Artist: Bridget Michael Location: Trinosophes Breakfast: BM – Peppermint tea, breakfast sandwich on a biscuit (no egg, no cheese, no garlic aoli, added greens), apple slices, side of hippie salad SRS – Coffee (black), cinnamon roll The best part of this day–or any day this week, to be honest–was when […]
It is with sadness and gratitude that I mark the final event of my year as a Kresge Fellow, though I understand that connections and opportunities will continue to happen on a one-to-one level. The curriculum put together by Creative Many and the KAID staff has been really enriching, and […]
Artist: Marie T. Hermann Location: Honest John’s Breakfast: MTH – Coffee, “The Special” (scrambled eggs, bacon, rye toast) + side of French toast SRS – Coffee (black), French toast, side of bacon + side of fries There is really nothing I love better than a petite woman who eats like […]
If you build, they will read. That seems to be the underlying conceit of the Little Free Library movement, founded in 2009 in Hudson, Wis., by a man named Todd Bol. Since his first Little Library, the idea of distributing free books on a take-one, leave-one basis out of eye-catching, […]
Artist Katherine Craig in front of her work “The Illuminated Mural” (photo by Trilogybeats, all images courtesy the artist) DETROIT — Michigan kicked off 2016 with all kinds of breaking litigation news. Leading the pack, before the horrific revelations of Flint’s water crisis and the Detroit Public School shutdown, artist Katherine Craig filed suit in US […]
http://hyperallergic.com/256845/the-modernist-inspired-watercolors-of-a-pioneering-pueblo-painter/ 1966 Peel Trident 1957 Iso Isettacarro
SO excited to announce that we have a publishing date for the print version of Essay’d that we’ve been working on for months now, which collects the first year/30 essays about Detroit artists, written by myself, Prof. Dennis Nawrocki, critic and writer Matthew Piper, and gallerist Steve Panton. It’ll be […]
Image courtesy of 826michigan For the last decade, 826michigan has operated the Liberty Street Robot Supply & Repair in Ann Arbor, Mich.—just one in a network of locations across the state and country whose humorously nonsensical business facades front a series of reading and writing learning labs staffed by volunteer […]
EAST LANSING, Mich. — The conceptual foundation for Material Effects, and the first thing you encounter upon entering the first-floor gallery of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, is a documentary film by Antje Majewski about influential Senegalese artist Issa Samb. La Coquille: Conversation entre […]
Back in 2014, the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at University of Michigan was awarded a $100,000 Knight Arts Challenge grant for the creation of the Brightmoor Maker Space—a new maker space with the goal of fostering a “wider creative confidence” in the lives of the surrounding […]