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Musemus And
Art Centers
Paint Creek Center for the
Arts: Student and Faculty Exhi-
bition. Opens July 5. Opening re-
ception: 6-8 p.m. Friday, July 12.
Through August 9. Flaming
Senses. Installations and video
by Kevin Cook and
Stephen Dunning. Open-
ing reception: 7-9 p.m.
Friday, July 5. 10 a.m.-5
p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.
407 Pine Street,
Rochester. (810) 651-
4110.
DETRO IT JE WI SH NE WS
Detroit Focus Gallery:
Scientific Method. Brook-
lyn-based artist Judy
Thomas investigates
space, light, form and
substance in this site-
specific installation.
Through August 2. 12-6
p.m. Thursday-Satur-
day. No charge. 33 East
Grand River, at Farmer.
(313) 965-3245.
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Interpretive Program, is an in- tions that were the standard in Art Artists. Featuring the work
teractive program which show- car ads. De Salle Gallery of Pho- of 24 artists, architects and de-
cases the DIA's encyclopedic tography. Through November signers representing the creative
collection. It incorporates audio, 24. Surrealist Vision and Tech- output of the 1996 graduating
music, digitized film, animation nique: Drawings and Collages class. Each artist represented
and digital video in order to from the Pompidou Center and completed two years of gradu-
make the museum's collection the Picasso Museum, Paris. The ate-level study at the academy.
more accessible to visitors. It has surrealist movement was a re- Through September 8. Art of the
been premiered in a kiosk in the action to the modernist art of the Eye: An Exhibition on Vision.
center of the museum's first ley- early 20th century. Through The work of 27 visually impaired
contemporary Ameri-
can artists are dis-
played. Through July 7.
Saarinen House and
Garden: A Total Work
of Art," a docent-guid-
ed, 75-minute taur lim-
ited to 12 people each,
will run through Oct.
31. 11 a.m., 1, 1:30, 2:30
and 3 p.m. Thursdays;
1, 1:30, 2:30 and 3 p.m.
Sundays. For private
group tour information,
call (810) 645-3323.
Cranbrook Architecture
and Sculpture Tour, 2
p.m. Sundays, through
Oct. 27, a two-hour
walking tour featuring
private areas usually
not open to the public.
Tour tickets (available
at and including ad-
mission to the Cran-
brook Art Museum) are
$6 adults/$4 full-time
students and seniors
(65+)/$2 children under
7/free to Art Museum
members. Purchase
day of tour only, at the
Art Museum. 10 a.m.-5
p.m. Wednesday-Sun-
day; 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
Thursday. 1221 N.
Woodward. (810) 645-
3312.
Swords Into Plow-
shares: Cuadros. Textile
pictures by the women of
Peru, expressing the
shared life of its creators
-its realities, struggles
and hopes. Through July
27. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Tues-
day, Thursday, Satur-
day. 33 E. Adams,
Detroit. (313) 965-5422.
Pewabic Pottery: Stu-
dent, Faculty and Staff
Exhibition. Each indi-
vidual involved in the
1995-96 semesters are
represented by one piece
University of Michi-
of work, focusing on tile
gan Museum of Art:
making, wheel throw-
The New American. De-
ing, hand building and
troit artist Carl De-
figurative sculpture.
meulenaere replicates
Staff Highlight: Paul
the house and barn from
Henry. The sculptor's
Grant Wood's American
work blends the human
Gothic; inside the repli-
body and geological for-
ca is a series of Demeu-
mations into graceful The Saarinen House Dining Room is a highlight of Saarinen House and Garden: A Total Work of Art, a
lenaere's own paintings
combinations of natural docent-guided, 75-minute tour sponsored by the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Eliel Saarinen, master
which explore issues
poses washed with an architect of Cranbrook, designed the home (1928-1930) and its furnishings.
concerning the contem-
earth-hued patina and
porary
American
family. Opens
July
7.
The
DIA
is
seeking
Art
el.
