Detroit Industrial Projects: Artificial Geospatial Laboratory

[ February 6, 2010 10:00 am to March 6, 2010 10:00 am. February 6, 2010 10:00 am to March 6, 2010 10:00 am. ] February 6th – March 6, 2010
Opening Reception, Saturday February 6th 6pm-9pm

Steve Coy
This installation explores what future spaces might look like. It is a large installation that combines wall murals, sculpture, and video projection. It examines real versus perceived or imagined spaces. Using sculptural elements combined with video and wall murals, the work [...]

Roots Blues, Boogie Acoustic Show & Jam Session at McCarthy’s Pub

Come on down and join in the sing-along!
Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 9:30pm – 2:00am

Christopher Leigh
Christopher Leigh plays solo acoustic show then invites everyone to sing or play along with him all night long!
McCarthy’s Pub
1600 West Fort Street
Detroit, MI 48216-1915
(313) 496-0626

Michigan Annual Winners Announced

Detroit Bag Lady, by Russell R. Dunbar – An acrylic painting
Over $1,500 in cash prizes was awarded to the winners of the Michigan Annual XXXVI art competition at the Anton Art Center. The winners were selected by juror Charles McGee. The cash prizes were sponsored by the Anton Art Center.
First Prize was given [...]

Jer Coons at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival

Friday, January 29, and Saturday, January 30, 2010
Hill Auditorium

Jer Coons
The AA Folk Festival celebrates its 33rd year with some of the finest in traditional and contemporary artists. The Festival returns to Hill Auditorium for two dynamic and different nights of folk and roots music on Friday, January 29, and Saturday, January 30, beginning at [...]

‘jide Aje: New mixed media work at 2739 Edwin

30 January – 27 February, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday 30 January from 6 to 9pm
Artist’s talk and gallery tour: Saturday 20 February from 6 to 8p

‘jide Aje is a Hamtramck based artist whose work reflects a deep interest in African culture, and a constant experimentation with new creative processes. Educated in Nigeria and the US, Aje [...]

Deastro with special guest Shooting Spires at MOCAD

Friday, February 5, 2010, 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

Shooting Spires is the solo-project of Brooklyn-based art rock ensemble Parts and Labor bassist/keyboardist, BJ Warshaw. The sound of this one-man-band hearkens the earliest Eno-inflected releases by Roxy Music, with a rich layering of keyboards, drum machines, over-driven guitars and voice, accented by occasional blasts [...]

Detroit Rocks For Haiti

JAN. 29th & JAN 30, 2010
Over 20 Detroit bands have come together to raise money for victims of the Haitian earthquake. Detroit Rocks For Haiti takes place on Friday, January 29th and Saturday, January 30th at the Magic Stick in Detroit.
Papa Joe Zainea (co-owner of the Majestic Theatre Center) approached retired Detroit Bishop Thomas Gumbleton [...]

Call for entries: Hatchback 4 Juried Art Exhibit

Deadline February 13, 2010.
JUROR: Travis R. Wright
HATCHBACK 4 is HATCH’s 2010 juried art exhibit and sale. It will be shown at Hamtramck’s de facto arts HQ, Café 1923, with an opening night reception on Saturday, March 6, 5-9pm, featuring live music and a Dr. Sketchy drawing session. The show opening coincides with the Hamtramck [...]

Good Luck, Cheap Girls, Delay & the Max Levine Ensemble at Trumbullplex Detroit

Friday, January 29, 2010, 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Good Luck (bloomington, in) have been winning hearts and minds everywhere they’ve visited for a few years now, and for good reason. They brought down the Cass Cafe on their first visit to Detroit a few years ago and have returned to Trumbullplex several times since. (www.myspace.com/wearegoodluck)
Michigan’s own Cheap [...]

Call for Artists: “Homophobia & Me”

1. OBJECTIVE – This project aims to show new perspectives on homophobia.  Homophobia is a negative attitude or feeling, an aversion towards gays and lesbians or towards homosexuality in general.  It is also the rejection of people considered gay or lesbian and of all things associated with them, for example, gender non-conformity.
The goal of [...]