Join us for a series of talks with artists, gallerists and Detroiters in conjunction with the exhibition How We Make the Planet Move: The Detroit Collection Part I (October 26, 2024 – March 2, 2025), the debut of Cranbrook Art Museum’s new permanent collection devoted to celebrating and preserving the work of artists and designers in the metro Detroit area—its first new collection in decades.
At the same time, the Art Museum dedicated funds to acquire more works by women, artists of color, and LGBTQ+ identified individuals in a project to diversify its permanent collection. Designed to acknowledge the long-standing history of artists who have called Detroit home and the area’s rich and diverse community of practitioners, the Detroit Collection is particularly focused on art from the 1960s to the present in a variety of media.
The first talk in the series focuses on a slice of time in the Detroit art scene, beginning in the late 1960s. The Cass Corridor Movement, which emerged as an artistic reaction to Detroit’s post-1967 riots, is characterized by the resourceful use of materials by local artists from the early 1970s. However, many other artists of the time, who were not considered part of this loosely defined movement, were also creating works that demonstrated similar creativity, including those working with Charles McGee’s Gallery 7.
Detroit as Resource: Reflections on the Art of a Post-Riot City brings together in conversation Nancy Mitchnick – a celebrated painter affiliated with the Cass Corridor – and Carole Harris – an accomplished textile artist whose first solo show was with Gallery 7. The two artists will discuss the motivations and materiality of the time and the complexities and limitations of categorizing artists through movements. Reflections on the Art of a Post-Riot City will be moderated by Kat Goffnett, Associate Curator of Collections and curator of How We Make the Planet Move.
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