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Kresge Arts in Detroit names 2026 Fellows and Gilda Award winners
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Kresge Arts in Detroit names 2026 Fellows and Gilda Award winners Kresge Arts in Detroit named 20 metro Detroit artists as 2026 Fellows and Gilda Award recipients, sending $50,000 and $5,000 no-strings grants to dancers, filmmakers, and musicians. SBy Samantha · Jul 5, 2026
MOCAD reopens with a 45-year retrospective for Olayami Dabls
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MOCAD reopens with a 45-year retrospective for Olayami DablsThe Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is back open after an eight-month renovation, and its first slate centers Detroit artists, led by a career-spanning show for bead museum founder Olayami Dabls that runs through July 12.By Strait Journal · Jun 19, 2026 Mid-century Detroit, one lunch break at a time: Norman Zadoorian's photos now at Detroit Historical Museum
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Mid-century Detroit, one lunch break at a time: Norman Zadoorian's photos now at Detroit Historical MuseumForty photographs from Norman Zadoorian's mid-century Detroit street work are on view at the Detroit Historical Museum through May 15, 2027.By Jamie · May 29, 2026 CCS's 101st student exhibition is open through May 29
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CCS's 101st student exhibition is open through May 29The College for Creative Studies has turned its campus into a gallery of thousands of pieces for the 101st time. The show is free and runs through May 29.By Jamie · May 28, 2026 The house on East Ferry Street is the subject of a Smithsonian director's DIA lecture next month
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The house on East Ferry Street is the subject of a Smithsonian director's DIA lecture next monthSmithsonian National Museum of Asian Art director Chase Robinson lectures at the DIA on June 7 about Charles Lang Freer, the Detroit industrialist whose 1906 gift founded a national museum.By Jamie · May 26, 2026 Motor City Cinematheque steps in where Detroit's art theatres left off
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Motor City Cinematheque steps in where Detroit's art theatres left offAfter Main Art Theatre was demolished and Cinema Detroit went to a pop-up model, John Monaghan and Kevin Maher started a roving art film series across metro Detroit.By Marcus · May 13, 2026 Heidelberg Project names new executive director, moves toward arts hub model
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Heidelberg Project names new executive director, moves toward arts hub modelColleen McLellan will take over as executive director in July, as the Heidelberg Project begins a renovation of its Number House into rentable arts space.By Strait Journal · May 13, 2026 Hamilton closes at the Fisher, and Broadway in Detroit lines up six premieres for 2026-27
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Hamilton closes at the Fisher, and Broadway in Detroit lines up six premieres for 2026-27Hamilton ends its Fisher Theatre run May 17, and ATG Detroit has set a 2026-27 Broadway in Detroit season built entirely on Detroit premieres.By Jamie · May 12, 2026 A walkable cardboard maze of Detroit landmarks opens at the Michigan Science Center
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A walkable cardboard maze of Detroit landmarks opens at the Michigan Science CenterA-MAZING Detroit, a life-sized cardboard maze built around seven Detroit neighborhoods, opens Saturday at the Michigan Science Center and is included with general admission.By Jamie · May 7, 2026 CCS turned the Somerset Skywalk into a 700-foot runway for The Show 2026
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CCS turned the Somerset Skywalk into a 700-foot runway for The Show 2026The College for Creative Studies staged its annual student fashion showcase on the glass Skywalk that spans Big Beaver Road, sending more than 100 looks across a 700-foot bridge in front of 354 guests.By Jamie · May 5, 2026 Buffalo Prescott's 'Vernal 2026' fills its Detroit residency with wheatgrass rabbits and a buckwheat snake
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Buffalo Prescott's 'Vernal 2026' fills its Detroit residency with wheatgrass rabbits and a buckwheat snakeThe east-side artist incubator's annual spring show leans into growth and symbiosis, anchored by its resident artists and a room full of soft, living sculpture.By Jamie · May 2, 2026 Hamilton returns to the Fisher Theatre for a three-week run starting April 29
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Hamilton returns to the Fisher Theatre for a three-week run starting April 29The touring production of Hamilton plays the Fisher Theatre from April 29 through May 17, with tickets running $49 to $199 and a $10 lottery for every show.By Jamie · Apr 29, 2026 Detroit's young poets compete at the Wright Museum on May 7
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Detroit's young poets compete at the Wright Museum on May 7InsideOut Literary Arts brings its Detroit Youth Poetry Slam to the Charles H. Wright Museum on May 7, where teen poets compete for a spot on the 2026 Detroit Youth Performance Troupe.By Shawn · Apr 30, 2026 MOCAD reopens with new windows, a new name, and three Detroit shows
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MOCAD reopens with new windows, a new name, and three Detroit showsThe Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit returns Saturday after an eight-month renovation, with a renamed building, a street-facing glass wall, and exhibitions by three Detroit artists.By Samantha · Apr 25, 2026 Carole Harris comes back to where she started
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Carole Harris comes back to where she startedMOCAD's first full survey of fiber artist Carole Harris opens on the museum's reopening day, nearly half a century after Charles McGee gave her a first solo show at his Black artist-run Gallery 7.By Shawn · Apr 25, 2026 Mary-Ann Monforton turns Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead into Heart Land
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Mary-Ann Monforton turns Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead into Heart LandMOCAD keeps its programming alive during a renovation by handing the Mobile Homestead to a Detroit sculptor who fills its four rooms with chicken wire, plaster, and a critique of American wealth.By Samantha · Oct 24, 2025 The DIA's first major Native American show in 30 years
