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MOCAD's exterior: Barry McGee, Untitled, 2006. Photo by Corine Vermeulen. |
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MOCAD'S SPRING BENEFIT IS POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER. Please call 313 832 6622 for more information regarding this event. May 11 - July 29, 2012
POST-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
 Photo by Kottie Gaydos. Post-Industrial Complex is a survey, group exhibition, and source book that explores the ingenuity and adaptivity of human-scale production at the heart of Detroit. The exhibition disrupts the notion that there is a story of the city. A true metropolis is comprised of multiple stories and multiple voices. From a prolific inventor to a collective working to keep an aboriginal language alive, the artists included in this exhibition—all of whom responded to an open call for “makers, inventors, problem solvers, fabricators, modifiers, etc...”—are a small, yet representative, sample of the diverse range of brainpower that exists in a city often oversimplified by metanarratives. Programming includes a trading post, how-to sessions, exhibition tours led by community members and barbeques in the back parking lot. This exhibition is organized by Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit Curator of Public Engagement Jon Brumit and Curator of Education Katie McGowan. Major support for Post-Industrial Complex is provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Team Detroit. Related programming support is provided by the McGregor Fund and Edith S. Briskin/Shirley K. Schlafer Foundation. VERTICAL URBAN FACTORY
 Photo: Fiat factory Lingotto, engineer Giacomo Matte-Trucco, completed 1926, Turin, Italy. Courtesy of the Fiat Company. Vertical Urban Factory features the innovative design of factory buildings that are both urban — located in cities or shaping cities — and vertical — multistoried and dense. Included are significant examples from around the world, spanning the Modern era to the present. By examining the significance of these spaces, this project points to the impact of global economies on local industries and aims to stimulate ideas for the sustainable reintegration of the factory into the urban fabric. Vertical Urban Factory is an independent project and exhibition curated by architectural historian and critic Nina Rappaport. Funding for Vertical Urban Factory comes from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Additional funding from Autodesk, Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown, Jullani Foundation, Santiago Calatrava Architects, Duggal Visual Solutions, Grainger, Netherlands Architecture Fund, Swiss Consulate General in New York, Spanish Consulate General in New York, French Cultural Consul in New York, Chilewich Sultan, Turner Construction and Velux. MOCAD funding for the exhibition is provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Related programming support is provided by the McGregor Fund and Edith S. Briskin/Shirley K. Schlafer Foundation.
UPCOMING EVENTS
ARTIST TALK
Beautiful Possibility, by Alison Pebworth, is a traveling exhibition and research project that takes the nomadic experience of itinerant explorers and traders and the traveling culture of Medicine and Wild West Shows as inspiration for engaging others about what it means to be American.
The first segment of the project launched from Southern Exposure in San Francisco, CA in April 2010. For the seven months that followed, Pebworth toured an exhibition of painted banners, map and survey station to venues from California to the Dakotas and southern Canada, accompanying the show in a small travel trailer for the duration of her solo journey.
Select tour stops on Part II of her Tour in 2012 include the Lakota Sioux Nation, Pine Ridge, SD; Wormfarm Institute, Reedsburg, WI; SPACES, Cleveland, OH; Unsmoke Systems, Braddock, PA; Sabbath Day Lake Shaker Residency, Glouchester, ME; and Space Gallery, Portland, ME. Find out more about the project at beautifulpossibilitytour.com
FARMER'S TALK Motin presents a DIY Maple Syrup Workshop Saturday, May 19, 2 to 3PM Admission: Free Mr. Motin, a local urban farmer living in Detroit, presents a workshop and discussion about DIY maple syrup production made with sap from trees in your own yard or neighborhood! The workshop will cover materials, techniques, how to install and care for your trees and sap-collection system, how to boil syrup and storage techniques. Museum
Tours Museum Hours Wednesday, Saturday, & Sunday: 11 - 5 pm Thursday & Friday: 11 - 8 pm closed Monday & Tuesday Café Hours Tuesday & Wednesday: 9 - 5 pm Thursday & Friday: 9 - 8 pm Saturday & Sunday 11 - 5 pm closed Monday
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