Call for Proposals: The Macomb Center for the Performing Arts Gallery

Deadline: Submissions must be received by February 12, 2010.
The Art Gallery Exhibition Committee is seeking submissions to be included in individual or group exhibitions for upcoming 2010-2011 season.
The Art Gallery at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts is an exhibition space that displays a diversified selection of visual works by local, national and international [...]

Musictastic Sprinting Sandwich Fundraiser for The Hub of Detroit

Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 9:00pm – 2:00am
At The Cass Cafe
Wheatpaste

Photo by Trevor Long
Come to the Cass Cafe on Sunday, January 17th for a night of Music and Bike Sprints with friends from The Hub of Detroit and meet some new friends starting a bike co-op in Lansing as we kick off 2010 with a [...]

Dolores Slowinski’s “Appendicitis” In International Exhibition

Motor City Brewing Works, December 16, 2009
Chelsea Art Center through December 19, 2009.
Dolores Slowinski, Appendicitis
The only similarity between Dolores Slowinski’s three “flying sock monkeys” that were accepted into the Silver Medal Exhibition at the Scarab Club this past March and her current work is stitches. Her new series, Thread Lines, hand stitched [...]

Andy-licious Matthew Sandwich at Cass Cafe

[ December 12, 2009 7:00 pm to February 6, 2010 7:00 pm. ] Matthew Lewis, Andrew Krieger, Matthew Hanna
December 5, 2009-February 6, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 12 7-10PM

Matthew Lewis, August, 2008 34″x44″Home grown Detroit artists have a way of commanding your attention, be it intentionally, completely inadvertently or out of the desperation of after thought. Sometimes you’re just overwhelmed by ten or more names [...]

Detroit: Breeding Ground Exhibit Lives On In Print and Video

Michael McGillis, “Grommet”
Politely curious about why I have been redefining my base in Detroit, my son asked, “what are things like in Detroit?” After he has been living and working for ten years on a bucolic campus in Alexandria Virginia and now living on a boat in Seattle for three years I knew [...]

Altered Clothing and More October Action at Yes Farm

Wednesday October 14, 2009 from 6-8 pm: Clothing Collection
Sunday October 18th from 8-11: Rock Out!
Friday November 13th 7-10 PM: The Altered Clothing Show
On Wednesday October 14th- The Yes Farm is collecting clothes for artists to work with for the upcoming Altered Clothing Show. Stop-by The Yes Farm and drop-off your unwanted clothing so [...]

Bicycle Culture

As its creative population changes and grows, high gasoline prices take their toll and green thinking takes root, Detroit’s reputation as “The Motor City” is being embellished with non motorized transportation. Keep in touch with Motown’s growing Bicycle Culture here.

Film: “The Age of Stupid” One Night Only

On Monday, September 21, people in the Ann Arbor area have a special opportunity to watch the one-night-only premiere of an important new film called The Age of Stupid.
The film is a powerful “docudrama” set in the year 2055, after global warming has done massive damage to humanity. Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite stars as a [...]

State Senate Rejects Govenors Order to Close Libraries

With a vote of 21 ayes, 14 nays and 2 excused, the Michigan State Senate both rejected the Governor’s Executive Order to close History, Arts and Libraries Agency (HAL) and passed its own plan to close HAL but keep the components together within the Department of State.
This was the first hurdle in what will be [...]

The Secrets Of Guerilla Filmmaking

Ferndale Film FestivaL
Saturday, September 5, 2009, 4:00—5:00 p.m.
Como’s Restaurant
Film makers are invited to a free forum on “The Secrets of Guerilla Filmmaking” as part of the Ferndale Film Festival on Labor Day weekend.
This forum will take place on Saturday, September 5, 2009, from 4 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Como’s Restaurant [...]