A conversation between Melannie Chard, founder of M Contemporary Art, and Isabelle Weiss, founder of NEXT : SPACE Detroit, a design consultancy.

This fall M Contemporary Art partners with Next:Space Detroit for the exhibition Collecting x Design as well as for the Detroit Month of Design 2021.

Artist Matt Eaton explores themes of nostalgia and space.

Episode 908/Segment 2

Kresge Arts in Detroit has named the 20 recipients of its 2019 fellowships and awards in literary and visual arts, which are given annually to Detroit-based writers and artists working in different mediums. Each of the 18 artist fellows gets an unrestricted grant of $25,000, and the two winners of the organization’s Gilda Awards, which recognize artists early in their careers, receive $5,000 to support their practice.

For his latest series of paintings, Detroit artist Senghor Reid started with small studies, building a system of gestural movements that began to simulate something that surrounds us here in the Great Lakes State but perhaps can easily become taken for granted — water.

Noriyuki Misawa designed and created a shoe inspired by a violin, and Donald Kilpatrick carved the soles in keeping with the musical theme.