Art Practice (Fine Arts)

Kevin Beasley, CCS Art Practice alumnus and American artist working in sculpture, performance art, and sound installation, has been nominated for the prestigious Hugo Boss Prize.

The department’s name change reflects an expansive understanding of how today’s artists work and the multiple lenses they use to define artistic practice.

Internationally acclaimed artist Shepard Fairey and his Obey Giant team will begin painting a seventy-four hundred square foot mural entitled “Voting Rights Are Human Rights,” on the north side of the Colby Abbot building in downtown Milwaukee this week and he's hand-selected CCS Assistant Professor and Section Chair of Printmaking, Tyanna Buie, as a collaborating artist.

Brenda Goodman is now experiencing a new level of success. Her career began in the early 1960s in her native Detroit, where she was one of the few women artists in the legendary Cass Corridor movement and a Fine Arts student at the College for Creative Studies.

"The Girl with the D Earring," as CCS Fine Arts alumna Sydney G. James titles the nine-story work finished Monday, is a take on Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s best-known canvas – "Girl with a Pearl Earring," created in 1665.

Galerie Camille is pleased to announce the solo exhibition opening of “Blackbird & Paloma Negra: The Mothers” by Detroit visual artist, educator and CCS alumna, Sabrina Nelson. Sabrina’s latest body of work is inspired by Nina Simone’s song Blackbird and her charge to artists “it is your duty to reflect the times”. This experience opens to the public, by appointment on September 4th and runs through October 3rd.

CCS Alumni, Sabrina Nelson & CCS Art Practice (Fine Art) Faculty, Jetshri Bhadviya were recently featured in Hyperallergic's article Highlighting Detroit's Invisible Artists.

CCS Alumna, Hailey Callahan, was recently featured in "Shoah Ambassadors," a documentary that tells the story of the Holocaust through the personal expressions of two metro Detroit artists.

CCS Art Practice (Fine Arts) alumna Karianne Spens-Hanna says that art has to ability to help heal people, especially those facing mental illness, trauma and addiction.

Fellowship.art has announced its 2020 Cohort, which includes Tyanna Buie, CCS Assistant Professor and Section Head of Printmaking. The Milwaukee-based artist accelerator program will provide selected visual artists
$15,000 and 12 weeks of support.