2025 MFAC Exhibiting Artists
Congratulations to the following artists whose artwork (as listed) has been juried in to this year’s Michigan Fine Arts Competition.
Juried by Laurie Ann Farrell
Laurie Ann Farrell is a globally recognized curator, art historian, and writer based in Dallas, TX. She has written extensively on contemporary art and culture, including exhibition catalogs, journal articles, and artist monographs. Her work has been profiled and featured in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, African Arts, Vogue, CNN, the Washington Post, the Detroit Free Press, ArtNews, Flash Art, and Artforum, among many others. As the former head of modern and contemporary art and curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, she oversaw one of the USA’s most important postwar art and modern art collections, including the GM Center for African American Art. In December 2018, Farrell curated the Ruben & Isabel Toledo: Labor of Love exhibition, featuring new works made in response to the DIA collections and Diego Rivera Detroit Industry Murals and encyclopedic art collection.
DAnn Adkins – Comforting Souls
Angelo Aquino – Skull and Poppies
Yeroham Ashagre – Ode to Solitude
Mariia Bashtova – “A midnight garden”
Jerry Basierbe – Lake Superior Rocks – Ontario, Canada
Vana Beginin – Young Buck
Rebecca Bissi – Hot Pink Orchids
Russell Bloomfield – From a Chair
Allyn Boley – Morning coffee in fragments of place of memory
Ted Bowersox – Blue Peacock Bowl
Camille Ann Brewer – Mommy Wata
Jules Briggs – Susannah
Jackie Brunsden – An end to the madness
Kristine Burns – Echoes of Elegance
Anthony Cairo – Dawn Over Pictured Rocks
Susan L. Carman Vian – Travel Nostalgia
Graham Cassano – Twentieth-Century Knowledge Factory
Kevin Clifford – Hope
Samantha Conrad – My Masterpiece
Cheryl Correll – Walking (Homage to Kara Walker)
Elizabeth Cox – Samurai Cop
Elizabeth Cox – Bending Toward Blue
Velinka Cucuz – Raspberry Bliss
Anthony Dedakis – Brave
Anthony Dedakis – Symphony of color
Hector Del Campo – Solitude of the Panda
Darcel Deneau – City of Rainbows
Cynthia DePage – Orchids
Brianna Deterling – Nested Fragment No. 5
Paul Erlandson – Robot Honeymoon
Lisa Farris – Yellow Midden
Lisa Farris – Blue Midden
Danielle Georgiou – Nightly Walk
Debbie Grifka – Stillness?
Cheryl Haithco – “Geranium Love”
Jeanette Hammerstein – Letting go
Jacqueline Hancock – The Hare & the Fae Catcher
Jacqueline Hancock – Goblin Moon
Kelly Hansen – A New Perspective
Susan Hartunian – Seduction Of The Journey
Cheryl Haugh – Ancestral Reflection (2)
Dorothy Jett-Carter – Chasin dem Haints
Christopher Jones – A Michigan Lake in Binary
Jean Judd – Art Deco #3
Sujin Jung – Arden
WanChuan Kesler – Mannequin’s Summer
Emily Kraft – Flowers
Margarita Kulys – Goodbye darkness my old friend
Lesley Kutinsky – Sunlit and Wind-blown
Debbie Lamson – At Sunset
Hiroko Lancour – Paper Sashiko #19
Candace Law – Buried Hopes
Rosemary Lee – Plane Geometry
Todd Lininger – Modern Longing
Jesse Link – Eagle
Meagan Lipke – Double Vision
Katie Lowran – “elephant rising”
Megan Lui – Safer in the Forest
Heather Macali – Black & White XO
Maria Marcotte – Cafe Origins
Betsy Marsh – Nocturne in New York
Armin Mersmann – Ethos Series 18
Ron Moffitt – Pontiac is looking up
John Mrozik – Circus Teapot-II
Gary Mulnix – Sasha
Cal Navin – “Zadie”
Craig Paul Nowak – Possibilities
Susan O’Connor – “Henry”
Candace Pappas – Ladybird, Ladybird, Fly Away Home
Lisa Passalacqua – Alpaca Tribe
Brittany Reed – Hanging On
Lucia Ritacco – Laura Seated
Bruce Roberts – Coalecence #01
Ronald Diego Rodriguez – We Are the Vortex
Gwenn Rosseau – Form and Silence
Kimberly Santini – Goldfinch, Goldfish
Mark Schumack – No Cheese in China
Ryan Send – Wisconsin’s Vanishing Flora
Glen Skinner – Grandma Saluga
Jennifer Sowders – October’s Melange
Claudia St Peter – Yellow Butterflies Above the Rubble
Jan Stannard – Honeymoon Road Trip
Virginia Wait – Mill Creek Berries
Larry Zdeb – WEDNESDAY