Women in Jazz WRCJ

In March 2007 & 2008, The Carr Center presented our “Jazz at the Carr Center” Series with Resident Artist in Jazz, Rodney Whitaker and the MSU Professors of Jazz. The concerts celebrated some of Detroit’s finest female jazz vocalists, Alma Smith, Ursula Walker,...

The In Between

Opening Friday, April 2, inside The Carr Virtual Center,“The In Between”,  Curator Chelsea A. Flowers had this to say about this upcoming exhibition.“COVID-19 has transformed the normativity of our creative practices. Challenging and transforming the ways in...

With All Our Might

With All Our Might is a juried exhibition for visual artists at the Carr Center Contemporary. The exhibition includes 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, and time-based works that are a direct response to the experience of life during the global pandemic. 2020 was a year of...

dUOS & dUETS +1 RE-SCHEDULED DATE

The Carr Center Presents.. “dUOS & dUETS +1”,  featuring  NEA Jazz Masters, Jack DeJohnette and Terri Lyne Carrington plus Matthew Garrison Our very popular livestream performance series  “dUOS & dUETS,”  continues on March 20th, 7:30pm...

Celebrating Dr. George Shirley

Before Lead Tenor at the Metropolitan Opera … Before Professor Emeritus, at the University of Michigan … Carr Center Resident Artist, Dr George Shirley, broke the color barrier as the first African-American to be invited to join the prestigious U.S. Army Band. His...