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UPCOMING EVENTS / PAST EVENTS / VIDEOS MOCAD hosts musical, literary and artistic events throughout
the year. Check back often or contact us at info@mocadetroit.org if
you would like to be kept up to date on upcoming events. Follow MOCAD's upcoming events and announcements:
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OPENING NIGHT
Friday, February 10 Opening: 6PM-8PM, Free Performances: 8PM, $8 | Free for members Adult. with special guests White Car and Monster Island Electronic "Dance Punk" group Adult. will perform live in Detroit for the first time in two-and-a-half years and MOCAD is proud to be the space in which they land. Adult. was conceived of in 1998 with Nicola Kuperus upon the demise of partner Adam Lee Miller's pioneering dance duo Le Car. Together the two created a stunning clash of electro, punk, and techno music that would become the de facto sound of the coming generation. They launched the progressive indie label Ersatz Audio to release their own work alongside the work of other forward-looking acts of the time, such as Magas, Tamion 12 Inch, Goldchains, Electronicat, and more. Over the past few years the Detroit-based duo has taken a long hiatus from live performance to concentrate on making art and on creating their own cinematic universe with their film Decampment. On the cusp of a new year Adult. is once again ready to emerge having produced bold new material to perform in celebration of MOCAD's newest exhibition. Joining them on this very special night will be LA-based electro-dance band White Car. White Car are a duo born and bred Chicago, specializing in industrial / no-wave pop. Sinister, whispered vocals and disorienting beats, underpinned by strong structures, are blended in order to create minimal and disjointed pop music simultaneously referencing Nitzer Ebb, Depeche Mode, Detroit Techno, Italo-Disco, dark alleys and uncomfortable encounters. Beginning the night at 7PM, performing in Joshua White and Gary Panter's Light Show, will be Detroit's own Monster Island. An every- evolving psyche-folk collective headed by former Destroy All Monsters founder Cary Loren, Monster Island began in 1995 performing their first concert at Detroit's Krishna Temple. The group is not a band in the conventional sense. Instead the collective is a variant on the idea of the living theater -- a changing social/political landscape of folk, religious & street rituals derived from themes and topics that enhance psychedelic experience, resistance and subversive behavior. The group is deeply influenced by Voudou, Island myths, Antonin Artaud, psychics, puppetry, paleocybernetics, comic books, tribal chanting and a mixture folk and popular art forms. For more information on Adult. visit their website http://www.adultperiod.com/ For more information on White Car visit their website http://www.white-car.net/ For more information on Monster Island visit their Myspace page http://www.myspace.com/monsterisland13 |
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ARTIST TALK
Saturday, February 11, 1PM Joshua White Admission: Free Artist Joshua White will speak about the history of his traveling light show. The Joshua Light Show members were resident artists at Fillmore East and performed live behind many major musical artists of the 1960s: Frank Zappa, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Doors, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, and Jimi Hendrix. Currently, Joshua White works with fellow artist Gary Panter recreating the legendary light show at numerous venues including The Anthology Film Archives; in the exhibition, Visual Music: Synesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900, organized by the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Tate, Liverpool; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and with the artist Bec Stupac at The Kitchen, New York. For more information on Joshua White and the Joshua Light Show visit http://joshualightshow.com/about_joshua.html |
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POP-UP RESTAURANT
Sunday, February 12, 1PM-3PM Detroit Brunch Admission: $30/person Join Detroit Brunch, a vegan pop-up restaurant, for a five-course meal designed around locally sourced, organic foods. Communal seating sets the platform for this interactive brunch. Looking ahead, don't miss out on Detroit Brunch's seasonal line of Valentine's Day treats, offered only at MOCAD on February 12! Limited seating, reservations required: DetroitBrunch.com |
