June 12 – July 10| Closing Reception begins July 10, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Susan Goethel Campbell and Lynn Avadenka
Click Collective: Dreams
Blake and Melinda Novotny
The Students of Ann Van Leewen
July 24 – August 21| Opening Reception begins July 24, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Graffiti
Great Lakes Beadworker Guild
Mark Piotrowski
August 21 – September 11| Opening Reception begins August 21, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
The students of Fibers
September 11-October 9| Opening Reception begins September 11, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
The Alter Exhibit
Birmingham Society of Women PaintersP
Lauren Moyer
September 18 - October 9
Independent Figure Drawing/The Students of Jewelry
October 23-November 13| Opening Reception begins October 23, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
The Annual Faculty Exhibit
The Students of Chris Unwin
Unless otherwise noted all events and programs will take place in deSalle Auditorium on the lower level of Cranbrook Art Museum.
For more information, please call 248-645-3361.
Please also visit Cranbrook Academy of Art's Forum Gallery, located in the new Rafael Moneo Building adjoining Cranbrook Art Museum, where during the year, Academy students can exhibit their work and curate shows.
FRIDAY NIGHTS EVERY FRIDAY,5 PM - 9PM, NEW STUDIOS BUILDING - FORUM GALLERY OPENINGS
The student-run Forum Gallery offers a opening each week of the academic year. Join graduate students of the Academy who present edgy work to their peers and the community at large. Free and open to the public.
From A Different Perspective
June 26, 2009 - July 25, 2009
The Detroit Artists Market presents its first summer show, “From a Different Perspective”, from June 26th to July 25th. The opening reception is on Friday, June 26th, from 6-9 pm.
The show features six regional artists who work outside of the traditional forms of painting, sculpture, and drawings. Their subject matter and style derives from comic book illustration, the surreal, alternative culture, and assemblage. The works are often edgy and have some sense of humor, from droll and understated, to the more outrageous and obvious.
Of Life and Loss: The Polish Photographs of Roman Vishniac and Jeffrey Gusky
April 19 - July 12, 2009
This exhibition, organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, includes around 90 black-and-white photographs taken by two photographers: Roman Vishniac, who photographed throughout Poland's Jewish communities in the mid-1930s, and Jeffrey Gusky who photographed many of the same Polish sites during the 1990s.
Elaine L. Jacob:
On the campus of Wayne State University, 480 W. Hancock, Detroit; 313-993-7813.555:
Time and Place: Art of Detroit's Cass Corridor from the Apr. 24 - Jun. 26
Opening reception 4/24, 5-8pm.
Wayne State University Collection
Wayne State University is pleased to present the exhibition Time and Place: Art of Detroits Cass Corridor from the Collection of Wayne State University, at its Elaine L. Jacob Gallery from April 24th through June 26th, 2009. This exhibition features works recently gifted by generous donors to the Wayne State University Collection, and honors the substantial gifts by noted Detroit collector and philanthropist James Pearson Duffy.
With over sixty works, most of which were created between 1960 and 1980, this exhibition illustrates the energetic and bold work done by a group of young artists, many of whom studied art at Wayne State University, and who were living and working in the Cultural Center area of Detroit. It was a time of struggle and radical change in societal thinking and behavior, and one of an increased decline in the prosperity and viability of Detroit.
May 16, 2009 – July 12, 2009 Sabina Klein: Cityscapes Ford Graphics Gallery
This exhibition presents a selection of Sabina Klein’s large-scale prints and drawings of urban architecture. Klein’s tightly cropped images explore the dizzying perspectives of New York City’s steel and glass canyons. Devoid of a human presence, these moody cityscapes emphasize the skyscrapers’ monumental scale, brilliant glass facades, and jarring contrasts of light and shadow.
Join exhibiting artist Sabina Klein, from New York, for a demonstration in Studio 8 of the Art School. She will demonstrate the printmaking process of soft-ground etching. Cityscapes: Sabina Klein will be on display in the Ford Graphics Gallery from May 16 – July 12, 2009. Demonstration is free of charge.
