ART DETROIT NOW - WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS
During the weekend of May 8 - 10, 2008, most Metro-Detroit galleries had unique events including openings, workshops, open houses, demonstrations and meet & greets. Some of the special events from that weekend are highlighted below.
Please check our gallery listing or www.thedetroiter.com for current gallery information.
ANTON ART CENTER
"Process" Artists - at - work
Artists Joshua Abelow, Kathy Arkles, Lucila Caro, Kelly Frank and Brian Giniewski will be at work in their gallery/studio spaces, from 12 noon until 4 pm. Come meet the artists, watch them work and even be involved in the creation of some pieces.
BIRMINGHAM BLOOMFIELD ART CENTER
2008 National City Birmingham Fine Art Festival
The 2008 National City Birmingham Fine Art Festival takes place in Shain Park, downtown Birmingham. Admission is free and open to the public. The juried art event features more than 200 artists in a variety of media from all over the U.S and Canada. The Festival is expected to attract nearly 80,000 during the weekend. In addition to art for purchase, the event features hands-on intergenerational activities and artist demonstrations.
CENTER FOR CREATIVE EXCHANGE
Bike Detroit Now
The Center for Creative eXchange has teamed up with Detroit Bikes! to host a special event called Bike Detroit Now. This moderately-paced bike tour and gallery crawl will begin in front of the Detroit Institute of Arts at noon on May 10th and will then travel to galleries in Eastern Market, New Center East, Woodbridge and then back towards the Cass Corridor and Cultural Center to stop at Motor City Brewery, Back Alley Bikes and finally return to the DIA at approximately 4pm.
This is a free event and costumes (and helmets) are encouraged!
www.centerforcreativeXchange.org
www.detroitsynergy.org/projects/detroitbikes
CRANBROOK ART MUSEUM
Academy Awards Night & Degree Exhibition Closing Party
Don’t miss the last chance to see Here and Now: The 2008 Graduate Degree Exhibition. The most anticipated exhibition of the year represents the culmination of the Academy students’ studio work and exemplifies why Cranbrook is one of the world’s great incubators of ideas and is considered fertile ground for emerging trends in the world of art and design. The evening will also feature the Academy Awards scholarship presentations in deSalle Auditorium beginning at 7:30 pm.
http://www.cranbrookart.edu/museum/
COMMUNITY ARTS @ PARAMOUNT GALLERY
Opening Reception: Inner Surroundings
Please join us for the opening reception of Inner Surroundings on Friday, May 9, 2008 from 5:00 – 8:00 pm at the Community Arts @ Paramount Gallery. The exhibit runs April 28 through June 13 and features drawings by Addie Langford, Jae Won Lee and Emily Lyman.
"Make sure to “leave your mark” in our community collaborative drawing. See gallery for details."
http://www.theparamountgallery.com/
DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET
Detroit Fashion Pages Presents: FUSION
“The union of Detroit’s top talent in Independent Fashion and art that gather together for one night, resulting in the release of enormous quantities of ‘cool’”. Featured fashion designers for Spring/Summer 08: Caroline Argirokastritis, Elizabeth Kincaid-White, Ethel Mae, Eugenia Paul, Patricia Ewel.
Opening Reception: Renata Palubinskas - “Schnook’s War On Terrorism”
This story of a dog wearing a dress who is wanting to do something heroic, “Schnook” leaves his simple home for Washington to ask the President for advice. The President sends him on a mission to fight terrorism and catch the terrorist goat leader and in the process, Schnook transforms into a hero and becomes rewarded.
Illuminate Detroit at Studio One Apartments @ 4501 Woodward Ave (one block south of DAM)
Detroit’s legendary Illuminate event taking place on May 9 at Studio One Apartments, Midtown Detroit’s newest residential development. Party-goers will get the first view of the furnished models while enjoying cocktails, local cuisine, live music, an art display and Illuminate’s most unique fashion show to date! Artwork provided by DAM. $10 at the door. All proceeds from the event benefit StandUp for Kids, a non-profit organization that helps rescue homeless and at-risk youth.
DAM artists include: Taurus Burns, Jason Cornish, Robert Crise, Darcel Deneau, Jerome Ferretti, Joe Fugate, Robin Hages, Matthew Hanna, Komora Hosic, Melissa Jones, Bowen Kline, Andy Kreiger, Paul Mungar, Charles Owens, Carl Oxley III, Shonna Pryor-D’Medici, George Rahme, Mark Sengbuschhttp://www.detroitartistsmarket.org/
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
Friday Night Live
The new DIA will devote its Friday Night Live to celebrating Detroit-area visual and performing arts. The museum will feature its own Detroit artists LaVern Homan (multi-media), Vito Valdez (multi-media), and Joye Opoku Ofei (painter) from 6-9 p.m. on May 9. Detroit duo ADULT, known for their dance-punk music, will present a short, silent horror/art film accompanied by electronic horror music at 7 and 8:30 p.m.
http://www.dia.org/ashcan_home.asp
EPIPHANY GLASS
Ready, Set, Blow!
