The 2025 Undergraduate Exhibition presented by the Department of Art, Art History, and Design (AAHD) at Michigan State University features the work on 41 students created in AAHD courses during the past year. This juried exhibition runs through Thursday, April 24, at (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles Street, East Lansing, Michigan. Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m. Thursday-Sunday. An exhibition reception is scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Friday, April 11, during which the Best of Show and Honorable Mention awards will be presented at 6:30 p.m.
This annual exhibition celebrates the work created by undergraduate students in AAHD classes. It features coursework from Apparel and Textile Design, Ceramics, Comic Art and Graphic Novels, Drawing, Electronic Art and Intermedia, Graphic Design, Photography, Painting, Printmaking, and Sculpture.
All Michigan State University undergraduate students, regardless of their major, were invited to submit up to five works created in any Apparel and Textile Design, Graphic Design, and/or Studio Art courses, not in foundations course, during the academic terms beginning in late Spring 2024 through Spring 2025.
The student work selected for this year’s Undergraduate Exhibition were created by the following students whose primary majors also are listed:
- Hannah Bigsby, Studio Art
- Veronica Borruso, Graphic Design
- Erica Bowers, Studio Art
- Allison Chmielewski, Graphic Design
- Ashlyn Cos
- Sarah Emmendorfer, Studio Art
- Taylor Ewert, Interdisciplinary Humanities
- Vanesa Fernandez, Graphic Design
- Kayla Fineout, Art Education
- Ryan Freund, Studio Art
- Yannick Gueye, Studio Art
- Victoria Herceg, Graphic Design
- Elizabeth Hofer, Art Education
- Rebeccah Hosler, Studio Art
- Avery Hughes, Graphic Design
- Gabriel Jones, Graphic Design
- Hannah Kerchen, Graphic Design
- Ashton Kushner, Computer Science
- Jamie Lee, Studio Art
- Christi Lopez, Graphic Design
- Kathleen Loria, Apparel and Textile Design
- Sara Lusky, Apparel and Textile Design
- Gentry Mabry, Studio Art
- Alisa McCrary, Studio Art
- April Montoye, Art Education
- Jillian Moreno, Graphic Design
- Phoenix Poole, Studio Art
- Lauren Rader, Art Education
- Amanda Roberts, Studio Art
- Genevieve Rogers, Studio Art
- Emma Sambaer, Art Education
- Eric Saunders, Graphic Design
- Elise Shulick, Art Education
- Campbell Stinson, Studio Art
- Alli Sutton, Graphic Design
- Meadow VanArman, Graphic Design
- Chelsea Van Der Meulen, Apparel and Textile Design
- Maria Watkins, Graphic Design
- Azriel Wotton, Psychology
- Evan Yalowitz, Studio Art
- Zari Zenti, Graphic Design
These students continue a long history preceded by thousands of alumni who have shown in past Undergraduate Exhibitions at MSU. Centered in a learning environment that values the development of personal vision, critical inquiry, and philosophical reflection, undergraduate students across all disciplines make intellectual and artistic discoveries.
This year’s student work was critiqued by guest juror Jennifer Angus, Professor in the Design Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches textile design. She also is a visual artist who works solely in the area of site-specific installation. Her primary materials are insects, dead and dried specimens that are reused from project to project. She pins them to walls in ornamental patterns, reminiscent of textiles or wallpaper, and arranges them in poses under glass domes or in cabinet drawers. She is described by Art Daily as “one of the top contemporary installation artists in the country.”
For more information, see the 2025 Undergraduate Exhibition calendar entry.
By Kim Popiolek and Lauren Gerig
