Ryan Patrick Hooper, host of ’CultureShift’ on 101.9 WDET, curates your guide to the month in arts and entertainment

By Ryan Patrick Hooper - February 24, 2021

Check out familiar faces on this list of 11 Michigan Artists You Should Know in 2021.

“Black is joy and pain.” – Brian Day, Detroit

We’re pleased to share that Brian Day’s work has been selected for inclusion in the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s initiative, Future of the American City.

Give back to the community and support the Ruth Ellis Center in Detroit.

The James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History is pleased to present IN THE AIR: VOICES FROM DETROIT AND BEYOND, September 2020 through April 2021. The series 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 S. Woodward and E. Canfield, Detroit. A total of eight solo-presentations, each one month in duration, will be on view beginning September 15, 2020.

Through utter shock, through grief, through disgust, through fear, through ANGER, through heartbreak -- through it all, we work. Through this chaos, we work. For our families, our communities, our sanctuaries, we work. Through exhaustion, we work. Through a pandemic, we are working.

The program Brushes With Cancer pairs patients with artists whose works make visible a disease that can be invisible and isolating.

The Uptown Triennial 2020 exhibition, the second iteration in the series, presents the work of contemporary artists in dialogue with the Harlem Renaissance, a defining moment in American modernism and African-American cultural history, during its centennial year.