Arts & Culture

Coverage of visual arts, performing arts, cultural events, and artistic entrepreneurs.

Summer Bliss Festival Combines Detroit Culture With Community Impact

Summer Bliss Music & Arts Festival celebrates the city’s creative energy through music, art, local businesses, interactive experiences and more, while creating opportunities for artists and giving back to the community.

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Inside Dennis Reed II’s Mission to Make Detroit a Film Powerhouse

Detroit isn't waiting for Hollywood's approval. Filmmaker Dennis Reed II is helping redefine independent cinema, producing dozens of films and showcasing why the Motor City remains a blueprint for creativity and storytelling.

How Detroit’s East Canfield Art Park merges public art, health data

Sculpture at East Canfield Art Park on Detroit’s east side embeds air quality monitors in public art, providing real-time environmental data for a community living near industrial facilities.

Motown’s Black women songwriters and producers were the invisible architects behind the pop music juggernaut

Few people probably know the female songwriters featured in this article, yet Motown relied heavily upon their contributions to cement its place in music history.

Detroiter JerJuan Howard Opens Bookstore with Hopes to be a Cultural Hub

The recently opened Howard Family Bookstore, located on Detroit's West side, seeks to become a hub for culture, innovation and community.

Former inmate turned entrepreneur is moving Detroit, literally and musically

Detroit entrepreneur Michael Parrish rebuilt his life after serving nine years in prison by transforming a single box truck into a growing moving company, while also releasing a hip-hop album inspired by his life story.

With a legendary juror, ‘Trabajadores’ show connects art, labor, Latino identity

From construction sites to canvas, a Detroit exhibition brings Latino workers into the spotlight.

The Tuba in the Laundry Room

In a southwest Detroit basement, a brass and wind band rooted in Mexican tradition has gathered to rehearse for more than 25 years.

Detroit Author Curtis Chin is bringing stories of family, food, and identity to Port Huron

Curtis Chin, an LGBTQ+ author, is visiting Port Huron on his Michigan Great Reads book tour. The moderated conversation and book signing of “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant” takes place on Thursday, April 16.

Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas not only recorded an anthem for the civil rights era – they fought for fair pay and proudly called themselves divas

Classic songs ‘Nowhere to Run’ and ‘Dancing in the Street’ captured the revolutionary spirit of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

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