Tag Archives: art and design

Riverbank Arts to host "Phranc in Flint: Butch Essentials" pop-up exhibition during Flint Art Walk

“Phranc in Flint: Butch Essentials,” a pop-up event and hands-on paper bow-tie-making workshop, will take place at Riverbank Arts during the Flint Art Walk,  6–9 p.m., Sept. 13. 

What would a retrospective of your life's work look like?  For Jewish folk singer, queer activist and multimedia artist Phranc, it's comprised of vibrant paper sculptures of clothing, accessories and other artifacts that follow her development as a young girl in the 1960s to coming out as a lesbian and beginning to engage in the[…]

UM-Flint student transforms UCEN gallery into interactive, child-friendly art exhibit

UM-Flint art and design major Rachel Landes has created an exhibit that encourages constructive, imaginative, sensory and physical play.

While things already look a little different in the University of Michigan-Flint's Harding Mott University Center this fall following a recent renovation, its art gallery, located on the first floor, has undergone some fun changes too. The transformation comes courtesy of Rachel Landes, a senior design major from Owosso, who has turned the space into[…]