The Village Fine Arts Association (VFAA) was founded in 1992 in order to provide a forum for local artists to explore, expand and share their love of art. Members work in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, fabric clay, and other mediums. This group of over 65 members meets monthly to share their interests and create beautiful works of art. There is a strong friendship and collaboration between the VFAA and the HVCA, and this month’s exhibition will prove to be a spectacular collage of talent.
This year’s annual VFAA show will be juried by a panel of prominent local professionals in the arts community, and the prizes awarded will be Juror’s Favorite and Viewers Choice. Both of these will be cash awards as well as generous gift certificates provided by our friends and long time supporters at Main Street Art in Milford.
Join us as we celebrate our creative collaboration at the opening of the show and sale on Friday June 5th with a reception that is guaranteed to be fun and lively! The exhibition runs through June 28th.
Threads of Change - The Transformation of West African Textiles
January 18 - November 29, 2009 Main Gallery
African art in general and West African textiles in particular are vibrant and changing.
West Africa is the heartland of African textile production. From the Kente cloth of Ghana and mud cloth of Mali to the indigo Adire cloth of Nigeria and printed cottons of Guinea both tradition and innovation are evident. The evolution of traditional crafts, the ingenuity of individual artists, and commercial global market forces have all influenced the design, color, meaning and function of West African textiles.
Contemporary bogolan (mudcloth) textile by Boubacar Doumbia.African art has never been frozen in time. The exciting patterns, designs, and color combinations of the cloth coincide with changes in culture, religion and trade networks.
In this exhibit you will see examples of some of the changes in cloth over time. While traditional mud cloth is painted in great symbolic detail, commercial works are produced quickly with pleasing designs and, often, western markets in mind. Fine artists from Mali using traditional vegetable dyes with original designs now exhibit their mud cloth in contemporary art galleries in Europe and the United States.
Many of the textiles to be exhibited have been donated to the Museum, often by faculty. These textiles were collected by professors with a range of specialties in African Studies while traveling, working and living in Africa. They illustrate the longstanding vitality of the work of Michigan State University in West Africa.
This magnificent display of textiles illustrates how cloth has been transformed and refigured over time. It is hoped that visitors will enjoy the artistry and skill of the producers represented by the textiles but also understand this practice in its cultural and historical contexts. African art belongs to the past and to the present. This exhibit will bring the viewer to a deeper understanding of Threads of Change in West African Textiles.
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Friday, June 26th from 8pm to 12pm
PERFORMANCE: MIDSUMMER NIGHTS IN MIDTOWN
All Ages
The UCCA and Wayne State University present MidSummer Nights in Midtown, the new summer series presents an eclectic music mix, street painting, street theatre and activities for families and children. The event will introduce the public to Midtown Detroit's wide array of museums, galleries and entertainment venues. Admission is free throughout the summer series.
LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots
Installation from 8:00pm-12:00am, with performances at 8:45pm and 10:30pm.
LEMUR builds robots that are new types of sculptural musical instruments. The robots will perform with human beatbox and vocal performance artist, Adam Matta in an exotic inter-active installation that invites audience participation.
Slavic Soul Party!
Will perform live at 9:30pm and 11:15pm – A Balkan Worldbeat
party this fiery 10-piece brass band from NYC delivers some of the most danceable rhythms this side of the Atlantic, melding Gypsy, East European, Mexican and Asian jazz and soul.
Visit the MidSummer Nights in Midtown website for more information
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 8pm
MUSIC: MUCCA PAZZA
All Ages | Admission $7
Mucca Pazza is a 30 piece orchestrated circus that marches and plays music loud for all to hear. Their musical influences are as colorful as the bright spandex glitter-encrusted outfits they flaunt. Expect a diverse group of folks: some, lungs filling up with air to out play one another and others, cheerleading the group forward and on!
Visit the Mucca Pazza website or visit their myspace page
PRESENTATION: COMIX 101 WITH ART SPIEGELMAN
Admission $7
A public presentation about the history of Art Spiegelmans work at MOCAD
Art Spiegelman came out of the politically charged era for comics of the 1960s and 1970s, and kept the movement's momentum for the past forty years.
