Angela Pham

Name(s): Angela Pham
Mediums known for: Small things you can eat or look tasty
Years in Detroit: 6 years
Affiliations: Cave
Contact: angelasmailbox@gmail.com

Work in Progress, 2011
Work in Progress, 2011
Work in Progress, 2011
Work in Progress, 2011
Work in Progress, 2011
”Untitled” plastic children’s chair, steel, banana, corn kernels, lemon rind, lemon skin, lemon seeds, lemon pulp, monofilament, kinetic walls, 10′x15′x8′, 2010

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Robert Bailey

Name(s): Robert Bailey
Mediums known for: Painting, more recently paint on paper
Years in Detroit: Entire Life
Affiliations: Knows Kathy Rashid
Contact:

“I WUB U”

“YUM YUMS”

“YUMMY YUM YUMS”

“CUPCAKE WITH STRAWBERRY”

“FRENCH VANILLA FROSTING”

“BON BON”

These webpages are courtesy of thedetroiter.com, we asked local artists who their favorite local artists were (who didn’t and may have never had their own [...]

The Public Art Project Call for Artists! Currently up: “Everything at Once” (Krieger, McGillis, Snider)

Do you ever wonder what your work would look like if you could blow it up in scale and make it public? The billboard on Woodward Avenue and Maplehurst in Ferndale has a beautiful new collaboration piece and your work could be next! It’s a street level venue that is seen probably by thousands of [...]

Kathleen Rashid

Name(s): Kathleen Rashid
Mediums known for: Painting, Huge Puppets
Years in Detroit: 55 years in Detroit
Affiliations: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 555 Gallery, SWAN
Contact: krashid@dia.org, 313.833.0126

''Bread in a Bag'', oil on canvas, 20''x16''
''Sock'', oil on canvas, 30''x40''
''Soap'', oil on canvas, 18''x24''
''Faucet'', oil on canvas, 18''x24''
''Lock'', oil on canvas, 18''x24''
''Rubber Band'', oil on canvas, 18''x24''

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A tour, two pours and a sunrise.

July 30th will go down as one of those Detroit summer days where too many enticing things were happening at once. On a day like this organized people are arranging and re-arranging datebooks or Google calenders, and the only sure thing we all know is that we’re starting the day with Eastern Market. The Maker [...]

The Hinterlands present the premiere of their original performance Manifest Destiny! (there was blood on the saddle)

Detroit-based physical theatre company, The Hinterlands, will present
their original, site-specific, psychedelic Western, Manifest Destiny! (there was blood
on the saddle), at the historic Jam Handy Film Studio August 4-6 and August 25-
27 at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $15. For reservations please call 313.454.1756 or email
info@thehinterlandsensemble.org.
Inspired by the larger-than-life figures of Billy The Kid, Calamity Jane, and [...]

Local artists spotted in the Detroit Institute of Arts

The new Kresge Fellows in the visual arts have been announced and in a nice change up, there are some new works on view in the contemporary wing of the DIA, from Mark Newport, Anders Ruhwald and Gary Eleinko. Another treat is the new use of the Walter Gibbs Gallery to showcase work by visitors [...]

Elizabeth Sutton

Name(s): Elizabeth Sutton
Mediums known for: Photography
Years in Detroit: 41 years in Detroit
Affiliations: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 555 Gallery, SWAN
Contact: elizajsutton@gmail.com, 586.604.3279

The series is called “Portrait of an Environment”, Poloroid, foam core, paint and created in 2009.
All the works are 10” x 10”, click each image to enlarge.
(Warren + 15th Street Car Lot)
(Belle Isle [...]

Rose Rivard

Name(s): Rose Rivard
Mediums known for: Mixed media sculpture, prints (intaglio, wood block, screen printing), drawing
Years in Detroit: 21 years in Detroit
Affiliations: Affiliated with Wayne State University, I’m the preparator for the Community Arts Gallery and the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery on Wayne State’s campus
Contact: rardogg@gmail.com

‘‘Camel Squawk’‘ – cast bronze, 1.5’x8’‘x8’‘, 2010
”Untitled” – steel, [...]

Cranbrook MFA vs. Nolan Simon/CCS Students vs. BBAC vs. Chris Riddell

What works resonate with you? Work that inspires you to make you want to get into the studio? Work that makes you so stimulated that you want to grab your friend to come and stare at it with you? Work that makes you lose your side blinders and begin to see art everywhere? Or is [...]