Holiday Arts Exchange

HOLIDAY ARTS EXCHANGE: CALL  FOR  ART! Holiday Arts Exchange will take place at the Carr Center located at 15 E. Kirby St. Detroit. You are invited to participate in an exhibition and market designed to represent emerging and established artists in conjunction with...

Meet Oluwatoyin Akintoroye

Oluwatoyin Akintoroye (Toyin**), is a working artist still in the early stages of their career. They began getting to know other artists through university activities and installing shows around the city of Detroit, where they were born and raised.  Through...

Meet Hugh Grannum

Photographer Hugh Grannum, a native of Brooklyn, NY, on staff at The Detroit Free Press since 1970, is also widely known outside the field of photojournalism.  He has conducted a number of photography workshops, taught at Wayne County Community College, from 1977 to...

Meet Carole Harris

Brilliant Detroit Visual Artist Carole Harris, is a lifelong Detroiter and graduate of Wayne State University, who describes her life’s passion this way… “My work relies on improvisation. I am fascinated with hue and pattern, often drawing inspiration from...

Ruminations: The New Standard

“Ruminations: The New Standard”By Mark StrykerFormer Arts Reporter and Critic at Detroit Free Press I’ve been thinking about the New Standards/Jazz Without Patriarchy initiative that’s been unfolding over the last two weeks in Detroit. There are so many aspects to...