Tag Archives: art

Reflecting on the first five months of On The Ground Ypsi, and the future of this little city of ours

By Mark | December 7, 2017

[Ypsi community activist and Southside resident Bryan Foley, seen here in a photo by Doug Coombe taken at Parkridge Community Center, will be on a December 15 panel hosted by On The Ground Ypsilanti about “Ypsi’s rich past, and visions for a vibrant future.”] Earlier this year, the folks at Issues Media Group, having identified […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged activism, Ann Arbor News, Brianna Kelly, Bryan Foley, Concentrate, David Rutledge, Decky Alexander, Doug Coombe, equity, future of journalism, gentrification, International Village, Issues Media Group, journalism, Kingdom Builders, Landline Creative Labs, Lynne Settles, MLive, news desert, On The Ground Ypsi, Parkridge Community Center, Patrick Dunn, Paul Schutt, photos of Mark, sense of place, sex cat, sexy photos of Mark, Ypsilanti Freighthouse | 8 Comments

Marking the first day of the Trump administration with Debbie Dingell and Gretchen Whitmer, firsthand accounts of the DC, Lansing and Ypsilanti women’s marches, and a discussion about the role of community-based art in improving society… on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | January 19, 2017

This weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack, our first under the Trump administration, will be told in two parts. First, we will be talking with people on the ground in D.C., and elsewhere, about the response to the Trump inauguration, with special emphasis on how women are standing up and letting it be known […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, anti-immigration, Barack Obama, birth control, civil rights, DC, Debbie Dingell, Desirae Simmons, Donald Trump, family planning, Frederick Douglass, gay rights, Gloria Allred, grab them by the pussy, Gretchen Whitmer, healthcare, immigration, inauguration, inauguration day, Lansing, LGBTQ, Lynne Settles, manifesto, marches, Martin Luther King Day, Matt Siegfried, misogyny, Nick Azzaro, old white men making decisions on women's health, Planned Parenthood, pro-life, Rebecca Gregory, reproductive justice, reproductive rights, Roseville, sex education, Summer Zervos, The Apprentice, The Perils of the Republic, The Saturday Six Pack, violence, violence against women, women, women's health, Women's March on Washington, women's rights, workers rights, Ypsi High | 18 Comments

Michael Dykehouse on the lead paint portrait of Rick Snyder that made him famous, and why it is that he thinks no one wants it in their home

By Mark | February 22, 2016

I know this might be old news to some of you, as this story went international last week, but, as I was out of town, I didn’t have an opportunity to speak with local artist Michael Dykehouse until last night. Following is our conversation about his now famous lead paint portrait of Michigan Governor Rick […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Michigan, Politics | Also tagged cremnitz white, Donald Trump, Flint, Flint Institute of Arts, John Boehner, lead, lead paint, Michale Dykehouse, painting, paintings, politicians, portraits, Rick Snyder, unflattering portraits | 10 Comments

Ypsi Immigration Interview: Lynne Settles

By Mark | January 22, 2016

While I’d talked with Ypsi High art teacher Lynne Settles a few times over this past year, about the HP Jacobs mural that she and her students had created on the side of Currie’s barbershop, and other community art related things, I didn’t realize until a few weeks ago that she was actually a relatively […]

Posted in History, Special Projects, The Saturday Six Pack, Ypsilanti | Also tagged African American history, black lives matter, Currie's barbershop, diversity, Doug Jones, Great Migration, Howard University, HP Jacobs, Imani, Kate de Fuccio, Kwanzaa, Laura Bien, Lynne Settles, Matt Siegfried, Maulana Karenga, murals, Nia, public art, race, racism, teaching, teaching in public school, Westland, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti Community Schools, Ypsilanti high school, Ypsilanti Township | 12 Comments

The desperate need for affordable housing in Ann Arbor, the story of the black history mural that brought the community together, and nudity on the radio… on episode 32 of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | November 12, 2015

Every episode of the Saturday Six Pack, toward the end, devolves into chaos. It’s been that way since we first started the show. We begin each episode with the best of intentions, but, somewhere along the line, things start to careen off in a direction that would wouldn’t have thought possible just a few hours […]