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PASC END OF YEAR 2024 NEWSLETTER

This has been a pretty incredible year for PASC. We are floored by all the amazing progress we have seen in our artists, the incredible exhibition opportunities they have had, and the sales they made.

 

To simplify our accomplishments we are going to list them out below in chronological order.

Image Caption: PASC artist Detroit Angel Tweety next to her artwork and PASC Staff Eleni Zaharopoulos in Tapestry of Transformation at The Art Gallery at Westland City Hall.

FEBRUARY

Cosmic Connections, PASC Southgate Gallery (Southgate, MI), curated by Hannah Lilly. A group exhibition featuring 26 PASC artists.


MARCH

PASC at BasBlue, Art of BasBlue, BasBlue (Detroit, MI), curated by Alison Wong. A group exhibition of 34 PASC artists inside BasBlue's midtown Detroit Mansion. BasBlue is a non-profit dedicated to empowering economic mobility and leadership skills, and providing resources for personal and professional development for underrepresented and under-resourced women and non-binary individuals in Southeast Michigan.


A Tapestry of Transformation, Art Gallery at City Hall, Westland City Hall (Westland, MI), curated by Chloé Hajjar, Kristi Ternes and Eleni Zaharopoulos. A group exhibition featuring 38 PASC artists inside the halls of Westland’s government.

Image Caption: PASC artist's working out of the PASC Detroit Studio, at Lantern

Image Caption: visitors at If Anyone Can Hear This, PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit

MAY

Grand Opening of PASC Detroit Studio and Gallery at Lantern, (Detroit, MI). Grand opening of our first public studio and gallery in Detroit, inside a mixed use arts and culture warehouse building, also an architectural landmark designed by OMA


If Anyone Can Hear This PASC Detroit Gallery, (Detroit, MI) curated by Scott Vincent Campbell. PASC’s first exhibition in our first permanent gallery in Detroit featuring 30 artists. 

 

Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), accessions fifteen artworks by PASC artists Sherri Bryant, Marquise Rucker, Alsendoe Owens, Jeremy Dillard, DeRon Hudson, Ronald Griggs, Keisha Miller, Lewis Foster, Renee Rogan and Nejwa Elghoul into their permanent collection.

 

PASC Art Advisor Eleni Zaharopoulos and PASC Program Manager Anthony Marcellini, represent PASC at Creative Growth’s 5th Annual Creating Community Symposium, alongside 80 other participants of art studio programs for disabled artists from across the US, Canada, England and even Australia.

 

PASC hires its first gallery assistant Amber Nox to help run the PASC Detroit and Southgate Galleries.

Image Caption: Installation Image, People Are People (2024), PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI.

JUNE

People Are People, PASC Detroit Gallery (Detroit, MI) curated by Matthew Higgs and Erin Sommerville of White Columns, NYC. An exhibition of portraiture by 10 PASC artists, hung in an atypical checkerboard like style, curated by two important NYC curators known for advancing the careers of lesser known and marginalized artists.

 

PASC is featured in the magazine/art book The Online Gallery’s 11th Edition. An internally known coffee table book-like publication, this edition focuses on Detroit artists and the art and cultural scene growing in Detroit.

 

Rejoice, PASC Southgate Gallery (Southgate, MI), curated by Hannah Lilly. A group exhibition celebrating the sun and summer, featuring 13 PASC artists.

Image Caption: Creatives in Control, curators Lewis Foster, Rodney Hudson, Keisha Miller, and Lauren Williams.

Image Caption: Sherri Bryant's artwork near famous Detroit artist Charles McGee's artwork

AUGUST

Creatives in Control, PASC Detroit Gallery (Detroit, MI), curated by Lewis Foster, Rodney Hudson, Keisha Miller, and Lauren Williams. A group exhibition curated for the first time by PASC artists, featuring drawings on the walls as their curatorial statement.

 

SEPTEMBER

Cup of Sugar, PASC Detroit Gallery (Detroit, MI), curated by PASC and Signal-Return staff. A sprawling group exhibition produced in collaboration with Signal-Return, spanning across both institutions, featuring artists from PASC alongside local Detroit artists and staff of both PASC and Signal-Return.

 

PASC participates in the 10th edition of the Detroit Art Book Fair

 

PASC Detroit hosts Structurally Sound, with Detroit Chamber Wind and Strings. Our first concert inside the studio of PASC Detroit, with piano, voice and horns.

 

OCTOBER

The Crossing Point, PASC Southgate Gallery (Southgate, MI), curated by Benjamin Haddix and Kristi Ternes. A group exhibition of paintings drawings and many sculptures, featuring 14 PASC artists.


Sherri Bryant's artwork is featured in How We Make the Planet Move: The Detroit Collection Part I at Cranbrook Art Museum. An exhibition featuring prominant Detroit artist who have been added to the Cranbrook Art museum's permanent collection.

Image caption: PASC's booth at the Open Invitational, Miami, FL

Image caption: PASC artists on view at White Columns' booth at NADA, Miami, FL

NOVEMBER


Imagination Maps, PASC Detroit Gallery (Detroit, MI). PASC’s first two person exhibition featuring Sherri Bryant and Robert Duncombe.

 

PASC Print Launch With Signal-Return, A commissioned print project with our neighbor the print making collective Signal-Return, eight PASC artists are selected to create limited edition letterpress relief prints. Participating artists Sherri Bryant, Chantell Donwell, Ronald Griggs, Shawn Jackson, Keisha Miller, Thomas Saunders, Aaron Taylor, and Jeremy Taylor.

 

DECEMBER



PASC participates in The Open Invitational (Miami, FL). PASC participates in its first art fair during a week of art fairs in Miami. We sell 14 PASC artworks to national and international collectors and make important connections with museums and galleries.

 

PASC presents artwork at White Columns’ booth during NADA (Miami, FL). White Columns Gallery invites PASC to present artworks at its booth during NADA, an art fair during a week of art fairs in Miami, Keisha Miller, Ronald Griggs, Thomas Saunders and Alsendoe Owens, are presented on its walls, along with over 60 unframed artworks by PASC artists. White-Columns sells 34 artworks to national and international collectors.

 

At years end PASC Gallery has sold $42,987.00 worth of artwork, with 60% from sales, after framing costs, returning to our artists.

 

And at years end PASC has received $19,505.00 in individual donations to continue to support and advance the work PASC does to build contemporary art careers for artists with disabilities. Thank you to Milton H. Dresner Foundation, Stephen Henderson, Jen Joy, Gerrylynn and Nathaniel McNeal, Robin Wagner, Charles and Jane Miller and Rebecca Lentjes.

 

Thank you to our PASC artists, PASC staff, STEP staff, visitors, collectors, supporters, neighbors, and community partners, who have helped us spread art by artists with disabilities throughout the world, and build contemporary art careers for our artists. We look forward to an even more fantastic 2025.  

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