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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Department of Education and Public Engagement presents: DEPE Space Residency February 12-19 Chido Johnson Chido Johnson, the head of Sculpture at the College for Creative Studies and 2009 Kresge Fellow, will present his “love library” project—a collection of artist-designed romance novels—during the month of February as an exhibit and also as the subject of a special Valentine’s Day program with artist talks and group discussion on the topic of love. Throughout his residency Johnson will lead museum visitors through laughing yoga, smiling exercises and related objects, offering as an invitation to explore both the ephemerality and physicality of laughter. |
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READING AND ARTISTS TALK
Tuesday, February 14, 6PM Let’s talk about love, baby. with Chido Johnson Admission: Free This hand-made Valentine’s Day love-in think-tank event is a special night of performance and artist talks on the topic of love and romance. Inspired by artist Chido Johnson’s “love library” project featuring artist-made romance novels, love books will be read, performed and discussed. This will be a romantic affair where touching the art is encouraged and expected. For more information visit http://letstalkaboutlovebaby.com/ |
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FAMILY DAY
Sunday February 19, 12PM - 4PM Foran's Grand Trunk Pub and O'Connor Realty & Development present I Love You and ha ha ha ha ha! with Chido Johnson Admission: Free Laugh, Detroit! A community extravaganza comprised of three unabashedly silly activities. “Laughter Ambassador” Sue Ansari, RN, will lead drop-in laughter yoga workshops. She is among the first students of laughter guru and founder of laughter yoga, Dr. Kataria from India, and is enlisted to assist him in workshops. The laughter will be performatively encapsulated into a giant head, which will then be placed with another head in Johnson’s ongoing exhibit. Last but not least, we will be making our own smiley face “Laugh Detroit” t-shirts. Young and old alike are invited to not take themselves too seriously. For more information in Chido Johnson and his artwork visit his website http://chidox.com |
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FARMER’S TALK
Saturday, February 25, 1PM Winter Gardening, Rotational Grazing Admission: Free Homer Walden and Dru Peters from Sunnyside Farm in Dover, PA share their experiments and experiences with winter gardening, rotational grazing and growing a small tractor-less farm business. Sunnyside Farm is a pasture based, intensive-grazed family farm offering eggs, chicken, turkey, pork, beef and CSA subscriptions. Using only people and animal power on their property, their cows mow the grass, their chickens and turkeys follow behind and their pigs till the garden plots. They grow heritage breeds and make every effort to get GMO-free feed for their birds. For more information visit http://www.sunny-side-farm.com/ |
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TECHNOLOGY + COLLABORATION + COMMUNITY + CHANGE
WORKSHOP and DISCUSSION SATURDAY, February, 25, 5PM-9:30 PM Initiate Admission: Free Initiate will explore creative uses of primarily open source technology and open source approaches to creating art and social change. Join us for short presentations and open dialogue featuring local, national and international artists, technologists and community organizers. Featuring members of openFrameworks. Technology can be used to transform communities, empower people and create innovative works of art. This week long event series will explore how open source technology can be used to do that work within Detroit. This program features members of openFrameworks which is hosting their annual worldwide developers conference in Detroit. openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation. Featuring openFrameworks in partnership with Emergence Media, rootoftwo, Artserve Michigan, Allied Media Projects, Work Department, MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit) and the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition. For more info email info@emergencemedia.org |
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BOOK LAUNCH CELEBRATION
Thursday, March 1, 5:30PM-7:30PM Booker T and Them by Bill Harris. Admission: Free MOCAD and Wayne State University Press are teaming up to celebrate Bill Harris's new WSUP release Booker T and Them: A Blues. A follow-up to his Birth of a Notion; Or, the Half Ain’t Never Been Told (2009), this book extends Harris’s critical and experimental examination of American history by presenting evidence for a greater understanding of these men and the cultural forces that shaped them. 
