Artists’ overview of Detroit

• Lynn Crawford

  is a fiction writer and in a recent article described the need to understand the multitude of artists’ stories that call Detroit home. This is a good place to start.

• Nicole Macdonald

  is a muralist and created a Portrait Series presenting Black Bottom and Paradise Valley. She released a drawn version, and a digital copy is below with explanations for each historical person of interest. 
  

• This portrait series was explored even further by celebrated writer and Detroit cultural icon Marsha Music, which was in her words “a lecture disguised as a one-woman show”. You can find more on her website: A Grown Woman’s Tales from Detroit.



• Dolores Slowinski

  is another artist / local art historian and she passed along her notes from a lecture (or a series of lectures?) that she gave about Detroit when I expressed interest in learning more about the art scene.

  
  

• Aaron Timlin

  is a playwright and busy body, who was known for running the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit. His family was also sued by the State of Michigan when . m a lecture (or a series of lectures?) that she gave about Detroit when I expressed interest in learning more about the art scene.

• Dolores Slowinski

  passed along her notes from a lecture (or a series of lectures?) that she gave about Detroit when I expressed interest in learning more about the art scene.

  
  
  
• Aaron Timlin

Unknown literature, but I think this was a handout from a strategic meeting at the CAID?

• Bonus: A public debate about a potential Robocop statue on
  
  

  2011
  FOR: Brandon Walley, filmmaker 

  and AGAINST: Aaron Timlin

  followed by other artists in the comments.

  
  

  (The original Detroiter website was run by the Sousanis brothers who documented much of the art scene, today, much of it is documented by Rosie Sharp)

  
  
  
• 2010 Motor City Revue @ Henry Ford Community College 

  (Excerpts from an exhibition catalog highlighting important artists in the region who also support other artists through curating/writing/positive word-of-mouth)