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Bravo to Kresge Eminent Artist, Naomi Long Madgett

Terry Blackhawk — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:10:19 +0000

Like the rest of the Detroit arts community, we at InsideOut Literary Arts gave a collective cheer at Friday’s news that Naomi Long Madgett was awarded the 2012 Kresge Eminent Artist Award. At 88, and going strong, Ms. Madgett continues to be a powerful, generous force for poetry in Detroit and around the country.

I became friends with Naomi Madgett in the 1980s at Mumford High School, where I taught her Octavia and Other Poems, then adopted for use in Detroit Public Schools. The poems are poignant, exquisite meditations on her aunt Octavia, a teacher, who died of tuberculosis before Naomi was born, and they gave my students insights into many things: pride and love of family; the independent spirit of Octavia (clearly passed on to Naomi herself!); a rich historical period, as the family moved out of the South into some of the first free, all-black towns in Kansas and Oklahoma after the Civil War; the use of documents, letters and photographs. After the students wrote their papers, Naomi came to hear them read. She continued to visit my students, as did other Lotus Press authors she had published: Toi Derricotte, Nubia Kai, Bill Harris, and all the way from Brazil, Selene de Madeiros. It was a rich proving ground for what InsideOut LIterary Arts Project would become.

Naomi Madgett is tireless in her dedication to poetry and to poets. She founded Lotus Press in 1972 so that the songs of black poets would not go unsung. Over the years Lotus Press has published the work of over 90 African-American poets, including, since 1995, winners of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize given to an outstanding manuscript by an African American poet. For years, until Wayne State University Press took over distribution, she ran Lotus Press almost single handedly — attending to book design, publicity, correspondence, order fulfillment, mailings and more. This past year, when the IRS abolished the nonprofit status of Lotus Press (along with over 200,000 other small organizations), she undertook the arduous process of reapplying, doing all the paperwork and filings, and got the status reinstated.

Determined and undaunted, witty, sharp and down to earth — Naomi Long Madgett embodies impeccable standards, both personal and poetic. As the guidelines for the Madgett Prize state: “We are not interested in poetry by amateurs. Poets must have studied their craft.” Naomi knows the value of hard, careful work — in life and on the page — and she knows what it means to a poet’s career to have a book. It’s thrilling to see how Lotus Press has contributed to the careers of so many fine poets, and to think of the many lives Ms. Madgett has touched, mine included. (Full disclosure: I often serve as first reader for the Madgett Prize; my third book, The Dropped Hand, is in its second edition as a Lotus Press title.)

Naomi still makes visits to InsideOut classrooms. In announcing the Eminent Artist Award, Kresge Foundation President Rip Rapson praises her for “reaching across generations to spark in young people a love of words and writing.” In this spirit, Naomi initiated the Lotus Press High School Poetry Prize, now in its 13th year. Each year she judges poems from students in InsideOut classrooms and presents the winner with a $100 prize and a broadside of the poem that she herself creates. It’s always a pleasure to see our students live up to Ms. Madgett’s high artistic standards for craft and originality. The 2003 Lotus Prize winner “Leather Pants” is posted below. Its author Naidra Walls, currently finishing an MBA in Nonprofit Management at Western Michigan University, was an InsideOut Citywide Poet and is now — in true Naomi spirit — creating poetry opportunities for youth through a community-based nonprofit in Kalamazoo.

In October 2010, at Detroit’s Historic Gem Theatre, InsideOut hosted a fund-raising gala honoring Naomi Long Madgett with the first InsideOut Literary Legacy Award, and featuring two more poetic godmothers on the program. Presenting the award was Toi Derricotte, founder of the Cave Canem retreat for African-American poets. Our featured performer for the evening was Marilyn Nelson. On January 17, Toi was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Marilyn received the 2012 Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America.

It was a rich moment in InsideOut’s history, made all the more vibrant now by recent accolades to our presenters and this wonderful, wonderful award to our eminent honoree herself. Warmest congratulations, Ms. Madgett!

Leather Pants

Naidra Walls

Nicholas Cage is Detroit in leather pants

in the driver’s seat of a ‘95 Ford

Windstar toting around performance poet people

whining over spilled metaphors on soft Cottonelle

toilet paper.

Nicholas Cage is Detroit on 3rd Ave. dancing to music

of the homeless man with gray eyes & sings

in the choir at New Baptist. His hands shake when he

claps. Nicholas Cage is Detroit singing spirituals–on the People

Mover, at COBO Hall. He’s volunteering at the soup kitchen,

paving broken roads, stabbing fools

with their own knives while stitching bullet wounds

in their heads.

Nicholas Cage is Detroit hopped up on Frooties and asthma

medicine. He burns the pictures of the prophet in all black that

keeps turning up plastered on lamp posts. Can you see his eyes?

Dark brown , almost black, full of emptiness.

Nicholas Cage is Detroit. In blue

spandex & an “I Love New York” shirt.

He protects me from the demons flying about

the four corners of the clock’s watch.

He ate the mafia, he bought the bullets, he fires the into your

little handbook. He saved me. He mended my wounds, he

sang me the songs that kept them away, he saved me. He.

Is. Detroit. He is my pair of leather pants.

Lotus Press High School Poetry Prize winner, 2003

Detroit Institute of Arts — Director’s Letter

thedetroiter.com — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:00:31 +0000

In This Issue

Director’s Letter

Last spring I received a letter from a Viennese lawyer claiming that the DIA’s painting King David Handing the Letter to Uriah (1611) by Pieter Lastman had been looted by the Nazis from Austrian collector Dr. Richard Neumann. The three documents provided to back up this claim allowed the construction of a plausible narrative whereby the collector had been granted permission to leave Austria for France at the very end of 1938 with a small group of works of art and, following the Nazi invasion of France in 1940, had to flee France for the Americas, leaving the paintings with an individual of Hungarian origin. Compared to prices for Van Gogh paintings, the value of a Lastman is minor indeed, but the claimant (grandson of the original owner) was more concerned in reconstituting his grandfather’s collection and had just successfully pursued a claim against Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) for a major altarpiece by Maerten van Heemskerck. Under generally accepted U.S. art museum guidelines for Holocaust-related claims, the burden of proof rests with the defending museum (or, as we say informally, the work is guilty until proven innocent). As the guidelines also call for the institution charged with giving priority to such claims, the DIA’s curator of European paintings, Salvador Salort-Pons, immediately set to work investigating the Lastman’s provenance (ownership history). We knew from our records that the work came to the DIA in 1960, purchased, using funds from private donors, from the Archives of American Art (established at the DIA in 1953), which had been given the painting by a founding member. What then, had happened to it in the intervening years?