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WORKSHOP
Friday, March 2, 4PM-7PM MOCAD and Green Brain Comics present Comic Jam III Admission: Free The "Comic Jam", usually held at Green Brain Comics in Dearborn, comes to MOCAD for it’s third year! Participants are encouraged to partake in the creation of spontaneous, improvised comics and free form drawings with other artists and illustrators. Stations with the materials for various collaborative drawing opportunities will be set up. While paper and other materials are provided, participants are encouraged to bring their drawing tool of choice. The public is invited to come at the end of the party to witness the results of the evening's jam session, which closes with a presentation by special guest artist Gary Panter. |
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ARTIST TALK
Friday, March 2, 7PM MOCAD and Green Brain Comics present Gary Panter Admission: Free Prolific comic artist and punk art prankster, Gary Panter, has influenced multiple generations of artists. He has created iconic designs for albums by the Screamers, The Residents, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers; been involved with seminal LA punk zine/label Slash; created the Jimbo comic, which frequently appeared in Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine; and, most popularly, designed groundbreaking sets for Pee-wee Herman's children's show Pee-wee's Playhouse in the 1980's. For more info on Gary Panter visit his website http://www.garypanter.com/site/ |
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CHILDREN’S MUSEUM TOUR
Saturday, March 3, 12PM Admission: Free Children 10 and under are invited to attend a free tour of MOCAD’s current exhibition. |
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POP-UP RESTAURANT
Friday, March 16, 6PM-8PM Komodo Kitchen Admission: $30/person Komodo Kitchen is a pop-up supper club that features food and drink from the islands of Indonesia. This very special event will provide an Indonesian-inspired cultural and gastronomic experience. In addition to exquisite cuisine, Komodo Kitchen strives to provide guests with the complete Indo-atmosphere by including the music, aromas and artwork from their beloved archipelago. Limited seating, reservations required: www.komodokitchen.com |
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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
DEPE Space Residency March 11-18 Caleb Gentry Cardboard cosmonaut Caleb Gentry is March’s DEPE Space Resident. Gentry’s otherworldly installations incorporate optical illusion, geometry, and painterly detail, all the while contributing to a fun-house environment. A California native, Gentry holds a BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from The University of Iowa. He is currently splitting his time between Pluto and Philadelphia. For more info on Caleb Gentry visit http://calebgentry.wordpress.com/ |
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FAMILY DAY
Sunday, March 18, 12PM-4PM The Crofoot presents Puppeterium Playhouse Party with Caleb Gentry! Admission: Free Hey kids! You don’t need a PS3 to have fun, JUST THE BOX IT CAME IN! Children of all ages are summoned for matinee mania with our mad scientist-in-residence, Caleb Gentry. Join us for a perfect play date replete with puppet production and totally tubular tales! |
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MUSIC
Friday, March 23, 8PM Kimya Dawson with special guests Your Heart Breaks, Fred Thomas, and Ivan Grass Admission: $8 Kimya Dawson is a Grammy-winning indie folk singer best known for her influential work on the Juno soundtrack and as half of the The Moldy Peaches. “Kimya Dawson is not preaching to the choir, rather gladly admits standing in the middle, arms around each member, singing her upcoming self-released album, Thunder Thighs due out October 25th via Burnside Distribution. As Kimya’s seventh album, the assumed lo-fi sound has taken a delightful turn with the addition of pianos, backing choirs, string arrangements and several beats produced by rapper Aesop Rock. Although the personal touch of Kimya’s delicate strumming and the crackling of her soft voice still sit forefront, the backbone is a more mature solid arrangement that supports her powerful poetry. The mother of one, who’s work with The Moldy Peaches and the Grammy Award winning, platinum selling soundtrack for the film Juno, did not record alone. With her latest release, Kimya has recruited several artists to join the aforementioned choir, appearances by Aesop Rock, John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats, Nikolai Fraiture of the Strokes, Daniel Bryan, Forever Young Senior Citizen Rock and Roll Choir, Olympia Free Choir, and her own five year old daughter Panda create an eccentric journey through Kimya’s revealing and honest songs. The first of 16 tracks to be uncovered is “All I Could Do,” a live performance for Kimya’s chickens in her backyard shot by Aesop Rock. The first track of the album acts as a musical snapshot of Kimya’s life, and is the perfect introduction to her latest release.” Kimya Dawson will be supported by Washington-based, heartfelt indie rock act Your Heart Breaks. In their own words “Your Heart Breaks is queercore and hot makeout parties. The place where unicorn and pegasus combine into one. Corndogs [2 for 99 cents]. Pinata parties. Dancing up front at all-ages shows. Sharing the mic. Monkeys, the squirrels of south america. Squirrels, the monkeys of north america. A severe case of ocean waves.” Local singer-songwriter Fred Thomas (Saturday Looks Good To Me, City Center, and Swimsuit) will