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Biennial Faculty Exhibition

Biennial Faculty Exhibition

The CCS Speakers & Exhibitions Program is pleased to present the Biennial Faculty Exhibition, to take place at the Valade Family Gallery, March 21 through April 25, 2025.

Fiber Flux: Gallery Talk

Fiber Flux: Gallery Talk

Join us on Friday, December 13, 5:30pm – 6:30pm, for an engaging gallery talk featuring the curators and artists behind Fiber Flux: Midwest Educators in Textiles, Fiber Art, and Material Studies. Discover the stories, processes, and inspirations that shaped the...
Seasons of Kinship: Cyrah Dardas & Mother Cyborg

Seasons of Kinship: Cyrah Dardas & Mother Cyborg

Seasons of Kinship, a dual show by Cyrah Dardas and Mother Cyborg (2019 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow), explores the power, temporality, and ebb and flow of relations within our ecosystem. Using natural materials grown by each artist, this exhibition is a testament to the intertwining and understanding between humans, land, and the ecosystem. A dinner table, a symbol of reverence, honors the lost knowledge and hidden stories in plant life. The use of natural dyes and paints in the tapestries and paintings reflects the reciprocity and symbiotic practices our human and non-human kin can create in relation. The artists’ work is a radical yet inspiring way of imagining a generative and knowledge-sharing way of being in a relationship with each other and the environment.

Woodward Lecture: Cyrah Dardas and Mother Cyborg

Woodward Lecture: Cyrah Dardas and Mother Cyborg

College for Creative Studies’ Woodward Lecture Series proudly presents a gallery tour and talk by Detroit artists Cyrah Dardas and Mother Cyborg. Seasons of Kinship, a new exhibition by Cyrah Dardas and Mother Cyborg, explores the temporality and flow of relations within our environment. While using natural materials grown by each artist, this exhibition explores the intertwining and understanding between humans and land. A dinner table honors the lost knowledge and hidden stories in plant life. Natural dyes and paints color tapestries and paintings that reflect the reciprocity and symbiotic practices our human and non-human kin can create in relation.  As ecofeminists, the artists’ work shares radical ways of imagining a generative and loving way of being in a relationship with land.

Fiber Flux: Gallery Talk

Fiber Flux: Midwest Educators in Textiles, Fiber Art, and Material Studies

This inspiring exhibition pays homage to the innovative spirit and boundless creativity of educators across the Midwest. Hosted in conjunction with the 14th annual Midwest Fiber Art Educators Network Conference, this exhibition features artwork that offers a compelling glimpse into the innovative spirit of Fiber Art and Textile Design.

Mark Addison Smith Exhibition: You Look Like the Right Type: 15 Years

Mark Addison Smith Exhibition: You Look Like the Right Type: 15 Years

Mark Addison Smith is a queer artist whose design specialization is typographic storytelling: allowing illustrative text to convey a visual narrative through printed matter, artist’s books, and site installations. With his on-going, text-based archive, You Look Like The Right Type: 15 Years, he has been illustrating snippets of overheard conversations every single day since 2008 and exhibiting the works as larger-scale conversations between strangers exchanging words on topics never spoken.

Re/View: A CCS Alumni Exhibition

Re/View: A CCS Alumni Exhibition

Re/View is a juried exhibition of work by CCS Alumni from across the country. The exhibition includes works in all media installed in the beautiful Valade Family Gallery. Re/View: A CCS Alumni Exhibition is a part of the CCS Student Exhibition. Re/View is on view from...
Re/View: Opening Reception

Re/View: Opening Reception

Re/View is a juried exhibition of work by CCS Alumni from across the country. The exhibition includes works in all media installed in the beautiful Valade Family Gallery. Re/View: A CCS Alumni Exhibition is a part of the CCS Student Exhibition. Please join us in...