Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center


  
Our artwork, ironically opposed in philosophy and visual language...unites in pursuit of essential truth through beauty...We're both emotionally driven, romantic makers who are bringing traditional techniques into contemporary studio practice. Also on exhibit: Linda Beeman - an environmental artist working exclusively in the ancient water-based Japanese art of mokuhanga - woodblock print. Shades of the Brush: Birmingham Society of Women Painters. Students of Laura Host, artist/instructor who specializes in experimental water media and prints.



Opening Reception, Friday October 21, 
6-8pm.  [Birmingham]

Show runs through November 18.

  
Holding House


  
To Touch The Sky With Two Arms
To Touch The Sky With Two Arms is an exhibition of the works of Kim Harty and Brian Caponi that explores a variety of media in an effort to make the intangible tangible. Both artists exhibit a nuanced and poetic approach toward recording objects and images which often remain just out of reach: light and shadow, a sense of home, memory, or celestial bodies. The work on display highlights the relationship between materials, images and individuals exhibited in fragments.






Opening Reception, Saturday October 22,  6-9pm. [Southwest, Detroit]   


                                             
  
Inner State Gallery


  
 
Kevin Lyons brings his first Detroit solo exhibition Baker's Dozen to Eastern Market. The New York City-based artist, designer and cultural trendsetter will showcase new handcut wood paintings, works on paper and newly created hand-painted screen print editions featuring his iconic monsters. Joining Lyons at Inner State will be Detroit artist Ellen Rutt, who exhibits an entirely new collection of mixed media pieces, along with an immersive installation for her solo exhibition Getting In Shape.





Opening Reception, Friday October 21, 7-10pm [Eastern Market, Detroit]


                                 

The Heidelberg Project


  
Opening to the public on Friday, October 21st at the POST-HAB gallery inside the Number House (3632 Heidelberg), Heidelbergology: a 30-year photo retrospective takes us on a journey through time with a collection of photographs taken throughout the 30-year span of the Heidelberg Project. Heidelbergology: a 30-year photo retrospective presents a study of the 30-year transformation of the Heidelberg Project while celebrating the life and works of Detroit artist Tyree Guyton.



Openging Reception, Friday October 21, 5:30-8:30pm. [East Side, Detroit]
The Scarab Club


  
2016 Photography Exhibition
The Scarab Club Photography show has been a long-running annual exhibition. In it, we recognize the diversity and achievement of artists whose work shows creativity of concept, excellence of design and expertise of media. Juried by Lisa Spindler. Lisa Spindler is a photographer, artist, and collector working in Detroit, Michigan.








Opening Reception, Friday October 21,  5-8pm. [Midtown, Detroit]   


                                               
  
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Gallery

  
 
Join us for a free brunch and get to know the October artists in residence with Aino Aksenja Marlene Imirzian is principal of Marlene Imirzian and Associates Architects, a regional practice with offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Escondido, California. She creates finely considered and inventive buildings from concepts of architectural beauty, excitement, and purpose.  Marlene will give the Distinguished Alumna Lecture immediately following her exhibition opening, at 6pm




Opening Reception, Friday October 21,  5-7pm.  [Ann Arbor]
                            
 

Spread Art


  
If you have ever been to a Creative Incubator then you know what to expect. If you have not then please join us for a night of multi discipline creativity and improvisation as we bring the second installment of the 2016 Fall season of Creative Incubators!!










Thursday October 20, 9-11pm. [Woodbridge, Detroit]
Trinosophes


  
Jim Crawford
Trinosophes is excited to announce the first solo exhibition in over 15 years by Detroit artist Jim Crawford (Indianapolis, Indiana). Crawford's intellectualism and fascination with the industrial landscape align him with artists from the pivotal Cass Corridor era. His early experimentation with unconventional materials as neon and dry ice, as well as his radical public performances and ephemeral site-specific installations also connect him to early Minimalism and Process Art.




