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

Participating artists: Sherri Bryant, Santina Dionisi, Julianne Dombrowski, Robert Duncombe, Christopher Evans, Lewis Foster, Tiffany Foster, David Harris, Rodney Hudson, Shawn Jackson, Joseph Lucas II, Richard Marshall, Ryan McDonagh, Nathaniel McNeal Jr, Keisha Miller, Vanessa Montgomery, Alsendoe Owens, John Peterson, Bruce Rice, Dale Roberts, Thomas Saunders, Stephan Tatum, Jeremy Taylor, Promise Vos and Lauren Williams

Curated by Amanda Krugliak and Anthony Marcellini

Exhibition Dates: February 1 – February 28, 2025

Location: U of M, Institute for the Humanities,
Osterman Common Room,
202 S Thayer St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Gallery hours: M-F 9am-5pm 

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. Through this exhibition PASC communicates its philosophy that creating an artwork is an expressive and communal act whereby an individual communicates their unique perspective on the world with the world.

As part of the exhibition The Institute for the Humanities and PASC have invited curator Paige Wery, Director of the Tierra Del Sol Gallery, to Ann Arbor to be in conversation with Anthony Marcellini, PASC Program Manager, on February 1 at 2pm, on the subject of empowering artists with disabilities through progressive art studios.  

Paige Wery is founder and director of Tierra Del Sol Gallery (Est. 2019) exhibiting artists from the Tierra Del Sol Foundation Art Studios. From 2014 - 2019, she successfully founded and directed The Good Luck Gallery, the only Los Angeles gallery devoted to self-taught, outsider and visionary artists. Good Luck launched the career of Helen Rae, who was recently added to the MoMA collection, and introduced major outsider artists Elijah Pierce, Anna Zemánková and Charles Steffen to the West Coast art world. Wery's work has gained national attention at art fairs like the New York and Paris Outsider Art Fairs, and from leading publications Art Forum, The LA Times and Art in America. She has curated exhibitions with Creative Growth, NIAD and other arts programs dedicated to underserved disabled communities. Prior to her gallery work Wery was Publisher and Advertising Director at Artillery Magazine, growing the magazine’s readership ten-fold during her seven-year tenure.

Amanda Krugliak is an arts curator and arts administrator best known for leading the UM Institute for the Humanities Gallery since 2009. In 2012, she co-created State of Exception with artist Richard Barnes, based upon anthropologist and writer Jason De Leon's Undocumented Migration Project, which exhibited nationwide through 2017. She is a frequent guest lecturer, and leads classes and workshops on curating scholarship, and the IH gallery as a social justice practice.    

Anthony Marcellini is the Founder and Program Manager of PASC (Progressive Art Studio Collective). He is an educator, curator, writer, and artist. He has produced exhibitions, lectures, public cultural events, and projects, with a focus on social practice, public art, and disabilities, in cultural venues and universities across the world. For over 9 years he has taught studio art, curatorial practice, theory, and art and design history, at colleges and universities in the United States and Europe. From 2018 to 2020, he was the Programs and Exhibitions Manager of the Friendship Circle Soul Studio, a studio for adults with disabilities in West Bloomfield, MI. At Soul Studio Marcellini expanded the studio program and worked to align Soul Studio to the history and ideology of progressive art studios and disability culture. In 2021 Marcellini launched PASC the first studio and exhibitions program for adults with developmental disabilities and mental health differences in Detroit and Wayne County. Since 2021 Marcellini has grown the PASC program to supporting over 190 artists across three studios and two galleries, curated and produced numerous local and national exhibitions, exhibited PASC at major museums, and brokered the purchase of artwork by seven PASC artists for the permanent collection of the Cranbrook Art Museum.  Marcellini received his MFA in 2009 from California College of the Arts with a concentration in Social Practice.

Launched in 2021, PASC is the first progressive art and design studio and exhibition program in Detroit and Wayne County dedicated to supporting artists with developmental disabilities and mental health differences to advance artistic practices and build individual careers in the art and design fields. PASC is a program of Services to Enhance Potential (STEP), a non-profit service organization founded in 1972 that provides services and support for more than 1,400 individuals with disabilities and mental health differences across Southeastern Michigan.

The University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities organizes programs that examine and interrogate humanities traditions broadly across space and time. The Institute aims to deepen synergies among the humanities, the arts, and disciplines across the university, and to bring the insights of the humanities to public life. The Institute for the Humanities Gallery is a unique meeting place for the exchange and interchange of ideas. Each exhibition serves as a starting point for collaboration and critical inquiry, bringing new perspectives to the Institute and actively engaging the community with the humanities.

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Saturday, February 1, 2025, 2 - 4pm

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A Panel Discussion with Paige Wery of Tierra del Sol Gallery and Anthony Marcellini of PASC

Artworks displayed as hung from left to right top to bottom.