Pieter Lastman, Dutch; King David Handing the Letter to Uriah, 1611; oil on oak panel. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John N. Lord

When I was a graduate student at the Courtauld Institute, one professor routinely opened tutorial sessions by asking us to discuss a work of art brought in for his opinion–usually on the identity of the artist. On one occasion, a student (not me, thank goodness, though it easily could have been!) looked with ostentatious concentration at an Italian seventeenth-century drawing only to be told “Why are you looking at the front? Look at the back.” Sure enough, when our Lastman was examined in the conservation lab, an ink stamp on the back of the stretcher immediately shifted the story. The stamp indicated that the painting must have been in the Republic of Czechoslovakia during that country’s short existence between 1918 and 1938. Further research by Salvador in European archives established that the Lastman painting had actually been part of an enforced exchange between the collector and the KHM whereby the museum received two Italian paintings for the Lastman and a sum of money. Exactly how the Lastman got from Czechoslovakia to the KHM to be used as barter is a mystery, but as Czechoslovakia was partitioned by the Nazis in October 1938 it is possible that the history of its theft or coercion begins there and not in Vienna two months later.

By this time, the Viennese lawyer was working with a highly regarded historian of Holocaust-related art issues and we were freely exchanging all information. Salvador’s research established a detailed timeline for the Viennese collector after he left Europe: first locating in Cuba and then New York, where he died in 1958. The painting was sold to the Archives of American Art’s patron by a long-since defunct New York private gallery, the records of which have disappeared without a trace. How though, did it make its appearance in New York, having been abandoned (with someone who turned out to be an obscure private art dealer) in France? And how, we asked the claimants, did we know that the work was not sold by the collector when he fled Europe? As this is exactly the kind of situation where the burden rests with the current owner, I was braced for an unpleasant decision. It was, therefore, with astonishment that, a couple of weeks later we received an e-mail from Vienna with a German document attached, “Paintings and other Objet d’Art in the possession of Dr. Richard Neumann and located in New York” (my emphasis). On the list was the DIA’s Lastman. It was undated but our Viennese contact stated that it had to have been drawn up in 1953. Whatever its earlier history and whatever exactly happened between 1958 and 1960, the legitimacy of the transfer of ownership from Dr. Neumann to the DIA is no longer in question, and the claim against us has been formally withdrawn.

Graham W. J. Beal

Exhibitions

Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus

Through February 12
Special Exhibition Galleries: South

Extra hours have been added to the schedule for the last weeks of this popular exhibition. On Saturdays, February 4 and 11, the exhibition is open until 10 p.m.; on Sundays, February 5 and 12, until 8 p.m. Although usually closed on Tuesday, the DIA is open February 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Advanced ticket purchases are strongly recommended as time slots have been selling out. For up-to-date information on ticket availability, check the museum’s Facebook page, Twitter feed, and website.

Parking has been at a premium, but additional lots are available if the Cultural Center lot, on John R across from the museum, is full. The Rackham parking garage on Warren between John R and Woodward is open Mondays through Fridays, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. On weekends, the Macabee structure located at 61 Putman Street on the corner of Cass and Putman is open Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Valet parking is available at both the Farnsworth and Woodward entrances during museum hours. To ease the congestion at the Cultural Center lot, both the John R and Brush St. entrances will be open.

Members see the exhibition free, but complimentary reserved, timed tickets are necessary, available at the DIA Box Office, online at www.dia.org, or by calling 1.866.DIA.TIXS (866.342.8497). Remember, there is no handling or service fee when ordering members’ tickets. For more information, call the Membership HelpLine at 313.833.7971. For the general public, timed tickets are $16 for adults and $8 for youth ages 6 to 17. A $3.50 charge applies to nonmember tickets not purchased at the DIA.

This exhibition has been organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Musée du Louvre, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In Detroit, the exhibition is generously supported by The Cracchiolo Family. Additional support has been provided by the City of Detroit.

This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Above: Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch; Head of Jesus, 1648/1650; oil on oak panel. Detroit Insitute of Arts

Detroit Revealed
Photographs, 2000-2010

Through April 29
Albert and Peggy de Salle Gallery of Photography


Ari Marcopoulos, American, born Amsterdam; Detroit #2, 2010; pigment print. Museum Purchase, DeRoy Photographic Acquisition Endowment Fund

In the past decade, many photographers have paid particular attention to Detroit’s abandoned buildings and vacancy with little thought given to actual residents and the unique ways in which they live out their lives in the Motor City. New York-based Ari Marcopoulos looked beyond the city’s often stark urban exterior on a visit to the city in 2010, discovering a slice of the underground Detroit music scene in the home of teenagers Hunter and Shane Muldoon. Brothers and musicians, the pair teamed with their dad, Brian, to form a punk rock band, The Muldoons, which began performing in 2005. Marcopoulos made photographs and a video of the brothers while they experimented with guitar pedals and audio effects on the floor of their bedroom. A unique glimpse into Detroit life as well as a lasting record of their musical union (The Muldoons no longer perform together), Marcopoulos says his work reveals “something that just stands for life lived.”

Marcopoulos is known for his fresh documentary approach to subjects that chronicle the diversions and rituals of the youth culture at the end of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first. In this exhibition, his photographs and video join the images created by seven other photographers that, together, portray Detroit in terms of its people and its industry as well as its timeworn buildings and prairie-like neighborhoods.

Click here for information on a related DFT film series and here for information on a bus tour with one of the photographers.

