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.
By Matthew Stiffler, Arab American National Museum Saturday, September 8, 2012 was a banner day at the Arab American National Museum. The building was filled with area youth, local and national media, and 100 comic book fans and Arab American community members, all celebrating the release of the first Arab American comic book superhero! Following [...]
In an outcome which proves that sometimes the good must be relinquished for the best, the 555 Gallery had the official opening of their new nonprofit gallery, learning center and artist studio space in Mexicantown — formerly the home of the Detroit 3rd Police Precinct, now renewed and revamped in collaboration with Southwest Solutions. Though [...]
Spirits were not dampened by a rainy beginning on Friday, and Woodward Avenue was packed on a cool, clear Saturday evening, with people out to experience and enjoy the DLECTRICITY Festival, mirroring the official Blanche Nuit (“White Night”) taking place in Paris, as well as “Bring to Light” in New York City. Installations ranged from [...]
Thursday night was an open-studio meet-and-greet at Signal Return, a community letterpress shop (and Knight Arts grantee) that opened in the Eastern Market this summer, and is seeking to gain purchase within the Detroit DIY and art community. The facility is impressive, with a wide range of letterpress equipment, including flatbed cylinder and platen-type printing [...]
Building on a tradition established in France the mid-’80s, Detroit will join the international festival of electricity known as Nuit Blanche (“White Night”) for the first time this year, with DLECTRICITY — a two-night celebration that will stage a series of light-based art and cultural events at various locations around the city, this Friday, October [...]
By Michelle Hauske, DIA Inside|Out coordinator Planning for the next round of Inside|Out is always challenging. Every installation is unique, and each city has its own requirements for obtaining approval to install. The DIA has a multi-step process that gets the reproductions from the warehouse to the walls and involves communities along the way. We [...]
Like a comet, Dirty Three shows in Detroit are few and far between, but arguably worth the wait. Taking the stage for the first big preview concert at Trinosophes, Dirty Three wasted all of 10 seconds before bringing the energy onstage to a fever pitch. In their first Detroit performance since 2003, the trio from [...]
It is delicate confession for an arts and culture blogger to confess a certain level of discomfort with avant garde cinema. At times it seems the imagery and nonsensical connections are paralleled in their extremity only by the level of seriousness with which they are taken. For my part, I found the offerings at “cosmo(s)politan: [...]
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 [...]
