Gabrielle Banzhaf and Jon Gott founded SHED Projects in 2021 in the backyard of their home in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. Over the course of one year, they hosted artist residencies, workshops, artist talks, and exhibitions that blurred the boundaries between family life and social practice. Their relocation to Cleveland in 2023 was prompted by their drive to establish a long-term art space dedicated to experimentation and knowledge-building around visual culture...
An Interview with Gabrielle Banzhaf and Jon Gott of SHED Projects, Cleveland
July 27, 2026
Nearly all member cities are in Europe, but the US has begun to follow suit, with programs in Las Vegas, Ithaca, Pittsburgh, and Detroit. Laura Kraftowitz is the co-founder of City of Asylum/Detroit. In the following interview, she shares insight into the experiences of establishing this kind of program here in our city...
A conversation with Laura Kraftowitz, Founding Executive Director of City of Asylum/Detroit
June 15, 2026
Samara is an artist and curator whose work is deeply rooted in building sustainable, community-centered support systems for artists in Detroit. She founded Buffalo Prescott in 2024 in collaboration with Leto Rankine, and together, they have developed a model that combines residency, exhibition, and public programming to meet artists where they are, with particular attention to care, long-term practice, and accessibility...
A Conversation with Samara Furlong
June 1, 2026
Paulina Petkoski, Owner and Director of PLAYGROUND DETROIT, shares her experience as a Detroit-based arts professional who has worked for more than a decade to showcase contemporary art, provide representation and influence the Detroit creative economy through her social enterprise...
Ashley Cook
April 23, 2026
On Saturday, February 21, 2026, the team at Michigan Fashion Week held the Sustainable Fashion Experience Showcase as the finale to a series of events focused on earth-friendly practices of the Detroit-based designers and connoisseurs...
Ashley Cook and E-Man Bates
February 28, 2026
Art Clvb is a Detroit-based Market Network created in 2022 by Steve and Dorota Coy with the intention of facilitating connections between artists, collectors, curators, galleries, and individuals involved in the local art ecosystem...
Ashley Cook
September 23, 2024
art, culture
Setting foot into The Barbershop’s larval form on May 24th, I was met with the remnants of what once was, surely, a barbershop. The faded pink walls, floor-to-ceiling mirrors, and large basins of granite counter-top which served as pedestals for chemical innovations destined to become groundwater. Despite this tragic beauty, I knew it all had to go, as I was there to meet with founder Jack Jacket to discuss possibilities for the soon-to-be gallery’s first show...
Jackson Gifford
August 19, 2024
In Beatrice’s time stewarding Arnold’s, the city of Detroit was re-narrativized at least 10 times, from all sides. It was a wild time to be alive in the world, and a wild world to be trying to make sense within, especially as a young artist...
Beatrice Von Rague Schleyer and Mïï Gunn
October 16, 2023
The Figure Club of Detroit provides the opportunity to sculpt from life...
An interview with Heather Anger and Rich Wiquist
January 30, 2023
With over 40 books in print, many of them sold out, there seems to be a vast array of different artists included in the Rotland Press collection, however there is a consistency in its visual and literary aesthetic, “mordant amusement and exuberant despair”...
An interview with Ryan Standfest
November 7, 2022
These five artists and curators decided to come together with a commitment to create platforms for their peers on the margins through as many ways as possible. Since 2017, they have organized talks, exhibitions, performances, workshops, publications as well as participated in already established initiatives around Detroit, the United States, and abroad...
Ashley Cook
May 2, 2022
The history of art in Detroit encompasses the story of C-Pop, an exhibition space that started when Michael Lask responded to Rick Manore's ad in The Metro Times about old concert posters...
Michael Lask and Rick Manore, narrated by Ashley Cook
April 18, 2022
Planet Ant Theatre is a true survivor and no stranger to the many obstacles that face a non-profit community of creatives striving toward a common goal. After more than 25 years in operation, the Ant boasts the longest running improv comedy show in the Detroit area...
Matthew Copeland
November 8, 2021