During his early years, he contributed to underground comic publications such as “Real Pulp” and “Young Lust”, as well as co-created the acclaimed comic magazine, “Raw”. In 1986, “Raw” launched his career into foresight with “Maus I: A Survivor's Tale” the true story of his family's experience in Germany during the Holocaust in which Nazi's were Cats and Jewish families were mice. With this publication he was able to give a serious political edge that comic readers craved. In 1992, he published the second half of the story “Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began” which led to a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and earned him a Pulitzer Prize. Also in the year he began to work at the New Yorker, helping to create some of the most controversial covers in the magazine's history.
Spiegelman left the New Yorker in 2004, after ten years, to protest the “widespread conformism” that he believed the magazine was linked to. This was fresh after he created one of the most memorable covers of the magazine's history of the Twin Towers. In 2005 he was named one Time Magazines “Top 100 Most Influential People”.
Recently, Spiegelman has re-released the 1978 edition of his anthology Breakdowns, in which he includes an autobiographical comix-format introduction entitled, “Portrait of the Artist As A Young %@&*!” as well as children's book called “Jack and the Box”. On May 29, 2008 the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit will present an exhibition on Breakdowns.
FAMILY DAY: FAMILY HOOTENANNY PRESENTS MOMMY AND DADDY BAND ROCK-OFF
All Ages | Free admission
A gathering of kids and their grownups for the purpose of singing, stomping, shouting, strumming, silliness and otherwise making music for the whole family. Past Hootenannies have included such sonic entertainment wonders as: Homemade country ditties about popsicle soup and being stuck in playpens, tear-inducing renditions of Muppets songs and acoustic-punk jams about woodland creatures.
Museum Tours
Wednesdays at 1pm
Saturday 1pm & 4 pm
Sundays at 12 pm
Tours are free and open to the public
For group reservations please contact Zeb Smith at zsmith@mocadetroit.org.
Paint Creek Center for the Arts is excited to present Mold made, a group show of
sculptures made using various casting processes. The show was co-curated by
Norwood Viviano, Assistant Professor of Art at Grand Valley State University, and
PCCA's Exhibition Committee.
Participating artists include:
Jeremy Brooks, Lansing, MI; Todd Erickson, Farmington Hills, MI; Hank Murta
Adams, Troy, NY; Daniel Petraitis, Philadelphia, PA; Sharon Que, Ann Arbor, MI;
Benjamin Teague, Birmingham, MI; Elona Van Gent, Ann Arbor, MI; Graem
Whyte, Hamtramck, MI; Blake Williams, Lansing, MI; Lauren Youngling, West
Bloomfield, MI; and Renee Zettle-Sterling, Allendale, MI.
Mold Made features contemporary works made using traditional techniques. Works
in the show include bronze sculptures made by Todd Erickson and Elona Van
Gent, using the lost wax process; an installation made up of hundreds of small
elements made by Blake Jamison Williams; cast-resin objects by Daniel
Petraitis and Lauren Youngling; a minimal installation by Jeremy Brooks; a
cast glass sculpture by Hank Murta Adams; and many other works.
June 26- Aug 1
June 26 7pm - 9pm Opening Reception
IAN WEBER
CONSTRUCTED REALITIES
June 26 - August 1
Opening Reception
Friday, June 26 - 7pm - 9pm
Constructed Realities is a solo show of photographs by Ian Weber. Ian graduated from Adrian College in 2008, where he concentrated primarily on photography and electronic art. The show at Paint Creek Center for the Arts is his first solo exhibit of his work.
Weber's photographs are simple, playful explorations of toy animals placed in unusual contexts. He plays with scale and environments to create new realities. The photos were set up in an old barn full of objects and in the landscape of a family farm. While the images are not digitally manipulated, the settings become fantastic through juxtapositions of toys among old objects.
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Russell Thayer and Nancy Thayer
Our World: Paintings and Sculpture May 2 July 4, 2009
iDeas and iCons The Art Of: David Driskell, David Fludd, M. Saffell Gardner, Lenore Gimpert, Richard Lewis, Nora Mendoza, Chun Hui Pak, Gilda Snowden, Shirley Woodson, Jocelyn Rainey, Mark Schwing. July 25 September 12, 2009
Richard Lewis
Portraits of Now!
Paintings and Drawings September 26 November 14, 2009
