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 way of introducing us to her good friend Rayya Elias, moderator Elizabeth Gilbert (author of the international best-seller Eat, Pray, Love and numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction) spoke of her own introduction to Elias as a referral to a hairdresser from a friend gently letting her know that, “No one can look at [...]
There were a couple of difficult distinctions to be made during the reading of trans-women’s literature held at Traffic Jam & Snug restaurant on Tuesday. The performance by lead reader Imogen Binne, on tour in support of her novel, Nevada, made it impossible to distinguish between the content of the novel and her hilarious, rapid-fire [...]
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s efforts to engage the community are making headlines. The Detroit News reports on the Symphony’s efforts this week. Click here to read the complete article and scroll below for an excerpt. “Two years after a debilitating strike pushed the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to the brink of its storied existence, the band [...]
Status update: The Knight Arts Challenge Detroit application period is now closed. Video: Detroit 2020/Knight Arts Challenge from WXYZ-TV/Detroit With just a few days left to submit an idea for the Knight Arts Challenge in Detroit, we wanted to share all our tips (and a few tricks) to applying in one place. So before you hit [...]
Following the Friday night DFT screening of the short film Frames for the People: A City of Halos, I had a chance to talk with Corrie Baldauf, a 2011 Kresge Fellow in Visual Arts and co-creator of the piece with filmmakers Stephen and Cory McGee. Baldauf was on hand for a Q&A session after the [...]
The art grants offered by the Kresge Foundation have supported the careers of some of Detroit’s most dynamic artists, helping to bring them to prominence and thus shape the landscape of arts in the city. Art X 2013 is a retrospective of the previous Kresge grantees and celebration in anticipation of the summer announcement of [...]
Big art times are beginning with a kickoff reception on Wednesday, April 10, as Art X 2013 will fill the Sugar Hill Arts District and surrounding Cass Corridor area with a five day blowout featuring work by past Kresge Grant recipients. Festivities begin at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (a Knight Arts grantee), with [...]
Detroiters who turned out for the Town Hall meeting on the Knight Arts Challenge last week received lots of tips on how to best present their ideas. Here’s what Knight Foundation Arts Associate Tatiana Hernandez shared with the crowd, many of whom are preparing their applications for the challenge offering a share of $3 million [...]
One interpretation of Easter traditions is that they reflect a point where the rising tide of Christianity incorporated the preexisting rites of pagan culture and other religious solstice and fertility celebrations. Though the oldest existing remnants of pysanky or “Ukranian Easter eggs” (pronounced “pih-son-kih” with all short vowels) date back to the early 1700s, and therefore [...]
Saturday night’s opening of “Able Objects” at Public Pool, featuring the work of Real OK Design (a.k.a. artist Aaron Blendowski) presented a trifectarial appeal to my particular sensibilities: functional sculpture, appropriation of common objects, and art you can touch. These aspects make perfect sense when taken in the context of Blendowski’s other professional enterprises, including [...]
