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
art, culture - great lakes region
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
literature, activism, culture - detroit city
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
art, culture - detroit city
Lexi Bishop, the founder of Middle Node, announced her project in October 2025 as a “Pittsburgh-based digital publication and gallery guide focused on contemporary art in, by, and for the Rust Belt.” She has been working to establish a foundational platform from which a number of resources can grow...
A conversation with Lexi Bishop
May 15, 2026
art, culture - great lakes region
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
art, culture - detroit city
Isabelle Weiss is the founder and director of the I.M. Weiss Gallery, a Detroit-based exhibition space dedicated to representing artists whose work stands at the forefront of contemporary craft and design. Her education in the History of Art and Linguistics from the University of Michigan paired with an appraisal accreditation from International Society of Appraisers has equipped her as a crucial figure within Detroit’s creative community. This weekend she will be debuting her newest project, Art in Action...
An interview with Isabelle Weiss
March 4, 2026
art, activism, culture - detroit city
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
fashion, culture - detroit city
On May 17th 2025, College for Creative Studies celebrated the 100th anniversary of its student exhibition with over three thousand works of art on view across both campuses. The wide range of disciplines showcased throughout the event represents one hundred and nineteen years of evolution; what began as a curriculum with only basic classes in drawing, design, and woodcarving now offers BFA, BA, MFA, MA and MPS degree programs in over a dozen different disciplines as well as precollege & continuing education training, and certifications in Art Education. The story of CCS offers insight into the development of art schools in the United States—particularly in relation to industrial manufacturing—and reveals the adaptation and innovation that was required to stay open, even through Detroit’s most tumultuous years...
Ashley Cook
October 6, 2025
art, culture - detroit city
Created after the March for Our Lives Protest in 2018, Detroit Area Youth Uniting Michigan (DAYUM) empowers young people to take control of social change by training them in political activism and leadership...
Leslie Cieplechowicz
June 26, 2025
activism, culture - detroit city
Alvarez is the Communications Director of the Detroit Disability Power (DDP) whose mission is to build the political power of the disability community and end disparities in employment, education, healthcare, housing, and transportation...
Leslie Cieplechowicz
February 17, 2025
activism, culture - detroit city
“We work to nourish, protect, connect, and cultivate the ecosystem of media for liberation of specific groups,” says Toni Moceri, the Executive Director of Allied Media Projects. AMP strives to “make the radical practical by providing highly specialized and politically competent administrative and project support to cutting edge Queer, Trans and BIPOC media makers who are working towards liberation”...
Leslie Cieplechowicz
January 27, 2025
activism, culture - detroit city
Michigan Student Power Alliance is a hub for radical youth activism, existing within a broader statewide ecosystem of grassroots, progressive student organizers who are working to connect student struggles across higher education campuses and build a powerful youth movement that will enact change...
Emily Jones and Fiana Arbab
October 9, 2024
activism, culture - great lakes region
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 - detroit city
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
literature, culture - detroit city
Property restoration in East Village is the focal point for a project called Little Village, with each of the locations having historically hosted businesses and institutions that were at one time staples of their community...
Ashley Cook
June 4, 2024
architecture, culture - detroit city
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
art, culture - detroit city
Starting today, The Blueprint will be releasing a weekly mix and a profile from residents and family who we feel represent the work we’re trying to do in Detroit; disrupting and realigning the music ecosystem to better support people at the margins, be they woman, black, queer, and othered with a deep appreciation for those who have paved the way. For this first mix, Blueprint resident Blackmoonchild guides you through the sound of a quintessential BP party using all original production and edits.
The Blueprint
May 11, 2023
music, culture - detroit city
The Figure Club of Detroit provides the opportunity to sculpt from life...
An interview with Heather Anger and Rich Wiquist
January 30, 2023
art, culture - detroit city
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
culture, literature - detroit city
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
art, culture - detroit city
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
art, culture - detroit city
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
theater, culture - detroit city