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Dabls’ MBAD African Bead Museum
18 outdoor installations are on view at Dabls’ MBAD African Bead Museum, located in the Core City neighborhood of Detroit. The museum was founded 23 years ago by Olayami Dabls with a vision to create a space for his community to understand the immense power of their African heritage using outside installations and beads.
18 outdoor installations are on view at Dabls’ MBAD African Bead Museum, located in the Core City neighborhood of Detroit. The museum was founded 23 years ago by Olayami Dabls with a vision to create a space for his community to understand the immense power of their African heritage using outside installations and beads.
Occupying almost two city blocks at the corner of Grand River and West Grand Blvd in Detroit, Dabls' MBAD African Bead Museum is a quiet revolution that sparks a vital conversation with global and local audiences.
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Exhibitions
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Jammie Holmes: Pieces of a Man
Dallas-based artist Jammie Holmes’ first solo exhibition “Pieces of a Man” will be on display at Library Street Collective through June 17, 2021.
Amna Asghar: Well Wishes
Detroit artist Amna Asghar’s “Well Wishes” is on view at MOCAD through August 8, 2021.
Dual Vision
“Dual Vision” is an expansive, 40-person group exhibition featuring works by artists living in or otherwise engaged with Detroit, on view at MOCAD until August 8, 2021.
Heidelberg Project
The ongoing Heidelberg Project explores the ways in which Detroit is seeing, saying and feeling all things. The outdoor art environment was created to improve the lives of people in its immediate community, the McDougall Hunt neighborhood.
Tali Keren: Un-Charting
“Un-Charting” by artist Tali Keren is on view at MOCAD through August 8, 2021.
With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932
“With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932” is on view at Cranbrook Art Museum from June 18 to September 19, 2021. It is the largest exhibition to expansively chronicle the Academy’s 90-year history as a radical experiment in the education of artists.
Damon Davis: Filling in The Cracks
East St. Louis born post-disciplinary artist Damon Davis presents sculptural and image-based works that are an investigation of masculinity, grief, and trauma. “Filling in The Cracks” on view at MOCAD through August 8, 2021.
And the Walls Became the World All Around
Reyes | Finn presents the work of Copenhagen-born, Chicago-based artist Marie Herwald Hermann in “And the Walls Became the World All Around,” on view until June 26, 2021.
Experience & Expression
Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) presents a selection of contemporary works from the collection in “Experience & Expression," on view through October 3, 2021.
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