55+ galleries and museums around Metro Detroit are set to participate in the digital Art Mile
By Katrianna Ray
Featured photo via Playground Detroit Facebook
On July 29, Detroit’s creativity will be on display for all to see.
That date marks the launch of Art Mile, a free digital-arts exhibition that showcases Detroit’s vibrant and diverse arts community by highlighting public art programs and online goods. More than 55 galleries, museums and artist-run spaces around Metro Detroit — including the Cranbrook Art Museum — are participating in the online-only initiative, which runs until August 5. (See full list of participating places below.)
“Art Mile aims to continue our city’s long tradition of banding together in resilience, recovery, and collective dreaming, whether in periods of economic crisis or prosperity,” said Terese Reyes, the co-owner of Reyes Finn gallery in Corktown and an Art Mile founding partner. “Detroit’s arts community has become the heart of a city bursting with creativity — that’s something worth protecting.”
Art Mile’s offerings include live, public programs featuring digital installations, virtual museum tours, artist studio visits, film screenings and more. The program will also feature a fundraising campaign for three local non-profits (482Forward, Inside Out Detroit and Living Arts) dedicated to providing Detroit youth with access to visual- performing- and literary-arts education.
“These organizations recognize our communities’ collective responsibility to provide and secure high-quality education for all,” said Art Mile founding partner (and co-owner of Reyes Finn gallery) Bridget Finn. “They use the arts as a strategic tool to ignite creativity, empower the voices of Detroit’s youth, and drive the city toward social justice.
Participating places:
- 2061.world
- 333 Midland
- 48hr Experience
- The Aadizookaan
- Andy Anton Art Center
- Bryce Detroit
- Bulk Space Artist Residency
- The Carr Center
- CAVE Gallery
- Cinema Detroit
- Collected Detroit
- Cranbrook Museum
- Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum
- DarkRoom Detroit
- David Klein Gallery
- Detroit Artists Market
- Detroit Breakfast Club
- Downriver Council for the Arts
- Exhibit 3000 by Underground Resistance
- Fringe Society
- Galerie Camille
- Garage Cultural
- Habibi House
- Hamtramck Ceramck / Portage Garage
- Hard Gallery
- HATCH Art
- Heritage Works
- Hill Gallery
- K.O. Gallery
- K.OSS Contemporary Art
- Light Box
- Live Coal Gallery
- M Contemporary Art
- NORA
- Northville Art House
- Norwest Gallery
- Paint Creek Center for the Arts
- Paper Street Press
- Paul Kotula Projects
- Playground Detroit
- Popps Packing
- ProjectArt Detroit
- Public Pool
- Reyes | Finn River’s Edge Gallery
- Robert Kidd Gallery–
- Scarab Club
- Shylo Arts
- Signal Return
- Simone deSousa Gallery
- Southfield
- Soul Studio
- Unit 1: 3583 Dubois – Anders Ruhwald
- Wasserman Projects
- What Pipeline
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