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Maia Asshaq

Maia Asshaq is an Iraqi-American writer and founder of the Detroit Art Book Fair. She is the recipient of the 2015 Gilda Award for emerging writers by the Kresge Foundation and a 2016 Salzburg Fellow. 

Maia Asshaq's Latest Articles

How two new curators at the Detroit Institute of Arts are remaking the contemporary galleries

Assistant curators Taylor Renee Aldridge and Lucy Mensah not only designed the museum's latest exhibit exploring the meaning of home, but are in the midst of a massive overhaul of the Contemporary Galleries that will last over a decade. 

Billy Mark
The improvisational, and confrontational, work of performance artist and poet Billy Mark

Using silence and strange characters, Billy Mark has been challenging audiences in Detroit since moving here in 2013. 

A photo from Geoff George's Instagram account
11 beautiful and creative Detroit Instagram accounts you need to follow

Yes, Detroit has some of the country's greatest artists. It's also got some of the most artistic (and meme-worthy) Instagram accounts. Here are our favorites. 

Matthew Harrison using a 3D printer
Detroit sculptor Matthew Harrison explores identity through clay and machines

A local sculptor, Kresge Visual Art Fellow, and former producer of clay car prototypes for Ford Motor Company, Matthew Angelo Harrison uses 3D printers to make art that imagines post-identity. 

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