present a solo set. “As a member of three influential Michigan bands, the punk-fueled Lovesick, the quiet and reflective Flashpapr, and the graceful pop/rock of Saturday Looks Good to Me, Fred Thomas made a name for himself in the independent rock community of Ann Arbor and Detroit in the late '90s and early 2000s. Thomas also served a brief stint as bass player for His Name Is Alive. By 2002, Thomas had assembled numerous songs that didn't fit into his busy band schedule. His solo career began with the release of Everything Is Pretty Much Totally Fucked Up on Juan Garcia's Little Hands Records in the winter of 2002. That year also saw a brief East Coast solo tour, as well as the release of Tour EP and No One Will Ever Make Me Feel This Way Again on Ypsilanti Records. Turn It Down arrived in 2004, followed by Sink Like a Symphony in 2006.” – AllMusic/Stephen Cramer Local singer-songwriter Ivan Grass will begin the evening out right with a song and a spell. For more info on Kimya Dawson visit her website http://kimyadawson.com/ For more info on Your Heart Breaks visit their website http://www.yourheartbreaks.com/ For more info on Fred Thomas visit his website http://www.myspace.com/fredthomassongs |
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THEATER
Wednesday, March 28, 7PM-9PM, every 20 minutes Drive-In Radio Theater in the MOCAD parking lot Admission: $5 per car Don’t miss an electromagnetic evening of eclectic live performances broadcast to your car radio. This inaugural Drive-In Radio Theater is hosted and curated by The Hinterlands Ensemble, with performances starting every 20 minutes. Lit by your headlights and with audio transmitted to your car radio, this drive-in variety show will take place in the back of a box truck and in some cases in the backseats of audience members' cars. Attendees can stay for the whole evening or catch a few acts before heading out. For more information on The Hinterland Ensemble visit http://thehinterlandsensemble.org/ |
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MOCAD and Cranbrook Academy of Art Present:
Kenneth Goldsmith, aka Kenny G. LECTURE Friday, March 30, 6PM at Cranbrook Academy of Art If We Had To Ask for Permission, We Wouldn't Exist: A Brief History of UbuWeb *in the Cranbrook Art Museum's deSalle Auditorium* Admission: Free PERFORMANCE Saturday, March 31, 7:30PM at MOCAD American Deaths and Disasters: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy Admission: Free Kenneth Goldsmith's writing has been called "some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry" by Publishers Weekly. Goldsmith is the author of ten books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb, and the editor of I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews, which was the basis for the opera Trans-Warhol, that premiered in Geneva in March of 2007. He teaches writing at The University of Pennsylvania, where he is a senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive. In 2011, he co-edited, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing and published a book essays, Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age. |
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MUSIC
Friday, April 6, 8PM A. Spencer Barefield Admission: $6 (free for members) Multi-talented Detroit-based guitarist and composer A. Spencer Barefield has recorded and performed internationally as a leader, soloist, and accompanist with legendary progressive jazz voices like Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille, Richard Davis, Wadada Leo Smith and countless others. On this very special evening Barefield will present a performance along with Joshua White and Gary Panter’s Light Show. For more information on A. Spencer Barefield visit his website http://www.spencerbarefield.com/ |
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MUSIC
Saturday, April 7, 8PM Van Dyke Parks with special guests TBA Admission: $10 Songwriter and performer, Van Dyke Parks is the celebrated mind behind some of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys' most notable releases, Smile and Pet Sounds. Parks has produced, arranged, or played on albums by artists as diverse as Tim Buckley, U2, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, The Byrds, Cher, Rufus Wainwright, Sam Phillips, Ringo Starr, Frank Black, The Manhattan Transfer, Keith Moon, Carly Simon, T-Bone Burnett, Bonnie Raitt, Gordon Lightfoot, Fiona Apple, Ry Cooder, Joanna Newsom, The Everly Brothers, Saint Etienne, Scissor Sisters, Laurie Anderson, and Susanna Hoffs/Matthew Sweet's covers collection. On this rare Detroit appearance Van Dyke Parks will perform on piano with minimal accompaniment. For more information on van Dyke Parks visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Dyke_Parks |
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POETRY SLAM
Friday, April 13, 5PM-8PM Guidance Center Youth Poetry Slam Admission: Free Young poets: raise your voices for change! Youth from across the city and metro area are invited to compete in this open-themed slam. Kids-TALK Children's Advocacy Center is teaming up with MOCAD to recognize Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Participants, ages 17 and under, are required to attend a preliminary meeting to obtain rules for participating. For more info or to register a slam poet, please call Lacea Zavala at 734-785-7705 x7291 or email Lzavala@guidance-center.org. |
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FILM
