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.
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 [...]
On a long enough timeline, it can become difficult to discern if a legacy is earned or merely granted for tenacity. Artist and illustrator Gary Mayer hails from Detroit and graduated from Wayne State before moving to New York in 1982, yet his legacy remains, drawing a huge crowd to “Nature Unrepentant,” a show of [...]
By D.B. Schroeder, Puzzle Piece Theatre You know that moment when you have something really important you want to share, or you’ve had a hellish day and need to vent- what do you do? You reach for the phone. Since I left my home town of St. Louis to begin my professional theatre career in [...]
This Thursday, I’ll be at MOCAD in Detroit, to talk with folks and answer questions about the Knight Arts Challenge, which is offering a share of $3 million to local arts and cultural projects. We’ll be talking a lot on Thursday about how to make your application stand out, in addition to the nuts-and-bolts of challenge requirements, [...]
Spring is coming (the occasional flurries notwithstanding), and you can tell by the uptick in weekend events stirring loudly to life. This weekend the truly gridiron hit the streets for the annual Marche du Nain Rouge (I seem to recall that last year’s parade was comfortably executed in full sun and t-shirts); high-culture junkies hit [...]
In two special viewings this Friday, March 22 and Saturday, March 23, the Detroit Film Theatre will host the Rackham Symphony Choir as they provide a live score to the 1928 silent film masterpiece “La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc” (The Passion of Joan of Arc). This will not be the first time the DFT has [...]
Today we begin accepting applications for funding through the Knight arts Challenge in Detroit, an idea that first bubbled up when I visited the city in 2010 as the new vice president for arts at Knight Foundation. I went to see what all the cultural buzz was about. I was floored. In my free time, I’m [...]
One of the common misconceptions about DIY culture is that consumers are saving money by making for themselves what would otherwise be mass-produced. With rare exception, a cost-benefit analysis will show that mass production has the edge when purchasing raw materials (mass demand creating the ability to buy in larger quantities), let alone the labor [...]
In just one week, on March 25, we’ll start accepting applications for the Knight Arts Challenge in Detroit. This year, we’ll be giving away up to $3 million to arts and cultural projects that engage and enrich the city. The deadline is April 22. Get Detroit Arts Email Updates Email (required) First Name Last Name [...]
There are few issues in Detroit more politically or emotionally fraught than the state of the Detriot Public School system. In this regard, Detroit is perhaps an extreme example, but by no means the sole instance of breakdown of the concept and execution of public education. As of this Saturday, March 16, 2739 Edwin Gallery in Hamtramck [...]