This exhibition has been organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts. Support has been provided by Quicken Loans and Team Detroit. Additional support has been provided by the City of Detroit. Support for the catalogue has been provided by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

Once Upon a Time
Prints and Drawings that Tell Stories

Through May 13
Schwartz Galleries of Prints and Drawings


Hendrik Goltzius, Netherlandish, Icarus, 1588; engraving. Museum Purchase, Alan, Marianne and Marc Schwartz Fund in honor of DIA 125th Anniversary

Greek mythology is rife with tales of gods, heroes, and monsters, subject matter that lends itself to the theme of this exhibition: the telling of stories through pictures, with and without words. Recently acquired prints by Hendrick Goltzius are a perfect example. They depict the Four Disgracers–mortals who so angered the Greek gods that the men were thrown off Mount Olympus. Each figure is seen tumbling through space, surrounded by a moralizing inscription commenting on the individual’s particular misdeed: Tantalus for revealing the secrets of the gods to mankind; Phaeton for recklessly driving the chariot of his father, the sun god; Ixion for attempting to seduce Zeus’s wife, Hera; and the best known, Icarus, for flying too close to the sun. Icarus ignored his father’s warning not to near the sun least it melt his wax wings. When the wings did melt, Icarus fell to his death in the sea. According to the inscription, “It is something divine to want to acquire knowledge, the gift of God, but man must keep to his limits. As long as everyone has his own wisdom and does not keep the right measure in mind, Icarus gives his name to the Icarian Sea.”

Gift of a Lifetime
The James Pearson Duffy Collection

Through March 18, 2012
Special Exhibitions Central


Theodore Robinson, American, 1852-96; Giverny, 1889; oil on canvas. Bequest of James Pearson Duffy

It was a chance encounter at the DIA that led James Duffy to Detroit’s Cass Corridor and the artists whose work he would later enthusiastically collect. As the oft-told story goes, Duffy haunted the museum on Sunday mornings, a quiet time when he could revel in the art of virtually every period. One day in 1972, he struck up a conversation with a young artist, Gary McKinney, who was working in the museum shop. McKinney informed Duffy that a very exciting art scene was developing nearby in the Cass Corridor. Duffy made his way there to explore, eventually getting to know a number of artists.

The art he discovered there was founded on materials that looked industrial or as if discarded on the streets. It was a style that was gritty, urban, and urgent in its emotional power. It offered a very different kind of beauty and aesthetic experience to what was traditional in the arts. Duffy was comfortable in that milieu having helped his parents collect school of Paris works and American landscape paintings (above, left). In his Grosse Pointe apartment, Duffy integrated the art he inherited with his own recent purchases, creating bracing juxtapositions that were an exhilarating exercise in looking at works of art for their intrinsic qualities, both expressive and formal.

Detroit Film Theatre


Leila Hatami as Simin in A Separation. Photo by Habib Madjidi ©, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

It’s Oscar® time and the DFT offers two opportunities to see potential 2012 winners before the award ceremony on Sunday, February 26. First up is the always popular Academy Award Nominated Short Films, playing the weekends of February 10 and 19. The short-film nominees are traditionally among the year’s most creative and surprising films of any kind, yet they’re also the most difficult to find. The DFT presents both types in one program with a brief intermission. The last weekend of the month, check out the Iranian film A Separation, nominated for best foreign language picture. It’s a searing contemporary family drama that ingeniously morphs into a gripping legal thriller.

A late addition to the DFT schedule After the Factory, part of the Detroit Revealed on Film series, playing Thursday, February 2, at 7 p.m. The film asks the question what happens after the factory leaves town and looks at Detroit and the collapse of the auto industry and Lodz, Poland, and the demise of the textile industry for answers. Grown in Detroit, playing on Thursday, February 23, focuses on the urban gardening efforts managed by the Catherine Ferguson Academy, a public school of 300 pregnant teenagers and young mothers. As part of the curriculum, the girls are taught agricultural skills on the school’s farm, located behind the school building.

Click here for information on Black History Month related films. The complete DFT schedule is available here.

Black History Month

There’s plenty to do at the DIA in celebration of Black History Month, including musical performances, movies, lectures, and family-friendly activities. Start the month off with the Detroit Film Theatre’s Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, the story of how Kevin Clash, who from childhood dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson, became the voice of one of Sesame Street’s most beloved characters. This film plays Friday, February 3, through Sunday, February 5, and is not recommended for children younger than six. On Saturday, February 18, catch the movie Richard Hunt, Sculptor, at 4 p.m. and stay to meet the artist in an onstage conversation with Valerie Mercer, curator of the GM Center for African American art, followed by a question and answer session. The film and discussion are free with museum admission.

The Alain Locke Award, in its twentieth year of honoring artists and scholarly contributors in the field of African American art, goes this year to Artis Lane, who has depicted Coleman Young, Nelson Mandela, Jacqueline Kennedy, Rosa Parks, President Ronald Reagan, and Oprah Winfrey in her painting and sculpture. Her recent images symbolize humanity’s emergence into spiritual awareness. The artist’s talk is at 2 p.m., February 12.

Family programs for the month include an artist demonstration by muralist Hubert Massey, one of the few African American artists painting in true fresco style, and a puppet performance of Underground Railroad, Not a Subway, the story of a young boy who decides to escape slavery by running North. Musical performances feature harpist Brandee Younger (left), a saxophone quarter, steel band, and a tribute to Detroit jazz legends.

For a complete list of lectures, family activities, and musical performances with times and dates, click here.

Also In February

Kick off the Chinese Year of the Dragon (which began January 23) at the DIA with a traditional lion dance performance. The Asian Martial Arts Studio of Ann Arbor presents a Classical Southern-Style Lion Dance with live percussion accompaniment, including gongs, drums, and cymbals, followed by a demonstration of various Kung Fu forms. Performances of the lion dance are February 5 at 1 and 3 p.m.