Saturday, April 14, 8PM Primordial Ties Canada 2011; 89 minutes; Super16mm colour Dir. Otto Buj Admission: Free Windsor-based writer and director, Otto Buj will be on hand to present this very special screening, the US premiere of his stunning new film, Primordial Ties. Primordial Ties is the coming-of-age story of Marjorie, a beautiful 19-year-old girl possessed by only an abstracted sense of who she is or where she came from. Now alone and living with distant relatives, she imagines that she was born motherless, created through extraordinary means by her mysterious and long-dead father as the daughter that he never had. As time goes on, she becomes further lost to the ordinary world around her, a banal one of gossipy girlfriends, routine jobs and awkward sexual awakenings. But a separate, nocturnal reality soon takes hold, sending forth a young, handsome and unearthly figure in a black leather jacket to reclaim her — drawing her back to her perceived origins, to where her father and fate await her. For more info on Primordial Ties visit http://www.systematicpictures.com/ |
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FAMILY DAY
Sunday, April 15, 12PM-4PM Movement Festival Detroit presents Detroit Digital Justice Coalition-Discotech! Admission: Free The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition hosts our April Family Day with a special presentation of Discotech (Discovering Technology), an interactive, mobile, multimedia workshop. The DDJC’s Discotechs are designed to demystify, engage and inform the community around the abundant possibilities of technology, Internet use and communication as a fundamental human right!! Come learn, play and get digital! |
 
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POP-UP RESTAURANT
Thursday, April 19, 6PM-8PM Chartreuse Admission: $75/person Chartreuse is a gourmet raw vegan pop-up supper club. Fully equipped with extraordinary imagination and the element of surprise, Chartreuse creates a memorable culinary and social moment that exists briefly and disappears immediately, as if it were a dream. Featuring DROUGHT JUICE and live music. Limited seating, reservations required (before Saturday April 14th): chartreusedetroit.com |
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BOOK RELEASE PERFORMANCE EVENT
Saturday, April 21, 8PM-10PM Kasher in the Rye by Moshe Kasher Admission: Free Join us for a night of comedy and readings from comedian and author Moshe Kasher. Featured on Comedy Central, Fox, E!, NBC, VH1, MTV, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, and the John Oliver Stand Up Comedy Show, Kasher is widely considered one of the preeminent new voices in comedy. This event will feature readings from his new memoir Kasher In The Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy From Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient and Then Turned Sixteen, a powerful and hilarious reflection on his harrowing childhood in Oakland, CA. For more information visit http://www.moshekasher.com/ |
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MUSICAL ARTIST TALK
Friday, April 27 from 6PM-8PM Wayne White & The Shaking Ray Levis Admission: $5 The Shaking Ray Levis, comprised of Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner, will play a composed soundtrack to accompany a musical spoken-word artist-talk performance by Wayne White. Don’t expect this one to be anything like any other artist’s lecture, as White will perform on the banjo while presenting his work and life adventures from puppeteering for Pee-wee’s Playhouse to making award-winning music videos. Additionally, The Shaking Ray Levis will also create a live improvised soundtrack accompanying the video Abstractiony Jones, created by filmmaker Ernie Paik using Dennis Palmer's artwork as source material. The Shaking Ray Levis—an ongoing collaboration comprised of musicians with a common interest in improvisation—use storytelling, synthesizers, samplers and percussion to achieve their distinctive sound. And you might remember Wayne White’s work from his puppeteering and set designing (alongside Gary Panter) for Pee-wee’s Playhouse, his award-winning music video work for Peter Gabriel or the Smashing Pumpkins, or his crisp and surreal text paintings overlaid on thrift store paintings. A feature-length documentary about White, Beauty Is Embarrassing, will debut at the 2012 SXSW festival. For more information on Wayne White visit his wesbite http://waynewhiteart.com For more information on The Shaking Ray Levis visit their website http://shakingray.com/ For more information visit http://beautyisembarrassing.com/ |
  
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization supported through invaluable contributions from individuals and members. The Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation provides leading support for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit since 2006. General operating support is generously provided by The Kresge Foundation, Masco Corporation Foundation and the Taubman Foundation. Major funding for MOCAD's exhibition and public programs is provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts. Additional funding for institutional growth, capacity building and educational initiatives is provided by the McGregor Fund, Erb Family Foundation and Edith S. Briskin/Shirley K. Schlafer Foundation. Valuable in-kind support is provided by Dykema. The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is also supported, in part, by Leveraging Investments in Creativity, in partnership with the Ford Foundation and ArtPlace, a collaboration of top national foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts and various federal agencies to accelerate creative placemaking across the U.S.
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