Annika Chinnaiyan, Alisha Gandhi, Annika Gill, Greta Gmazel, Noelle Powers, and Elizabeth Tracy won the UMMAxRoss Art Tank Pitch Competition
Inaugural UMMAxRoss Art Tank Pitch Competition Winners

On December 1, the team of Annika Chinnaiyan, Alisha Gandhi, Annika Gill, Greta Gmazel, Noelle Powers, and Elizabeth Tracy won the UMMAxRoss Art Tank Pitch Competition as the culmination of the Business of Art (BE 460) course. The groundbreaking new business course examines the intersection of art, economics, and curatorial decision-making in the art market. As part of the high-stakes finale of the course, five teams each pitched a work of art that they believe deserves to be displayed in the University of Michigan's Museum of Art collection. As the winners of the competition, Chinnaiyan, Gandhi, Gill, Gmazel, Powers, and Tracy successfully persuaded UMMA’s curators and director that Leasho Johnson’s Man Disguised as Night merits inclusion in the museum’s permanent collection. The piece will be on view at UMMA soon.