What’s happening March 12th? A Free Workshop about Residencies at MOCAD followed by Mashed Potatoes, a joint festival between The Lot and Popps Packing to help us discover what each of us innovative Detroiters are up to!

FESTIVAL DETAILS
7pm-11pm
Popps Packing 12138 St Aubin
Hamtramck

Mashed Potatoes is a free festival of idiosyncratic and innovative cultural organizations happening now in Detroit. Displayed expo-style in the gallery of Popps Packing, itself an evolving artspace,
Mashed Potatoes is a social event celebrating grassroots enterprises, and gives us the opportunity to wear nametags.

While by no means a comprehensive survey, this event highlights specific collaborative and community minded initiatives that inspire, empower, challenge and suprise us with their unique approach to art, music, social justice, food, fencing and storytelling (just to name a few). We can all get stuck in our own corner of the world (especially in winter). This event provides an
opportunity to find out about crazy cool cultural investigations you didn’t know about before, and to meet people face to face instead of on facebook.

The gallery space also features an open wall to be added to all night, so if you have information about a project you’d like to share, bring it!

Can you dig it?

www.poppspacking.blogspot.com
www.mashedpotatoesexpo.blogspot.com

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WORKSHOP DETAILS
Saturday, March 12 from 2PM to 4PM
The Lot and MOCAD present OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS: ARTIST RESIDENCY INFO SESSION
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 4454 Woodward, Detroit, MI
Admission: Free

ISLAND | Ox-Bow
This artist residency workshop will feature non-profit art organizations in Michigan that offer opportunities for artists, writers & musicians. Ox-Bow and ISLAND talk about their specific programs and discuss the purpose of an artist residency as well as its potential benefits.

ISLAND (Bellaire, MI) is a non-profit arts and ecology center dedicated to connecting people with nature, art and community. ISLAND helps people become native to place by:
-Supporting artists (visionaries, conceptual explorers and compelling communicators) with dedicated time, space and resources to create new work
-Restoring the old and developing the new skills and traditions of community self-reliance
-Creating and sharing a broad collection of tools for ecological living.

ISLAND RESIDENCY PROGRAM: The goal of the Hill House Residency is to support talented emerging songwriters, writers at all stages of their career and non-studio artists with a two, three or four week stay in a semi-secluded log cabin near East Jordan, Michigan.

OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ART & ARTISTS RESIDENCIES (Saugatuck, MI) is a non-profit arts school whose mission is to serve as a haven for the creative process through instruction, example, and community. Ox-Bow is a protected place where creative processes break-down, reform, and mature.

OX-BOW SUMMER & FALL RESIDENCY PROGRAM: Ox-Bow offers residencies of one to five weeks during the summer and fall. This program offers artists the opportunity to reside and work in a secluded, natural environment with a small private studio. During the summer months, artists can take full advantage of the energetic and discursive community participating in the summer program. Fall is dedicated to the artists-in-residence, and given the small nature of the program, residents have a remarkable opportunity to create a close community of like-minded, and diverse professionals.

http://mocadetroit.org/