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Gallery One – Visual Arts Center. Soup Bowl. Friday, October 18 | Doors at 5:00 p.m. This is the yummiest event of the year! Tickets include a handmade ceramic bowl made by emerging artist Miles Hazlett, your choice of a selection of soups, bread, cookies and a beverage of your choice. $40 with bowl/ $30 without.
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- The Fisher Building. The Fisher Building in New Center is considered Detroit’s largest art object, and for good reason. Designed by famed architect Albert Kahn, the building was made almost entirely out of marble and granite.
- Stevie Wonder mural. One of the newer murals in downtown Detroit, the Stevie Wonder mural was painted by London-based artist Richard Wilson. It’s located on the back wall of Detroit’s Music Hall Center, and right above another well known postcard mural.
- James Scott Memorial Fountain. Belle Isle‘s beautiful fountain is a sight to behold. Adorned with dolphins, turtles and lions, this fountain was created as a monument to controversial socialite James Scott (there is even a life-size statue of him nearby overlooking the fountain).
- Murals in Eastern Market. Every year in the early fall, artists from all over the world descend on Detroit to paint new murals in Eastern Market. This has resulted in this 100+ year old public market being covered in beautiful artwork everywhere you turn.
At the heart of this initiative lies the Shepherd, a one hundred ten-year-old Romanesque-style church, most recently identified as Good Shepherd before closing in 2016. The Shepherd has been transformed into a cultural arts center that offers multi-faceted programming, including exhibitions, public projects, and performance.
- The Public Art Is world-famous.
- The City Has Its Own Art week.
- Hip Galleries abound.
- Even The Food Is Creative.
- The Architecture Is Incredible.
- Innovative Spaces Blend Art and Immersive Activities All Over The City.
- There Are Rogue Diy Art Spaces For Every interest.
- Detroit’s Museums Are Amazing.
Detroit’s most well-known public art piece is probably the Heidelberg Project, a world-famous project that transformed urban blight into a space of creativity and hope. This found-art wonderland was created in the 1980s by artist Tyree Guyton, who returned to the Detroitstreet he grew up on and was devastated to find a decaying neighborhood. He enl...
Detroit honors its creatives each year with Detroit Art Week, a self-guided tour of the city’s art and culture. Open studios, galleries, museums and artist talks are all available for soaking in the culture. The scene is so renowned that art fans flock to Detroit from around the country to experience it.
Detroit’s galleries offer a little bit of everything. There are stunning commercial galleries like Simone deSousa Gallery, created by an artist who wishes she’d had something like it to show her early work in, and Playground Detroit, a gallery that doubles as a creative talent agency whose cofounder cut her teeth in the New York art world. Addition...
Detroit’s food scene is an art in and of itself. Anthony Bourdain, after eating his way through Detroit, called the city “magnificent.” Eastern Market, one of Detroit’s most famous food hubs and one of the country’s oldest year-round public markets, attracts innovative food artists from around the U.S. Candy Bar, a speakeasy-like bar in Detroit’s n...
Even during Detroit’s lowest points, its beautiful architecture stood as a proud reminder of its strength. Detroit is designated as a UNESCO City of Design, and the city even has its own annual design festival. Detroitis famous for its breathtaking Art Deco buildings, which shine like retro beacons among downtown’s more modern skyscrapers. Beloved ...
Detroit is a land of multi-hyphenate venues, and this is especially true when it comes to art. Cozy establishments like the Cass Cafe, a family-operated restaurant that’s been around since 1993, long before Detroit’s current revival, offers up food, drinks and a rotating gallery of cutting-edge works. (Their slogan, perhaps unsurprisingly, is “no T...
If you’re looking to try something new or different creatively, Detroithas the community to make it happen. Here, you’ll find all kinds of art venues thriving in the most unique of circumstances. Case in point: 1XRun, a space devoted to “creative populism” that creates and sells limited-edition online art prints in small batches. Another innovative...
The Detroit Institute Of Artshas one of the largest art collections in the US, with more than 100 galleries spanning half a million square feet. The building itself, with its beautiful Beaux-Arts design, is a piece of art all on its own. The DIA’s most famous work is Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals, a National Historic Landmark series of 193...
May 26, 2017 · Address: 1260 Library Street. Currently on view: Kelsey Brookes. Located in the center of Downtown Detroit, Library Street Collective is one of the city's most prominent commercial galleries. Most commonly exhibiting vibrant abstractions and street-art-inspired installations, Library Street is the place to go to see big, bright, sensational ...
Jan 4, 2022 · Desousa includes an EDITION space, which has presented more than 100 exhibitions in the past years. Stop by to support contemporary art and design from local and international artists at all stages in their careers. Click HERE to check out the shop. Located at 444 W. Willis, Unit 111, Detroit, MI 48201.
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Jul 25, 2018 · In 2008, DeSousa opened her namesake gallery in a former Jeep showroom in the heart of the city’s legendary Cass Corridor neighborhood. Not far from Wayne State University, the area is known for a group of avant-garde artists who lived, worked, and fraternized there in the 1960s and ’70s. Their paintings and sculptures, which have been ...
