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Art & Design

Friday, May 2nd, 7-9 PM

8 PM Awards Announced: Best of Show, sponsored by the Friends of the DeVos Art Museum

Featuring the following artists: 

Computer Art: Ejay Crandell

Digital Cinema: Quinn Alles, Haley Holland, Ainsley Patterson

Graphic Design: Emma Iles, Ashley Loomis

Human-Centered Design: Cole Adameak, Kate Cudney

Illustration: Lindsay Bulmann, Ethan Clark, Val Luxi, Amber Heiser,

Emerson Jermstad, Anna Laakso, Amara Meyskens, Sable Wood

Metals: Ben Gitchell

Photography: Stephanie Cramer, Ashlyn Nichols

Art & Design

April 17th - May 2nd, 2024
Closing Reception: Friday, May 2nd, 7-9pm

Featuring the following artists:

Computer Art: Ejay Crandell

Digital Cinema: Quinn Alles, Haley Holland, Ainsley Patterson

Graphic Design: Emma Iles, Ashley Loomis

Human-Centered Design: Cole Adameak, Kate Cudney

Illustration: Lindsay Bulmann, Ethan Clark, Val Luxi, Amber Heiser,

Emerson Jermstad, Anna Laakso, Amara Meyskens, Sable Wood

Metals: Ben Gitchell

Photography: Stephanie Cramer, Ashlyn Nichols

Art & Design

Breehan James and Jesse McLean will join us on campus as the NMU School of Art & Design Winter 2022 visiting artists on March 24 & March 25. Both artists have artwork in the Still Life exhibition at the DeVos Art Museum through March 25.

The talks are free and will take place in Room 165 Art & Design. James will talk on Thursday, March 24, 6:30 pm, and McLean will share short films and a talk on Friday, March 25, at 3 pm. Please sign up to attend. The demonstration has limited capacity. Click the sign-up link for details and event times. Masks are required for the events.

Breehan James's recent project, the Cottage Book Series, is a series of gouache paintings about her family cottage. Her late-grandfather and his seven children built this cottage in the 1960s as a retreat for family and friends to experience togetherness in nature. The paintings function as a portrait of this specific place which has been frozen in time. A place that is isolated yet connected to a shared experience throughout generations. The cottage is a retreat, a space for reflection in nature, recreation, play, and ultimately a place that fuels the imagination and spirit. The series of paintings functions as a tour inviting each reader into this cottage. It is a celebration of American "Up North" cottage culture and reflects time, memory, and experience.
 

A primary focus of Jesse McLean's work is the power and the failure of the mediated experience to bring people together. McLean is motivated by a deep curiosity regarding human behavior and the ways intimacies and connections are formed in an age of mediated experience. Recent projects explore the immersion into digital culture, the fraught relationships people have with technology we both rely on and resent, and in contrasting the finite capacities of the nonhuman with infinite human desires.  

Art & Design

June 21 - July 29, 2022

The North of the 45th is an annual juried exhibition of artists living in the geographical area north of the 45th parallel in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. This line is the halfway point between the equator and the north pole, and crossing this line from the south is often associated with being “up north.” The exhibition highlights the breadth and depth of artists living in this upper Midwest region. Each year a new juror examines hundreds of submissions to create an exhibition. Now in its fifteenth iteration, no two presentations are alike. Juried by John Foster.

Participating artists include:

Catherine Benda

Christopher Burnett

James Byrne

Daric Christian

Chris Cinque

Joan Cox

Craig Denton

Katy Divine

Jacob Docksey

Beth Dorsey

Terri Jo Frew

Christopher Harrison

Elijah Haswell

Susan Hensel

John Hubbard

Grant Kaihoi

K. Daphnae Koop

Stella Larkin

Brandon Lutterman

Kim Matthews

Ruby Miller

Bruce Olson

Terrence Payne

Mary Penet

Faith Purvey

Jayson Randall

Paul Rose

Christopher Schmidt

Jason Schneider

JoAnn Shelby

Abraham Sherief

Lila Shull

Nicole Soley

Cameron Wilcox

July 29, 7 pm - Talk by John Foster; closing reception to follow.