Friday, October 5
Art Lab J
Artwork from Motorcity Designers
5-9pm
The Clay Gallery
Reception – Interpreting Two Dimensional Work Three Dimensionally
7-9pm
Detroit Artists Market
Big Show
11am-10pm
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery
Reception – MACAA Members Juried Exhibition
6-9pm
Ellen Kayrod Gallery
Reception – Clay at Wayne State University: A Multi-Generational View
5-8pm
Lawrence Street Gallery
Reception – Celebrate the Print
6-9pm
Northville Art House
Reception – Vote for Me! Artists Respond to the Presidential Election of 2012
6-9pm
Padzieski Art Gallery
Reception – Society of Women Painters & Sculptors
6-8pm
Paint Creek Center for the Arts
Reception – Close to the Bone
7-9pm
Re:View Contemporary
Artist Talk and Video Screening: Ian Swanson
6pm-12am
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Closing Reception: Stamina
6-9pm
Performance by Anna Helgeson
5:30-7:30
Saturday, October 6
Detroit Artists Market
Artist Talk – Big Show
2-4pm
Detroit Contemporary
Closing Reception – The Home Show
6:30-12am
Dance Party – Magic City Soul Club
12-4am
Detroit Industrial Projects
Reception – Centered
6-10pm
Detroit Institute of Arts
Artist Lecture – Donald Lipski
2pm
Ellen Kayrod Gallery
Gallery Open – Clay at Wayne State University: A Multi-Generational View
9am-1pm
Hatch: Hamtramck Art Collective
Gallery Open House
12-9pm
NCA Gallery
Art Forum
The Pioneer Building
Open Studios
2-8pm
River Gallery
Film Screening – “Little Histories”
10:30am-12:30pm
Collaborative Workshop – Cut Ups and Found Sound, Stop-Motion Basics
1-4pm
Rivers Edge Gallery
Reception – Splinters and Paper Cuts
6-9pm
Russell Industrial Center
Open House: Michigan Hot Glass, Funhouse Gallery, Dave Knoerl Studio, DCCP, Mark Maness, The Rockhouse, Robert Stewart Photography, Detroit Industrial Projects
12-9pm
Whitdel Arts
Reception – Engage: Detroit Interactive Art Exhibition
7-10pm
Sunday, October 7
Detroit Institute of Arts
Lecture – Points of Contact: Freer’s Vision for American and Asian Art – Past, Present and Future
2pm
Hatch: Hamtramck Art Collective
Gallery Open House – Members Show
12-5pm
Heidelberg Project
Artist Talk – Emerging Artist Rachel Parker
2-3pm
Oakland University Art Gallery
Panel Discussion – The Academy, the Student & the Artist, featuring:
Kevin Beasley (artist NYC)
Heather Bhandari, Director of Mixed Greens, NYC & co-author of ART/WORK
Gunalan Nandarajan, Dean of the School of Art & Design, UofM
Vagner M. Whitehead, Associate Professor of New Media, OU
Graem Whyte (artist, Detroit)
2pm
UMMA
Tour and Talk – Young Hae Change Heavy Industries
2pm
Ongoing Shows Week of October 8
Cafe 1923
Mary and Eric Iverson: Flat Pop 2
Cass Cafe
Jim Chatelain
Center Galleries
For the Love of Painting: Selections From the Dicke Collection
Wednesday, October 10
Accelerator Gallery
Reception – Inspired Detroit
5:30-8:30pm
Thursday,
October 11
NCA Gallery
Opening – Portfolio Four: Standard Time
5pm
The Wright Museum
Artist Talk & Tour – Visions of Our 44th President: An Exhibition of Historic Importance
10am-12pm
The Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries: One or Two Things We Know About Art
5:10pm
UMMA
Lecture – From Eyesore and Epiphany to Elegance and Elegy: Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals
7pm
Friday, October 12
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
Reception – Biennial Michigan Ceramics Show
6-8pm
Center for Creative Studies
Woodward Lecture Series – Livestream of 2012 CREATIVE TIME Summit
10:30am -5pm
The Carr Center
Reception – A More Perfect Union
6-9pm
Gallery Project
Grammar of the Elite
6-9pm
Liberal Arts Gallery
Opening Reception – Hidden Jewels XI
7-11pm
Tank Gallery
Workshop, Artist Talk and Performance – Konic Thtr
6:30pm Workshop and Artist Talk
8:30pm Performance
Saturday, October 13
323 East Gallery
Opening – Bethany Shorb: Palimpsest
6-11pm
4731 Gallery
Opening – 2012 Invitational
5-11pm
Belian Art Center
Opening – Georg Vihos, Sixty Years
2-7pm
Detroit Contemporary
For Farm Sake: A Farmer’s Exhibition
6-11pm
Hatch: Hamtramck Art Collective
Gallery Open House
12-8pm
Pewabic Pottery
Workshop and Open Studio – Raku Party
6am-10pm
Popps Packing
Opening Reception – Three New Shows
Works by Vince Troia, Max Schulze, Iva Cepanec
7-11pm
River Gallery
Film & Performance – The Red Blob Massacre
6-8pm
The Wright Museum
Reception and Artist Talk – Visions of our 44th President
1pm
Sunday, October 14
Clay Gallery
Artist Talk – Sami Huayhua Ortiz: Art Education in Public Schools
2pm
The Janice Charach Gallery
Guided Artist Tour – Ed Meese: Colour!
2pm
Gallery Week Logos
Participating galleries, download 2012 DGW logos here:
JPG for Web
PDF for Print
Illustrator vector file for Print
Poster for Print
Metro Detroit Gallery Guide
Download the 2012 Edition now.
