Associate Professor of Residential College, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Associate Professor of Art, School of Art and Design
Southern Italy and Sicily with Apulia and the Amalfi Coast
Larry Cressman is an artist and Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design and the UM Residential College where he has taught for more than thirty years. He holds both a Master of Fine Arts Degree and a Bachelor of Science in Design from the University of Michigan. His teaching has focused on the art of printmaking and drawing. He has taught numerous times in the University of Michigan study abroad program based in Sesto-Fiorentino, outside Florence, Italy and has traveled and explored a variety of regions and cities in Italy.
Larry actively exhibits his work and is currently preparing a one-person show to be mounted at the River Gallery in Chelsea, Michigan in March of 2012. He recently participated internationally in Spora Biennial Exhibit of Ephemeral Art held in Granada, Spain where he created a temporary site-specific installation drawing. His interest in drawing is long-standing. Over the years his work has evolved away from the two-dimensional as his work continues to explore drawing as a three-dimensional form of expression. His installations have been on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, the Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan as well as numerous other sites. Larry’s work was recently added to the permanent collection of the Kresge Art Museum in Lansing, Michigan. He has received numerous awards for his work including several Michigan Council of the Arts Creative Artists Grants.
Larry is an avid traveler with special interests in many areas of art, including Medieval, Renaissance, Contemporary and the role and function of public art in communities. He is a past member of the Ann Arbor Commission on Public Art and is currently a member of the President’s Advisory Committee on Public Art here at the University.
