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.
Since the successful passage of the County Art Institute Authority millage in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) has extended free general admission to any residents of these counties who present a valid ID. It’s a terrific gift and an afternoon well-spent, but attendees would do well to parlay these savings into [...]
Robert Sestok’s exhibit of paintings configured in a 3D environment, Verses, had a triumphant opening on Friday, November 2 at the CCS Center Galleries [Manoogian Visual Resource Center in the College for Creative Studies, 301 Frederick Douglass (corner of Brush Street), Detroit; 313-664-7800]. The installation surpassed even the high expectations of this blogger, and proved Sestok [...]
By Kathryn Dimond, DIA director of community relations It’s that time of year again. All of the Inside|Out reproductions have been taken down and carefully packed away for the winter. This year marked an increase in community involvement, partly because having the experience of two years doing the program, both the DIA and communities have [...]
Tuesday, October 30th marked the closing event for a collaborative show about locality, “From Here On Out,” featuring work by Toby Millman and “Hamtramck Redact,” a map rendering in charcoal by Andrew Thompson, staged at 2739Edwin in Hamtramck. Hamtramck is both the location and the subject of both bodies of work. Millman presents a collection [...]
Robert Sestok is a prominent Cass Corridor artist, whose complex, welded steel sculptures can be found installed in public spaces around Detroit and New York City, among other places. Better known as Bob, Sestok continues to be an unassuming source of inspiration and support for a new generation of artists taking their first unsteady steps [...]
In a city facing a more than 50 percent population deficit, the definition of neighborhood becomes somewhat loose. Really, anywhere in Detroit that you find three square streets hanging together with no rotten apples, you have something beginning to qualify for neighborhood status. But some communities that have made a neighborhood into something tighter, not looser. There [...]
With this investment, we hope to bring new energy to the artists and entrepreneurs driving the future of Detroit, so that years from now, when someone asks how we succeeded in our quest to lift the soul and bind the community in Detroit, I hope they’ll point to some of the things we’re announcing tonight: [...]
Seven of Detroit’s cultural institutions will receive support from Knight Foundation as part of its newly announced $19.25 investment in the city’s cultural community. READ MORE The Detroit Free Press Crain’s Detroit Business Detroit News CBS News Detroit Metro Times Chronicle of [...]
This Saturday, October 20th, was the last day to catch “Flat Pop 2: Eclectic Boogaloo,” new work by Eric Iverson and Mary Iverson, on display at Café 1923 in Hamtramck. The show opened on September 9th, with an opening reception on September 14th, and was sponsored by HATCH: a Hamtramck Arts Collective. HATCH was founded [...]
This Saturday, October 20th, Hamtramck will become a living museum for an afternoon-into-evening celebration of the arts. The neighborhood-wide schedule of events kicks off at 1 p.m. and includes studio tours, gallery shows, live music, artist talks and more, stretching into the evening, all within reasonable walking distance of each other. The event was organized by [...]
