Entering Womxnhouse Detroit’s 2024 installation feels like being in my grandmother’s living room. Tables are crowded with knickknacks, lottery tickets, and those ceramic good luck elephants. Walls serve…
Read more Womxnhouse Detroit returns with a defiant reclamation of womanhoodDetroit artist Sabrina Nelson says that during a trip to Paris in 2016, she met the spirit of James Baldwin. Since then, she has become deeply acquainted with…
Read more Sabrina Nelson brings the spirit of James Baldwin to DetroitWe are born as seeds in soil fertilized by the experiences of our ancestors. For Detroit-based painter and muralist Ivan Montoya, the fertile soil we inherit from our…
Read more Ivan Montoya ponders how the past informs the present in ‘Sonde{a}r’When Kyle Daniel-Bey was 17, he received a mandatory life in prison sentence for murder. But even a lifetime behind bars couldn’t imprison his creative spirit. “Juvenile lifer”…
Read more Two Detroit activists met at a prison writing workshop, now they’re providing a pathway for returning citizensclick to enlarge Randiah Camille Green The oversized cleats will be displayed near Detroit arenas, hotels, and airports for the month of April. People headed to downtown Detroit…
Read more City Walls unveils ‘DCleated’ art project ahead of NFL DraftThe last time we spoke with artistic husband-and-wife duo Dorota and Steve Coy, better known as the pair behind the Hygienic Dress League, they were deep into the…
Read more Hygienic Dress League is creating a new social media platform for collectors to buy art directly from local artistsclick to enlarge Randiah Camille Green Abstract paintings by India Solomon on view at Detroit’s Norwest Gallery as part of Heavy Melanin. Walking into Norwest Gallery for the…
Read more Norwest Gallery is heavy on the melanin in sixth anniversary show, but the gallery almost didn’t make itclick to enlarge Courtesy photo Jonathan Harris meets Yolanda Díaz Pérez, the Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain. Jonathan Harris is no stranger to high praise and international…
Read more Detroit artist Jon Harris gets studio visit from Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spainclick to enlarge Chuk Nowak Mildred Victoria Penman and Izaya Spencer star in Blues For An Alabama Sky. Some people will drag you to hell if you let…
Read more ‘Blues For An Alabama Sky’ shows us the consequences of toxic friendshipsclick to enlarge Courtesy photo Detroit artist Loralee Grace. Loralee Grace has sold everything she owned to live nomadically three times. “Learning my taxes in America mostly fund…
Read more Loralee Grace tackles environmental racism in ‘Futurelands’
