Honoring Jan Brown “Let’s Play” Workshop @ 333 Midland
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🎨 Honoring Jan Brown with a Mixed Media Celebration
***This workshop is a benefit for The BIG Art in memory of Jan Brown Hosted by Virginia LaMont Naegeli Join us Saturday Nov. 22 10:00 AM–2:00 PM 333 Midland, Highland Pk MI 48203 for a very special Mixed Media Experience inspired by the artistry and spirit of Jan Brown. We’ll be using some of Jan’s original scrap canvases to create new life and beauty — celebrating creativity, connection, and the joy of making art together. This is a guided, hands-on experience using Jan’s own mixed media techniques — all supplies are included! Just bring your lunch, drink and get ready to play, explore, and express yourself in this creative tribute to an incredible artist. Let’s honor Jan’s creative spirit by turning her art into something new and meaningful — |
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Whimsical Juxtapositions
Art by Mike and Katina Kelly Feb 21st - March 2nd Featuring live music both weekends! Opening Weekend: Fri Feb 21 5-9 pm Electric Guitar Orchestra 7pm https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564075281695 Crawl Space 8pm Sat 22 6-10 pm Joe Kidd and Sheila Burke 7pm joekiddandsheilaburke.com Gordy Russ Jr. 8pm Death Cat 9pm deathcat.us |
Closing Weekend: Friday February 28th 6-10pm Michael Devine (spoken word) https://a.co/d/ghyauXu Carjack 8pm carjack.Bandcamp.com Duende 9pm duendetroit.bandcamp.com Saturday March 1st 1-5pm Sunday March 2nd 1-5pm All other hours by appt. Mike's Instagram art page: https://www.instagram.com/evil_telepathic_monkey/ |
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A backyard, a thrift store, a stand of trees, a bunker: rope, celestial bodies, shelving, carefully selected color. Animals migrating across the boundaries of human-demarcated spaces. The essentials of human life- shelter, currency, tools, food, spirituality- mound, burrow, re- contextualize and disappear as their likenesses are reconfigured (only slightly), opening a path through the uncanny valley on the razor’s edge of beauty and horror.
“Hyperlocal Color,” an exhibition featuring the work of Martha Mysko, Clara DeGalan, and Ryan Herberholz, explores landscapes and interiors that converge at the vanishing point of late Capitalism and its fallout with the drumbeat of a wounded, resilient Earth. The piling of organic form facsimilies and objects that signal coziness in rectilinear Midwestern thrift shops corresponds unsettlingly to the stockpiling of diy weaponry and “Deep Evolution” subterranean survival temples. 
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Meanwhile, more-than-human relatives move along their own paths, carry their own histories and dreams into our trembling civic centers and psyches as we carry our dark medicine into theirs. Even on this razor’s edge, there are glimmers of beauty- in the lovingly curated shelf of well-touched artifacts, in the light of the evening sun illuminating a mushroom cap, in the absurdity of human endeavor against the vastness of time.
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