UPCOMING INAUGURAL DETROIT ART WEEK LAUNCHES ON JULY 20TH THROUGH 22ND
UPCOMING INAUGURAL DETROIT ART WEEK LAUNCHES ON JULY 20TH THROUGH 22ND
Detroit Art Week (July 20 – 22, 2018) is an annual self-guided tour and celebration of contemporary art and culture in Detroit.
For three days, Detroit’s art scene invites visitors to attend gallery and museum tours, open studios, intimate studio and site visits, artist talks, and various special programs, alongside the parties, music, nightlife, and culinary experiences that make summers in Detroit so beautiful. Detroit Art Week is free and open to the public.
The vision of Detroit Art Week is to help establish Detroit as a global destination for contemporary art and culture and its mission is to promote Detroit artists, galleries, and cultural institutions worldwide. By promoting to the world art and culture in Detroit and creating a space for dialogue, DAW aims to inspire art practitioners and professionals, help stimulate the local art economy and small business, and show everyone a good time.
Programs
Detroit Art Week encapsulates the unique diversity of contemporary art and culture in Detroit. The work of nearly 100 artists will be on view via exhibitions, site visits, open studios, studio visits, performances, parties and more.
Happenings will take place at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Flowers of Vietnam (named one of the best restaurants in America by GQ), the Heidelberg Project, PLAYGROUND DETROIT, Red Bull House of Art, Stanley Kresge Estate, What Pipeline and at the studios of Hamtramck Ceramck, Scott Hocking and Cristin Richard, and many others.
4:30 PM – 5:45 PM
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
5200 WOODWARD AVE
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
5200 WOODWARD AVENUE
Dinner Celebrating Carole Harris + Allie McGhee
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018
8:30 PM – 11:30 PM
FLOWERS OF VIETNAM
4430 VERNOR HWY
To celebrate Carole Harris and Allie McGhee’s two-person exhibition (Repetition, Rhythm and Vocab) at the Detroit Institute of Arts, DAW will host a private dinner at Flowers of Vietnam, named one of the “Best Restaurants in America” by GQ in 2017. Formerly a clandestine, weekend-only destination hidden inside a Coney Island, today Flowers of Vietnam is a leader in Detroit’s dining scene.
SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2018
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
DAVID KLEIN GALLERY
1520 WASHINGTON BLVD
Join David Klein Gallery for bubbles and a chat with artist Mario Moore, whose exhibition, Recovery, contemplates the process of self-care – a distant luxury for black men, despite being historically bombarded with endless conflict against their minds and bodies.
A Difficult Pair Opening Reception
SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2018
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
PLAYGROUND DETROIT
2845 GRATIOT
In A Difficult Pair, Victoria Shaheen and George Vidas use materials associated with industrial and commercial applications to probe questions of identity, hierarchy, and material culture. Shaheen uses commodity culture, image saturation and the history of decorative arts and design to create contemporary environments that deconstruct hierarchies, expose absurdity in social systems, and simply make viewers laugh. Vidas also uses humor to convey witty concepts and ideas through his neon work.
SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2018
9:00 PM – 12:00 AM
MUSIC BY WAAJEED + BEIGE
STANLEY KRESGE ESTATE
74 ARDEN PARK BLVD
To support art education at Detroit Cristo Rey High School, Detroit Art Week will host an evening of cocktails and music at the historic Stanley Kresge Estate, featuring a live set from legendary producer and DJ Waajeed and hometown favorite BEIGE.
Detroit Cristo Rey High School provides college-preparatory Catholic high school education, in the Cristo Rey Model, to students from economically disadvantaged families in Detroit.
SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2018
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
RED BULL HOUSE OF ART
1551 WINDER STREET
FREE
REJECTING REALITY – a one-night-only, up close and personal glimpse into another dimension – with Detroit Bureau of Sound and architect Aaron Jones will fuse avant-garde music with immersive architectural installations into an apparatus for sensory escape. This escape mission will de-familiarize the familiar through unconventional relationships in music, self, and infrastructure. A diversion for your senses showcasing a spectrum of modern-classical compositions and special guest performer Pamela Z within a fully transformed environment at Red Bull House of Art.
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