The festival received nearly 3,000 submissions this year from a total of 92 different countries, but a few of this year's selections are from filmmakers closer to home, in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Dearborn, and Detroit.
Bands from across southeast Michigan will take the stage March 19-23 at Riverside Arts Center for the second annual Funky Rivertown Fest.
Machine Dazzle's visit to Ann Arbor also coincides with his first major museum commission, a joint installation for the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
Public art can serve various deeply meaningful functions, whether as a visual landmark, a more utilitarian object, or a way to ignite political and social conversations.
For nearly three decades, Janie Paul has made annual visits to almost all of Michigan's prisons to solicit and select artwork created by prisoners for an annual show at U-M. Now, she's chronicled that extensive experience in a book.
In honor of anyone who's been scorned, rejected, or just gotten sick of the candy, chocolates, and Hallmark-style sentiments, Royal Oak-based jazz vocalist Olivia Van Goor will host an anti-Valentine's Day showcase on Feb. 17 at Ann Arbor's North Star Lounge.
The Homelessness Hackathon will bring together software developers, programmers, and tech enthusiasts for an intensive weekend spent collaborating on digital tools intended to alleviate problems associated with homelessness.
Discussions of publicly funded art can be contentious. But several local organizations and individuals have taken it upon themselves to change the landscape, literally and figuratively.
Hertler says performing solo allows him to get "reconnected" to the Rainbow Seekers' catalog and provides him with "access to parts of the song that are otherwise sometimes lost in the fray" of a wild full-band show.
"I make art because ultimately I'm a refugee, you know," says Cambodian sculptor Sopheap Pich. "I'm kind of living in this escape — perpetual escape."
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