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How Detroit Became a Hub for Black Art
A decade before the mainstream Black Arts Movement, Detroit underwent a transformation of its own, driven by Black artists who recognized a need for opportunities and community.
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The Charles H. Wright Museum Set the Template for Narrating the African-American Experience
From its beginning in Wright’s Detroit basement, the museum has cultivated increased visibility for all African Americans by showing other institutions how to build their own storytelling apparatuses.
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Levon Kafafian’s Cocoon From the Future
In the artist’s futuristic world of Azadistan, textiles become socio-political tools that sketch a vision of cultural expression beyond technological frameworks.
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Making Food Into an Art in Muslim-Majority Cultures
Focused on the SWANA region, "The Art of Dining" transforms meals into narrative experiences, showing how food connects people not only to their roots, but also to each another.
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Detroit Museum Celebrates 100 Years of James Baldwin
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History features the work of Baldwin-obsessed artist Sabrina Nelson on the centennial of the famed author’s birth.
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Kelli Morgan’s Fight to Champion Detroit's Black Artists
The curator and scholar launched the Black Artists Archive to honor overlooked histories and affect change in the present.
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Half a Century of Black Art in Detroit
An exhibition revisits the ongoing legacy of Gallery 7, a space dedicated to Black artists experimenting with abstraction and minimalism in the 1970s.
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Five Highlights From Detroit’s Queer Art Biennial
With more than 180 artists, I’ll Be Your Mirror shows the depth and range of the city’s creativity as well as its diverse LGBTQ+ community.
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Bakpak Durden Traces a Birthmark’s Lineage
Eager for interpersonal exchange and viewer participation, the Detroit-based artist invites us into their candid visualizations of ancestral and personal history.
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Sam Dienst Weaves the Everyday Into Rich Tapestries
Dienst wrests playfulness and movement from the warp and weft of weaving.
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At Age 81, Carole Harris Is Embracing Imperfection
Her creations have a beautiful economy, where even rusty old machine parts might become transformed into a gilded patina on one of her sensuous memory maps.
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Kayla Powers Weaves Sensory Maps of Detroit
The fiber artist forages local plants to create delicate urban-agrarian weavings.