Arts and Culture

The neighborhood arts organization Popps Packing is seeking to grow its interactive playscape Camp Carpenter, with the help of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the Public Spaces Community Places initiative.

Neighborhood arts organization seeks to expand its summertime adventure camp

The neighborhood arts organization Popps Packing is seeking to grow its interactive playscape Camp Carpenter.

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Jefferson Chalmers community empowerment event
Join us on April 19 for a Jefferson Chalmers storytelling event!

Join Model and the Manistique Community Treehouse Center for a two-day Jefferson Chalmers community empowerment event.

Myrtle Thompson, center, Program Director and Co-Founder of Feedum Freedom, and Mikel Bresee, right center, pose with community members in front of a pavilion being built as part of the Fox Creek Artscape
Placekeeping, not placemaking: Fox Creek Artscape nears completion in Jefferson Chalmers

A partnership between a number of community organizations, Fox Creek Artscape will feature a pavilion for community meetings and gatherings, a street-side fruit stand, public art space, extensive landscaping, and more.

Jonny Alexander mural
You have to visit these 10 under-the-radar Detroit murals

While there's been no shortage of beautiful murals painted downtown or in Eastern Market, we wanted to asked Viranel Clerard, who's catalogued over 1,000 Detroit murals, about those that are in less visible locations. 

United Sound Systems
Detroit’s oldest recording studio spared from demolition by MDOT

To make way for an I-94 expansion while also save the building, MDOT purchased the United Sound Systems Recording Studios and plans to relocate it to the adjacent parking lot. 

Graem Whyte and Faina Lerman, co-founders of Popp's Packing
What’s the value of Detroit’s cultural legacy? Artists and preservationists make the case

Even as the city changes, some artists and preservationists are trying to ensure that Detroit's rich heritage of art, music, design, and culture is here to stay. 

A rally in Hamtramck
Documentary about Democracy in Hamtramck looks to raise money

The documentary, which followed the mayoral candidates throughout their campaigns, is looking to raise $55,000 by Jan. 31.

Morris Porter adjusts the levels
This scrappy community station is rewriting the rules of Detroit radio

For the past year, 96.7 WNUC, a low power FM radio station located in Detroit's North End, has been designing programs by and for Detroit residents.

The troupe practices during a rehearsal
Grassroots theater festival in Banglatown commences Nov. 15, launches new mentorship program

The Detroit Fringe Festival, now in its fifth year, takes place over four days starting Thursday, Nov. 15 with performances at four venues in Detroit and Hamtramck. 

Director of design and founder of coG-Studio Chandra Moore
This African-American woman architect is bringing fresh ideas to big projects in Detroit

Chandra Moore is a successful architect working on such major projects as the redevelopment of the former Casket Building on Selden Street. It's equally impressive given that only 3 percent of working architects in the U.S. are black women.

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