Every grand American accomplishment, every innovation that has benefited and enriched our lives, every lasting social transformation, every moment of profound insight any American visionary ever had has been the fruit of the creative imagination, of the ability to reach beyond received ideas and ready-made answers to some new place, some new way of seeing or hearing or moving through the world.
- Michael Chabon
Fostering creative thinking and creative work are at the center the School’s academic, research and community activities and are key to ensuring A&D’s prominence, nationally and internationally.
Faculty’s research engagements offer opportunities to generate new knowledge that can be shared with students and creative communities across the globe.
Exhibition and publication allow the A&D community to foreground ideas and outcomes.
Community projects generate the collaborative activities that extend knowledge and insights and confirm art and design’s power to change the way we see the world and our place in it.
Exhibition: Faces
Open Nov 20 - Jan 12 at the Dexter District Library, Faces features interpretations by twelve area artists.
Nick Tobier: Marvelous Guests
Tobier's Marvelous Guests will invite professionals to conduct business in unusual locations - a ballerina in a Laundromat, a stock trader in a funiculaire, a shepard and his flock on a football field.
Karen Anne Klein: Room for Curiosity
Klein (BFA 1964) has a new blog in which she is chronicling the progress of turning a room in her house into a cabinet of curiosities.
Stewart Brand
On December 03, the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series presents Stewart Brand with Hacking Civilization at the Michigan Theater.
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