Galleries, Shops, Cafes + Studios Open Late!
CORKTOWN / SOUTHWEST:  
555 Gallery & Studios:  Behind the Scenes
Featuring the work of its Artists in Residence: a diverse group with a wide range of mediums and techniques. Live music by Javier Madrigal and Erik Garant.
6-9pm / 2801 W. Vernor Highway (gated parking off 21st St.)
 
Suddle Creations Gallery: Youth Art Exhibit
View works by students from Holy Redemer Elementary School and Denby High School and their visual projections of their community.
Opening 6-8pm / 1301 West Lafayette #100

What Pipeline:  Pieter Schoolwerth - Your Vacuum Sucks
An ever-expanding vacuum of paintings, drawings, and a single channel video, which will be inaugurally plugged in at What Pipeline in Detroit (September 2014), then move on to New Delhi, India, and New York. With each iteration the vacuum accumulates more and more material inside it's (body) - an eminently space-less place - which, whether it 'works' or not, most certainly sucks... because if it didn't it wouldn't be a vacuum. 
6-9pm / 3525 W. Vernor Hwy. 

Whitdel Arts:  We just want to make things. | The Evolving System | Flux Density: Detroit
Open for current exhibitions, "We just want to make things.," "The Evolving System," and "Flux Density: Detroit."
7-9pm / 1250 Hubbard St., Suite B1, Detroit, MI 48209 
DOWNTOWN:  
Boll Family YMCA:  Litterbug - Film Screening
The Man in the City Film Series continues with a film by Y Arts teaching artist and video producer, Mikey Brown.  "Litterbug" is a locally produced, feature length film that was nominated for best feature at the 2010 Detroit Indie Film Festival. In this film a night club DJ fakes interest in the green movement to win the love of an environmental activist who has become a fan of his music.
7-9pm / 1401 Broadway

The Carr Center:  Poetry and Prints: Impressions from Detroit and Brazil
This summer 9 Detroit area organizations came together to offer 5 weeks of intensive training to Detroit youth in poetry and printmaking. The resulting exhibition is a sampling of their work.

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

 

EASTERN MARKET:  
Eastern Market Corporation: Food, drinks, music and street market vendors. 
The last Third Thursday under Shed 3.
5-9pm
  
Signal-Return:  Print Portfolios Opening Reception
Exhibiting "Chasing Posada" curated by Ryan Standfest and "Less is More" curated by Toby Millman, two portfolios of highly regarded national and international print artists. These exhibitions are part of Print City 2014, The Mid America Print Council Conference taking place in Detroit.
6-8pm, Stephen Schudlich will be conducting a letterpress printing demonstration during the reception 
1345 Division St. #102

Salt & Cedar Letterpress: ARK - Field Dressings, A Report from A.I.R. Bemis Foundation Omaha to Detroit
Their primary sources for this work are aerial views of fortresses built between the 15th and 18th centuries. The shapes men make, when threatened - architectural terror-mouths, a masculine abcedarium of fear-forms. The determination to shift scale: from fortress-in-landscape to fortress-in-body, brings the site of contest home, shifts the power. Re-situates the trauma.
HAMTRAMCK:   
Hatch Gallery: Entre Ambos Mundos
Hatch kicks off its exhibition schedule with "Entre Ambos Mundos", aka "Between Both Worlds". This exhibition is large collection of prints from the San Miguel de Allende Collective, a group of Mexican and American artists.
6-9pm / 3456 Evaline
LIVERNOIS / AVENUE OF FASHION:  
Celebrate business and culture on the Avenue of Fashion and visit over 25 participating venues!
 
Livernois Community Storefront:  Businesses will be open late with special events and the Livernois Community Storefront is screening the documentary "The Great Detroit" at 7pm. Popcorn will be provided! Pages on Livernois will also be open for all of your literary needs!
Movie begins at 7pm / 19410 Livernois Avenue

Art in Motion / Love Travels Imports:  Paintings by Ross Brickman
New painter, Ross Brickman, will do a 'splash painting' demo.
Demonstration begins at 7:15 / 19452 Livernois

Good Cakes and Bakes:  Sue Carman-Vian Performance - Pastry Embarrassment
A multimedia performance with audience participation in a local bakery on Livernois in Detroit.
Performance begins at 7:15 (30 minutes) followed by a reception / 19363 Livernois Avenue

Detroit Fiber Works: Artist Talks - M. Saffell Gardner & Charlene Uresy
The exhibition features bold, colorful, expressive paintings by M. Saffell Gardner and exciting painted furniture by Charlene Uresy. Both artists will discuss their work and answer questions.

6-9pm / 19359 Livernois Ave. (On-street parking free after 6pm) 


Jo's Gallery: Adwoa Muwzea is a prolific, African American fine artist, writer and educator. She has an interdisciplinary approach to teaching applied and fine arts, history, and communication media.

6-9pm / 19376 Livernois Ave. 




MIDTOWN:  
Detroit Artists Market:  Abstraction and Landscape: Contemporary Woodcut 
6-9pm / 4719 Woodward Ave.

Elaine L. Jacob Gallery: Recurrent Chagoya: Enrique Chagoya's Editioned Works
The first major retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's original prints and multiples. His work offers witty and sophisticated commentary on contemporary social and political conditions.
5-9pm / 480 W. Hancock

Gallery Camille:  The Gao Brothers - Dissidents Abroad 
Beijing-based artists Gao Qiang and Gao Zhen are known as the Gao Brothers. They have collaborated on projects in a wide variety of media including sculpture, painting, performance, and photography since 1985.
noon-10pm / 4130 Cass Ave, Suite C

Re:View Contemporary:  Timothy van Laar - The Loss of Either/Or
6-9pm / 444 W. Willis, #112

Scarab Club:  Postcards From Exile - The Photography of Mariuca Rofick
The Emerging Artist Showcase features Mariuca Rofick, a self-taught photographer and native Detroiter. She looks at things in a frank and stark manner but sees the beauty in all of the images, even those depicting decay.
6-10pm / 217 Farnsworth Ave.

Michigan State University Detroit Center:  Detroit Resurgent Exhibition Opening
62 portraits and stories of hope, determination and renewal in Detroit. The book, "Detroit Resurgent," features photos by Gilles Perrin and interviews with Nicole Ewenczyk and a continuation of their 20-year international project profiling working life, "An Extraordinary Document of Our World." Source Booksellers' owner, Janet Webster Jones is featured in the book
5:30-8:30pm / 3408 Woodward Ave.
 
Not Open: CCS Center Galleries