Craft & Material Studies

The Pontiac Art Center, currently exhibiting "Kaleidoscope of Expression," chose CCS Crafts alumna Cai Steen's necklace "Glenway Drive" as best in show.

Inspired, which features the work of CCS Ceramics section head Ebintenyefa Baralaye, is an exhibition at Pewabic Pottery paying homage to co-founder Mary Chase Perry Stratton who played a significant role in the development of the ceramics programs at what is now the College of Creative Studies.

Art Furniture senior Alanis McNeir’s “Maturation Coffee Table” was one of only 14 new works chosen for the highly selective annual exhibition in New York City.

Assistant Professor and Section Head of Glass Kim Harty will lead the Crafts Department beginning Fall semester 2019

Kaiser Suidan, CCS Crafts alumnus and entrepreneur, has created himself a brand, studio, gallery and rental space on one block in Ferndale, Michigan called "Next Step Ferndale."

At the same time Simon Waranch is represented by two works as part of the Michigan Regional Glass Exhibition at the Janice Charach Gallery in West Bloomfield, he is exhibiting work to memorialize the Holocaust in a display at the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas.

CCS section chair of Glass, Kim Harty, is exhibiting Memoria Technica: Old Venetian Glass, a solo exhibition of new work which materializes the gap between a historical object and the memory of that object, at the Heller Gallery in NYC.

The "Michigan Regional Glass Exhibition" at the Janice Charach Gallery, organized by CCS alumnus and renowned glass artist Albert Young, is chock-full of CCS alumni, faculty and even students.