Opening Reception, Friday October 21,  6-10pm. [Eastern Market, Detroit]   

Show runs through December 23.
                                               
  
Grand Rapids Art Museum


  
 
Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion features 45 one-of-a-kind haute couture looks by Dutch designer, Iris van Herpen. Van Herpen is internationally acclaimed for her combination of traditional craftsmanship and futuristic, innovative techniques-including some of the world's first examples of 3D-printed fashion. Her sculptural designs often feature unusual materials such as umbrella ribs and synthetic boat rigging. 





Opening, Sunday October 23,  12-5pm. 
[Grand Rapids]
                            
 

CAVE


  
VIRTU
Cave presents VIRTU a Fashion Performance Fundraiser to raise money for our Knight Arts Grant. Please join us on Saturday October 22nd Doors @ 8:00pm with DJ sets by Especially Good Performance. Fashion by: PEACE LOVE SPANDEX, MOURN THE LIVING, AGE OF MARTINA, SIMONE ELSE, HOUSE OF RAW, AND STARGAZER. Part:1 of show starts promptly at 9:00 followed by intermission. Part:2 starts at 10:30 $10.00 cover charge. *Libations available for extra donation




Saturday October 22, doors at 8pm. [North End, Detroit]




  
The Good Tyme Writers Buffet at Public Pool


Good Tyme Writers Buffet Celebrates Five Years wsg Andy Mozina
Join us October 22nd as six writers read on the idea of walls, division, boundaries, borders. We'll be surrounded by the installation by Osman Khan, "On Which Side, The Barbarians?" As usual we'll be eating and drinking and generally enjoying the hell out of the night. It's true, it's been five years since our first Buffet. We hope you can make it, and bring a dish to pass. Come hungry. Come thirsty. It's a potluck!





Saturday October 22,  7-10pm 
[Hamtramck]   



                       
  
LeBel School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor

  
 
TERRA LONG (Toronto ON) Momentum Filmmaker in Residence (10.09 - 10.23.16) Screening / Q&A Thurs., Oct. 20 7PM With the artist in attendance! Featured films: dinosaurs (2013), Push/Pull/Recover (2014), Notes from the Anthropocene (2014), 350 MYA (2016)









Thursday October 20, 7-8:30pm. 
[Windsor]



                                 

LECTURES + OTHER EVENTS

Red Bull House of Art:
With our current residency focusing primarily on installation art, we sit down with Lala, Coby and Beau to hear more about their experiences as artists and professionals in the art world. We'll explore the process and inspiration behind their work.
Saturday October 22, 2-3:30pm. [Eastern Market, Detroit]

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD:
Our featured Detroit City artist this season is Matthew Angelo Harrison. His work focuses on the performative aspect of systems and manufacturing and his MOCAD exhibit, "Irrealism", transforms the making of traditional african masks through the use of 3D printing and open-source technology.
Saturday October 22, 1-2pm. [Midtown, Detroit]

Simone DeSousa Gallery
Simone DeSousa Gallery invites you to join artist Tom Phardel for an informal gallery conversation about his current solo exhibition "Inner Core." In the works in "Inner Core" Phardel intends to shed light on both the spiritual and physical qualities an object possess.
Sunday October 23, 3-4:30pm [Midtown, Detroit]

Oakland Avenue Urban Farm:
AfroJam preserves and hibiscus tea for sale. Free pony and buggy rides and pumpkin painting for the kids Music and entertainment and local food vendors
Saturday October 22, 4-8pm [Alden Park]

University of Michigan Museum of Art:
Detroit-based architect and artist, Catie Newell, and newly arrived UMMA Assistant Curator of Photography, Jennifer Friess, will discuss the themes of the exhibition, including Newell's impulse to create new architectural space out of the unseen and her interest in the sensory qualities of our built environments.
Sunday October 23, 3-4:30pm [Ann Arbor]

Trinosophes:
Join us for a free public discussion about creative process, concepts and community with artist Jim Crawford, following the opening of his solo exhibition at Trinosophes on Friday.
Saturday October 22, 3-4pm [Eastern Market, Detroit]


DETROIT ART REVIEW
Energy/Mass @ 
Wasserman Projects

35 Years @  N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art
Elizabeth Youngblood @ 
9338 Campau