Speak Their Names: Ancestral Legacy 3-D Collage Workshop

At Tulani Rose
Sunday, March 14, 2010, 1:00pm – 4:00pm
RSVP by February 26th

Explore the role of ancestors as part of the foundation of our spiritual and everday lives and learn the 3-D collage technique of creating a portable ancestral altar box with collage artist, Renee M. Dooley. The artist whose work is influenced by mythology, folklore [...]

“Permastoned/Brainewaved Sensitivity” at Cave

New Works by David Flaugher
February 27, 2010 – Opening from 6pm -10pm

Stuck on a wavelength that is immensely sensitive to outside vibrations.
A living, breathing bog of thoughts endlessly growing and evaporating in the swamp that is my consciousness.
The illusion of my imagination and its criticism of linear time.
Concerned about nothing.
Sun as self.
So accustomed to [...]

The HUB of Detroit Benefit Concert w/ The Hentchmen and Wheatpaste

Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 9:10pm- 2:00am
The Park Bar

Wheatpaste>
The Hentchmen and Wheatpaste provide a night of musical entertainment for the benefit of the HUB of Detroit!
Doors at 9pm
Regretfully this show is for people 21 years old and older only.
$5 gets you in with part of the door and bar take going to the HUB of [...]

Token Louge Jumbo Jam

Open mic hosted by the Leigh Roy Blues Band
Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 9:00pm -1:00am
Christopher Leigh
Christopher Leigh & Detroit Roy host the Electrifying Jumbo Blues Jam as the brand new Leigh Roy Blues Band, come see new compositions performed written by Chris & Roy to be released on their first cd together this spring. Skeeto [...]

Boondock Saints 10th Anniversary Party

at The Crofoot Ballroom
Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010
Director, Stars and Soundtrack Artists Celebrate with Fans

The Crofoot Ballroom and On the Rocks Detroit are proud to present the 10th Anniversary of The Boondock Saints: a VIP Fan Party on Wednesday, February 24, at The Crofoot Ballroom (Pontiac, Michigan). Join creator/writer/director Troy Duffy, actors David [...]

MOCAD Winter 2010 Readings Begin With Cuban Poet Jose Kozer

Saturday, February 20, 2010- 7:00pm – 10:00pm

MOCAD’s Winter 2010 Readings series curated by Barry Schwabsky begins on Saturday, March 20th w/ a bilingual poetry reading with preeminent Cuban poet, Jose Kozer reading his own works in the Spanish language and local poet, educator and activist, Marilynn Rashid reading English language translations of Kozer’s works.
The reading [...]

“Mind” at The Gallery Project

[ February 24, 2010 3:00 am to March 28, 2010 3:00 am. ] February 24 through March 28, 2010
Reception Friday, February 26 from 6-9.

Heather Accurso, “Peach Pit and Three”
Gallery Project presents Mind, a multimedia exhibit in which 33 seek to represent depictions and interpretations of what we commonly call mind. It brings together artists who speak of mind, whether recalling and interpreting, depicting and conveying, questioning [...]

The Insiders, Five Views On The Figure at The Black Lotus

[ February 18, 2010 10:00 pm to March 10, 2010 10:00 pm. ] Through March 7, 2010
Artists Reception February 21, 2020 7-10pm

“The Insiders…Five Views on the Figure” is a show that takes a look at 5 artists during critical early phases of their career. Phases where they absorb and apply the techniques learned from modern and classical masters and combine them with the vitality and innocence [...]

Cranbrook Academy of Art Lecture Series: Hernan Bas

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 -6 pm
“An Evening with Hernan Bas”

Bas continues to indulge his fascination with the history of painting, fantastical tales of the supernatural and Neo-Gothic romanticism to form a new series of paintings.  He has moved away from the decadent dandies of earlier series towards fertile landscapes populated with exotic creatures and waifish [...]

MACRO/micro exhibition

[ February 21, 2010 9:00 pm to March 20, 2010 9:00 pm. ] The Gallery, Marygrove College Department of Art
Curated by Nelson Smith
February 21 – March 20, 2010, opening Sunday February 21, 3-6 p.m.

In science the world behaves differently depending on scale. The very small does not appear to follow the same rules as the very large. Yet as we become increasingly sophisticated in visualizing the world, the [...]