The lion dance is an extension of the Chinese martial arts and is always performed by martial artists. All the movements of the lion are based on stances and positions from Kung Fu as taught at the Asian Martial Arts Studio. The Chinese consider the lion dance a vehicle for dispensing the good blessings of heaven to the whole community. Done during the New Year’s celebration and on other auspicious occasions, it represents the hopes and aspirations of the Chinese people for all the good things life holds.


Michelle Andonian, American; Rouge Steel, Transfer Crane, 2004 (printed in 2011); pigment print. Gift of the Artist in honor of Bill Rauhauser

On February 25, take a bus tour of Southwest Detroit with photographer Michelle Andonian, whose pictures of the neighborhood are included in the DIA exhibition Detroit Revealed: Photographs, 2000-2010. Andonian, who grew up in Southwest Detroit, shares stories about her development as a photographer in this vibrant community and the factories that have been central to its history. The bus leaves the DIA at 10 a.m. and tour stops include views of the Rouge Plant (left) and Zug Island, followed by lunch at Vince’s Restaurant. The bus returns to the DIA at 1:30 p.m. for a tour of Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry murals and Detroit Revealed. The bus tour is a joint venture of Inside Detroit and the DIA. Tickets are $47 for DIA members and $60 for all others and includes lunch and admission to the museum. To register and purchase tickets, click here.

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Art Detroit Now Newsletter – February 3, 2012

thedetroiter.com — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:25:47 +0000

Your online guide to great contemporary art in Detroit.

February 2, 2012 - News, exhibitions, openings and events.

Arab American Museum

Fighting for Democracy: Who is the “We” in We the People?

This exhibit highlights the stories of seven diverse individuals, their service to their country and their civic engagement that helped to change our American democracy for the betterment of all.

The exhibition uses World War II as a case study to begin discussion about how women and minorities have expanded the meaning of “we” in “we the people.” It looks at the experiences of seven people and traces their stories throughout the pre-war, war, and post-war periods as examples of the millions of Americans whose lives were affected by the war.

These stories help viewers to understand the conditions facing Americans before and during World War II while challenging them to think critically about freedom, history, and, ultimately, the ongoing struggle to live democratically in a diverse America.

Opening Thursday, February 2, 6pm.

Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit Revealed on Film: After the Factory

Former industrial towns are asking the question, ‘What comes after the factory?’ Detroit has been running on fumes since the fall of the auto industry and Poland’s textile industry in Lodz has been hanging by a thread since the fall of communism. In both cities, their populations have fled, unemployment has spiked, and now, they’re both knee-deep in the pressures of re-building their economies. After the Factory presents an opportunity to learn from these two cultures as their ways of life transition to something new.

Following the screening there will be a panel discussion including director Philip Lauri.

Showing Thursday, February 2, 7pm.

University of Michigan School of Art & Design

8th Annual Faculty Exhibition

An expansive snapshot of current creative practice by faculty from the School of Art & Design, with a lively mix of work in a spectrum of media, from paintings, prints and ceramics, to installation, performance and kinetic work.

On view at the Slusser Gallery, 1st Floor 2000 Bonisteel Blvd.

Closing Friday, February 3, 6-9pm.

Standing Heat

Curated by Holly Hughes and featuring the work of internationally acclaimed artist Kathy High and New Orleans based Lee Deigaard (A&D MFA ‘02), Standing Heat maps the boundary between animal and human.

On view at Work * Ann Arbor, 306 S State Street.

Runs through February 10.

Hatch: Hamtramck Art Collective

A Dream of Gentle Past: Art of Marianne Audrey Burrows
This small collection of work is entirely new. It is about reminders of places and of collective memory that pertain to the gentleness of the world.

Work is on view in Hamtramck at Cafe 1923, 2287 Holbrook

Opening Thursday, February 2, 5-7pm.

Runs through February 25.

Brown and Juanita C. Ford Gallery, WCCCD

Bruce Giffin’s Faces of Detroit: Focus and Refocus

The photographs of Kresge fellow, Bruce Giffin.

Work is on view at the Western Campus, 9555 Haggerty, Belleville

Opening Thursday, February 2, 5:30-7:30pm.

Runs through April 2.

Structured Fusion
A show of sculpture and assemblages

Work is on view at the downtown campus: 1001 W. Fort Street.

On view through March 30.

Clay Gallery

Cups of Fire: National Ceramic Cup Competition

These objects challenge us to present the most common form in a unique manner by presenting them in an interesting or provocative fashion. They are intimate forms of expression that possess strength in concept as well as technical skill.

Reception Friday, February 3, 7-9pm.

Runs through March 3.

Gallery Project

American Dream

A multimedia exhibit in which over 29 local, regional, and national artists explore how hopeful narratives of the American experience are changing.

In the definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, “life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.

Runs through March 4.

Epiphany Glass

First Thursday

A world-class-artist in her private state-of-the-art studio. 2000° hot glass-blowing demonstrations, wine, art and snacks!

Every first thursday of the month, 4-9pm.

Book Beat

Rock Legend Mitch Ryder Signing

The legendary “unsung hero” of Michigan rock and roll will be presenting and signing his new autobiography, Devils & Blue Dresses: My Wild Ride as a Crazy Rock & Roll Legend. This is a rare opportunity to meet and hear Ryder speak up close in a small and intimate setting.

Sunday, February 5, 12:30-2:30pm.

CRANBROOK ART MUSEUM

Support Cranbrook Art Museum @Saks

Throughout February, the Cranbrook Educational Community will be a beneficiary of the Saks Fifth Avenue “Support Your Favorite Charity@Saks” program in which Saks will give 5% of all Saks card purchases back to the charity the cardholder designates.

A Kick-off Cocktail Party gives patrons a chance to shop, socialize, and help Cranbrook by purchasing a $35 dollar ticket. For each ticket sold, the patron receives admission to the event and a $25 Saks Gift Card. In addition, Cranbrook receives a $10 donation! You do not need a Saks Fifth Avenue credit card to attend this event.

Kick-Off Cocktail Party Wednesday, February 5:30-8pm, 3pm.

To register for free event call 248.645.3210 or online at Cranbrook.edu and click on Saks Fifth Avenue “Support Your Favorite Charity@Saks” event.

Runs through February 29.

