Craft & Material Studies

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.

Molly Gillies, CCS Craft & Material Studies alumna and clay modeler at Ford, was recently featured by Business Insider as one of the women who helped design the new Ford Bronco and why she considers the legendary SUV a multigenerational passion.

Jeremy Noon, Associate Professor and Head of Fiber and Textiles at CCS is the curator for "Uncommon Threads" at the Scarab Club, which runs through August 29.

CCS alumni Laurie Eisenhardt and Marcia Hovland, both of Royal Oak, Mich., have teamed up to create an interactive public art project sponsored by the Royal Oak Commission for the Arts’ inaugural artist laureate program.

New minor marries digital technologies and traditional materials.

A team of CCS students took the grand prize at this year’s Biodesign Challenge, an international education program and competition that partners students with biologists, artists, and designers to envision, create, and critique emerging biotechnology.

CCS Glass student Simon Waranch recently shared footage of his elderly grandmother reacting to his art displayed at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts in Texas and her reaction has gone viral.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges, and these are a few of the ways CCS alumni are spreading goodwill by helping those on the frontlines.

Assistant Professor of Crafts and Section Head of Ceramics, Baralaye has been making art since he was a child. Early on, he loved to draw and devoured books his father bought him in order to copy the work of famous artists. Later, he was fascinated by how to create art that could engage with space the way people do, so he studied sculpting in his high school AP art class.

Crafts, Interior Design and Illustration students step up to the real-world challenges of creating — and selling — wallpaper designs with Fathead brand Guild & Grace.