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SURVIVE: TRAVELING EXHIBITION & DOCUMENTARY CELEBRATE RESURRECTION IN DETROIT

Traveling art exhibition SURVIVE has taken its one-night event to Eastern Market in Detroit this June with help from Inner State Gallery. The collection of work, curated by James W. Riley, consists of Los Angeles ‘ rising street artists DREYE, FISHE, SINER, NATHAN SMITH, and KYLE THOMAS of the LTS KOG crews. Riley purposefully chose the “Legacy […]

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COLLISION WORKS KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN FOR FIRST CONTAINER STARTS TODAY

Collision Works is an innovative boutique hotel, co-working lab, and public event space growing in the Eastern Market district of Detroit. The concept comes from Shel Kimen, founder of  Collision Works; she left New York City in 2011 for Detroit with an idea to build a 36-room boutique-style hotel built of re-purposed shipping containers.  They just launched their ambitious Kickstarter […]

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ART DETROIT NOW HOSTS ‘3RD THURSDAY’ TO ENCOURAGE GALLERY VISITS

Art Detroit Now is hosting 3rd Thursday, a new monthly art gallery ‘crawl’ in Detroit which as the name implies, takes place the third Thursday of every month. There are 30 galleries participating for this exciting new addition to the art scene. Hour Detroit Magazine recently interviewed Milana Duthie, who is the managing director of […]

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ARTIST PROFILE: ANTOINE SLEEP MCDOWELL AT THE REDBULL HOUSE OF ART GROUP SHOW

The Detroit Red Bull House of Art  celebrated its third gallery opening in December 2012 which featured a new set of talented Detroit residents. Many of our favorite artist were featured this time around- Dan Armand, also part-owner of 323East Gallery, Craig Paul Nowak, and Vaughn Taormina, AKA Count V Macula. If you didn’t get […]

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SIGNAL RETURN LETTERPRESS ENCOURAGES ART & EDUCATION IN EASTERN MARKET

Signal Return is a storefront letterpress print shop in Eastern Market, Detroit led by Director, Ryan Schirmang. The main focus of Signal Return is art, followed by education, culture, and community outreach. What Ryan explained, is that “the backbone of the space are the learning workshops they offer. So many people spend so much time on […]

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