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Art Therapy in the News

Kelly Darke — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:19:32 +0000

Art as therapy growing in acceptance

An Rx Based on Artistic Expression

UNC Hospitals using iPads, art to treat children

Cotuit Center for the Arts and Debra Hope Colligan present ‘Healing Through Art’
The exhibit opens February 15 and the opening reception is on Feb. 18 from 5-7 pm.

“What is Art Therapy?”: On Asking Van Gogh to Play the Trombone

Art and your heart — Artistic expression can bring relaxation and healing

Connecting With Alzheimer’s Patients — Even in the Latest Stages of the Disease
“There are four activities that can typically reach persons at all stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Being visited by a child is one of them, as young Max discovered. Others include having a visit from a pet, listening to or playing music and observing or creating artwork.”

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Local Rocker is a Top 10 Finalist for Singer-Songwriter Contest

Colin Darke — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:24:37 +0000

Detroit rocks. That is a given, but the trouble I have is finding out about all of the Detroiters that rock. There are just so many great musicians popping up all of the time, it is hard to keep up. Detroit Rock City’s reputation as a breeding ground for creative, talented, and driven musicians has never waned—in fact, one of my favorite local banks, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., just killed it on Conan O’Brian this past Monday.

Well, Guitar Center through its Guitar Center Singer-Songwriter—is making my job of finding local talent a little easier. They just announced the top ten finalists of their Guitar Center Singer-Songwriter contest, which seeks to discover the nation’s best unsigned singer-songwriter. Grammy award-winning producer John Shanks selected the top 10 finalists (out of 17,000 hopefuls), and one of the finalists is local singer/songwriter Sarah Bella (Rochester Hills, Michigan). Sarah will compete on Feb. 18 at Hotel Caf? in Los Angeles, where one winner will be selected to win an array of career-altering prizes including a 3-song EP produced by Shanks – whose resume boasts 60 million records sold, 43 #1 singles and 67 #1 albums with artists including Sheryl Crow, Kelly Clarkson, Keith Urban, Bon Jovi and Alanis Morissette, as well as $10,000 cash and gear from Fender, Taylor, Shure, and Ernie Ball.

Before she travels to LA, TheDetroiter.com reached out to Sarah to learn more about her career and this contest.

TheDetroiter.com: How did you get into singing/songwriting?

Sarah: I have been singing and songwriting as long as I can remember…I clearly remember writing lyrics during recess in elementary school. Although, I didn’t make it public because I just thought of it as a hobby. I never thought I was good enough to do anything with it until I put some of my songs on YouTube. I am still taken back by the emails I get from people that tell me how my music has helped them.

TheDetroiter.com: Are you primarily a singer or a songwriter?

Sarah: I can’t really say I am more a singer or a songwriter . . . it is really both. Although I will say that songwriting is my favorite aspect of music.

TheDetroiter.com: How would you describe your style?

Sara: It’s really hard for me to define my own style, but it is definitely a mix of country, folk and rock.

TheDetroiter.com: Who or what inspires you?

Sarah: I am really inspired by truth. I think honesty is so important in songwriting, and that is what makes others connect.

TheDetroiter.com: Who are your mentors?

Sara: I am a really big fan of singer/songwriter Lori McKenna. I love how she’s a mother of five and a wife and an amazing artist. Though I’ve never met her, she’s like a mentor to me.

TheDetroiter.com: What is the Guitar Center Singer-Songwriter competition?

Sarah: Guitar Center’s Singer songwriter contest is a search for the best unsigned singer/songwriter. Hit producer John Shanks has teamed up to hand pick the winner.

TheDetroiter.com: How important is this competition to your career?

Sarah: This would be the biggest door that has ever opened for me. It is a chance to record with an amazing Grammy winning producer and a chance to network within the industry.

TheDetroiter.com: What happens if you win the competition?

Sarah: If I win, I would work one on one with John Shanks on a 3-song EP. I would also win $10,000 along with many other prizes from the sponsors.

TheDetroiter.com: Prior to this event, what was your biggest performance?

Sarah: Prior to this event, my biggest performance was the half-time show I played at the Detroit Piston’s Game where I performed two of my songs.

TheDetroiter.com: Where do you want your career to be in five years?

Sara: In five years, I would love to be doing what I love for living. It is a dream to make my passion my job.

You can listen to some of Sara’s music on her website SarahBellaMusic.com

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This Week @ the DIA, February 1-5, 2012 (Rembrandt is leaving, so get over there)

thedetroiter.com — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:33:51 +0000

detroit film theatre

IN THE GALLERIES

music

Featured Article

detroit film theatre

Detroit Revealed on Film: After the Factory

Thursday at 7 p.m.

(USA/2011-directed by Philip Lauri) Former industrial towns are asking the question, ‘What comes after the factory?’ Detroit has been running on fumes since the fall of the auto industry and Poland’s textile industry in Lodz has been hanging by a thread since the fall of communism. In both cities, their populations have fled, unemployment has spiked, and now, they’re both knee-deep in the pressures of re-building their economies. After the Factory presents an opportunity to learn from these two cultures as their ways of life transition to something new. Following the screening there will be a panel discussion including director Philip Lauri. read more

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey

Friday at 7 & 9:30 p.m.
Saturday at 4, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

Sunday at 2 & 4:30 p.m.

