A week or so ago, unable to find any images online of the merchandise that was sold at Pear’s Clothing Store on Michigan Avenue, which, after being open for about 30 years, closed in the early ’90s, I started thinking about how we, as a community, might do a better job of documenting everyday life […]
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#DocumentYpsi2017 this weekend
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged art exhibition, DocumentYpsi2017, First Fridays, First Fridays Ypsilanti, Ozone House, Pears Clothing, Peninsular Dam, photography, Smith Furniture, Smith furniture building, time capsule, Ypsi High, Ypsilanti Experimental Space 4 Comments
Ypsi High students mark MLK Day with silent peace march and art exhibit
Both EMU and UM have great events lined up for Martin Luther King Day tomorrow. My family, however, will be spending the morning with Lynne Settles and her Ypsi High art students, who will be silently marching from Ypsilanti’s water tower, starting at 9:00 AM, to the building on Michigan Avenue where, 150 years ago, […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 7 Cylinders Studio, AutoMark, Frederick Douglass, Go Ice Cream, Lynne Settles, marches, Martin Luther King Day, Matt Siegfried, MLK, Nick Azzaro, Rhea McCauley, Rosa Parks, The Perils of the Republic, Ypsi Experimental Space, Ypsi High 9 Comments
America’s Got Feces… local artists bring cat poop to network television
A few months ago, our friends Chris Sandon, Natalie Berry and Trevor Stone, who perform together under the name Spontaneous Art, drove out to Chicago to audition for the television show America’s got Talent. Well, on Wednesday night, their episode finally aired. Here’s video of their segment, followed by the transcript of a discussion that […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Shadow Art Fair, Ypsilanti Also tagged A2Awesome, America's Got Talent, Awesome Foundation, cat poop, Chicago, Chris Sandon, contracts, entertainment industry, Festifools, fireworks, hairballs, Heidi Klum, Howard Stern, Howie Mandel, Las Vegas, mascots, Natalie Berry, Nick Cannon, Pee Wee’s Playhouse, performance art, pooping cat, reality television, Reva Rice, Scary Spice, Spontaneous Art, talent competitions, Trevor Stone 9 Comments