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The DIA's first major Native American show in 30 yearsContemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation opened at the Detroit Institute of Arts on September 28 and runs through April 5, 2026, the museum's first major Native American exhibition in more than three decades.By Jamie · Sep 28, 2025 Detroit's first contemporary art fair opens inside Michigan Central
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Detroit's first contemporary art fair opens inside Michigan CentralSeason, billed as Detroit's first contemporary art fair, ran four days on the sixth floor of Michigan Central with eleven North American galleries and a curated slate of ten local artists.By Samantha · Sep 25, 2025 Murals in the Market comes home for year 10
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Murals in the Market comes home for year 10For its 10th anniversary, Detroit's Murals in the Market returned to Eastern Market with new walls, restorations, and a week of public events.By Jamie · Sep 15, 2025 BLKOUT Walls spreads its third edition across Detroit
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BLKOUT Walls spreads its third edition across DetroitDetroit's Black-led mural festival returned for its third edition with ten new walls, this time pushed out into Woodbridge, Franklin, and East Jefferson.By Samantha · Sep 4, 2025 BLKOUT Walls returns with 10 new murals under the theme A Beautiful Resistance
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BLKOUT Walls returns with 10 new murals under the theme A Beautiful ResistanceDetroit's artist-led mural festival came back in September 2025 with 10 new large-scale walls and a closing block party at Spirit Plaza.By Jamie · Sep 4, 2025 Detroit Month of Design at 15, UNESCO at 10
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Detroit Month of Design at 15, UNESCO at 10Detroit Month of Design returned for its 15th edition in September, lining up more than 95 events as the city marked a decade as the only UNESCO City of Design in the United States.By Jamie · Sep 1, 2025 TIME Puts Detroit's Little Village on Its 2025 World's Greatest Places List
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TIME Puts Detroit's Little Village on Its 2025 World's Greatest Places ListTIME's 2025 World's Greatest Places list named Little Village, the East Village arts campus built by Library Street Collective, as the only Michigan entry.By Jamie · Mar 13, 2025 The Belt turns 10
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The Belt turns 10Ten years after Library Street Collective and Bedrock turned a downtown garment-district alley into a public-art corridor, The Belt is one of Detroit's most-walked outdoor galleries.By Jamie · Nov 13, 2024 Five alebrijes now live on Bagley
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Five alebrijes now live on BagleyFive life-size animal sculptures built from car parts went up along Bagley Street on Friday, the new centerpiece of Mexicantown's redesigned streetscape.By Strait Journal · Nov 1, 2024 The New York Times put Hamtramck Disneyland in a national conversation
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The New York Times put Hamtramck Disneyland in a national conversationA backyard folk art landmark on Klinger Street landed in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, the latest national nod for a piece Hamtramck has been quietly keeping alive.By Marcus · Sep 27, 2024 Michigan Central's new residency pays Detroit artists $30,000 to make things
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Michigan Central's new residency pays Detroit artists $30,000 to make thingsThe Michigan Central x Newlab Creative Residency launches its inaugural cohort this fall: six artists, $30,000 each, six months inside Corktown's innovation campus.By Jamie · Sep 1, 2024 Mighty Real/Queer Detroit returns with a citywide queer art biennial across 11 galleries
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Mighty Real/Queer Detroit returns with a citywide queer art biennial across 11 galleriesThe second Mighty Real/Queer Detroit biennial, I'll Be Your Mirror, opens May 31 with more than 170 artists spread across 11 galleries through June 30.By Strait Journal · May 31, 2024 Hatch Art keeps Hamtramck Disneyland standing
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Hatch Art keeps Hamtramck Disneyland standingNearly a decade after buying the backyard folk-art landmark, the Hamtramck collective Hatch Art is still rebuilding it one rotted beam at a time.By Strait Journal · May 29, 2024 The Shepherd opens, and the East side has a new center of gravity
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The Shepherd opens, and the East side has a new center of gravityLibrary Street Collective reopened the former Good Shepherd church on Saturday as the anchor of Little Village, a multi-block arts campus in East Village.By Jamie · May 18, 2024 OMA drilled roughly 1,500 holes into an old Detroit bakery to make LANTERN glow
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OMA drilled roughly 1,500 holes into an old Detroit bakery to make LANTERN glowLibrary Street Collective and architecture firm OMA have turned the long-empty Blue Bird Baking building in East Village into LANTERN, a 22,300-square-foot arts hub whose south wall lights up at night through roughly 1,500 glass-filled holes.By Jamie · May 17, 2024 Tiff Massey takes four galleries at the DIA
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Tiff Massey takes four galleries at the DIAThe Detroit Institute of Arts has given metalsmith Tiff Massey a full year and four galleries for 7 Mile + Livernois, her most ambitious museum show to date.By Jamie · May 4, 2024 BLACK opens at the Carr Center with eleven Detroit artists
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BLACK opens at the Carr Center with eleven Detroit artistsThe Carr Center's Black History Month group show, BLACK: A Built Language Across Culture and Knowledge, runs free through February 29 with work from eleven Detroit-based Black artists.By Marcus · Jan 19, 2024 Richie Hawtin's short film returns to a 1994 Detroit warehouse party
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Richie Hawtin's short film returns to a 1994 Detroit warehouse partyKids Like Us, executive produced by Richie Hawtin and shot on 35mm, recreates the underground techno night that launched his Plastikman alias at the Packard Plant.By Jamie · Jul 5, 2025 The Carl Craig documentary finally played in Detroit
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The Carl Craig documentary finally played in DetroitDesire: The Carl Craig Story had its Detroit premiere at Newlab inside Michigan Central, two days before Craig closed out Movement's Saturday night.By Jamie · May 22, 2025