(USA/2011-directed by Constance Marks) Beloved by children of all ages around the world, Elmo is an international icon. Still, few people know the man behind the puppet Kevin Clash, who from childhood dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson. This enchanting new documentary tells the parallel stories of Kevin and Elmo, and how they evolved together to create one of the most beloved superstars in the history of children’s entertainment. (78 min.) DFT Auditorium $. read more

in the galleries
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Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus
Through February 12, 2012

Final Weeks! Extended Hours:
Saturday until 10 p.m. / Sunday until 8 p.m.
Tuesday 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

The approximately sixty small, intimate paintings, drawings, and prints in this exhibition show how Rembrandt van Rijn dramatically changed the approach to depicting the figure of Jesus, moving away from one of majesty, drama, and theatricality to a more human one of meditation and reflection. Special Exhibition Galleries South, 2nd level. $. read more

plant (3D)
Through February 05, 2012

Commissioned by the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, plant (3d) is a three-dimensional investigation of the abandoned Packard auto plant in Detroit by digital artist Paul Kaiser. The twenty-foot projection captures the enormity and emptiness of the plant. Plant is free with museum admission as part of the Detroit Revealed: Photographs 2000-2010 exhibition and Detroit Revealed on Film series. It will be repeated throughout the day until one hour prior to museum closing. Family Room, 2nd level (Running time: approx. 15 min.) read more

Once Upon a Time: Prints and Drawings that Tell Stories

Through May 13, 2012

Telling stories through prints and drawings is the subject of this exhibition consisting of works from the DIA’s collection. It includes selections from familiar series, portfolios, and books, as well as several examples that have rarely or never been on view at the museum. Schwartz Galleries of Prints and Drawings, 1st level. read more

Detroit Revealed: Photographs 2000-2010
Through April 29, 2012

Contemporary artists present photographs and video inspired by Detroit, its people, diverse culture, and industries in work created from 2000-2010. The exhibition includes more than 50 photographs by artists including Michelle Andonian, Carlos Diaz, and Scott Hocking. Albert and Peggy de Salle Gallery of Photography, 1st level. read more

Gift of a Lifetime: The James Pearson Duffy Collection
Through March 18, 2012

The Detroit Institute of Arts recently received a generous bequest from James Pearson Duffy, one of Detroit’s most unorthodox collectors. Gift of a Lifetime: The James Pearson Duffy Collection showcases his varied collection of drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, and photographs. Special Exhibition Galleries Central, 2nd level. read more

especially for families

Storytelling Performance: Rosie Chapman

Sunday at 2 p.m.

Join storyteller Rosie Chapman as she narrates African and African-American stories accompanied by traditional instruments. Lecture Hall, 1st level. read more

MUSIC

Friday Night Live!: Mike Monford and Detroit Effervescence

Friday at 7 & 8:30 p.m

Kick off Black History Month with energetic and spirited music composed by alto saxophonist Mike Monford. He is joined by Detroit Effervescence members Dwight Adams on trumpet, Marion Hayden on bass, Djallo Djakate on drums, and Ian Fenkelstein at the piano. Rivera Court, 2nd level. read more

Sunday Music Bar: Classical Southern Style Lion Dance, presented by the Asian Martial Arts Studio

Sunday at 1 & 3 p.m.

In honor of the 2012 Chinese New Year, the Asian Martial Arts Studio presents a Classical Southern-Style Lion Dance performance with live percussion, including gongs, drums, and cymbals, followed by a demonstration of various Kung Fu forms. Rivera Court, 2nd level. read more

drop-in workshops
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Adinkra Cloth
Friday from 6-9 p.m.

Adinkra cloth is hand-printed fabric that is made in Ghana. Learn more about this African art form and create a small banner using cloth and handmade adinkra stamps. Webber Education Wing, 1st level. read more

Drawing in the Galleries

Artist/instructors help participants create drawings to take home. read more

Youth and Adults
Friday, 6-9 p.m., British and Decorative Arts, 3rd level

Adults
Friday, 6-9 p.m., Ancient Greek and Roman, 2nd level

Youth and Adults

Sunday, Noon-4 p.m., African, 1st level

Book Arts: Accordion Books
Saturday from Noon-4 p.m.

The accordion book, also known as the concertina book, is one of the most versatile and easiest books to make. Make your own then decorate it using markers, ribbon, and beads. Webber Education Wing, 1st level. read more

Kalimbas

Sunday from Noon-4 p.m.

Make a simple version of this West African instrument using tongue depressors, scrap wood, and colored markers. Webber Education Wing, 1st level. read more

CONNECT WITH US

wednesday

Guided Tour
1 & 3 p.m.

thursday

Guided Tour
1 & 3 p.m.

Film: After the Factory
7 p.m.

Friday

Guided Tour
1, 6 & 7:30 p.m.

Drawing in the Galleries
6-9 p.m.

Drop-in Workshop
6-9 p.m.

Film: Being Elmo
7 & 9:30 p.m.

Music: Mike Monford
7 & 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

Drop-in-Workshop
Noon-4 p.m.

Guided Tour
1 & 3 p.m.

Film: Being Elmo
4, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

Sunday

Drawing in the Galleries
Noon-4 p.m.

Drop-in-Workshop
Noon-4 p.m.

Guided Tour
1 & 3 p.m.

Music: Lion Dance
1 & 3 p.m.

Film: Being Elmo
2 & 4:30 p.m.

Storytelling: Rosie Chapman
2 p.m.

Support the DIA

Your membership and donations are critical to the museum’s success.

Detroit Institute of Arts
5200 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48202
www.dia.org
313.833.7900

Admission
$8 adults, $6 seniors, $4 children
The museum is free for members.
Contact the Membership Helpline at 313.833.7971 or membership@dia.org

Museum Hours
Wed-Thur: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Fri: 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
Sat-Sun: 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Box Office 313.833.4005
CaféDIA 313.833.7966
Museum Shop 313.833.7944

Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus
Individual tickets:
$16 adults, $8 youth
tickets.dia.org or 866.342.8497
Book your group today!
Adult Groups (15+): $12
Youth Groups (6-17): $8
School Groups (grades 5-12): $6
313.833.1292 or grouprequest@dia.org

Detroit Film Theatre
Admission: $7.50 adults, $6.50 seniors, students and DIA members. “DFT 101″ series films: $5, free for DIA members or with paid museum admission.
Bolshoi Ballet in HD series: $18, $16 seniors, students and DIA members.
Discount pass cards, valid for five admissions are $30.
DFT info line: 313.833.3237

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Silent Watch: Contemporary Prints from Finland at Elaine Jacob Gallery and American Dream at Gallery Project

Clara DeGalan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:35:53 +0000

Two scalp-tingling shows opened this weekend in the Detroit area. One, “American Dream” at Gallery Project in Ann Arbor, culls a diverse bunch of artists contemplating how that mysteriously pervasive idea, the American dream, has disintegrated and rebuilt itself over the last century. The other, “Silent Watch: Contemporary Prints from Finland” brings the work of a group of printmakers across the sea to Elaine Jacob Gallery on Wayne State University’s campus in Detroit. The work in “Silent Watch” contemplates many things; the work being prints, its major point of fascination is printmaking.

