Crafts News
Herb Babcock, professor, met with Mark Wollenweber, city manager of Grosse Pointe Woods, regarding a possible community service project that involves a glass class creating a public art project for a city municipal building. Susan Aaron-Taylor, professor, has several mixed media sculptures on display in a group exhibition at the River Gallery Fine Arts in Chelsea. Alumna Megan Harris ‘07 is now the community puppets manager at the Matrix Theatre Company in Detroit.
CCS alumni from all disciplines are involved in notable projects around the globe.
The winners of the 20th Hagopian Rug Design Competition were recognized during an award ceremony at the 2009 CCS Student Exhibition.
The Alumni Scholarship Fund was established in 1983 with a gift from married alumni who met while taking the same class at CCS. Throughout the years the fund has been maintained by gifts from many CCS alumni. CCS freshman, sophomore and junior students enrolled full-time are annually invited to enter the competition, which asks for 3 images of recent work and a statement of intent. This year the competition received 50 entries.
The winners of the first David Robert and Sylvia Jean Nelson Foundation for Arts and Letters Scholarship at CCS were recently announced. The scholarship was open to students in good academic standing in the Fine Arts, Crafts, Illustration or Photography departments.
CCS students and faculty members are participating in the 28th annual Michigan Glass Month. The annual April event, serves to educate and promote public awareness for the varied glass arts and their uses in industry, in the home and in Art. The event focuses on the Michigan artists who use glass as their means of artistic expression.
CCS Crafts alumnus Albert Young, ’82, was included in a recent article in Time Magazine reporting on the people involved in the revitalization of Detroit. <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1887864,00.html?xid=rss-topstories-cnnpartner" target="_news">Click here to read the article</a>.
CCS’s Crafts department will host Japanese glass artist Hiroshi Yamano on Thursday, April 2 and Friday, April 3 for a free public lecture and demonstration.
This survey exhibition recognizes the artistic achievements of two extraordinary Michigan artists who have dedicated their lives to the advancement of ceramic art.
CCS crafts alumna Annica Cuppetelli, ’05, is one of 13 artists to be selected for the Searchlight Artist Program at the 33rd annual American Craft Council Show February 27- March 1 at the Baltimore Convention Center. The American Craft Council show is the largest indoor, juried craft show in the nation and as such, only those artists considered to be the best-of-the-best are invited to participate following a rigorous jury process.
