| Details: | This is a 50-year retrospective with documentation of work by David Stairs, professor of graphic design at Central Michigan University. He is active in the area of social design and has published and been anthologized numerous times including in Design Issues and on the Design Observer website. In 2000 he received a two-year Fulbright to lecture and do research at the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. In 2002 Stairs founded Designers Without Borders in conjunction with his work in Africa. In 2006 he founded the Design-Altruism-Project weblog. In 2012 he received his second Fulbright research award, this time to India. He directed and produced the design documentary Digging the Suez Canal with a Teaspoon, 2019. Stairs is an internationally renowned book artist, with work in collections around the world including MOMA New York, MOCA Chicago, the Tate, and the Smithsonian. He has been represented by Printed Matter in New York since 1980. His book Okuwangaala: The Resilience of vernacular in Everyday African Design was published in September 2025. Main Gallery |
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University Art Gallery University Art Gallery, 251 E. Preston St. Mount Pleasant, Michigan , USA |
| Admission: | Free and open to the public |
| Sponsor: | College of the Arts and Media University Art Gallery |
| Contact: | Anne Gochenour, Director of the University Art Gallery goche1as@cmich.edu 989-774-7457 |