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Call for Artists: PLAYGROUND DETROIT Announces 20/20 Emerging Artists Fellowship

The 20/20 Emerging Artists Fellowship from PLAYGROUND DETROIT will provide financial support and professional mentorship for artists to develop their individual practices, to identify, elevate and promote Detroit-based artistic excellence. The Call for Artists 2020 Fellowship Application opens for submissions on Wednesday, February 5, 2020. 20 Emerging Detroit artists each receive $2,000 Fellowship Award from […]

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Artist Hajime Kinoko Brings Contemporary Shibari Performance to MOCAD on Saturday, 2/1

Hajime Kinoko is considered Japans’s foremost contemporary practitioner of Shibari, a traditional Japanese form of rope-binding. The word Shibari means “to limit someone’s movement so they can not move freely,” not to be confused with Kinbaku, which means, “to bind tightly.” Kinoko explained this important distinction in a 2018 interview with Office Mag: “…the way […]

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Call for Artists: TCF Center seeks Iconic Public Art Civic Sculpture in Detroit

TCF Center is seeking proposals for a large-scale exterior sculpture which will reside outside the beautifully renovated convention center located in downtown Detroit. The winning selection will be placed in the center of the main entrance circle drive. Formerly known as Cobo Center, the newly renamed TCF Center, is Detroit’s premier convention center, originally named for […]

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Scott Klinker “Structures of Light” Exhibition Opens January 10th at 1301 Broadway

Structures of Light is a solo exhibition by designer and artist Scott Klinker on view to the public through January 2020. The installation features abstract 3D structures that define space with a new lighting technology, LED neon. The experience is like entering the space of a glowing, geometric line drawing. The exhibition will be on […]

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Kenny Karpov Releases Photography Book “Despite It All We Never Learn”

Despite It All We Never Learn, is a book of refugee testimonials taken from the Mediterranean Sea from those living in situations beyond our imaginations released by photographer and documentarian, Kenny Karpov. Karpov’s mission is to share the stories of the many refugees that he encountered during his time in Europe. The book that he […]

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“Sit Down Somewhere” Sydney G James Solo Exhibition to Honor Black Women

Sydney G James has known she was an artist since she was three years old.  “To me, Art is life. Life wouldn’t exist without it. I honestly can’t imagine my life any other way.”  The Detroit-bred and based visual artist and muralist earned her BFA at the College for Creative Studies and began her career […]

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Performance: Martin Creed’s “Getting Changed” @ MOCAD Thursday, 9/26

You’ve surely seen the sign outside of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, a statement that is at once hopeful and defiant, and some might even say too optimistic, given the city that it resides in. The piece’s name says enough if you haven’t seen it yet – “Work: No. 790: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO […]

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PLAYGROUND Presents “Asymmetric Affects” Installation by Javier Prieto X Renegade Craft 2019

In collaboration with Renegade Craft, PLAYGROUND DETROIT presents “Asymmetric Affects,” a site-specific public art installation by Javier Prieto. His work calls for being conscience about what we are part of: to break down an event (climate change, segregation, North Dakota Pipeline) into all the factors that make it manifest itself, while realizing that we as […]

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ArtWorks Detroit: Annual Charity Art Auction for Matrix Human Services at Wasserman Projects

On Thursday, Sept. 12th ArtWorks Detroit, presented by Matrix Human Services will take place as the 24th annual benefit fundraising event. As Detroit’s premier art auction, ArtWorks Detroit will feature live and silent auctions of donated works from renowned local artists, such as Tylonn Sawyer, Sydney James, Rashaun Rucker, Laurie Tennent, and over 70 other prolific artists. […]

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Patrick Ethen debuts “Field Condition” Solo Exhibition X Detroit Month of Design on September 7th

Field Condition is a hyper-sensory art exhibition that centers around a body of ephemeral, immersive light sculptures by artist and designer Patrick Ethen. He uses light as a medium to explore emergent behavior, using meticulously wired arrays of electronics to build installations which envelop the viewer in a meditative, immersive aura which feels simultaneously human […]

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INTERVIEW: Ellen Rutt on Debut Solo Exhibit, “This Must Be The Place” X Detroit Art Week

This Must Be The Place, opening on Saturday, July 20th during Detroit Art Week calls attention to the interconnectivity of earth’s complex systems through a new series of “place paintings,” made by tracing elements and textures from the physical environment and allowing often overlooked aspects of architecture and landscape to dictate the composition by Detroit-based […]

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“Signs of the Time” Public Art Campaign Hits Streets of Detroit for Detroit Art Week 2019

“During the selection process I recognized what makes something an impactful work of art, versus what makes a good billboard. When looking through the 700+ submissions [from the public artist open call], I wanted to choose work that felt like really wanted to see in that ad space. I’m stoked to reclaim billboard space that […]

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