By Mark | August 24, 2015
This past weekend’s episode of The Saturday Six Pack, as I suspect most of you already know, started coming together earlier this summer, after the gang-related murder of 20 year old Keandre Duff, who had been shot in the head and killed just after midnight on the morning of July 12 at an Ypsilanti block […]
Posted in The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged activities for kids, AM 1700, Amanda Edmonds, Andres Stockdill, Ask-A-Teen, Benjamin Edmondson, Berlin, carpenter ants, Dylan Beckwith, eating bugs, Eli Stevick, gangs, GG Allin, Heritage Fest, Iggy Pop, internships, Jerry Clayton, Kate de Fuccio, Keandre Duff, Nick Azzaro, nudity, Ozone House, Ozone House Drop-In Center, Soft Milk, teens, Tony DeGiusti, WICIR teen group, WIHI, WIMI, Youth Commission, Ypsilanti Community Schools |
At the end of August, one of my favorite Ypsilanti artists, Rita Jane Riggs, will be packing up and heading west to see what the universe has in store for her. Please join me in wishing her well on her journey. MARK: What first brought you to Ypsilanti, or were you born here? RITA: I […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Albuquerque, angels, animal spirits, astrology, Bee Roll, Binkie, blankets, blood, Breaking Bad, Buddha, cartoons, Deja Vu, Demons, Dreamland Theater, eastern religion, EMU, EMU Art Department, exit interviews, extraterrestrials, fairies, First Fridays, God, halos, hamsters, Huron River, iconography, illustration, innocence, Jesus, Krishna, Mary, meth, multidimensional realities, New Mexico, Normal Park, painting, plant spirits, psychic abilities, rats, reincarnation, religion, religious icons, Richard Brautigan, Rita Jane Riggs, Robert Spier, saints, sausage gravy, spirit guides, spiritual practice, stripping, T- Hardy Morris, tarot, Video Games, vulnerability, watermelon, watermelon sugar, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews |
I found this sitting on the table beside my bed this morning. As it’s in my handwriting, I imagine that I must have written it at some point during the night. While I doubt that beloved local historian James Mann is, in fact, a ghost, I do like the idea that he could be. If […]
By Mark | January 4, 2015
This past summer, as I was killing knapwed at Water Street Commons, I had the good fortune of meeting Polly Yates, an artist from England who happened to be spending several weeks in Ypsilanti. After chatting with her a bit about her work, and the several pieces of artwork which have sprung up on Water […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amy Sacksteder, anonymity, art food sex and trauma, artist residency, Call the Midwife, Chicago, collage, Death, eye contact, Facebook, fish and chips, found objects, found photographs, grief, interviews, Mark Dickson, midwifery, Neon Heater Gallery, Polly Yates, Roman Susan Gallery, salt and vinegar, sausage, savaloy, Stalin, street food, surveillance culture, Taylor Ervin, Theresa Rickloff, weeding, YardWork, Ypsilanti Art Incubator, Ypsilanti Historical Society |
