In addition to providing students with the tools they need to become creative thinkers and makers, A&D’s educational mission includes offering ongoing opportunities to make students’ creative work public. For many of A&D’s emerging artist/designers the All Student Exhibition is their first public venue.
“Exhibiting is essential to the art-making process,” confirms Mark Nielsen, Slusser Gallery Director. “Students begin to think about how their work changes with its context and to see public reactions to their work. With nearly 300 students participating, they also often learn a bit about negotiating space and making compromises.” As a learning lab it’s also a chance for undergraduates to see each other’s work, as well as the work of A&D’s 30 talented graduate students.
A&D's 8th Annual All Student Exhibition, took place from November 20th through December 16th at all of the School's Ann Arbor exhibition venues - Work•Ann Arbor, Slusser, and Robbins galleries - and features work in a wide variety of media. Thanks to the generosity of A&D donors, the School was able to acknowledge the outstanding work of students in the exhiition through awards for freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students.
For more information on this exhibition, please see the 8th Annual All Student Exhibition page.