After two years of online-only festivals, the AAFF will return to the Michigan Theater in Downtown Ann Arbor from March 22 to 27.
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The Cass Corridor Movement’s Salvation Through Salvage
Working with what they had, Cass Corridor artists scrapped and repurposed anything they could get their hands on, attempting to find some salvation for their city through a literal process of salvage and reuse.
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The Stamps School of Art & Design Seeks Proposals for 2023 Witt Residency
This residency at the University of Michigan comes with an honorarium of $20,000 in addition to housing, studio space, and up to $5,000 of funding support for project materials.
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Parents of Michigan School Shooter Took Refuge in Artist Studio in Detroit
Detroit police received a tip that led them to Andrzej Sikora’s art studio, where police took James and Jennifer Crumbley into custody.
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Join a Community of Radical Thinkers and Makers at Cranbrook Academy of Art
Apply by January 15, 2022 for priority consideration for one of 10 full-tuition fellowships.
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A Collector of Antiques Asks: “Can Something Be Racist and Also Be Beautiful?”
In the Blactiquing Space, curator and collector Kevin Jones presents deeply fraught objects with emotion, connection, and care.
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Detroit Institute of Arts Faces Backlash Over “Pro-Cop” Mural
Artists including Dawoud Bey, Jordan Casteel, and Kevin Beasley criticized the institution’s partnership on the mural, titled “To Serve and Protect.”
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How a Property Tax Helped Transform the Detroit Institute of Arts
Our millage funding model, based upon responsiveness and accountability, is a successful paradigm that has sustained the DIA and benefitted our region.
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First Online Slavery Database Gets a $1.4M Injection From Mellon Foundation
Enslaved.org houses millions of records related to more than 600,000 enslaved people and their descendants, emancipation activists, and enslavers.
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Leaked Recording of Confidential Meeting at Detroit Institute Details Allegations of Toxic Workplace
Allegations overheard include descriptions of director Salvador Salort-Pons’s leadership as “erratic, autocratic, condescending” and “intolerant of dissent.”
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Mourning This Year’s Canceled ArtPrize Event
This year, the excitement of having a shared and immersive three-week-long, city-wide artistic experience with people in a swing city in a swing county in a swing state was missing.
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Cranbrook Academy of Art Opens Fall 2021 Applications
Five full-tuition fellowships are available for prospective students, who can explore each department safely via Cranbook’s robust webinar series.