Opening the summer of 2011, Ponyride, a 30,000 square-foot warehouse in the Corktown area of Detroit, presently serves as home to 25 socially-conscious businesses, ranging from non-profits like Detroit Soup, to for-profit entrepreneurial ventures like Detroit Denim. Following is my conversation with Ponyride’s Executive Director Kate Bordine on how they made it happen, the power […]
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Amanda Sari Perez on winning this month’s A2Awesome grant, and the geodesic dome she’s built with the money
Today, the trustees of A2Awesome handed over $1,000 to Amanda Sari Perez for the creation of an enormous geodesic dome, which she hopes will serve as a platform on which others in the community can express their creativity. Following is my interview with her. MARK: To start out, could you tell us a bit about […]
Emilia Javanica on the Red Blob Massacre, and what it’s like to shoot one’s first independent film
A few months ago, I announced here on the site that an aspiring filmmaker in Ann Arbor, by the name of Emilia Javanica, was looking for actors to cast in a comedic horror film that she was making called the Red Blob Massacre. Well, the film has just completed production, and I took the opportunity […]
So, what’s up with tenure?
A few days ago, we started debating an opinion piece that ran in the New York Times on higher education reform. The author of that piece, as you may recall, among other things, suggested that the institution of tenure be dissolved. As you can imagine, several readers of this site, many of whom work at […]
Shadow Grants
As I think I must have mentioned here at some point, the next Shadow Art Fair is scheduled to take place Saturday, July 18 at the Corner Brewery. As usual, it’s scheduled to run from noon to midnight. And, as usual, you’re all encouraged to apply as vendors, or enter our poster design competition. The […]