Dolores Slowinski’s “Appendicitis” In International Exhibition

Motor City Brewing Works, December 16, 2009
Chelsea Art Center through December 19, 2009.
Dolores Slowinski, Appendicitis
The only similarity between Dolores Slowinski’s three “flying sock monkeys” that were accepted into the Silver Medal Exhibition at the Scarab Club this past March and her current work is stitches. Her new series, Thread Lines, hand stitched [...]

New Art Gallery in Plymouth Township Challenges Conventional Wisdom

Art & Ideas takes position that art will always transcend a “bad economy”
Grand Opening December 5, 2009, 7 – 11 pm
Artist Talk 7:30 followed by music
Shaqe Kalaj
Art & Ideas Contemporary Art Gallery & Studio, a new art gallery and teaching studio located between Plymouth and Northville, is holding its grand opening on Dec. 5, [...]

SBH Trio Open Mic Jazz Jam On Thursdays at Berts

[ December 3, 2009 8:00 pm to December 17, 2009 8:00 pm. ] 8:30 pm ­ 12:30am,
Bert’s Marketplace

2727 Russell, Detroit Eastern Market
$3 cover, free parking, great food!

Drop in for Detroit’s longest running and hottest jazz jam!
Spider Webb, drums; Bill Meyer, piano; Ralphe Armstrong, bass
with some of Detroit’s greatest singers and musicians

Thurs. December 3rd
Martha Reeves hosting
Special going away¹ party as she leaves
the City Council to return to [...]

Satori Circus in “Hodgepodge”

[ December 18, 2009 3:00 pm to December 30, 2009 3:00 pm. ] December 18, 19, 20, 23, 26, 27 & 30, 2009
1515 Broadway Theatre

Satori Circus underwater, photo by Mark YasenchakSATORI CIRCUS is back at home at 1515 Broadway Theatre this coming mid-December for his ‘Hodgepodge’ performance. ‘Hodgepodge’ is exactly what it means…”a confused mixture”…”random collection”…”a mixed bag”…”assortment”.

‘Hodgepodge’ is a collection of SATORI CIRCUS vignettes from [...]

Chamber Music at the Scarab Club

Sunday, December 13, 2009 – 7:00 PM

Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello – Krzysztof Penderecki
Trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon – Kirke Mechem
Con Slancio for bass clarinet and string quartet – Justin Boyer

Prices Range from $15-$20. Students only $10.
http://www.scarabclub.org/html/chamber_music_.html
The Scarab Club 217 Farnsworth, Detroit, MI 48202
Phone 313.831.1250

Barry Avedon: “Something about Barry”

December 4 – January 9, 2010
Opening Reception: Sat. December 12th, 2009 – 5-8pm
Panel discussion: Sunday Dec 20th, 2pm. Refreshments.
River Gallery Fine Art
The Magic Range
A solo exhibition of new work: painting, drawing and collage. On the second level, an exhibition of 4 invited colleagues and friends: Margaret Davis, Karen Izenberg, Michael Reedy, [...]

Art & Movie Show at 555

555 Art Show and 7th Annual Film Festival
Reception Saturday December 12, 2009; 6-10pm.
Movies begin at 7pm
A show of visual arts from the studio and staff members of 555, with guest artists and pieces from the fall Artist in Residence. The film festival will screen several independent film shorts from local film makers.
555 Artist: Monte, Carl [...]

The Ben Franklin Project

[ December 12, 2009 5:00 pm to December 19, 2009 5:00 pm. ] Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 7:00pm
Through Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 11:00pm
4731 Gallery

The Benjamin Franklin exhibition has returned to the land of Lincoln…and Fords…for an unprecedented fourth installment of our grand experiment of bridging the economic divide between buyable art and viable mart.

Often imitated, but never duplicated, the Ben Franklin Project once again establishes the [...]

Beats, Verses, and Jingles All the Way TONIGHT, 9 PM!

[ December 10, 2009; 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Thursday, December 10, 9:00 PM
$5 at the door
Jazz Cafe, Music Hall, Detroit

“Happenings” and the Jazz Cafe, Music Hall proudly present “Beats, Verses, and Jingles All The Way!”

Ber-Henda Williams and Sean Galvin, two of Detroit’s own diverse and captivating poets, give a juxtaposed performance of poetry from their unique points of view. Sit back and [...]

MODALITY – A CCS Student Collaborative

[ December 18, 2009; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] December 18th 6-9pm, 2009 (One night only)
Russell Industrial Center: 3rd floor building 1,

The show consists of work by students from four classes at the College for Creative Studies. Soft Sculpture: focusing on the use of “soft” ideas, materials and processes, taught by Mira Burack; Carving: focused on techniques and methods of carving [...]