Cass Corridor artist Robert Sestok is perhaps best-known for his welded sculptures assembled from scrap metals, which can be seen along the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, adorning residential properties in Woodbridge, and of course, at City Sculpture — the Cass Corridor sculpture park that Sestok organized and opened in 2015, adjacent […]
It takes a lot to be thought of as an institution, an element so integral to a community that it’s impossible to imagine it not being there. Sometimes it’s a building, or a business, or even a natural feature — in special cases, it might be a person. Longtime Cass […]
As the saying goes: “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” In the case of artist Jim Crawford, a Detroit artist who was an influential figure the Cass Corridor movement in the 1960s and 1970s, there is a lifelong artistic process of transforming discarded materials into sculptural works. Early in […]
Artist: Valerie Parks Location: Beverly Hills Grill Breakfast: VP – Coffee (cream), BLT (with eggs!) SRS – Coffee (black), Corned beef hash (poached eggs), English muffin (blackberry jam) I was impressed with Valerie Parks before I even met her, because she’s one of the few people who did the thing […]
Scanner portrait of Charles McGee, courtesy of Kurt Novak. Perhaps the greatest challenge of every portrait photographer is the imperative to capture a subject in a single image. Humans are complex creatures, and the sense that we might be reduced to a single take seems fairly reductionist. How clever, then, […]