Southwest Housing Solutions and the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit have teamed up to develop 32 units of artist housing, a gallery and and art education facilities at the Whitdell Building in Southwest Detroit.
Excerpts:Artists of all stripes are welcome, from film-makers to writers to painters to dancers. Application portfolios will not be judged. "They just have to be passionate about what they are doing," says CAID's Aaron Timlin.
The basement level of the Whitdell takes the art theme and runs with it. The main attraction is the Ladybug Gallery, with 1,890 square feet of naturally-lit exhibition space and its own entrance off Porter Street. The gallery will make its art world debut on October 20, with the opening of CAID's Actual Size Biennial.
The other half of the basement level is education-oriented, with a computer lab, a flexible classroom and two ceramics-oriented rooms: one with kilns and one with pottery wheels.
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