State of the Arts Exhibition 2018

The Saginaw Charter Township Art In Public Places is proud to present the State of the Arts Exhibition 2018.  This year’s annual event is hosted by the Saginaw Township Art In Public Places Committee.  

The Art Juror for this year's Exhibition is Adam D. DeKraker, Professor of Photography, and has been a faculty member at Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University for fourteen years where he teaches courses in the graduate and undergraduate photography programs.  He also serves as the President of the Kendall Faculty Association, an affiliate of the Michigan Education Association.  Adam holds a MFA degree from Indiana University, Bloomington (2003) and a BFA degree from Western Michigan University (1998).  He has also served as a summer faculty member for the Cape Cod Photography Workshops in North Eastham, MA, and acted as a MFA advisor to the graduate program at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.  Adam has juried numerous local, regional and statewide art exhibitions, worked as a manuscript reviewer for Elsevier Publishing Company, Focal Press, Bloomsbury Publishing and AVA Academia, and is an active member of the Society for Photographic Education.  His work has been featured in numerous regional, state and national exhibitions.

This year's State of the Arts Exhibition is underwritten by: W.L. Case & Company; Bierlein Companies; Consumers Energy;  Rehmann; Morley Companies, Inc.; Spicer Group; Wolgast Corporation; Lifetime Family Care; Masud Labor Law Group; Mahlberg, Brandt, Gilbert & Thompson, PC; McDonald Pontiac/Cadillac GMC, Inc.; First State Bank; Brown & Brown Insurance; and Covenant Health Care Hospital.

The art exhibit will be shown at the Saginaw Charter Township Hall, 4980 Shattuck Road, Saginaw, Michigan, during business hours Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 p.m., April 22 through May 25, 2018.