“Unsettled: The Work of Edward Gorey” Opening at Cranbrook Art Museum

Exhibition features artwork and publications from prolific author and illustrator   Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Aug. 30, 2016 — On September 18, Cranbrook Art Museum will open its latest exhibition, Unsettled: The Work of Edward Gorey, on view in the Museum’s deSalle Gallery through March 12, 2017. The exhibition is a collaboration between Cranbrook Art Museum and the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library. Gorey is known for his masterful pen-and-ink drawings that illustrate his captivating books, conjuring a vaguely Edwardian world of handcars, boater hats, and Dickensian children. The exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum will feature many of Gorey’s classic texts as well as his experiments with the physical structure of the book—split-pages, doubled-books, accordion formats, postcard sets, and miniature books. Also on view are many of Gorey’s illustrations for other authors, such as Samuel Beckett, Edward Lear, John Updike, T.S. Eliot, and H.G. Wells. In addition, Gorey’s work entered the living rooms of millions through ...

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‘The Truth Booth’ gathers voices and perspectives from across metro Detroit | KnightBlog

Since July 31, the Detroit metro area has been visited by “The Truth Booth,” an ongoing interactive project conceived by Cause Collective, and brought for a two-week intensive visit to Michigan by a $60,000 Knight Arts Challenge grant awarded to the Cranbrook Art Museum. Laura Mott, curator of contemporary art and design at Cranbrook, worked previously with artist Hank Willis Thomas and Cause Collective’s Ryan Alexiev to help get the project on its feet, nearly eight years ago. “We had done a show with Ryan at Mission 17, where I was working,” Mott said. “I met Hank [Willis Thomas] through that. And they were working together already in Cause Collective–‘The Truth Booth’ was an idea they had that was sort of on paper, and I wrote a grant to get funding to build it. And then I moved to Sweden! So I essentially sourced them some seed money to build the ...

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Collective art project in Flint allows residents to speak their mind | WNEM TV 5 Flint

WNEM TV 5 FLINT, MI (WNEM) - You may see an enormous speech bubble around Mid-Michigan. The collective art project arrived from Detroit and will be spending a few nights in the Vehicle City. "It's giving everybody a chance to say what's on their mind," said Daniel Ashbury, Flint resident. He turned his two cents into a piece of art. It was made possible with the Truth Booth, a traveling recording studio. It encourages people to come in and speak their minds. "This is giving the people from the neighborhood the chance to voice some of their opinions about what's going on, especially with the water situation and everything else," Ashbury said. The inflatable gigantic speech bubble will be in Flint through Saturday. On Wednesday it was at the Hispanic Community Center. "An incredible opportunity for people to speak what's on their minds and to be part of a beautiful tapestry of this collection of people's ...

What does the truth mean to you? | NBC 25 News Flint

FLINT, Mich. — The Truth Booth has landed in Flint. It's an inflatable video recording booth, in the shape of a large speech bubble. You head inside, pin on a microphone, push record, and then speak your truth. Yes it's art. That's what organizers say. A Flint woman, Jamzetta Edelen, says she spoke about her hope that investors would bring back Flint. It offers residents a unique opportunity to share their beliefs, their fears, their experiences. It's all to be used to create a 60 foot wide video installation that will be part of an exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum and in Flint in the fall. It was brought here by the Mott-Warsh Collection and the Cranbrook Art Museum. It's touring the country right now, and will stop for 3 days in Flint. Today it was at the Hispanic Tech Center on Lewis Street on Flint's east side. On Thursday it will be at Hasselbring Community ...

‘Truth Booth’ art exhibit, social experiment comes to Flint | WJRT ABC 12 Flint

FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) -- An art exhibit and social experiment has come to Flint, Michigan this week. The project was started by artists with the Cause Collective. They're currently touring a "Truth Booth" around the country, with hopes of visiting all 50 states by Election Day. Their stop in Michigan will be the longest on the tour. Wednesday's stop was at the Hispanic Technology & Community Center of Greater Flint. People walk in, record their truth and walk out. All of the "truths" recorded inside will be added to a large exhibition that will help us understand how the Detroit and Flint areas define what is real, authentic, valuable or true. The Truth Booth will spend two more days in Flint, heading next to Hasselbring Senior Center and then the MW Gallery. The final exhibit, a huge video installation, will appear at Cranbrook Art Museum in November.

Truth Booth encourages truth telling at AANM |Dearborn Times-Herald

Curious visitors arrived at the Arab American National Museum to share their truth in the Truth Booth art installation Aug. 3. The portable, inflatable booth shaped similar to a cartoon speech bubble with the word “truth” on the outside served as a video recording studio for anyone willing to participate. A project of the Cause Collective, the installation will be traveling to 11 locations in Michigan through Aug. 13 with the hope to reach every state by November. Artists Ryan Alexiev and Jims Ricks founded the booth as a way to give all Americans the ability to speak their minds openly and freely on all issues. “The Cranbrook Art Museum suggested that this museum would be a good location for the truth,” Project Coordinator Sami Giarratani said. “There has been a lot of interest from all type of people who passed by the booth.” During its eight hours set up behind the AANM, 13624 Michigan ...

‘The truth is … ‘ art project filming in Detroit now – Aug. 13 | FOX 2 Detroit

Detroit (WJBK) - An inflatable video recording studio will be in Detroit and the Flint area over the next week and a half. Everyone is invited to visit the Truth Booth and make their statements completing the sentence, "The truth is ... ." The responses will be compiled together and used in an art video installation that will be at Cranbrook Art Museum in November of 2016. "Everyone treats the Truth Booth differently," says Laura Mott with Cranbrook Art Museum. "It really depends on the person. Some people use it really as a confessional; others use it as a place to kind of share stories of joy and laughter and compassion; other people really use it as a platform to talk about difficult issues." She says all voices and perspectives are welcome. The booth is actually touring in all 50 states, but Michigan is the only state that will have the responses features in ...

Arts Academy students attend Cranbrook Institute | Macomb Daily

Young artists from around the world travel to Michigan every year to attend the Cranbrook Summer Arts Institute in Bloomfield Hills. This summer students came from as far away as Japan and as close as Fraser’s Arts Academy in the Woods for the program. “This was a phenomenal opportunity for our eight students who attended,” said Dr. Michael Mitchell, principal of Arts Academy in the Woods, a free public high school authorized by the Macomb Intermediate School District. “They were exposed to some of the most creative minds and accomplished artists in the art community. It was truly an experience they will treasure and benefit from for a lifetime.” The institute brings teaching artists who excel in providing individual attention and innovative instruction and talented students together for two-weeks. During the program students stayed on-campus at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the school’s graduate residence halls, attending daily classes that included studio time ...

The Truth Booth at Cranbrook Art Museum photo gallery | The Detroit News

Video interview with Truth Booth artist Will Sylvester | The Detroit News

The Truth Booth, an inflatable video recording studio in the shape of a giant speech bubble, popped up at Cranbrook offering visitors the chance to answer the question "The Truth Is..." Responses will be used in a project on display this November. Video interview with Cause Collective artist Will Sylvester.