Re/View: CCS Alumni Exhibition

CCS is pleased to announce that this year’s Re/View: CCS Alumni Exhibition will be juried by 2016 Kresge Artist Fellow Sterling Toles, which opens May 10, 2024.  The Exhibition will include a special celebration of the Kresge Arts in Detroit’s 15th Anniversary. Over 15 years, Kresge Arts in Detroit has awarded $8 million to 345 individual artists living and working in metro Detroit, many of whom are CCS Alums.

Alumni Exhibition Opening

Re/View is a part of the CCS Student Exhibition and opens May 10 at 5 p.m. in the Valade Family Gallery one hour before the opening of the Student Exhibition. Alumni and their guests are invited to join us for a complimentary Alumni Exhibition Opening Reception. Advanced registration is appreciated.

Valade Family Gallery
A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education
460 W. Baltimore, Detroit, MI 48202

There is no charge to attend the Alumni Exhibition Opening Reception, however, tickets are needed to attend the Student Exhibition Opening. CCS Alumni are eligible for discounted tickets to the CCS Student Exhibition. For more info or to purchase tickets, call 313.664.1185 or visit ccsdetroit.edu/seo.

Public Exhibition

If you are unable to attend on opening night the Alumni and Student Exhibitions are open to the public from May 11 to May 22.

Exhibition timings: Sat-Wed: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Thu-Fri: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Artist Submission Information

Submissions for 2024 closed. Check back for 2025 Alumni Exhibition details in January.

Notification of acceptance for 2024 Alumni Exhibition will be sent the week of March 22, 2024. 

2024 Juror: Sterling Toles

Sterling Toles (‘00, GC)
2016 Kresge Artist Fellow in Visual Arts

Artist vision for Re/View 2024:
Each person is the heart within their true body – the body of their own experience encompassing everyone and everything beyond them. Just as blood circulates throughout our body, constantly leaving and returning to our heart, the creativity of every CCS student past and present is vital to the anatomy of our collective expression. I envision this exhibition as a heartbeat – one of many – that gives health, love, inspiration and restoration to the living breathing community, circulating life for this collective heart we call CCS.

A look back at Re/View: 2023

2023 Juror

Sabrina Nelson (Fine Arts ’91)
2021 Kresge Arts in Detroit Visual Arts Fellow

Artists Statement: My goal with Re/View: CCS Alumni Exhibition is to honor CCS past students in the best light possible and lift their voices so our current body of students and community can see how we move creatively on the other side of our time at CCS and our continued commitment to remaining creative by all means necessary. My hope is that many voices from our Institution will be heard and felt this coming May. Whether your degree reads Society, Center or College (or even if you just attended) I will do my best in to curate an alumni show that will garner attention and respect for what we do in this and other communities.