Mike Slaski has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Chicago.

“I had a wonderful experience at the University of Chicago to get an M.F.A,” he says. “I still wrestle with conversations I had with my adviser, Robert Peters, such as what it is to have a point of view. I continue to ask myself what is my point of view, what is innovation, intention, self-expression. Are the analytical tools I inherited from British and American philosophy adequate to handle the questions I have about art, both my own and what I see in the contemporary scene?”

His work has been shown at Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac, Michigan; Studio Arts in South Bend, Indiana; Adelphi University in Garden City, New York; and Swords into Plowshares Gallery in Detroit, Michigan.

Slaski lives with his wife and fellow painter Ruth Andrews in Cassopolis, Michigan.