Art Detroit Now: Re/Thinking Design for Consumption

[ September 2, 2009 3:00 pm to October 18, 2009 3:00 pm. ] Curated by Ericia Bartels and Christine Bossler

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 12:00pm
Through Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 5:00pm
Art Detroit Now October 2nd and 3rd

Scarab Club

Re/Thinking Design for Consumption explores the artist’s creative use of traditional techniques and contemporary technologies to create the one of a kind, the multiple and the blurred bound that exists between [...]

Harvesting The F.A.M. Festival

October 1-4, 2009
Downtown Windsor
Harvesting The FAM is Windsor Ontario’s largest independent inter-arts festival designed for the promotion and development of independent Film, Artistic and Musical talents working in any medium or genre. The festival creates a positive, open-minded space for a diverse array of artists to exhibit, promote, perform and sell their works.
You can catch [...]

Art Detroit Now: 40 Printmakers Celebrate the Print

[ September 30, 2009 12:00 am to October 31, 2009 12:00 am. ] September 30 – October 31
Art Detroit Now – Friday & Saturday, October 2 & 3

A Monotype print: “Tulips”, by Judi Richards of West
Bloomfield.Visit the Lawrence Street Gallery during the month of October to see the work of approximately 40 area print makers participating in a juried exhibition devoted to printmaking.

“Many persons are not aware of [...]

Art Detroit Now: Detroit, Breeding Ground at MONA

[ October 3, 2009 12:00 am to December 5, 2009 12:00 am. ] An exhibition with accompanying publication and panel discussion

Opening Reception: October 3th, 2009, 7:00pm
Runs through December 5th, 2009
Panel discussion to be held at MONA on November 1st 2009

Hosted by the Museum of New Art
Art Detroit Now
Sculpture is a limitless mode of art-making that assumes neither a specific material nor medium, rather it remains in perpetual [...]

Art Detroit Now: Vagner M. Whitehead “Gold Code”

[ September 19, 2009 6:00 pm to October 9, 2009 6:00 pm. ] a solo exhibition @ org contemporary
“ART DETROIT NOW!” Saturday, October 3 at 7:00pm
through Friday, October 9, 2009 at 9:00pm

What Vagner says about his work :
This body of work brings together reoccurring interests of mine: the body, language(s) and contemporary/ubiquitous technological contexts.

The works in this exhibition can be classified into four distinct but interrelated [...]

Art Detroit Now: MIGRATION: work • detroit

[ September 11, 2009 1:00 am to October 17, 2009 1:00 am. ] Co-curated by Michael Borowski and Urmila Alladi Venkatesh
September 11 – October 17, 2009
Art Detroit Now Oct. 2nd & 3rd

An exhibition that deals broadly with migration, identity, and conflict. Changes to a neighborhood’s demographics, personal identity, contested borders, or movement in a lifetime or a week. Migration offers multiple interpretations in a variety of mediums.

Migration manifests [...]

The Majestic Replaces Buju With LGBT Blowout

LGBT Benefit Concert Sept 30
Vocalist Julie Marcos of Coup Detroit, one of several
groups replacing Buju Banton at The Magic Stick
Affirmations, Transgender Detroit and Triangle Foundation worked together to encourage the cancellation of the Buju Banton concert in Detroit. Please join us in turning a hateful night into one filled with supportive and powerful [...]

Tour de Troit Brings de Light

About 2,000 cyclists turned out for the event.
(John M. Galloway / Special to The Detroit News)
De light? Okay, bad pun, but it certainly seemed that most of the 2,000 cyclists who rode in this years Tour de Troit were enjoying themselves.
And for many, it shined a light on bicycling in Detroit and the city [...]

Holiday Gift Gallery: Call for Artists

Calling All Michigan Artists:
Holiday Gift Gallery
Paint Creek Center for the Arts is looking for Michigan artists to submit work for our Holiday Gift Gallery. Submit original works suitable for gift giving – decorative and functional glass, ceramic, small framed works, wearables, jewelry, toys, wood, Holiday items. From formal to funky and everything in between, if [...]

Song Man, Dance Man

[ October 7, 2009; 7:00 am to 10:00 am. October 8, 2009; 7:00 am to 10:00 am. October 9, 2009; 7:00 am to 10:00 am. October 10, 2009; 7:00 am to 10:00 am. ] A Theatre Production by Jon Peterson

Oct. 7,8,9,10th 7pm @ 1515 Broadway

“A thrilling tour-de-force for the audience, who never stop marveling at Peterson’s endless supply of energy … breathtaking … dazzling … such a spectacular affinity”

(David Hurst, Cabaret Scenes Magazine, Jan. ‘09)

$20

1515 Broadway, Detroit, MI 48226

reservations: (313) 965-1515 also available at the door…

7pm