Ceramics Alumnus Martin Schapiro Included in Michigan Pride Juried Exhibition at (SCENE) Metrospace
Martin Schapiro (MFA Ceramics 2026) in his Cranbrook studio, Spring 2026. Photo by PD Rearick.
Martin Schapiro (MFA Ceramics 2026), whose work is included in the Michigan Pride Juried Exhibition, currently on view at (SCENE) Metrospace in downtown East Lansing through July 23, 2026. The exhibition, presented in partnership with Michigan State University’s Department of Art, Art History, and Design and the City of East Lansing, brings together thirteen LGBTQ+ artists from across Michigan whose work explores identity, memory, community, resistance, and joy.
Schapiro’s ceramics practice sits at a charged intersection: a deep investment in skilled craft labor on one side, and an unflinching engagement with the digital tools that both threaten and enable it on the other. Working with 3D clay printing and other digital fabrication methods, approached with skepticism, he makes objects that carry their own making within them, work that opens a conversation about the ethics of how things are produced and what is at stake when technology enters the artist’s studio. The pieces in the Michigan Pride Juried Exhibition continue this inquiry, using digital methods not despite, but because of, the questions they raise.
Schapiro completed his MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in May 2026. This fall, he will join the adjunct faculty in the Art Department at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
The Michigan Pride Juried Exhibition is on view at (SCENE) Metrospace, 1307 E. Michigan Ave., East Lansing, through July 23, 2026.
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Michigan Pride Juried Exhibition celebrates LGBTQ+ artists – MSU Today
