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| December 15 – News, exhibitions, openings and events.
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ArtServe Michigan & Mocad
Artist Development Summit
Developed by ArtServe Michigan and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and presented in partnership with the College for Creative Studies and Cranbrook Academy of Art, this 1.5-day summit is designed to empower artists of all disciplines to take the next step in building sustainable professional creative practices.
The Artist Development Summit will be a lively mix of presentations, provocations, discussion and opportunity to connect. It will also be a key opportunity to share your ideas, knowledge and skills with other participants. The Summit will conclude with an “unconference” of targeted discussions exploring how to shape the future of Detroit as an Artist-centered City.
Topics covered will include writing for artists, independent publishing, funding your work, intellectual property and strategic planning to define and realize a personal vision of success.
The workshop is for artists of all disciplines – including visual, literary, film, theatre, dance, performance, new media and other artists.
Friday, December 16, 6:30-8pm.
Saturday, December 17, 10-5pm.
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Mocad
Reading: Mel Nichols and Tyrone Williams
Mel Nichols teaches digital poetry, creative writing, literature, and writing for artists at George Mason University. On this very special evening, Nichols will be presenting works of experimental criticism culled from her vast body of diverse works.
Poet and scholar Tyrone Williams was born in Detroit and attended WSU. He will present a reading utilizing the work of Californian artist and poet Wendy Kramer’s emails and responses to his “interpretations” of her collages created for friends. He will present Kramer’s responses to his work, “enacting homologies between art, writing and audiences” as a way to problematize the “locus” of what Williams is calling Kramer’s “Friend-Specific” art.
Thursday, December 15, 7pm.
Family Day: Holiday Hootenanny
This third-annual Holiday Hootenanny is a gathering of kids and grownups brought together for the express purpose of singing, stomping, shouting, strumming, taking part in silliness and otherwise making music for the whole family. For this year’s edition, MOCAD will be leading holiday craft workshops, making fun and creative musical instruments from recycled and everyday materials.
Sunday, December 18, 12-4pm.
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Umma
Guided Tour of Mark di Suvero: Tabletops
Gather in UMMA’s Project Gallery to tour fifteen of Mark di Suvero’s rarely exhibited smaller scale pieces, or tabletops. The tabletops are an expressionistic and engaging genre as well as an exploration of the artist’s ideas relating to the calligraphic nature of form, balance, proportion, and movement.
Sunday, December 18, 2pm.
Third Thursdays
This exciting performance series falls on the third Thursday of each month and features student performers who work in a variety of media, including music, comedy, and spoken word. It’s a great way to spend an evening with your friends and to experience the exceptional talent of UM students. This series is curated and produced by UMMA’s Student Programming and Advisory Board.
Thursday, December 15, 8pm.
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The Scarab Club
Deadline for Submissions: 2012 Silver Medal Exhibition
The Silver Medal Exhibition is an unthemed, all-media exhibition and is open to all artists.
Juror, Clinton Snider is an artist living in Metro Detroit. His work focuses on the urban American landscape as it transitions between history and memory, man and nature, and rebirth and decay. He earned a BFA in painting at The College for Creative Studies in 1997. Since then he has been exhibiting his paintings, and installations throughout the metropolitan area including the Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Cranbrook Museum, Saginaw Museum of Art, and internationally at the Kunst-Werke Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin, Germany.
Deadline: Sunday, December 18, 5pm.
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The Detroit Contemporary
The Performance Laboratory Presents “The Sober Show”
Please join us for our next installation of The Performance Laboratory, “The Sober Show”.
Featuring the work of: Stephen Dueweke, Bridget Michael, Megan Montgomery, Laura Pazuchowski, Jackie Strez and Aaron Timlin.
The Performance Laboratory is a performance series that happens every other month at Contemporary Art Institute Detoit’s (CAID) division of the Detroit Contemporary.
Friday, December 16, 8pm.
Detroit Broadcasting Company Seeking People
We are currently seeking creative and technical people for our employee owned Detroit Broadcasting Company. We are about to embark on a new season of Tonight@theCAID and the development of a internet based sitcom, a cooking show and a new news show anchored by Detroit high school aged youth. We are seeking creative writers, journalists, camera operators, producers, actors and actresses, set designers and builders, make-up artists, editors, and more. DBC is owned by those working on the programs for the company. You make it, you own it!
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Art|Room Pontiac
New Works Available
Limited editions and works on canvas available this weekend at art|oom Pontiac located at 7 N Saginaw.
Friday, December 16, 1-6pm.
Saturday, December 17, 1-8pm.
Sunday, December 18, 1-6pm.
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Rivers Edge Gallery
Christmas Display
The first floor gallery will feature the works of Michigan’s famed lighthouse artist Leo Kuschel and the beautiful works of Nancy Byrum.
Also on display, Heroines and Serpents and SLAW ornaments for sale.
Meet the Artist Night Friday, December 16.
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4731 Gallery
“Look Before We Leap”
4731 is proud to host the gifted cadre of African-American painters assembled under Fraternal Easels. This exhibition features the talents of Mario Moore, Christopher Batton, Senghor Reid, Gregory Johnson, Alonzo Edwards, Ant Lavelle, and many more.
Musical performances by 24/7, Alonzo Freed, J. Knox, L’Renee, and Mic Phelps.
Spins by DJ Primeminister and the MC for this evening will be Flaco Shalom.
Saturday, December 17, 6-11pm.
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Heidelberg Project
Emerging Artist Opening: “Colors, Concepts & Contradictions”
The Heidelberg Project closes the first year of their Emerging Artist Program with Eugene “Geno” Harris. Detroit native and co-founder of the artist group, Poor Man’s Art Collective, Harris was inspired to create “Colors, Concepts and Contradictions” by the Pablo Picasso quote, “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” Harris was inspired to push himself because much like the Heidelberg Project, there are no limitations and no jury.
Working primarily with decoupage, Harris’ works encompass depth and emotion and show his range in use of bold, vivid colors by affixing colored paper to textured wood
Opening reception Saturday, December 17, 6-8pm.
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ANTON ART CENTER
The Anton Art Center, on behalf of the Michigan Council for the Arts & Cultural Affairs is now accepting applications for Minigrants up to $4,000 to help fund Arts and Cultural projects occurring March 1through September 30, 2012 in Macomb and St. Clair counties. Who may apply? Schools, Cities, Towns, Villages, Churches, Civic Cultural & Art Groups, Libraries & Other Non-Profit Organizations.
Application Deadline: January 31, 2012.
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