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As part of the Detroit Design Festival presented by the Detroit Creative Corridor Center, rogueHAA has installed “Dich2otomy” an architectural installation inside Lafayette Greens Urban Garden. It will be open during the remainder of the Detroit Design Festival. (more…)
Artist X. As part of this blog’s ongoing mission to raise the level of design discourse, rogueHAA has created a new series of posts entitled, “Artist X”. This series will highlight local artists, showcasing unique and innovative projects found within the city. By presenting multiple creative disciplines, we hope to build community relationships, spark Detroit specific design dialogue, encourage multi-disciplinary collaboration, and ultimately, strengthen the existing Detroit creative class.
Noah Stephens – In April 2010, Noah saw a Dateline NBC program that implied conditions in Detroit were so dire that wild raccoon meat had become a staple food. That month, He started The People of Detroit photodocumentary as a counterbalance to sensationalized media portrayals of Detroit. Eight months after starting the project (and only 2 years after buying his first camera), a creative director in Shanghai saw the photo project and hired him to shoot an ad campaign for McDonald’s China. Noah has been doing photography and writing full-time ever since. (more…)
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Objecthood: Local Artists Respond to the Compuware Art Collection
Featuring artists Corrie Baldauf, Janet Hamrick, Stacey Malasky, Senghor Reid, and Alison Wong. Objecthood opens to the public starting June 9th inside Boutique: A Compuware Gallery, located at 99 Monroe Street, between Farmer and Randolph. The exhibition will be open every Friday until July 8 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Works by Andy Kem
May 14 – June 11, 2011
Opening Reception:
Saturday, May 14, 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.
In his second solo project at Re:View Contemporary Gallery, artist and designer Andy Kem presents Interlocker, an intimate exploration of the physical act of assembling and creating abstract connections in order to form complex functional pieces.
Kem’s ability to artistically manipulate natural and renewable resources such as Birch Plywood, cork and maple has made him synonymous with Detroit’s legacy as a city where people make things. Emerging at the intersection of art and design, technology, and materials, Kem’s unique aesthetic language is presented in its full expression in his latest exhibit. (more…)
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Mapping the Terrain
Works by Emily Duke
April 2 – April 30, 2011
Opening Reception:
Saturday, April 2, 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.
In Mapping the Terrain, sculptor and ceramicist Emily Duke focuses on architecture and systems of order to address her own relationship with the structures she occupies and their relationship to the climate of her surroundings. Duke references elements from construction sites, agricultural buildings, and manufacturing complexes to base her objects. She builds formal compositions coupling true right angles with shrunken scale and skewed perspective to present intimacy in structures that are ordinarily massive and complex in our common terrain. (more…)
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inter:section @ Re:View Contemporary Gallery
Works by Coley McLean and Simone DeSousa
November 6 – November 27, 2010
Opening Reception:
Saturday, November 6
7 pm – 11 pm
inter:section presents the latest works by artists Coley McLean and Simone DeSousa, co-founders of the Salt-Mine Studio in Detroit, a multidisciplinary studio including sculpture, painting, design, and fabrication. In this exhibit, McLean and DeSousa use their distinct approaches, McLean primarily in metal sculpture and functional art, and DeSousa in painting, to create unique works that reference their environment and the intersection of their individual works. click here for contact information
Last Friday, HAA joined hundreds from around the world to celebrate Park(ing) Day, a one day event that highlights the need for more livable and vibrant public spaces in our cities. With some help from Unilock and Landscape Forms, pavers and sod where placed on a parking spot at the corner of Gratiot and Woodward. Soon, there was a green patch of space, an unusual site especially when one is accustomed to see a car in its place instead. Onlookers were curious. Drivers paused. Parking enforcement stopped, then questioned, and questioned some more, but finally drove off. This was the idea—to get people to notice, ask questions, and interact. For those that stopped by, they got the message and left with a smile on their faces.
For more information on Parking Day: http://parkingday.org/
Accepting Accidents @ Re:View Contemporary Gallery
Works by Cedric Tai
September 11 – October 9, 2010
Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 11, 7 pm – 11 pm
In Accepting Accidents, Detroit-based artist Cedric Tai’s solo exhibit at Re:View Contemporary, Tai explores the unintentional and how we adapt, react, adjust, and create in response to accidental and unexpected circumstances. click here for more information
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In Accepting Accidents, Detroit-based artist Cedric Tai’s solo exhibit at Re:View Contemporary, Tai explores the unintentional and how we adapt, react, adjust, and create in response to accidental and unexpected circumstances. |
In 2005, ReBar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single 2 hour metered parking space in downtown San Francisco into a temporary public park. The goal was to provoke an examination of the values that generate public urban space by briefly transforming territory typically reserved for vehicles. The intervention aimed to address a broader range of public needs by providing a public green space.
Today, Park(ing) Day has evolved into an annual worldwide event that empowers the community to enact urban change by creatively altering parking spots for the betterment of the public. This year, Park(ing) Day will be on Friday, September 17th. HAA will be participating in this unique project, and is in the process of selecting a location and designing the Park(ing) spot. Please check back for updates.
If you would like to create your own Park(ing) space or would like more information, please click here: http://parkingday.org/
License to Participate: http://parkingday.org/src/NPD_license_2010.pdf
Park(ing) Day network: http://my.parkingday.org/
It’s impossible to avoid the deterioration and vacancy abundant within any post-industrial City. Optimistically, these voids and vacancies are also the City’s possibilities for the future. In fact, our City and the Great Lakes industrial region have persisted in this state of duality for many years. While many see the bad and the ugly, others see the good, the beauty, and most importantly, the potential.
Hope is found on multiple scales. In the photo, we find it at a small scale, bursting forth from the most unexpected place…
