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 [...]

Ian Swanson’s “BRB/Total Id Pigs” : One night only, Saturday July 30th @ Re:View Contemporary

Ian Swanson’s one night site-specific performance, BRB/Total Id Pigs, explores the relationship between ordinary objects and the ideas, people, places and events attached to them. Borrowing elements of various ritual paradigms, the performance is designed to remind us how commerce and ephemera shape our reality, asking us to consider how we define ourselves, and how [...]

“Barely There – MOCAD’s mission accomplished” : by Colin Darke

For a college final exam, I worked with a group of students to conceive of and participate in a performance art piece. We clashed on every idea. Our final idea frustrated me, because I thought it was devoid of any conceptual or artistic merit.
The day of the final we were in the [...]

Camilo Pardo, June 11th, ‘Fuel Injected’

323EAST GALLERY PRESENTS CAMILO PARDO’S “FUEL INJECTED”
AN ENTIRELY NEW COLLECTION OF WORK
ROYAL Oak, Mich., May 31, 2011 —
323East Gallery present a solo exhibition entitled “Fuel Injected” featuring art of Camilo Pardo. The artists reception is on Saturday June 11, from 6 to 11 pm, Camilo invites the public to partake in a uniquely Detroit-flavored cultural [...]

Memoir of A Rebellious Light : Abstract Photography by Aras Karimi at Northend Studios

Ian Swanson : All Visible Objects – Opening Reception

For his multi-media installation “All Visible Objects”, Ian Swanson presents a collection of works informed by his personal experience of home, memory, solitude, fate, and faith. Borrowing liberally from established tropes, he is candid in his seizure of symbolist tradition and openly concedes with an animistic insight into the life of [...]

March 12th a day no artist should be ’staying in’.

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 [...]

Chris McGraw – A War A Rose Opening reception at Northend Studios

A War A Rose, objects connected disconnecting- while ideas dissected destroy the united. Get lost in the exploration of the infinite and you will always find 10,000 beating hearts, blooming outward towards peace.
This is Christopher McGraw’s first solo show in Detroit. The artist is exhibiting work about the beauty of war- [...]

Grassroots Detroit: A directory of local groups making a difference

Thedetroiter.com wanted to put up an version of this so that you can just click the links! This is taken from the back of Critical Moment, “news, analysis, and culture from southeast michigan”. This is part of an initiative to list volunteer opportunities in Detroit! If you would like to include yours add it to [...]

2 more calls for artists (East Lansing & Grand Rapids)