The department is pleased to present IN THE AIR II: VOICES FROM DETROIT AND BEYOND, September 2021 through April 2022. The series was curated by Tyanna Buie and includes works created by local and national artists in response to the global pandemic and racial injustice, featured on a billboard, located at the corner of Woodward and E. Forest, Detroit. A total of seven solo-presentations, each one month in duration, will be on view beginning September 1, 2021.

Works by the following artists will be included in the exhibition series: Nour Ballout, Lancer Casem, Nandi Comer, Philip Crawford, Jamal Currie, Kim Miller, and Lillien Waller.

Nandi Comer and Lillien Waller are Kresge Artist Fellows and Nour Ballout is a Gilda Snowden Emerging Artist Award recipient. Each artist will participate in an online lecture series that will be held during their exhibitions. This programming has been made possible with the support of Kresge Arts in Detroit, in partnership with the Department of Art and Art History.

Homebody
January 26, 2022 - June 19, 2022

Cranbrook Art Museum
Lower Galleries
39221 Woodward Ave
Bloomfield Hills, MI

While home is commonly used in reference to a physical space, the concept of home extends far beyond the parameters of any structure. It is a place, but also a feeling. According to social scientist Aviezier Tucker, “most people spend their lives in search of a home, at the gap between the natural home…and the particular ideal home where they would be fully fulfilled.”

The exhibition Homebody is rooted in a desire to unpack the layers of “home” by placing in conversation artistic interpretations of the word and the complex feelings it evokes. Several of the artists investigate technologies used in the home, including the digital realm that opens up borders between self and other, the public and the private. Artists also abstract and reimagine traditional objects of comfort and utility, tapping into the complex relationship between the domestic space and capitalistic society. “Home” is also considered from national and ethnographic points of view through works that explore immigrant perspectives that straddle two homes, often a world apart. Other artists contemplate home from a more bodily perspective, how we find belonging in our own skin and the spaces we inhabit.

Homebody seeks to unravel the ambiguous term of “home” by delving into connotations of comfort, nostalgia, alienation, and perpetual longing evoked by a word wrapped in promises. All of the artists featured in the exhibition have ties to Detroit, granting Homebody both a local perspective and a spectrum of backgrounds and interests that reflect the complexity of the city itself.

Homebody is organized by Cranbrook Art Museum and curated by Kat Goffnett, Assistant Curator of Collections at Cranbrook Art Museum.

Live on Zoom: February 23rd 2021 @ 7-8ET - Free! Register Now!

Mapping Narratives features new prints and print-based works by 40 artists, comprising a wide array of technical, formal, and conceptual practices. Reflecting not only skill and innovation in the contemporary print field, these works also reveal myriad identities, ways of seeing, and approaches to visual storytelling. Together, they explore how we anchor ourselves, our histories, and our lived experiences in our present moment and environment.

ARTISTS
Adrianna Adams, Chloe Alexander, Kendyl Boyd, Tyanna Buie, Rachel Burgess, Alicia Calbet, Scout Cartagena, Babette Cooijmans, Caoimhe Dalton, Dexter Davis, Nancy Diessner, Deja Echols, Kyle Goen, Donté K. Hayes, Sara Hess, Justine Highsmith & Kalaija Mallery, Mu-Tien Ho, Lisa Hunt, Musa Kunene, Geneviève L'Heureux, Julie Lapping Rivera, Logan Larsen, Scott Magin, Louise Mandumbwa, Spriha Maurya, Michelle Melo, Diego Morales-Portillo, Diyah Najah, Rod Nelson, Karen Revis, Yelaine Rodriguez, Kristina Rogers, Birgitte Rubæk, Kaitlin Santoro, Jueun Shin, Robbie Sugg, Rhiannon Skye Tafoya, Alex R.M. Thompson, and Linda Whitney.

ABOUT THE JURY
Black Women of Print (BWoP) was founded in October 2018 by Tanekeya Word, a Black woman, visual artist, art educator, scholar, and fine art printmaker who resides in Milwaukee, WI. Word was interested in creating an equitable safe place for Black women printmakers who were underrepresented in the discipline of printmaking, a space that is eulogized as democratic. Black Women of Print is an African diaspora centered platform, a digital homeplace for independent, mid-career, and established skill level Black women printmakers. The organization serves as a place to support and promote the visibility of Black women printmakers and as a professional directory of Black women printmakers who practice within the field.

PHOTO: OBEY GIANT ART / PHOTOGRAPHER JON FURLONG

Photo by Jon Furlong

18 Detroit artists are receiving $25,000 Kresge Artist Fellowships and two emerging artists are receiving $5,000 Gilda Awards.

Since 2009, Detroit artists have received over $5.5M in no strings attached awards, including 198 Kresge Artist Fellowships of $25,000 each, 12 Gilda Awards of $5,000 each, and 11 Kresge Eminent Artist Awards of $50,000 each.

ART NOW 2017: PRINTMAKING
FEBRUARY 3 – MARCH 4
Juried by Tyanna J. Buie

Join us for the opening reception on Friday, February 3, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Slayer Gallery is an artist-run online art space that is dedicated to providing contemporary artists a platform to showcase their work and to fostering an online community that promotes artistic discussion.