Upcoming 3rd Thursdays:
July 18
August 15
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Thursday, July 18, 5-9pm - Venues open late with special events, exhibitions + offerings.
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4731 Gallery
555 Gallery
Avalon Bakery
Bottom Line Coffee House
Butcher’s Daughter
Virgil Carr Center
Cass Cafe
City Bird
Dell Pryor Gallery
Detroit Artists Market
Detroit Mercantile Co.
Fourteen East
Fun House Gallery
Germack Coffee Roasting
Heidelberg Project Watson Street
Library Street Collective
Liberal Arts Gallery
Live Coal Gallery
MBAD African Bead Museum
Milieu
Motor City Art Market
Nest
N’Namdi Center
Nora
North End Studios
Presence II Productions Gallery of Decorative Art and Design
The Pioneer Building
Pure Detroit
Red Bull House of Art
Re:View Contemporary
Rodin
Russell Industrial Center Complex
Salt & Cedar
Scarab Club
See Art + Design
Signal-Return
Socra Tea
Source Booksellers
Spread Art @detroit contemporary
Start Gallery
Sugar Hill Clay
What Pipeline
WSU Galleries
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555 Gallery
Alchemy: 2 Artists 4 Mediums Combining Science, Nature and Art. Artists: Paula Schubatis and Hugo A. Navarro.
The Butcher’s Daughter
Join TBD gallery Director, Monica Bowman and Artist, Robert Platt in conversation. Topics explored will include the artist’s vision behind works in the current exhibition, details about his process and materials, as well as influences relevant to Platt’s exploration of painting and installation as medium. The exhibition, Insubstantial Pageants of The Mind’s Eye, runs through July 27th.
Alchemy: 2 Artists 4 Mediums Combining Science, Nature and Art. Artists: Paula Schubatis and Hugo A. Navarro.
The Butcher’s Daughter
Join TBD gallery Director, Monica Bowman and Artist, Robert Platt in conversation. Topics explored will include the artist’s vision behind works in the current exhibition, details about his process and materials, as well as influences relevant to Platt’s exploration of painting and installation as medium. The exhibition, Insubstantial Pageants of The Mind’s Eye, runs through July 27th.
Corridor Collective Gallery
Open later 6-10pm. Guest curator Brad Ruff and his Band of Merry Pranksters of Art and don’t miss the “Mystery Spot” with goodies from Detroit artist Gary Grimshaw and samples for sale of DUDS by Detroit Urban Design Studio. Musical offering from 7-10pm. Located at 2944 Woodward Avenue.
Fourteen East
Featuring contemporary music by Detroit harpist and author, Michele Roger. Her performances include the DIA and the Belle Isle Conservancy. Join them for “Art of Coffee” while enjoying the music. Taste a varietal bean, brewed as French Press, Vacuum Siphon, Pour over, Espresso and Iced and taste the incredibly different flavors produced by each brew method. This tasting will be presented at no charge for Third Thursday.
Fun House Gallery
The “Black, White and Red” Show is on display and featuring musical guest Milan
Kunsthalle
CITYDRIFT: Homage to Colin DeLand and Pat Hearn. An investigative/interconnective event that utilizes the Situationist concept of the “drift” or derive, as a starting point for re-engaging the act as “simple play” or as a series of unplanned actions. The “drift” itself, as the founding member Guy Debord describes it, is an authentic experience, or as a “mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances, usually urban.” Today we re-evaluate this concept, questioning the ability to located “authenticity” itself within the contemporary world, and in this manner CITYDRIFT will serve to critically test this historic concept through action and discussion.
**Please Note: Bottom Line Coffee House, Center Galleries are closed this month
Fourteen East
Featuring contemporary music by Detroit harpist and author, Michele Roger. Her performances include the DIA and the Belle Isle Conservancy. Join them for “Art of Coffee” while enjoying the music. Taste a varietal bean, brewed as French Press, Vacuum Siphon, Pour over, Espresso and Iced and taste the incredibly different flavors produced by each brew method. This tasting will be presented at no charge for Third Thursday.
Fun House Gallery
The “Black, White and Red” Show is on display and featuring musical guest Milan
Kunsthalle
CITYDRIFT: Homage to Colin DeLand and Pat Hearn. An investigative/interconnective event that utilizes the Situationist concept of the “drift” or derive, as a starting point for re-engaging the act as “simple play” or as a series of unplanned actions. The “drift” itself, as the founding member Guy Debord describes it, is an authentic experience, or as a “mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances, usually urban.” Today we re-evaluate this concept, questioning the ability to located “authenticity” itself within the contemporary world, and in this manner CITYDRIFT will serve to critically test this historic concept through action and discussion.
Liberal Arts Gallery
“Shooting Nudes and Other Stories” A homage to women by renowned photographer Jack Kenny.
Motor City Art Market
Local art, music and more featuring Debbie David as the musical guest and house artist.
North End Studios
Local art, music and more featuring Debbie David as the musical guest and house artist.
North End Studios
Basic Kind Lecture Series presents, Where Have All the Panthers Gone: The Role of Violence in the U.S. at 7pm. This lecture is given by Brandon Weiner of Creative Rights Organization, a nonprofit dedicated to providing free legal representation, educational programs and project coordination services to the creative community.
Pioneer Building
Pioneer Building
Artists open up their studios and are on hand to speak about their work.
Red Bull House of Art will feature the eclectic discography and sounds of Erno the Inferno, from Tour Detroit and Slow Jams.
Kate Silvio, “40 weeks unprepared…little nightmares” on view.
Lower level: Scarab Club Sketch Session, 7-10pm. This life drawing session is held every Thursday.
Lounge: Emerging Artist Showcase of multi-media work of Austin Brady.
Mark Dancey artist talk and exhibit tour 7-8pm. Dancey will be sharing insights into his new solo exhibit “O Fortuna,” including 13 new paintings, and a set of amazing “tarot cards” print sets.
A talk and conversation around the topic: Muslim Spain and the making of the modern world. The talk and conversation will be led by Nadir Mushin, instructor at WCCC. The following two books will be featured:
“Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain,”
(Maria Rosa Menocal) and “The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews and Muslims in the making of Castilian Spain”
(Dodds, Menacol and Balbale)
“Emiliano’s Zapatos – Mundo del Macho” a solo show by Vito Jesus Valdez, in conjunction with “Macho Simpatico” a group exhibition curated by Valdez. Five established Detroit artists present an exhibit that peels away at the layers of the male psyche.
In the Theatre:
After a two year hiatus, The Creative Incubator returns for Third Thursday. Spread Art will host a revamped Creative Incubator every third Thursday @ detroit contemporary. Each month will focus on a different artistic medium. What started out as The Creative Music Incubator in New York will now be known as The Creative ‘music’ Incubator this month. Next month could be The Creative ‘dance’ Incubator. And following that, The Creative ‘ video’ Incubator and so on. The name might be slightly altered each month but the concept will remain the same. Every month creatives in various disciplines will work together to share creative concepts, experiment with the low and the hi tech as applied to sound, movement, visuals, theater, dance and other performance based platforms and explore new possibilities in an improvised, collaborative performance.
Thick Air Studios
A casual soiree in their humble studio. In addition to chatting with us about our current and future work, this would be a great opportunity to inquire about renting a portion of their studio, available August 1st. Their studio is located at 2914 Cass Ave, which is the north half of the building known as Temple Bar. Guests should enter through the back door, inside the small gated portion of the parking lot.
**Please Note: Bottom Line Coffee House, Center Galleries are closed this month
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