The University of Michigan's Detroit Center has launched a new gallery
with the intent of connecting the Detroit and Ann Arbor art scenes.
Excerpt:
Director of Exhibitions Nick Sousanis, who also runs
TheDetroiter.com,
aims to use the space to create dialogues and further long-term
interactions between Detroit and Ann Arbor. "It can be both a place to
have things," he says, referring to shows, lectures and meetings, "and
a launch pad."
For the gallery's debut show, Ann Arbor and
Detroit artists were asked to ruminate about the Martin Luther King,
Jr. Blvd and Woodward Avenue intersection. Some artists took the task
quite literally, with trash collected and documented by Stephen
Schudlich and a bus stop erected -- and manned -- by Rachel Timlin and
Nick Tobier. "U-M's School of Art & Design is interested in art as
a part of the community, part of social change," Sousanis says.
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