Art Detroit Now — January 19

Your online guide to great contemporary art in Detroit.

January 19 – News, exhibitions, openings and events.
 

Pewabic Pottery 

 
Wit & FUNction  
 

In this age of eat-in-your-car, and dinner in a restaurant we may sometimes forget that having beautiful and amusing objects to use in our daily existence is a spur to social interaction, as well as a [...]

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Art Detroit Now Newsletter – January 12

Your online guide to great contemporary art in Detroit.

January 12, 2012 – News, exhibitions, openings and events.

Umma

Robert Wilson:  Video 50
The tiny dramas that comprise Robert Wilson’s Video 50
contains aspects of his hallmark aesthetic: surreal or dream-like imagery, the absence of a linear narrative, the conflation of seemingly unrelated characters [...]

Monday Roundup — 11/28

Freep gets to know Annie VanGelderen of the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
Stategic Staffing Solution’s CEO, Cindy Pasky, was a ballat dancer — so  . . . the arts are important for future leaders?
Detroit Country Day student performs at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Detroit’s Poetry
The artistic legacy of Fred Meijer
Another deep loss to the arts: Patron of [...]

Joseph Winterhalter: “Painting/Paperwork” at the BBAC

Closing Reception Thursday 11 February 2010, 5 to 8 pm
F.o.R. # 14, 2009, 24″ x 20″
Latex, acrylic, chalk, powdered graphite, oil, wax on canvas.
Photo: Steve Paszt
Joseph Winterhalter’s exhibit “Painting/Paperwork” could easily be called “Architecture/Poetry”; words that filled my mind as I viewed Winterhalter’s large scale canvases and ‘Text Works’. Putting industrial materials to [...]

Re-Create Yourself in the New Year Winter Classes at BBAC

Classes start January 11 register through January 15, 2010
With the new year come a host of resolutions aimed at self improvement. Regardless if the goal is to lose the holiday weight or re-fashion ourselves for a new career, we take this time to recreate ourselves. Instructors at the BBAC believe that a healthy dose [...]

Fresh Perspective on The New Year :Five Free Exhibits at the BBAC

[ January 8, 2010 6:00 pm to February 12, 2010 6:00 pm. ] The five free exhibits open January 8 – February 12
opening reception is Friday, January 8, 6-8 PM

Exhibits include Joseph Winterhalter painting / paperwork; the Mosaic Artists of Michigan; paintings by Susan Morosky; and the Students of Printmaker Celeste Roe

“Sid, the Restless Octopus” by Shonda Bottke
of Mosaic Artists of MichiganJoseph Winterhalter (Cincinnati OH) [...]

“Let the Silence Have Its Say”: A Graffiti Based Exhibit

[ July 24, 2009 5:00 pm to August 21, 2009 5:00 pm. ] Opening July 24, 2009
July 24 to August 21, 2009
Birmingham Art Center

Exuberance, energy, color, pop are words that describe “Let the Silence Have Its Say,” the new graffiti-based exhibit opening July 24 at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center. Following the traditions of Kenny Scharf and Keith Haring, the temporal exhibit is being created on site [...]

ArtBlast ‘09 at the BBAC

[ July 3, 2009; 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm. ] Celebrate Summer! artBLAST ‘09 is a beach-themed evening of art workshops for all ages, grilled picnic supper, music, and Birmingham’s annual fireworks shot off right next door to the art center. And when the “ooh’s” and “ahh’s” are over, settle into afterBLAST for a retro beach-blanket movie, coffee, and dessert while traffic clears.

All [...]

Famed Fiber Artist at BBAC for Three Day Workshop

June 18th, 19th and 20th Daily Sessions from 9AM-3:30PM.
Lanny Bergner at BBAC
“Space Botanical 4” by Bergner
An artist is like a magician because he takes materials that might otherwise be cast away and transforms them into a work of art. Internationally-renowned artist Lanny Bergner transforms industrial screening, wire, silicone and monofilament into organic [...]

Drawing Music at the BBAC

[ April 23, 2009; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Witness a unique performance & experience the intersection of music & the visual arts.
 
Well-known classical cellist Nadine Deleury performs while artists draw the music led by BBAC faculty member Gail mally-mack, demonstrating visually their experience of the sound.
 
Audience members are then invited to share the wonder & draw the music themselves.  There are no “mistakes” in [...]