A special night of art, food, drink and fun!  

CORKTOWN / SOUTHWEST:  
555 Gallery & Studios: Third Thursday Opening
Opening 6-9pm / 2801 W. Vernor Hwy.

El Dorado General Store: Curated vintage general store that's stocked with one of a kind trinkets and treasures. 
12-8pm / 1700 Michigan Ave.

Whitdel Arts:  Day of the Dead Offering to Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata | Local Local: The Southwest Show 
7-9pm / 1250 Hubbard St., Suite B1, Detroit, MI 48209

DittoDitto (11am-6pm), Hello Records (11am-6pm) 

Not Open:  What Pipeline
DOWNTOWN:  
Y ARTS at the Boll Family YMCA:  The Weight of the Day in Earthworms
The heft of moments and interactions, recorded in steel, wood, bone, and color.
5-9pm / 1401 Broadway

ARTIST TO ARTIST: Artists work in isolation but isolation has its costs. Come out, see work, and have your work be seen. This month's meeting will feature special guest, Kresge Eminent Artist, Bill Rauhauser.
PICTURES FROM ANOTHER ROOM

6-9pm / 311 E. Grand River Ave (parking validated for Z lot located on Broadway)

 

Stop by the Z LOT and The Belt (alley)  a parking garage covered in murals (1234 Library Street)

 

Not Open: Library Street Collective, Start Gallery 

EASTERN MARKET:  
Salt and Cedar: ARK: Field Dressings - a new series of works on paper and prototypes of tableware produced by Leon Johnson at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Johnson's exquisite work is available for purchase throughout November and December
Presentation by Jimmy Riordan who will present on his recent project Le Roman du Li�vre, a turn of the century novel by Francis Jammes translated from the French. At the beginning of this project, Riordan did not know French. This summer, after 5 years working around the text through a series of collaborative projects, he printed his translation. He will discuss the letterpress printing of the book and recount his history with the text, which he is currently exploring through the creation of a multi-volume graphic novel. .
6-9pm - Presentation begins at 7pm / 2448 Riopelle 

Trinosophes: Frode Gjerstad Trio + Steve Swell 
Trinosophes welcomes back one of Europe's most intense improvising ensembles, the Frode Gjerstadt Trio with special guest trombonist/composer Steve Swell. 
8pm / 1464 Gratiot ($10 suggested donation) 
HAMTRAMCK:   
2739 Edwin: This exhibition brings together the work of two contemporary painters, William Singer and Kelsey Shultis, whose work stems, seemingly, from vastly different motivations, through the lens of the still life we can see that their thematic structure and focus remain very much the same.
6-10pm / 2739 Evaline

Hatch Gallery: David E. Parker's show DOMESTIC
6-9pm / 3456 Evaline

Not Open: Popps Packing, Public Pool, Atomic Cafe, 9338 Campau
LIVERNOIS / AVENUE OF FASHION:  
Art in Motion / Love Travels Imports, Good Cakes and Bakes, Detroit Fiber Works, Jo's Gallery and many other participating venues.
WOODBRIDGE / GRAND RIVER:  
North End Studios:  Other Nature by Zo� Ligon
North End's resident artist, Zo� Ligon is a sex educator and visual artist residing in Brooklyn, NY. One of her recent works appeared in TIME magazine's "The New Age of Heroines." Ligon creates subversive collage work that pushes boundaries of sexuality, gender, and power. 
7pm-1am / 5101 Loraine St. 

Spread Art @detroit contemporary:  Creative Women [Music] Incubator

The Creative [ ] Incubator invites creatives to experiment with low & hi tech while exploring new possibilities in an improvised, collaborative performance. November's Incubator, hosted by Seraphine Collective, highlights women in music, featuring Cait Ash, Erin Norris, Holly Johnson, Sara Grosky, Leslie Wacker, Shelley Salant, Sophie Tulip, Tess Tennessee Miller, Angelina Cicchella & Deekah Wyatt

8-11pm / 5141 Rosa Parks Blvd. 
 
Not Open: Live Coal Gallery
MIDTOWN:  
CCS Center Galleries:  Ed Fella: History, Commercial Art, Art and the American Vernacular
CCS alumnus, artist, educator and iconoclastic designer Ed Fella dared to reshape contemporary typography and graphic design, and is now considered one of the most influential designers of the last quarter century. Center Galleries is pleased to mount a survey exhibition revealing the diverse array of Fella's significant creative and commercial output.
In Alumni & Faculty Hall: Vince Carducci: Getting Over at the Office
10am-8pm / 301 Frederick Douglass

Detroit Artists Market:  Art for the Holidays - Your One Stop Shop 
6-9pm / 4719 Woodward Ave.

Elaine L. Jacob Gallery:  Menagerie, or Artwork Not About Love
Based on the constraints of Shklovskys 1923 epistolary novel, Zoo, or Letters Not about Love (an entire book of love letters that avoid an address of love), we present an exhibition entitled Menagerie, or Artwork Not about Love. The distant longings of the heartor, for real optimists, the soulare processed through allegory, denial, and poetry.
6pm-9pm / 480 W. Hancock

Fourteen East:  Stop in for a refreshing treat and check out the new merchandise in the shop.
6-9pm / Park Shelton Building, 15 E Kirby, Woodward Ave entrance (Complimentary parking in adjoining garage)

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit:  Psychological Services
Make MOCAD a part of your regimen and take part in Psychological Services, a program stocked with craft cocktails, music to elevate your mood, and staffed with therapists and artists waiting to talk to you. Take advantage of the free parking at MOCAD and use the museum as a launching point or as the final destination as you make the rounds through all that 3rd Thursday has to offer.
6-9pm / 4454 Woodward Ave.
Exhibitions on display: Neha Vepathak "ELEMENTAL" (Black Box Gallery); Elizabeth Youngblood "Vicissitude" (Rose Gallery); Herbert Gentry & His Contemporaries (Main Gallery)
6-8pm / 52 East Forest St.

Re:View Contemporary:  Ed Fraga - Tabula Rasa
6-9pm / 444 W. Willis

Scarab Club:  Burrow, The Artwork of Kim Hoxworth 
Kim Hoxworth is an analog photographer using low-tech equipment such as homemade and vintage cameras. She works with a variety of alternative processing and/or printing techniques, and often presents her photographs in a mixed media format.
6-10pm / 217 Farnsworth Ave.

Stop by Cass Cafe (open until 2am), Dell Pryor Gallery in the Spiral Collective Building (open until 6pm), Ellen Kayrod Gallery (open until 8pm), Galerie Camille
 
Not Open: Thick Air Studios, Ocelot Print Shop