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For more information, contact Gallery Director Michelle Perron — (3130 664.7800.

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Tues-Sat, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

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Center Galleries, with nearly 6,000 square feet of exhibition space, presents contemporary visual, literary, and performance art and design by national, local, and international artists. CCS faculty, alumni and students regularly show work.

Center Galleries includes U245, the student-run gallery, Alumni & Faculty Hall, a space designated for regularly scheduled exhibitions of work by alumni and faculty, and the College's Permanent Collection Gallery.

Founded in 1980, Center Galleries is dedicated to exploring the relationship between culture and artistic practice, fostering intellectual inquiry, and creating multidisciplinary exhibitions and educational programming that enable diverse audiences to connect art experiences to everyday life.

Gallery News

06 Dec 2011 Video art provocateur and art world sensation Ryan Trecartin is coming to CCS

Video art provocateur and art world sensation Ryan Trecartin comes to CCS as Center Galleries presents the exclusive Detroit premiere of the LA-based artist's head-spinning, lavishly colored video series "Trill-ogy COMP," direct from his MoMA-PS1 exhibition "Any Ever."

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08 Sep 2011 Friday, September 9 is the opening of "Scenes from Something Overlooked," an art show featuring the work of Andrew Krieger, Michael McGillis and Clinton Snider

Friday, September 9 is the opening of "Scenes from Something Overlooked," an art show featuring the work of Andrew Krieger, Michael McGillis and Clinton Snider.

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12 Mar 2010 CCS' Center Galleries presents an exhibition of work by alumnus Charles McGee - "Energy: Charles McGee at Eight-Five"

McGee to give public lecture at CCS on Wednesday, March 31 at 7 p.m.

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01 Feb 2010 Exhibition of work by senior CCS Photography students

Senior CCS Photography students will have their work displayed in an exhibition in CCS’s newest gallery in the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education through Saturday, February 13th.

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15 Jan 2010 CCS' Center Galleries hosts reVIEW: Alumni Selections by Syd Mead

CCS’ Center Galleries hosts reVIEW: Alumni Selections by Syd Mead January 23 – February 20, 2010 Opening reception: Friday, January 22, 6 – 8 p.m.

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04 May 2009 CCS’s Woodward Lecture Series 10th Anniversary Season concludes on Thursday, May 7 with legendary artist Ed Ruscha

The CCS’s Woodward Lecture Series concludes its 10th Anniversary Season with one of the most consistently inventive artists of the contemporary period Ed Ruscha on Thursday, May 7 at 7:30 p.m.

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17 Mar 2009 CCS’s Woodward Lecture Series welcomes poet Anne Waldman on Thursday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m.

CCS’s Woodward Lecture Series is continuing its 10th Anniversary Season with a lecture by internationally known poet, performer, and professor Anne Waldman on Thursday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m.

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27 Jan 2009 Two of CCS Center Galleries’ exhibitions selected as 2008 standouts

In a recent article on www.thedetroiter.com arts writer Vince Carducci recapped the standout art exhibitions from the Detroit art-scene in 2008.

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15 Dec 2008 College for Creative Studies' Center Galleries presents: "Director's Choice: Obsession" Opening Friday, January 16, 6 – 8 p.m.

“Director’s Choice: Obsession” features work by six artists chosen by Center Galleries director Michelle Perron, including Detroiters Robert Bielat and Sally Schluter Tardella, New Yorkers James O. Clark and Michelle Hinebrook, from Ann Arbor Larry Cressman, and from St. Louis, MO, Martin Brief.

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09 Dec 2008 CCS Woodward Lecture Series welcomes American sculptor John Chamberlain on Wednesday, December 10

The CCS Woodward Lecture Series is pleased to present John Chamberlain for a free lecture on Wednesday, December 10 at 7:00 p.m. in the Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium in the Walter B. Ford II Building on the College for Creative Studies campus.

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05 Nov 2008 CCS’s Center Galleries opens For Better or For Worse on Friday, November 7

As part of its 20th anniversary season, CCS’s Center Galleries, a dynamic forum for contemporary visual, literary and performance art and design, presents For Better or For Worse by Kathryn Brackett Luchs and Michael Luchs, with an opening reception on Friday, November 7, from 6 - 8 p.m.

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20 Oct 2008 Renowned photographer Andres Serrano visits CCS for lecture and reception

CCS’s Woodward Lecture Series welcomes internationally renowned photographer Andres Serrano on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The lecture will be held in the Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium in the Walter B. Ford II Building on the College for Creative Studies campus.

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30 Sep 2008 CCS Woodward Lecture Series Welcomes Painter Eric Fischl on Thursday, October 2

The CCS Woodward Lecture Series is pleased to present Erick Fischl for a free lecture on Thursday, October 2 at 7:30 p.m. -in the Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium in the Walter B. Ford II Building on the College for Creative Studies campus.

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23 Sep 2008 CCS’s Center Galleries Presents Andes Serrano Picks Detroit

The College for Creative Studies’ Center Galleries, a dynamic forum for contemporary visual, literary and performance art and design, is celebrate its 20th anniversary with special events and activities during this the 2008 – 2009 season.

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05 Sep 2008 CCS’s Center Galleries kicks off anniversary season with a unique fundraising event on Friday, September 12

CCS’s Center Galleries, a dynamic forum for contemporary visual, literary and performance art and design, will celebrate its 20th anniversary with special events and activities during the upcoming 2008 – 2009 season.

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