Art

Wild Lands exhibit on display at Ypsilanti District Library

By Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson · Friday, April 29, 2016

Nature, literature and history are what visitors to Ypsilanti’s District Library can expect when they enter into the story and art of landscape painter, Thomas Cole.

Senior Capstone Exhibition, Preludes, fights to end common stigmas

By Sasha Brown · Sunday, March 27, 2016

The Senior Capstone Exhibition, Preludes, currently on display at the Ford Gallery, displays the work of Eastern Michigan University’s B.F.A.

Chris Reilly is the Foundations professor in Eastern Michigan University’s Art and Design Department.

EMU professor, students decorate lobby for 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival

By Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson · Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Chris Reilly, the Foundations professor at Eastern Michigan University’s Art and Design Department, and his Intro to Two-Base Media class were in for a challenging and fun experience as they were asked to decorate the lobby for the 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival in the Michigan Theater. Every year, EMU’s Art Department and CMTA Department work in collaboration with the Ann Arbor Film Festival to have someone from the festival visit EMU.

Rita Lee’s piece, I Know Exactly Who I Am When I’m Alone, displays different feelings through 3-D clay figures.

Graduate Student Art Exhibition displays at Ford Gallery

By Sasha Brown · Tuesday, March 1, 2016

The Graduate Student Art Exhibition is currently being displayed at the Ford Hall Gallery. This all-media exhibition features the work of MA and MFA graduate students.

Art Jam raises money for AMP! and Meals on Wheels

By Breezy White · Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016

Cultivate Coffee and Tap House hardly had any open seats the night of Thursday, Feb. 11, as 14 people practiced art live and auctioned off their work in order to raise money for both AMP!

Left to right: Wayne Koestenbaum and Kevin Killian.

BathHouse poets showcase visual work about gender and sexuality

By Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson · Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016

On Thursday night, in the Student Center Auditorium, poets Kevin Killian and Wayne Koestenbaum showcased their recent visual creation of photography and painting to Eastern Michigan University students and faculty. The event was part-two of the BathHouse Reading Series.

The Annual Juried Student Show available for viewing at Ford Gallery

By Sasha Brown · Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016

The Annual Juried Student Show is available for viewing in Ford Hall’s Gallery. This show features the work of undergraduate students whom are studying in one of the ten concentration areas in the Art Department.

"Hoplorra" celebrates the work of EMU's Art seniors

By Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson · Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015

From Nov. 23-Dec. 1, the Ford Gallery in Ford Hall was decorated with a range of artwork by the BFA candidates of Eastern Michigan University’s Art Department.

Graduate student uses friends, pets in art exhibit

By Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson · Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015

Now on display in the Ford Gallery, located in Ford Hall, is the graduate thesis exhibit of Eastern Michigan University student, Justin Marshall.

University Gallery displays "Atmosphere" exhibit

By Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson · Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015

Hosted by Eastern Michigan University’s Art Department, currently on display in the University Gallery of the Student Center is the exhibit, Atmosphere: Artists’ Responses to Space(s). The exhibit is co-curated by Professor of Photography, Jason DeMarte and Professor of Painting, Drawing and Foundations, Amy Sacksteder.

Art exhibit creates awareness for domestic violence

By Sasha Brown · Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015

The “True Life: My Experience With Domestic Violence” Art Exhibit displayed in the Student Center on Monday and Tuesday earlier this week.

BLUE Exhibit displays awareness for mental illness amongst college students

By Breezy White · Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015

Eastern Michigan University’s Intermedia Gallery Group is hosting the BLUE Exhibition Oct. 5-16 in the Student Center Gallery. The gallery is free to the public and is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The BLUE Exhibit contains a group of photographs taken by EMU senior, Christian Ramsey, that focus on the stresses of, and transition into, college life and adulthood.

Ford Gallery displays the work of new Art Department faculty

By Sydney Nimeth · Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015

Eastern Michigan University’s Art Department Gallery Program is hosting the New Faculty Show Oct.

Professors of Art Department curate a multi-meaning experience

By Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson · Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015

Professors of sculpture, furniture design, and 3D design, John DeHoog, Brian Nelson, and Jason Ferguson of Eastern Michigan University’s Art Department, had come together to co-curate a three-dimensional sculpture show in the University Gallery located in the Student Center.

Burin Hunter's digital collage 'Me, Myself and I'

Regional art exhibition 'Dangerous Minds' displays advancement in art education

By Afua Osei-Bonsu · Sunday, May 17, 2015

Now on view through Tuesday May 19th in the Ford Gallery from 10 AM-5PM, EMU presents the Regional High School Art Exhibition, “Dangerous Minds.” The exhibition is representational of the current direction, mindset and techniques of young artists today.

Creative Convergence at EMU

By Samantha Snell · Wednesday, March 18, 2015

This year Eastern Michigan University is hosting the Creative Convergence 2015. The event will cover issues facing Michigan in the 21st century such as tourism, government and the environment.

The Place Names the Place

By Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson · Wednesday, March 4, 2015

The University Gallery in the Student Center will be showcasing Place Names the Place Exhibit in room 210 starting March 2-April 10. The title was taken from Marcel Proust's "Within A Budding Grove," Vol.

IGG gallery to open in Ford

By Mona Beydoun · Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015

On Monday, Jan. 12, at 10 a.m., the Intermedia Gallery Group will open their Annual Juried Student Show in the Ford Gallery.

Ford Gallery hosts senior capstone exhibition

By Arturo Rodriguez, Jr. · Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014

Eastern Michigan University’s Ford Gallery held the (in)flux Senior Capstone Exhibition Monday, Nov.

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