Welcome to NCECA’s 60th Annual Conference, Volumes, in Detroit, Michigan!
2026 Exhibitions and Interactive Map
NCECA’s 60th Annual Conference, Exhibitions
Yeesookyung, Translated Vase, 2023, 2026 NCECA Annual Artist. Photo Credit: Alice Feld
WASSERMAN PROJECTS
3434 Russell Street, #502, Detroit
Located on the north side of the building at the end of the gravel driveway off Russell Street. Enter through red door.
WASSERMANPROJECTS.COM
Reception: Friday, March 27, 6:00PM–9:00PM
On view: January 31–April 4, 2026
ABSENCE TAKES FORM: The 2026 NCECA ANNUAL
Curated By Adrienne Spinozzi
NCECA Annual blends impactful attributes of invitational and open-juried models of exhibition development. Exhibition curator Adrienne Spinozzi’s curatorial vision is illuminated through the work of five invited artists. Additional works and artists will be selected through an open call for submissions. Spinozzi writes:
“Absence Takes Form explores how artists express their individual diasporic journeys in clay, taking its inspiration from Detroit, a place with a rich history shaped by the Great Migration. All diaspora and migrations are complex negotiations between gain and loss, defined by displacement, memory, and promise. These formative life experiences can offer fertile inspiration to artists, and the works in this exhibition give voice and physical space to ancestral memories by turning absence into a three-dimensional form. This reparative work is expressed in myriad ways, including acknowledging a life lived, embracing visual signifiers of one’s identity, honoring and preserving cultural techniques and traditions, and engaging in a conceptual practice that reconstructs the past anew. In this exhibition, artists engage in the act of processing their memory of an ancestral homeland through creation. Absence takes form.”
Invited Artists: Adebunmi Gbadebo, David R. MacDonald, Anina Major, Ibrahim Said, Yeesookyung
Juried Artists: Ivan Albreht, Natalia Arbelaez, Lisa Marie Barber, Malene Djenaba Barnett, Ron Baron, Yael Braha, Pattie Chalmers, Jonathan Christensen Caballero, Kaneez Zehra Hassan, Hongmi Kim Hoog, Quinn Alexandria Hunter, Roxanne Jackson, Tim Keenan, Wansoo Kim, Robert King, Josephine Larsen, Jae Won Lee, Kimberly LaVonne, Mahalexmi Mohan, Steven Montgomery, Janet Neuwalder, Joy Okokon, Ross Junior Owusu, Kyungmin Park, Yana Payusova, Tia Santana, Paul Scott, Stephanie Shih, Ellie Stanislav, Silvia Tagusagawa, Hirotsune Tashima, Iren Tete, Kwok-Pong (Bobby) Tso, Karina Yanes, Ari Zuaro
About the Curator: Adrienne Spinozzi is an Associate Curator in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she is responsible for the American redware, stoneware, and art pottery collections. Her recent projects include Shapes from Out of Nowhere: Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection (2021), an exhibition of 20th- and 21st-century abstract and nonrepresentational ceramics, and Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina (2022-24), an exhibition on the contributions of the enslaved potters—both known and unknown—in western South Carolina during the 19th century. She is currently working on a reinstallation of American ceramics that will span the late 19th century through today.
Cristal Zeballos, Aguayo, 2026 NCECA Multicultural Exhibition Artist
2026 NCECA MULTICULTURAL FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, ART DEPARTMENT GALLERY
5400 Gullen Mall, Detroit
313-993-7813
WAYNESTATEGALLERIES.ORG/ART-DEPARTMENT-GALLERY
Reception: Thursday, March 26, 2026, 6:00PM–9:00PM
Juried by Renata Cassiano Alvarez
On view: February 6 to March 28, 2026
The 2026 NCECA Multicultural Fellowship Exhibition includes select works by past recipients of NCECA’s Multicultural Fellowship, initiated in 2015. Juror Renata Cassiano Alvarez is a Mexican-Italian artist born and raised in Mexico City. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, most recently the Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in public and private collections worldwide.
Artists: Amara Abdal Figueroa, Aram Aldana, José Arenivar-Gómez, Emmanuel (Kstony) Asamoah, Maya Beverly, Yael Braha, Angeliky Castrellon, Jazzmine Curtis, Jerome Fitzgerald Kendrick Jr., Astrid Guerrero, Robyn Gibson, Christina Graland Joseph, Gaby Hijar, Ina Kaur, Kim Le, Micah Lewis-Văn Sweezie, Ross Junior Owusu, Vanna Ramirez, Antra Sinha, Mohamad Soudy, Amal Tamari, Marina Wahbeh, Ari Zuaro, Cristal Zeballos
Krista Willey, Fragility of Our History, 2026 NCECA Juried Student Exhibition Artist
2026 NCECA JURIED STUDENT EXHIBITION
COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES, VALADE FAMILY GALLERY
A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education
460 W. Baltimore, Detroit
313-664-7667
CCSDETROIT.EDU
Reception: Thu, Mar 26, 6:00PM–9:00PM
Juried by Eva Kwong and Gary Garrido Schneider
On view: March 6-April 4, 2026
The 2025 NCECA Juried Student Exhibition includes selected works submitted by students working in undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, and graduate programs based in the US, Canada, and Mexico.
Participating Artists: Maggie Adams, Felix Akortse, Ruth Aragón, Emmanuel Kstony Asamoah, Ira Bondarenko, Anna Bultman, CJ Carter, Beckett Chomyn, Reilly Deller, Philip Tetteh Djorsu, Zoe Filzer, Katherine Gaff, Kyle Gilbertson, Tatiana Giron, Meg Gizzi, Abigail Hegenauer, Sid James Henderson, Marc Jeannin, Chelsea Lakey, Darby Lewis, Marita Manson, Colin Martin, Lily McMahan, Charlotte Middleton, Shyanne Ogilvie, Morgan Pennington, Erin Prior, Angelina Quigley, Jillian Mae Seversky, Jackson Shaner, Gabriel Skinner, Lindsay Skvarek, Caleb Sykora-Bodie, Citlaly Tobon, Andrew Tran, Lana Traum, Max Trumpower, Maya Wasileski, Hadley Wiktor, Krista Willey, Vic Williams, Monica Rickhoff Wilson, Samuel G Wilson, Caitlin Zachow
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