2025

Multitudes//Multitudes

Multitudes//Multitudes

"Multitudes//Multitudes" brings together 58 PASC artists, many exhibiting at the PASC Detroit Gallery for the first time, in a tightly stacked salon-style presentation. Imagined scenes, bold abstractions, and dense elemental patterns span a range of mediums, creating a collective visual rhythm that mirrors the layered nature of the PASC community. Through this closeness, the exhibition highlights both the individuality of each artwork and the harmonious energy that emerges when they gather together.

Curated by Ben Haddix and Amber B. Nax

Location: PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit

Dates: December 4, 2025 – February 7, 2026
Veiled Forms

Veiled Forms

"Veiled Forms" is a group exhibition at the PASC Southgate Gallery bringing together several PASC Southgate artists to question how artists build relationships through layering, grouping, and concealment. The artworks in this exhibition have been selected for what they represent and what they hold back, including the tension between what’s visible and what’s hidden. With a focus on pairings and groupings of objects, whether figures or abstract marks, these artworks challenge the idea that to bury something is to cover it, to veil it, to keep it secret.

Curated by Evan Mazellan and Amber B. Nax

Location: PASC Southgate Gallery, Southgate

Dates: November 13, 2025 - January 23, 2026
American Dreams

American Dreams

"American Dreams" is a group exhibition that offers a collective breath of American consciousness. In a time where political upheaval and far-right policies dictate how citizens inhabit their communities, these artists focus on the diverse depictions of American society. A true Americana, from depictions of collective dinners to abstractions reminiscent of sparkling fireworks.

Curated by Mario Moore

Location: PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit

Dates: October 17 - November 22, 2025
Worlds Within Worlds

Worlds Within Worlds

"Worlds Within Worlds" brings together Santina Dionisi, Rodney Stephens, and Lauren Williams as they spin personal histories, film, literature, anime, and gaming into imaginative storytelling. From sculptures inspired by animation, fantasy, and horror, to narrative drawings and paintings inspired by movie posters and pop culture to dreamlike surreal worlds influenced by fantasy, anime, and video games.

Location: PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit

Dates: September 11 - October 4, 2025
Gods From Afar

Gods From Afar

"Gods From Afar" showcases artwork from all three PASC studios—Detroit, Southgate, and Westland—highlighting the diversity of artistic expression throughout the program, with several artists exhibiting publicly for the first time. The exhibition title is drawn from Michael Jalen Adams’ work 'Gods From Afar' and its celestial, otherworldly imagery. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s Earthseed philosophy—where “God is Change” and transformation is both cosmic and personal—the exhibition encourages viewers to embrace kindness, diversity, and divinity found in people, landscapes, and abstraction.

Curated by Amber Nax

Location: PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit

Dates: July 24, 2025 – August 23, 2025
All Text, All Love

All Text, All Love

"All Text All Love", is a celebration of diverse forms of communication: words, letters, symbols, gestures, and sounds, each carrying meaning beyond traditional definitions. Some artists speak and write conventionally; others echo, sign, or gesture, expressing themselves in deeply personal ways. Meaning emerges not just from words but from tone, rhythm, and context. This spirit of presence and love grounds the exhibition’s dedication to Deanna Poppenger, a cherished PASC Westland artist whose joy and creative energy continue to resonate throughout the studio.

Curated by Anthony Marcellini and Amber Nax

Location: PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit

Dates: June 12 – July 12, 2025
From left to right, artworks by Randy Rodriguez, Brahem Shaw, and Aaron Taylor.

A Lively Sense

"A Lively Sense" is a three-person exhibition showcasing recent artworks by PASC Southgate artist Randy Rodriguez, and PASC Detroit artists Brahem Shaw and Aaron Taylor. The selected artworks capture a lively sense of movement and joy. The artists draw their artistic inspirations from their memories, familiar locations, cherished individuals in their lives, and even art historical references.

