Essay’d named as 2016 KAC Finalist!!
Hey, Essay’d made the cut as a 2016 Knight Arts Challenge finalist! Pray for us, friends. Pray for our very souls.
Essay’d Pre-sale PROMO!
Was just fooling around the WSUP (or WASSUP?! as I like to call it) website, and noticed that our book, Essay’d, has an amazing 30% off July discount promo for pre-orders. At an already astonishingly low cost of $25, I sort of feel like you cannot afford NOT to buy […]
Essay’d Book Release!!!
Hello! So excited to announce the impending release of our Essay’d in-print edition from Wayne State University Press. It’s gonna be a party, and you are invited! Check out these BEAUTIFUL posters by Lynne Avadenka, over at Signal Return. You can read my essay about Lynne here, and browse around […]
Marcelyn Bennett-Carpenter @ Essay’d
Marcelyn Bennett-Carpenter would like for you, the viewer, to be involved. Engagement with her work, ideally, goes beyond aesthetic appreciation; her pieces are designed for physical interaction: wearing, blowing, navigating, and especially stretching. Tension is the fundamental quality of weaving; as a fiber artist, accomplished weaver, and instructor at Cranbrook’s […]
Essay’d V opens at 9338 Campau Saturday, April 9
Saturday night marks the next installment of the art shows which correlate with Essay’d, art blog du jour and your source for insightful short essays on some of Detroit’s finest artists, written by myself, Matthew Piper, Steve Panton, and Dennis Nawrocki. The shows are always a blast, and a great […]
Essay’d in Print – Pre-Order available!
Our own Matthew Piper is doing grammatical wizarding over the proof for Essay’d in print, and we could not be more excited! Every time the book bumps to a new stage, it becomes more apparent that it’s a Real Thing. I am painfully literal at times, so things aren’t real […]
Addie Langford @ Essay’d
Four years into an architectural program at RISD, Addie Langford found herself confronting a hard truth: she missed making things. All the theoretical design emphasis in her formal studies could not replace the importance of the hands-on process of creation that had always been a fundamental part of her practice. […]
Essay’d IN PRINT from Wayne State University Press
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 […]
Greg Fadell @ Essay’d
Greg Fadell’s work and his persona can be seen as a series of deliberate choices. The work of some artists begins and ends within the frame, but for Fadell, wall, lighting, surfaces, and gallery are just as important as the pieces he brings to hang…and all that before his attention […]
Ben Hall @ Essay’d
“I am trying the least-hard to be an artist of anyone you’ve met,” says Ben Hall, by way of contextualizing art in the diverse constellation of his interests and responsibilities. Like most things Hall says, there are varying degrees of truth to this complicated matter. Fanatical about language, obsessive about […]