Gloria Pritschet, an owner/curator at Gallery Project, told me the original title of the exhibition was “American Scene,” which evolved, over the past year of economic flux and globe-shaking events, into “American Dream,” which seemed more vital to the times. The death of the old American dream is a dominant theme in the work. There are sunsets and a sprinkling of abandoned spaces treated in various media, most transcendently in Meagan Shein’s delicate ink drawings of empty houses on wax-coated paper. However, a refreshing focus runs throughout not on decay, abandonment or despair so much as persistence, repurposing, and rude life. Most of the spaces depicted are not abandoned; indeed, they teem with people and objects, commenting both on the American concept of freedom bound up with success and material wealth and on our continuing fight to prosper in increasingly scrappy and inventive ways. Though, as the show suggests, the idea of America as a unified, liberated melting-pot has largely faded from our imaginations, the wide range of materials and media in use, taken together, form a dense, glittering surface almost in melting-pot fashion; the truth of our American Dream is hiding right beneath these surfaces.

“Silent Watch” is unequivocally a show about printmaking; but it firmly establishes this old medium as one that can, despite the layers of process that inevitably become part of any discussion of prints, point powerfully beyond itself on many levels. I’ve had a thought lately that because of that very dominance of process it becomes almost impossible to make a “bad” print; the process is always there as a bolster to at least technical rightness. If that’s so, “Silent Watch” proves that the bolster of process can bend and leap and materialize upon more that mere paper- that printmaking can find a home anywhere, on any surface, and use it to say something new. The two words that pop to mind contemplating this show are “scale” and “light.” There are wall-filling prints here as well as more traditionally sized ones, and the running dialogue with light that hums through all the work is a reminder of the range of substance and subject matter printmaking can apply itself to.

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Monday Roundup — 1/30

thedetroiter.com — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:47:31 +0000

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Detroit Twits — 1/29

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@Detroit Inst of Arts @DIADetroit #Detroit is family-friendly! @DIADetroit @thehenryford@DetroitRvrfrnt @HeidelbergProj @Motown_Museum and more:bit.ly/Ac7QLw
@Vivian Sheller @Tyeshafkq Mike’s Guide to the Motor City: World Class Art, Architecture, History, and Fun! in Detroit: amzn.to/o0ac7V
@Gary Bosshart @Garyggj Art in Detroit Public Places: Third Edition (Great Lake Books Series) (Great Lakes Books): The Detroit area is h… amzn.to/u38NtF
@Dig Downtown Detroit @DigDowntown Eastern Market shop brings antique art form to Detroit ow.ly/8JGwZ
@Dig Downtown Detroit @DigDowntown New show at Detroit gallery gives behind the scenes look at Pop Art(premier tonight!) ow.ly/8JFQd
@Artnet Magazine @artnet Detroit art critics, performance artists, one week left to apply for $25000 Kresge Arts Fellowships artnt.cm/A3WAKh
@HuffPostDetroit @HuffPostDetroit Detroit’s cultural institutions are generating big money for the local economy huff.to/zwQVPw
@Hemmings Motor News @HemmingsNews Detroit Knows Cars – and fine art, too! An exhibition fit for any gearhead: bit.ly/zLJlAA

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Art Detroit > Now 1/27/12

thedetroiter.com — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:52:51 +0000

Art Detroit Now Newsletter – January 26, 2012

Your online guide to great contemporary art in Detroit.

January 27, 2012 - News, exhibitions, openings and events.

Long-Sharp / Curis Modern + Contemporary Fine Art

Before They Were Famous: Behind the Lens of William John Kennedy

American fine art photographer William John Kennedy’s exhibition of newly published prints of Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana is believed to be the only such images in existence capturing the artists with their works. After almost half a century in storage, a select number of the nearly forgotten images were carefully chosen, and are now being published for the first time as a collection.

The collection of silver gelatin fine art prints have been individually printed by hand directly from the original negative on fiber paper.

The photographs, taken in the early 1960’s at a time when Kennedy forged a friendship with both Indiana and Warhol, capture the two artists and their soon-to-be iconic works at the seminal point of their careers and the birth of the Pop Art Movement. The collection includes rarely photographed art notables Marisol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Mario Amaya, Dorothy Miller, Henry Geldzahler and Eleanor Ward.

Opening Saturday, January 28, 7:30-10pm.

Runs through March 10.

Center Galleries, College for Creative Studies

Grid List

Grid List offers a new take on

Geometric Abstraction with a focus on the individual artist’s idiosyncratic relationship to the grid from such sources as science, nature, sports, film, graphic design and video games.

The grid is the mother of all things terrestrial – birthed from outer space.

Gravity = Vertical.

Land = Horizontal.

The two combined form a right angle. Multiply to form a grid.

This natural geometry existed billions of years before man.

Man stands upright in defiance of gravity, though is grounded by it. He realized the equation “vertical + horizontal equals a right angle” and applied it to everything from architecture to fashion.

Artists from London, New York, Detroit and Atlanta.

Opening Friday, January 27,

6-8pm.

Runs through March 3.

Elain L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University

Silent Watch: Contemporary Prints from Finland

‘Silent Watch’ is comprised of works made with etching, drypoint, silkscreen, woodcut and digital techniques, as well as several artists’ books and a three-dimensional piece.

The exhibition includes prints by the widely exhibited veteran Finnish printmaker, Outi Heiskanen, a multi-panel silkscreen work on plywood by Päivikki Kallio, two artist’s books with silk fold-out pages by Eeva-Liisa Isomaa, a dramatic wall-sized installation of layered woodblocks printed on Japanese paper by Annu Vertanen, and a lead table with movable printed components that the viewer rearranges, by Visa Suonpää and Patrik Söderlund of the artists’ collective IC-98.

