Shaping Perception: CCS Faculty Exhibition 2025

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 20, 4-7pm

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6 p.m.

Shaping Perception: CCS Faculty Exhibition 2025 highlights the innovative work of the College for Creative Studies faculty, exploring the powerful relationship between form and color. This exhibition challenges how we see the world, offering diverse perspectives through a range of mediums and techniques. Shaping Perception serves as both a reflection of the faculty’s artistic practices and an inspirational catalyst for students, encouraging them to explore new ways of thinking, creating, and perceiving. By examining how these artists push boundaries, viewers are empowered to witness while expanding their own creative processes and approach their work with fresh insight and confidence. Shaping Perception invites you to celebrate the rich history of art, design, and writing at the College for Creative Studies and those who help continue the legacy of higher learning in Detroit. This exhibition was juried by jes allie, an independent Detroit-based curator and arts organizer, and Co-Director of BULK Space.

Participating artists, designers, and writers include:

• Gil Ashby
• Brook Banham*
• Laura Bernstein-Machlay
• Emily Bommarito
• Marc Boulianne
• Doug Cannell
• Vince Carducci
• John Carlson*
• Mary Cindrich*
• Nancy Demerdash
• Molly Diana
• Peter Doroh
• Mariam Ezzat
• Kim Fay
• James Garvey
• Janelle Hall
• Sarah Hartshorn
• Kim Harty
• Matthew Hawtin
• Valerie Jenkins
• Sue LaPorte
• Kira Keck
• Don Kilpatrick
• Michelle Lannoo*
• Ian Matchett
• Morgan Meis
• Shanna Merola
• Mark Moreno*
• Alorē Niemi*
• Jeremy Noonan*
• Scott Northrup*
• Eleanor Oakes
• Isaac Pickell
• Michael Polakowski*
• Tryst Red
• Chad Reichert
• Austin Richey
• Stephen Schock*
• Clinton Snider*
• Claire Thibodeau
• Tonja Torgerson
• William Valicenti
• Corine Vermeulen
• Alan Vidali

Asterisk (*) indicates artist is a CCS alum. Full alumni info is listed on wall labels.