Curated by Amber Nax and Kristi Ternes

Location: PASC Southgate Gallery, Southgate

Exhibition Dates: June 5 – September 8, 2025
Ronald Griggs - Family Ties

Ronald Griggs - Family Ties

"Ronald Griggs - Family Ties", is the first solo exhibition surveying Detroit based artist Ronald Griggs’ art practice from his start in the PASC program in 2021 to now. The exhibition explores Griggs’ detailed and highly skilled mixed-media drawings, employing a baroque-like drawing style to explore human and non-human relationships, family, fantasy, and the complexities of love.

Curator: Anthony Marcellini

Location: PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit

Dates: May 1 - 31, 2025
Dream It Out Loud

Dream It Out Loud

"Dream It Out Loud" is an exhibition with artists from the Progressive Art Studio Collective (PASC) program. This is our fourth year of exhibiting at The Gallery at Westland City Hall, bringing the artwork of PASC to the halls of the Westland Government. This year the exhibition features artwork by 30 artists all from the PASC Westland Studio Program.

Curators: Ben Haddix and Renee Willoughby

Location: Art Gallery at City Hall, Westland

Dates: March 27 – April 24, 2025
WILD THINGS

WILD THINGS

"Wild Things" marks the third iteration of our Artist-Curator series, featuring curators Mandy Demorest, Detroit Angel Tweety, and John Peterson, all artists who work out of our PASC Westland studio. For this exhibition, they have selected artworks from all three PASC studios that explore the presence of animals in the natural world. Adding layers of meaning to the artworks on view, the exhibition also includes short poems, animal quotes, and fascinating facts, selected by the curators.

Curators: Mandy Demorest, Detroit Angel Tweety, and John Peterson

Location: PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit

Dates: March 13 - April 19, 2025
On the World With the World: U of M, Institute for the Humanities

On the World With the World: U of M, Institute for the Humanities

"On The World With The World", is an exhibition of 40 artworks by over 24 artists from the Progressive Art Studio Collective (PASC) program. This exhibition introduces the PASC program, and the wide range of styles and ways of working that drive this community of artists, to the Ann Arbor community. The exhibition is hung salon style, referencing the communal character of the Osterman Common Room as a social gathering space. It intends to bring engaged people together for conversation on art, disabilities, and questions of access in the art world.

Curated by Amanda Krugliak and Anthony Marcellini

Location: U of M, Institute for the Humanities,
Osterman Common Room, Ann Arbor

Dates: February 1 – February 28, 2025
SIGNS FROM THE HE(ART)

SIGNS FROM THE HE(ART)

"Signs From The He(Art)" is the 2nd iteration of our Artist as Curator exhibition series. Artist-curators Therrin Burns, Nick Granch, and Randy Rodriguez have selected 18 artworks from all three of the PASC studios, reflecting each curator's aesthetic. The artworks showcase a variety of distinctive approaches like colorful washes, whimsical characters, and a diverse range of perspectives. With painted signs throughout the gallery, the curators provide insights into their selections: “He(art) is love”; “shapes, signs, & lines”; “look for messages in the art”; & “emotions, moods, & feelings”.

Curated by Therrin Burns, Nick Granch, and Randy Rodriguez

Location: PASC Southgate Gallery, Southgate

Dates: January 30, 2025 – April 24, 2025
All Things You See

All Things You See

"All Things You See" showcases the distinct expressive styles of PASC artists Eric Green and Renee Rogan in their first two-person exhibition. Eric’s vibrant linework, created with colored pencil and wax pastel, forms poetic narratives of people, animals, objects, and architecture, paired with evocative, Zen-like titles such as “All Day Living Colorful Arts Pictures of The History.” Renee’s artwork, in bold, contrasting colors, depicts figures interacting with objects through geometric, Escher-like designs resembling tesseracts or four-dimensional forms, using media like acrylic, watercolor, and paint markers. This exhibition brings together a wide range of their works, offering a unique dialogue between their styles and highlighting their artistic growth over the past two years.

Location: PASC, 9301 Kercheval Ave, STE 2, Detroit, MI, 48214

Dates: January 23 – March 1, 2024