Thursday, January 26, 7pm.

Detroit Institute of Arts

Lecture: Detroit Today and Tomorrow

Like many older cities, Detroit today is the site of excess urban capacity-open land, underutilized roads, and empty buildings. To redefine the city for the twenty-first century, should we look to urban agriculture, the restoration of natural landscapes, the growth of an arts-related economy? Join John Gallagher for a discussion of the recreation of Detroit as a greener, more entrepreneurial city.

Friday, January 27, 7pm.

Detroit Revealed on Film:

The Making of plant (3D)

Paul Kaiser will give a visual introduction to the methods and aims of the Open Ended Group that gave rise to the creation of plant.This three-dimensional digital film explores the Packard plant in Detroit in a painterly rendering that paradoxically derives from 18,000 photographs.

Saturday, January 28, 4:30pm.

UMMA

Curators Talk: Face of Our Time

Join Senior Curator for Western Art Carole McNamara in the galleries for a talk on the exhibition Face of our Time: Jacob Aue Sobol, Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, Richard Misrach. More than 100 photographs in this exhibition by five contemporary photographers provide insight into the sometimes volatile civil and political transformations facing society and look reflectively at contemporary culture, recording history as it unfolds slowly over time.

Face of Our Time is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Sunday, January 29, 3pm.

Cranbrook Art Museum

An Evening with Nicole Cherubini

Ceramic artist, Nicole Cherubini, exhibits three new sculptures. They are on view in the ongoing exhibition, “No Object Is an Island,” where they are in dialogue with three early vessels created by Mary Chase Stratton for Pewabic Pottery.

Cherubini, who is based in Brooklyn, New York, “brings old notions of ceramics into a contemporary sculptural discourse.” Her work invokes ideas rooted in conceptual art from the 1970s and references Robert Rauschenberg, the material use of Robert Morris, ideas about physical space addressed by Donald Judd, and Eva Hesse’s ability to challenge the 2-D and 3-D. She will certainly talk about her interests in movement, process, containment, and structure.

Thursday, January 26, 7pm.

Susanne Hilberry Gallery

Photographs

Featuring the work of Brad Iverson, Judy Linn, Vera Lutter, Bill Rauhauser and Steve Shaw.

Saturday, January 28, 6-8pm.

Runs through March 10.

Museum of New Art

Stig Eklund: Waiting for Godard

Waiting for Godard is part of the series “My Life As A Film”, in which Stig Eklund has explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety. He creates, or rather regards, things in a way that is different from that of other artists. He sees only the essential, and that, naturally, is all that he represents: A look, a small gesture, a kiss gone wrong, a shrug of shoulders.

For this reason Eklund’s work is as a rule ‘not complete’, as people are at first so frustrated to discover. But, fill a room with a dozen of these ‘paintings’ or so, and one finds they are surprisingly complete. His complete vision of an incomplete world.

Art is finished once the artist has said everything that was on his mind, and this is precisely the advantage Eklund has over his fellow artists, that he really knows how to show us what he has felt, and what has gripped him, and to this he subordinates everything else.

Opening Saturday, January 28, 6-9pm.

Anton Art Center

Michigan Annual Art Competition

The Michigan Annual brings together work from artists living and working in all corners of the state. What makes this event special is the level of diversity – ranging from established artists to those who are self-taught, teens to seniors, traditional to contemporary works. This exhibition highlights pieces created in all media including ceramics, drawing, fibers, painting, photography and sculpture.

Juror Andrea Eis will announce First, Second and Third place cash prizes to winners. Eis, the Associate Professor of Art and the Chair of Art and Art History Department at Oakland University, selected 38 pieces out of 217 submitted.

Opening Friday, January 27, 6-9pm.

Show runs through February 24.

ARTS LEAGUE OF MICHIGAN

Unique Items, Antiques and Heirlooms, LLC

Come celebrate the 1st anniversary of Unique Items Antiques and Heirlooms, LLC. View the portrait artwork of Charlie Bolden featuring President and First lady Obama, enjoy the fashion show, comedian “Double R’, musical entertainment, a special appearance by Darryl Cummingham, current holder of four boxing titles, and refreshments.

Adult Tickets: $15

Ages 6-17: $7.50

Call 313-424-8216

Saturday, January 28, 3pm.

KRESGE ARTS IN DETROIT

Application Deadline

Due February 1, 11:59pm. Includes: Choreography, Dance, Music, Performance Art, Sound Art, Spoken Word, Interdisciplinary Work.

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Bravo to Kresge Eminent Artist, Naomi Long Madgett

Detroit Institute of Arts — Director’s Letter

Director’s Letter

Exhibitions

Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus

Through February 12 Special Exhibition Galleries: South

Detroit Revealed Photographs, 2000-2010

Through April 29 Albert and Peggy de Salle Gallery of Photography

Once Upon a Time Prints and Drawings that Tell Stories

Through May 13 Schwartz Galleries of Prints and Drawings

Gift of a Lifetime The James Pearson Duffy Collection

Through March 18, 2012 Special Exhibitions Central

Detroit Film Theatre

Black History Month

Also In February

Connect with us!

Art Detroit Now Newsletter – February 3, 2012

Art Therapy in the News

Local Rocker is a Top 10 Finalist for Singer-Songwriter Contest

This Week @ the DIA, February 1-5, 2012 (Rembrandt is leaving, so get over there)

Silent Watch: Contemporary Prints from Finland at Elaine Jacob Gallery and American Dream at Gallery Project

Monday Roundup — 1/30

Detroit Twits — 1/29

Art Detroit > Now 1/27/12

Through February 12
Special Exhibition Galleries: South

Detroit Revealed
Photographs, 2000-2010

Through April 29
Albert and Peggy de Salle Gallery of Photography

Once Upon a Time
Prints and Drawings that Tell Stories

Through May 13
Schwartz Galleries of Prints and Drawings

Gift of a Lifetime
The James Pearson Duffy Collection

Through March 18, 2012
Special Exhibitions Central