Announcing Four New Exhibitions Opening This Fall at Cranbrook Art Museum

Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit LeRoy Foster: Solo Show Carl Toth: Reordering Fictions Ash Arder: Flesh Tones All Exhibitions Open October 28, 2023 ArtMembers Preview Party October 27, 2023 This fall, Cranbrook Art Museum will open a series of original exhibitions that examine the importance of legacy within the artistic community of Detroit by […]

Sonya Clark’s Celebrating Our Roots | Waymaker

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Sonya Clark’s ‘Healing Memorial’ returns to Detroit with Cranbrook exhibit | Metro Times

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Ash Arder: Flesh Tones

Ash Arder is a transdisciplinary, researched-focused artist from Flint, Michigan whose work investigates ecological and industrial systems, especially in consideration of the power dynamics between humans, machines, and the natural world. Her practice illuminates moments of intimacy, tenderness, and connection within industrial spaces. She transforms recognizable objects like hardhats and car parts into sculptural forms […]

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Carl Toth: Reordering Fictions 

Carl Toth: Reordering Fictions examines various bodies of work that the artist created over his more than forty-year career, from early black and white photography to his pioneering work in alternative photographic techniques. Through his interest in torquing reality, Toth sought to expand the field of photography through his exploration of the SX-70 Polaroid camera […]

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Healing Memorial dedicated to SE Mich.’s COVID-19 victims moving to new location | The Detroit News

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LeRoy Foster: Solo Show

One of Detroit’s most intriguing figures, artist LeRoy Foster (1925–1993) was an exceptional talent and a leading figure in the Black artistic community. Perhaps best known for his large mural at the Douglass Branch of the Detroit Public Library, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, (1972), Foster studied art at Detroit’s famed Cass Tech High […]

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Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit

Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit focuses on a local community of artists that have developed expert skills in drawing and painting, and, through deft hands, explore the representation of the Black body in both personal and cultural contexts. Rejecting the monolithic nature under which the Black body is frequently conceived and popularly imagined, Skilled […]

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Cranbrook art show features works of creators on the rise | Detroit Free Press

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Cranbrook Art Museum Announces It Will Premiere New Exhibition Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other This Summer

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