Detroit master artist Charles McGee awarded $50,000 by Kresge Foundation
The man who helped launch Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID) in late 1970s is one of city’s most forward thinking creative treasures.Excerpt:At an age when most careers are long over, McGee — with pieces at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History — is still working at the top of his powers.Just two months into his year as the first Kresge Eminent Artist — a $50,000 prize awarded by the Troy-based foundation of the same name — plans are in the works for a large installation at Wayne State University. He’s also wrestling with a layered collage slowly taking shape in his unheated studio across from Detroit’s Marygrove College.At an age when most careers are long over, the 84-year-old McGee — with pieces at the
Detroit Institute of Arts and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African
American History — is still working at the top of his powers.Read the entire article here.
The man who helped launch Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID) in late 1970s is one of city’s most forward thinking creative treasures.
Excerpt:
At an age when most careers are long over, McGee — with pieces at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History — is still working at the top of his powers.
Just two months into his year as the first Kresge Eminent Artist — a $50,000 prize awarded by the Troy-based foundation of the same name — plans are in the works for a large installation at Wayne State University. He’s also wrestling with a layered collage slowly taking shape in his unheated studio across from Detroit’s Marygrove College.
At an age when most careers are long over, the 84-year-old McGee — with pieces at the
Detroit Institute of Arts and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African
American History — is still working at the top of his powers.
Read the entire article here.
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