The Southwest Artists’ Network of Detroit Presents: “Exit Detroit”: Update

[ March 20, 2010 10:00 pm to April 17, 2010 10:00 pm. ] Work by New York artists, formerly from Detroit
March 20 – April 17, 2010
Curated by Robert Sestok
at the Lady Bug Gallery, 1250 Hubbard, Detroit 48209

EXIT DETROIT Exhibition Closing Party, April 17th, 6-9 pm

SWAN-Detroit will host an exhibition of work by former Detroit artists now living and working in New York. The exhibit, curated by [...]

A Woman’s Blues…yours ain’t like mine at ArtRages Art Gallery: Update

[ March 20, 2010 6:00 pm to April 24, 2010 6:00 pm. ] March 10-April 24, 2010
Reception: Saturday March 20th 4-8 p.m.

There will be an Artist Talk on Saturday April 10th from 5-7 p.m. at the Gallery. Speakers will be Barbara Brown-King and Eileen Monteiro.

Brenda Stroud, Paying Homage
In celebration of Woman’s History Month. A fine art show featuring Brenda Stroud, Barbara Brown-King, Loretta Oliver, Robbie Best, [...]

Mudville USA, An Installation by Eric Mesko at the Northville Art house

[ April 2, 2010 1:00 am to April 24, 2010 1:00 am. ] opening reception Friday, April 2, 2010 from 6-9 p.m.
artist’s talk at 8 p.m
Runs through April 24, 2010

As blue skies and sunshine signal the arrival of spring, Metro Detroiters eagerly await the start of another tradition: baseball season!  With Opening Day just around the corner, Detroit artist Eric Mesko takes us on a [...]

The Chris Canas Blues Revolution at Memphis Smoke

April 3rd, 2010 at 9:30pm.
Chris Canas just released a new cd – “She’s Breaking Me”. The Chris Canas Blues Revolution will be celebrating with a big party and performance this Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 at 9:30pm. 
Memphis Smoke, 100 S. Main, (at 11 Mile Rd, Royal Oak, MI. 
Spring has sprung and the Blues is [...]

2010 WSU Undergrad Exhibition at Art Department Gallery

[ April 2, 2010 12:00 am to April 30, 2010 12:00 am. ] Friday, April 2, 2010, 5:00pm – 8:00pm
through April 30th, 2010

Wayne State University’s Art Department Gallery is pleased to announce the presentation of 2010 WSU Undergraduate Exhibition from April 2nd through April 30th, 2010. This exhibition features over 200 works of art and design by undergraduate students studying in one of WSU’s thirteen studio areas within [...]

Exposures: Photography 2010 at the Lawrence Street Gallery

[ March 31, 2010 12:00 am to April 30, 2010 12:00 am. ] Show dates :  March 31st – April 30th 2010
Reception:  Friday, April 9, 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Lawrence Street Gallery presents their fourteenth annual photography exhibit, a juried show expected to draw submissions from approximately 100 area photographers.  Exhibited works will include 35mm black/white and color, digital, and enhanced/experimental images. Visitors to the show will see photos of [...]

“Passing” the play at the Museum of African American History

Sunday, March 28, 2010 – 3:00pm – 5:00pm

“Passing,” the play, is inspired by the true story of Minerva Roulhac who was adopted by a former slave and raised as black. Minerva raised eight children (all college-educated) and lived to be nearly 100 years old; her story confronts issues of race, identity, ethnicity, complexion, class and [...]

Mario Moore

Name(s): Mario D. Moore
Mediums known for: Oil, Acrylic, Pen and pencil
Years in Detroit: 22
Affiliations: 555 Gallery, DIA, National Conference of Artists, Helton Brothers, YArts at the Boll family YMCA
Contact: mmoore@collegeforcreativestudies.edu

(titles followed by an asterisk are available for purchase)
Detroit Lover*, Oil on canvas, 72” x 38”, 2010
Eyes wide, Ballpoint pen, 32” x 26”, 2008
Looking through the [...]

Detroit’s Poet Laureate Naomi Long Madgett at the Virgil Carr Center

A Women’s History Month Poetry Reading
Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 3pm

Naomi Long Madgett
Detroit’s Poet Laureate Naomi Long Madgett, Poets Hilda Vest and Marilynn Rashid will read. In addition, Melba Joyce Boyd will perform her poetry in concert with jazz bassist, Marion Hayden. The event is co-sponsored by the Arts League of Michigan [...]

The Downtown Poetry Series at The Scarab Club

Annual Women’s Month Reading
Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 2 pm
Linda K. Sienkiewicz
a longtime Metro Detroit Writers member, is a fiction writer, poet and artist who recently earned her MFA in Fiction at the University of Southern Maine. Her short stories have appeared in journals such as the Cleis Press anthology “Frenzy,” A Twist of [...]