Launching July 29, Art Mile is a citywide digital art exhibition that champions Detroit’s vibrant and diverse arts community by promoting public programs and online acquisitions. In celebration of its launch, Art Mile will host a week of public programs from July 29–August 5, featuring digital installations, artwork sales, virtual museum tours, and live events such as panel discussions, artist studio visits, film screenings and musical performances, with the potential for future activations. Organized by Reyes | Finn and Cultural Counsel in partnership with Red Bull Arts, the project will present artwork and programs alongside over 55 of Detroit’s local art institutions.

Art Mile aims to provide Detroit’s galleries, institutional non-profits, museums, and artist-run spaces with a forum to sustain and amplify engagement with creative communities at a local level and beyond. Through Red Bull Arts’ partnership, participating organizations are given free access to Art Mile’s exhibition platform and point of sales system—without any transactional fees or service charges—and are invited to participate in various public programs, collaborations and artist editions. 

Programming highlights include a livestreamed opening night celebration featuring a DJ set by Detroit techno legend Omar-S; special exhibitions such as ArtWork, a presentation of works of art made by Detroit’s art workers, co-curated by Jova Lynne and Tizziana Baldenebro; and a series of‘ empty museum tours presented by Red Bull Arts, featuring alternative cultural spaces such as the outdoor art environment Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum.

“Art Mile aims to continue our city’s long tradition of banding together in resilience, recovery, and collective dreaming, whether in periods of economic crisis or prosperity,” says Founding Partner Terese Reyes. “Detroit’s arts community has become the heart of a city bursting with creativity—that’s something worth protecting.”

In recognition of art’s capacity for social change, Art Mile will launch a fundraising campaign for three local non-profit organizations dedicated to providing Detroit youth with access to visual, performing and literary arts education: 482Forward, Inside Out Detroit and Living Arts. “These organizations recognize our communities’ collective responsibility to provide and secure high quality education for all,” says Founding Partner Bridget Finn. “They use the arts as a strategic tool to ignite creativity, empower the voices of Detroit’s youth, and drive the city toward social justice.”

To safeguard Art Mile’s mission, and ensure its equitable management and execution, Art Mile enlisted an Advisory Board of local community leaders, artists, curators, and patrons of the arts, comprising Dr. Charles Boyd; Kresge Arts in Detroit Director Christina deRoos; artist and curator Jova Lynne; and Kresge Arts in Detroit Founding Director Michelle Perron.

Art Mile Participants Include:

2061.world

333 Midland

48hr Experience

The Aadizookaan

Andy

Anton Art Center

Bryce Detroit

Bulk Space Artist Residency

The Carr Center

CAVE Gallery

Cinema Detroit

Collected Detroit

Cranbrook Museum

Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum

DarkRoom Detroit

David Klein Gallery

Detroit Artists Market

Detroit Breakfast Club

Downriver Council for the Arts

Fringe Society

Galerie Camille

Garage Cultural

Habibi House

Hamtramck Ceramck / Portage Garage

Hard Gallery

HATCH Art

Heritage Works

Hill Gallery

K.O. Gallery

K.OSS Contemporary Art

Light Box

Live Coal Gallery

M Contemporary Art

NORA

Northville Art House

Norwest Gallery

Paint Creek Center for the Arts

Paper Street Press

Paul Kotula Projects

Playground Detroit

Popps Packing

ProjectArt Detroit

Public Pool

Reyes | Finn

River’s Edge Gallery

Robert Kidd Gallery

Scarab Club

Shylo Arts

Signal Return

Simone deSousa Gallery

Soul Studio

Southfield

Unit 1: 3583 Dubois – Anders Ruhwald

Wasserman Projects

What Pipeline

REYES | FINN is a contemporary art gallery in Detroit, MI, established in 2017. Reyes | Finn reveals multiple exhibitions a year dedicated to emerging and mid-career artists. It is with such presentations that the gallery seeks to reveal a profile both internationally renowned and regional in dialogue. Collaborating with artists, patrons and institutions alike, the gallery hopes to continue to diversify and strengthen Detroit’s arts community.

CULTURAL COUNSEL is a consultancy focused on communications, strategic partnerships, and the development of public programming in the worlds of contemporary art, design and architecture, founded in 2015 by Adam Abdalla. Through valued relationships with artists, writers, curators, patrons, and creative professionals, Cultural Counsel paves the way for those interested in making a significant contribution to the international dialogue.

RED BULL ARTS (est. 2013) is an experimental, non-commercial arts program dedicated to creating new opportunities for artists and fostering public engagement in the arts. With physical spaces in New York and Detroit, the program aims to extend the boundaries of exhibition making; support the production of new work by emerging and established artists; participate in and respond to the needs of local arts communities; and contribute to ongoing dialogue around contemporary issues and thought. Red Bull Arts Detroit is home to Red Bull Arts’ curatorial fellowship, local micro-grant initiative, and artist residency program, which provides housing and studio space each year for nine emerging artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines.

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