Heidleberg Project

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(313) 974-6894 3600 Heidelberg St, Detroit, MI 48207 WEBSITE The Heidelberg Project. This two block ever-changing art environment all started back in 1986 when renown local artist Tyree Guyton decided to help express this tattered community’s hopes and dreams by turning found objects and abandoned homes into an explosion of artistic colors and concepts. Now the Heidelberg Project features community …

Signal-Return

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(313) 567-8970 1345 Division St, Detroit, MI 48207 www.signalreturnpress.org The art of print in one of the most important inventions mankind’s even made. It helps us relate, create and communicate. Signal Return is a hip ‘new’ place that’s keeping the age-old art of screen-printing and letterpress alive. It’s a for hire, exhibition & education place in Detroit’s Eastern Market that’s …

Water Street Glassworks

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(269) 925-5555 140 Water St., Benton Harbor, MI 49022 www.waterstreetglassworks.org So, how do you teach teenagers teamwork, focus, patience and trust? Well in Benton Harbor, they’re doing it with fire and ice. Water Street Glassworks is a very unique educational and exhibit space that offers an award-winning after school program called “Fired Up.” This program gives teens the skills they …

Detroit Design Center, The

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(313) 330-2259 6100 Michigan Ave., Detroit, MI 48210 www.detroitdesigncenter.com If you’re a fan of art that has both form and function, I’ve got a couple of heavy metal dudes you just have to meet. Eric Nordin and his brother Isreal are brothers bound by birth, business and their never-ending mission to create some of the coolest and most unique heavy …

Alley Project, The

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(313) 598-2050 9233 Avis, Detroit, MI 48209 www.youngnation.us Food isn’t the only thing that brings people together. There’s also culture, community and art. Eric Howard is the founding father of Southwest Detroit’s Alley Project, a living, breathing outdoor art environment that’s smack dab in the middle of a neighborhood. He grew up in this neighborhood, saw a need and started …

Geoff Hudson

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www.gr-retro.blogspot.com Geoff Hudson is what you might call a resident hipster in Grand Rapids. He’s a Musician, a DJ, a tech guru and an amateur historian who’s keeping a lot of Grand Rapids’ history alive. Especially the 80s. We had a great time reminiscing with Geoff because he is the ultimate off-beat 80s expert. If it happened in the 80s, …

515 Gallery

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(989) 386-4175 515 N. McEwan St., Clare, MI 48617 www.515gallery.org Since we were full of good eats, I thought we’d top it off with some good arts. So we stopped by 515 Gallery and found out that Kim Kleinhardt is teaching kids there to be more than just artists; she’s teaching them how to own a gallery and run a …

Sanctuary Folk Art

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(616) 454-0401 140 S. Division Ave., Grand Rapids, MI 49503 www.sanctuaryfolkart.com In the 1990s a four-block area right near downtown was nothing but boarded up buildings and blight. It was a part of Grand Rapids the economy left behind. But in 1999, artist and urban pioneer Reb Roberts started a personal crusade to change all that. On an empty street …