FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018
4:30 PM – 5:45 PM
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
5200 WOODWARD AVE

Detroit Art Week kicks off with a moderated conversation between Carole Harris and Allie McGhee, acclaimed for their distinct abstract aesthetic that has endured for over 40 years. The discussion will explore what it means to live and make art in Detroit, maintain a long-standing artistic practice, as well as the role art can play in community building. 

FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
5200 WOODWARD AVENUE

Carole Harris and Allie McGhee’s distinct abstract aesthetic has endured and evolved for more than 50 years. Harris is a fiber artist whose process emulates that of a painter, often revising her earlier decisions and doubling back in a medium that traditionally progresses linearly. McGhee is a painter who frees his canvases from their flatness through the kinetic energy created by using them not only as support, but almost as the subject. In diverging from tradition, these two Detroit veterans have converged on common ground. Repetition, Rhythm, and Vocab presents Harris and McGhee together in homage to the harmony of their improvisational languages and to the city in which they found their voices.

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.

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

BUY TICKETS HERE

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.