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
To further explore Detroit’s role within a broader context, runner has prompted collaborations with people and communities throughout the Industrial Midwest whose practices have also been shaped by collapse and adaptation. Inspired by Franco Berardi's Post-Futurist Manifesto, our editorial approach is grounded in the belief that places typically marked as peripheral or “post-industrial” cultivate forms of experimentation and mutual reliance that would resonate far beyond their unique cultural ecosystems. Rather than searching for the future’s next “utopia,” we are interested in discovering ways that people build meaningful lives from the conditions that already exist around them...
Ashley Cook
May 27, 2026
literature, activism - detroit city, great lakes region
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
Rewind to September 2025 to my road-trip across Upstate New York to visit her solo show Another World and Yet the Same curated by Alexander Jarman at the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. The title is borrowed from a dystopian literary work of the same name, Mundus alter et idem, c. 1605 by the English satirist and writer Joseph Hall. This imaginary story is about an ocean voyage and the quest for a new land. To witness Edwards’ vibrant cosmos in person was indeed an “out of this world” encounter...
Taliesin Thomas
May 11, 2026
art - great lakes region
Tucked away in the calm natural habitat of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the Art Preserve of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center stands out proudly, towering high above the ground with a sleek, contemporary architectural facade. Temporarily featured among the remarkable collection at the Preserve are a small selection of sculptures from Silvio Barile, a late artist and former Michigander who originally immigrated to the United States from Italy.
Marissa Jezak
January 12, 2026
art - great lakes region
Zoe Leonard’s most recent exhibition Display at Maxwell Graham (New York), gathers six gelatin silver prints made from photographs she took in the early 1990s featuring body armor that dates back to roughly 300–1600 BCE.
Chris Pinter
December 18, 2025
art, columns - great lakes region
A deep dive into the mind of a Grammy-winning producer, multi-instrumentalist, and educator...
Karpov
October 20, 2025
music - great lakes region
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On July 11, 2025, New York-based artist Dominic Palarchio celebrated the opening of his second exhibition with Abattoir, a gallery on the West Side of Cleveland, Ohio located inside the historic Hildebrandt Building. The show comprises what initially seems like two separate bodies of work linked through fictional storytelling, worldly explorations and common misfortunes...
Ashley Cook
September 16, 2025
art - great lakes region
Corrosion has come to define this place that was once the center of the Industrial Revolution in the US, with its metals now tarnished by extreme neglect and its communities plagued by disinvestment. Detroit, Michigan and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania flourished as engines of technical innovation in America before waves of economic abandonment left them jobless. Curator Kemuel Benyehudah’s newest exhibition Echoes from the Rust spotlights artists from these two cities, whose work touches on engineering, manual labor, and community as foundations of their blue-collar culture.
Ashley Cook
January 2, 2025
art, culture - detroit city, great lakes region
Mary-Ann Monforton is back in Detroit after living in New York City for 48 years. Here she offers a glimpse of her NYC life and what she is doing since her return...
Ashley Cook
October 17, 2024
art - detroit city, great lakes region
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
Elizabeth Youngblood is a Detroit-based artist who has demonstrated a dedication to simplicity. Her exhibition Syntax at Stamps Gallery affirms her continued reverence for minimalist philosophies, presenting a survey of her work from the 1970s until now...
Ashley Cook
July 8, 2024
art - great lakes region
This year’s annual MFA show at the Cranbrook Art Museum showcases work from 59 artists—graduates from eleven departments at the Cranbrook Academy of Art...
Antonia Piedmonte-Lang
May 22, 2024
art - great lakes region
Born in Detroit, the artist Austin Martin White’s first show at Petzel Gallery debuts a materially layered body of work navigating the complex histories of identity...
Chris Pinter
November 3, 2023
art, columns - great lakes region
Most pieces written on the work of Luc Tuymans approach his paintings from the conceptual. Treading in the land of images, how they function, his contribution to that epistemological body etc. This consistency amongst critics and scholars makes sense to me, especially in 2023 where very few people who write about artwork see it in person. But in the context of Luc T., his work in person sings an entirely different song...
Chris Pinter
September 14, 2023
art, columns - great lakes region
Amber Codiñera Locke’s first solo exhibition since moving from Detroit to Los Angeles evokes the conversation about place as an essential part of an artist’s practice. The forms, colors, subjects and brushwork varies to meld these two worlds as her views transition primarily to the west coast and its own distinct relationship with the natural world...
Mary Kate and Ashley
March 20, 2023
art - great lakes region
At Hearse Fest, one of the largest gatherings of funeral car aficionados in the country, one thing is clear, death is coming for us all. When it shows up, with its cold glare and hungry scythe, you might finally get to catch a ride...
Niki Williams
October 17, 2022
culture - great lakes region
Tim Johnson’s approach to art-making based on nostalgia and sensorial memory is at play in his most recent solo exhibition, Speed Bump at No Place Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. ...
Mary Kate and Ashley
September 19, 2022
art - great lakes region
By collapsing their personal histories with Sexton’s biography and mathematical theories of motion, Ouyang explores the body as a vehicle of self-mutability, temporal transference, and rapturous discovery...
A review of the most recent exhibition at No Place Gallery in Columbus, Ohio
Stephanie Kang
March 28, 2022
art - great lakes region
Gen Kuzak’s most recent pornographic film The French Boys premiered at the Cranbrook DeSalle Auditorium in Bloomfield Hills on October 14, 2021. The film features a transmasculine couple in Paris, France who responded to Gen’s call for actors after having also become fans of his work in recent years...
Ashley Cook
December 2, 2021
art, film - great lakes region, central europe
The work presented in their most recent exhibition Outer Heaven at No Place Gallery in Columbus, Ohio holds a sense of stoicism above their previous exhibitions...
Ashley Cook
November 16, 2020
art - great lakes region
Art Mile is an exhibition that took place online from July 29 to August 5, 2020. It was founded in order to “champion Detroit’s vibrant and diverse arts community, by promoting public programs and online acquisitions.” With over 50 different galleries and project spaces participating, Art Mile was able to function as one of the few local exhibitions that has worked to highlight hundreds of artists’ work, presenting the broad scope of what is happening within the local art scene, in a simultaneous and relatively concise way...
Ashley Cook
August 10, 2020
art - detroit city, great lakes region