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After 70 Former Workers Cite “Toxic Work Environment,” MOCA Detroit Terminates Executive Director
After conducting an internal investigation, the MOCAD board concluded that Elysia Borowy-Reeder’s leadership “fell short of its goals for diversity, inclusivity and a healthy work environment.”
Dlectricity, Detroit’s Light and Art Festival, Is Now Accepting Artist Applications
Dlectricity returns September 25-26, 2020. The deadline for artists to apply is March 3, 2020.
An Activist Documentarian Charts Detroit’s Water Affordability Crisis
“Lack of transparency is the enemy of democracy,” said filmmaker and activist Kate Levy. “As an artist, that’s an easy thing to make work about.”
Two Artists Merge Their Divergent Worlds Into a Veritable Wonderland
If Hirosuke Yabe’s sculptural compositions are like a Miyazaki-esque stage play, then Summer Wheat’s large-scale paintings form a colorful and dynamic backdrop.
Remembering an Artist Who Fought to Have It All
An artist, mother, and source of inspiration for Detroit artists, the legacy Rose Brown Dalessandro leaves behind is not simply one of form, but one of the struggles attendant to its creation.
An Outdoor Art Project in Detroit Burns in Arson Attack, Again
Firefighters were delayed from doing more than monitoring the blaze at the Heidelberg Project site due to a succession of five non-working fire hydrants — possibly the result of ongoing water main repairs.
Red Bull Arts Detroit Opens Applications for 2020 Artist Residency and Curatorial Fellowship
All applications are due by September 30 and will be reviewed by the selection committee comprised of Michelle Grabner, Joiri Minaya, Legacy Russell, and Michael Stone Richards.
Artworks About Place Struggle Within the Confines of a Museum
Landlord Colors at Cranbrook Art Museum tries to “elevate” art borne of economic hardship and upheavals, but such art needs no elevation; the viewer must seek and find its level.
Detroit Street Artist Arrested While Painting Mural Commissioned by City
“They treated me like a felon even though I was commissioned by the city to do this,” said Sheefy McFly, adding that he felt “racially profiled and bullied.”
How Do You Build an Anti-Capitalist Streaming Site?
Nick Hayes and Naomi Burton, founders of the Detroit-based leftist media company Means Media, talk about their ambitions for Means TV, a worker-owned, completely viewer-supported streaming platform.
Mercedes-Benz Is Suing Artists Who Accused the Car Company of Copyright Infringement
“An advertisement for a Mercedes Benz car that costs $200,000, without any compensation to me, or without even asking my permission first, is totally unacceptable,” one of the artists said.