Master glass blowers April Wagner and Jason Ruff hold their 7th annual Michigan Glass Month open studio in conjunction with the Art Detroit Now Celebration.
Wine.Splendor.Art.Snacks.Hotness
http://epiphanyglass.com/epiphanyglass/index.html
LEMBERG GALLERY
Opening Reception: Mark Fox "Paper Bulls"
http://www.lemberggallery.com/
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT (MOCAD)
Opening Reception: Considering Detroit
Considering Detroit, MOCAD's next show, which opens on May 10th at 7pm and continues through July 27th, is the first exhibition in a series that MOCAD is planning to explore contemporary art of the Detroit area. With a goal of eventually documenting the recent history of the art of this region, the seven artists or groups participating were selected on the merits of their work and for their various connections to the place. For the 2008 exhibition MOCAD has chosen the following seven artists to highlight: Ellen Cantor, Maurice Greenia, Jim Gustafson, Allie McGhee, Heather McGill, Gordon Newton and the artist collective TIME STEREO.
THE OVERPASS @ RUSSELL
The 52 Hour Chance @ the OVERPASS at Russell
Come celebrate 52 hours of collaborative creation.
Join us in a 52 hour open jam of music, mural, collage, assemblage sculpture and t-shirt screen printing. Just bring any useful materials; paints, brushes, instruments, noises, magazines, images, found objects, t-shirts...Music and Poetry by;
Angelo Conti, Tom Budday, Mother Whale, Food for Owls, The Beards, Eric Waters, Urine Sample, As Centaurs, Black Seal, Weston Parker, Arrow/Spear/Sword, Jason Tobin, the Questions, Polar Opposite, The Nerve, Joe Whizner, the JIG... and others
More Info theoverpassatrussell@gmail.com / 734.812.8609
PAINT CREEK CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Rochester Hills Community Schools K - 12 Art Show
James Parker: Photographs
Reception for the Rochester Hills Community Schools K - 12 Art Show is from 6 - 8 PM, Thursday evening in th Main Gallery. This event is free and open to the public.
PCCA is also proud to present James Parker: Photograph, a group of photographs documenting agrarian landscapes and architecture from the Great Plains to the Midwest.
RIVER'S EDGE GALLERY
"Arts and Tarts"
River's Edge Gallery is participating in Art Detroit Now May 8th - May 10th with an Arts & Tarts event. Our three floors and the Patricia Izzo Fine Art Photography Gallery will be open for viewing the entire weekend with treats for patrons. Patricia Izzo will be on hand most of the weekend to give studio tours, please call ahead to be sure to catch her (734)246-9880. Our house artists will be stopping by throughout the weekend to visit with all Art Detroit Now visitors. One of our gallery directors will be on hand to give tours and talks as well. In celebration of Earth Day and the greening of Wyandotte the River's Edge Gallery will continue its show, Shades of Green: art Rescued, Recovered, Reworked & Repurposed.
RUSSELL INDUSTRIAL CENTER
Spring Show and Sale
Once again the artists and craftspeople will be opening their studios for The Russell Annual Spring Show and Sale. Participating artists include Mark Arminski, Kevin Beasley, Rick Boffman, CAID Gallery, CAVE, Detroit Industrial Project, Julie Fournier, Galerie Camille, H.A.T.C.H., Megan Jones, Mike Kelly, Andrew Kem, Ryan Mathews, Michigan Hot Glass, Matt Pawenski, George Rahme, Andrzeji Sikora, Scott Sprague Studio, Jake Steenholdt, Robert Stewart, Jeanette Strezinski, Pete Traskel, and Ernest Warrick.
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY - ELAINE L. JACOB GALLERY
Still Pulling: Traditional Printmaking in the Digital Age
Wayne State University’s Elaine L. Jacob Gallery will host three days of gallery talks in conjunction with Still Pulling: Traditional Printmaking in the Digital Age by artist Denes Galfi on May 8th and 9th at 3pm, and by Galfi and Still Pulling curator Pamela DeLaura on May 10th at 3pm. These events are free and open to the public. Still Pulling features hand-pulled prints by 20 artists from across the United States and Canada. Each artist is represented in this exhibition by 2-4 prints. The artists selected by Curator Pamela DeLaura, Associate Professor of Art at Wayne State University, for this exhibition utilize traditional print processes and share an aesthetic of abstraction that references nature.
Still Pulling will be presented in the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery from March 21- May 16, 2008.
http://www.art.wayne.edu/jacob_gallery.php
Updated 5.15.2008
