The Knight Arts program is now seeking grant opportunities in Detroit that can create transformational and sustainable change through artistic excellence and collective cultural experiences. If you’re interested in learning more about working with Knight in the arts, please contact Interim Program Director Meredith Hector.
The 2nd annual Detroit Design Festival (DDF) kicked off on Wednesday, with an opening night party at the historic Fisher Building, and a wide range of “happenings” to take place continuously or intermittently between September 19-23, at points of interest all over some of Detroit’s most popular neighborhoods. These events include design competitions, such as [...]
If you have occasion in the next two months to wander by Public Pool art gallery in Hamtramck, chances are good you will see collage artist George Rahme hard at work in the pop-up studio space he has established there, which opened this Saturday, September 15th. Rahme’s work is generally large in scale and insanely [...]
This year’s Dally in the Alley was blessed with impeccable weather, providing an excellent draw to the popular annual street fair, celebrating its astounding 35th year. The all-day-into-night event features a variety of local vendors, culinary wonders/street food nightmares, the timeless practice of debauchery in the street and, most importantly, a wide, free assembly of [...]
The winter program at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (a Knight Arts grantee) opened on Friday in a blowout event featuring live music, colorful attendees and the unveiling of two incredibly fascinating exhibits. ”Vision In A Cornfield“ is a multilayered installation that includes work by a wide assortment of contributors, including core members of [...]
When it comes to support of the artistic process, there are few institutions as useful as the residency. A great deal of energy is spent maintaining the functions of day-to-day life, and having a managed living space available for artists allows a tremendous amount of freedom for the artist-in-resident to rechannel that energy into other [...]
By Kathryn Diamond, Detroit Institute of Arts Summertime in the museum is ordinarily a quiet place with visitors coming to wander the quiet galleries to escape the summer heat. Not so this year! On the heels of a positive vote for the tri-county millage on August 7th, a blockbuster exhibition of Five Spanish Masterpieces, and [...]
Over a Labor Day Weekend jam-packed with cultural events, this blogger had occasion to ponder the question of what makes something an “institution.” The Detroit Jazz Festival, still thriving in its 33rd year, is nothing if not a Detroit institution, and this year’s lineup featured a dazzling array of jazz notables and local favorites, including the [...]
A Bay Area native, I spent the bulk of my free time as a disaffected high schooler either haunting coffee shops or catching triple-billed punk bands at Gilman St. in Berkeley, Calif., a tiny, volunteer-run club and launch pad for bands like Green Day and Rancid. No wonder, then, that approaching the Trumbullplex — a collectively [...]
The Russell Industrial Center is a recognizable monolith and a herald for the passage into Detroit from the northern suburbs. The highly visible ex-industrial facility, once an auto-body supplier, now houses a series of privately leased studio spaces, home to a vivid array of more than 150 local artists, makers and businesspeople. This Saturday, Building [...]
As this is my final post as the Detroit Knight Arts writer, I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who took the time to read my articles. Writing often feels like a solitary venture, as so much of the actual writing — by necessity — is done alone. I’ve spent many nights and [...]