There
is
no
charge
to
use
set on rock-like bases. Through
July 13. 10125 E. Jefferson, CHIP. African Form and Im- to the Schools volunteers. Sug- Saturday, July 6. Sunday Tour:
across from the Waterworks agery: Detroit Collects. Approxi- gested donation $4 adults/$1 2 p.m. July 7. Through August
mately 70 works of African art children. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednes- 18. The Weddige Collection: A Gift
Park, Detroit. (313) 822-0954.
acquired by local collectors, rep- day-Friday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. week- to the University. Highlights from
Center Galleries: American resenting cultures including the ends. 5200 Woodward Ave. (313) the museum's extensive collec-
tion of 20th-century and old-mas-
Presidents: A Beaded Installa- Luba, Kongo, Fang and Yoruba. 833-7900.
ter prints. Through July 7. Sol
tion. Thirty-five fully beaded Drop-in Workshops: African
Five new wall drawings.
LeWitt.
Cranbrook
Art
Museum:
Prints:
noon-3
p.m.
Saturday,
frames and portraits of Ameri-
can presidents executed by artist July 6; Asafo Flags: noon-3 p.m. Cranbrook Auto Show: Michigan Through Aug. 4. Crayons and the
Liza Lou. Through July 19. 10 Sunday, July 7. Through De- Artists Explore the Impact of the Masters. Let kids experience art.
a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. cember 31. The Car and the Automobile on 20th-century Coloring sheets with outlines of
Park Shelton Building, 15 East Camera: The Detroit School of American Culture. The exhibit works by Picasso, Pissarro and
Kirby, Suite 107, Detroit. (313) Automotive Photography. Detroit focuses on the role the automo- others can be obtained along with
photographers created new ways bile has had on our lives and so- a drawing board and bag of
874-1955.
of shooting - and seeing - au- ciety, rather than the design of crayons at the museum's infor-
tomobiles
in the 1950s, breaking cars. Through September 1. New mation desk. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues-
Detroit Institute of Arts:
CHIP, Computer Hypermedia away from the graphic illustra- Work by Cranbrook Academy of day-Saturday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m.,
Thursday; 12-5 p.m., Sunday.
From Memorial Day to Labor
Day, opens 11 a.m. Tuesday-Sat-
urday. University of Michigan
Museum of Art, 525 S. State St.,
Arm Arbor. (313) 764-0395.
Kelsey Museum of Archae-
ology. David Roberts: A Victo-
rian's Passion for Egypt. Over
1,000 sketches, lithographs and
paintings of ancient Egypt and
the Near East. Through August
1. (313) 747-0441. Free admis-
sion to museum. 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Monday-Friday; 1-4 p.m. Satur-
day-Sunday. 434 S. State, Ann
Arbor. (313) 764-9304.
Call For Artists
Our Town XI: Michigan artists
are invited to submit work for
exhibition and sale interpreting
any hometown and its meaning
to them. Exhibit to be held Oc-
tober 23-27 at The Community
House in Birmingham. Applica-
tions must be postmarked July
31. Receive a Call to Enter Form
by calling (810) 644-5832.
1996 Focus on Michigan Pho-
tography Contest: Photo-
graphs taken at a public park,
recreation facility or public fes-
tival or fair may be submitted in
one of three age divisions: Youth
(17 and under), Adult (18-54)
and Senior (55 and older). Local
winners will be selected by a
panel of judges from Oakland
County Parks. Entry deadline is
November 15. To obtain entry
form and information sheet, call
(810) 858-1086.
The Art Center: Artists are in-
vited to submit their work -
paintings, clay, wood, glass,
fibers, jewelry, dolls, toys and
crafts - for jurying in the Art
Center's 20th annual juried Hol-
iday Fair. Jury deadline is July
12; call for registration form.
(810) 469-8666.
City of Southfield's Cultural
Arts Division: Any artists in-
terested in showing their wares
or demonstrating old-time or
unique skills -woodcarving,
weaving, quilt-making - at the
Autumnfest should contact the
division at (810) 424-9022.
Galleries
Art Leaders Gallery: Featur-
ing today's most popular artists
from around the world: Roy
Fairchild, Kerry Hallam, David
Schluss, Hessam, Barbara Wood
and others. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Mon-
day-Thursday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Friday and Saturday; 12-5 p.m.
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