an alternative art periodical based in Chicago from 1973-2002.
Koplos' lecture will be today from 3:30-4:30PM in Student Center 310B.
02.25.16
Department Head Search Candidate Lecture
The first candidate in the Department Head Search will be giving a public presentation March 1st, 2:00-3:00pm, 401 Sherzer. Faculty and students are encouraged to attend.
02.05.16
Furniture Design Exhibition at the Ann Arbor Art Center
Art Department Professor John DeHoog is co-curating a furniture design exhibition at the Ann Arbor Art Center. The Mid West Furniture Zoku features the work of like-minded artists, designers, and educators working in the context of furniture. The works in the show represent a broad range of techniques, styles, and personal sensibilities, while at the same time demonstrating universal respect for materials, and deep interest in forms and functions. On display are objects that are familiar on one level, yet poke holes in our conventional views of how furniture should look and what role furniture plays in our daily lives. More information available at: http://www.annarborartcenter.org/exhibitions/mid-west-furniture-zoku/
01.23.16
Amy Sacksteder exhibits at Popps Packing in Hamtramck, MI
Art Department Professor Amy Sacksteder is exhibiting recent works on paper alongside the paintings of Wayne State University Professor Adrian Hatfield at Popps Packing in Hamtramck, MI. The exhibition is entitled Chimera.
11.02.15
Event: Pop UP
A Pop Up show is happening this Saturday, November 7th at Breathe Yoga during the Women Wine and Shopping event in Chelsea MI. Bri Wickoff and Donna Prieskorn will have metal work set up from 10am until 2pm.
Chelsea, Michigan November 07-November 07. Opening Reception: 10am-2pm