Kate Hampel - Fiber and Material Studies, November 2024

Fiber Flux Exhibition (CCS, Valade Family Gallery): Midwest Educators in Textiles, Fiber Art, and Material Studies

Kate Hampel holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal. Her work has been shown at museums, galleries and art fairs in the United States, Canada, and Asia, and she has participated in residency programs across the United States. She has been the recipient of the Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Grant and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Fountainhead Fellowship in Craft/Material Studies. She currently lives in Southeast Ohio, where she is cofounder of FOLLY, an artist residency for artists, writers, and scholars, and teaches at Ohio University’s School of Art + Design in Sculpture + Expanded Practice.

During her short residency at FILTER Detroit Kate Hampel is working on an art work for the `Fiber Flux´ exhibition at College for Creative Studies. This piece is composed, among others, of left behind and abandoned materials she can find during her stay in the neighborhood and city of Detroit. Moreover, she is attending the Midwest Fiber Artists Network Conference in Detroit.

For more information about her work please visit:

https://www.katehampel.com/about

https://www.ccsdetroit.edu/ccs-event/fiber-flux-exhibition/

https://www.ohio.edu/fine-arts/art/graduate/sculpture-expanded-practice

Young Leaders - Atlantik-Brücke e.V.

Walking Tour: Art and Community in Campau / Banglatown, August 2024

Walking Tour

FILTER Detroit hosted and facilitated a Walking Tour for fellows of the Young Leaders Conference program in Detroit. The tour with presentations has been led by artists and cultural workers referencing the Campau/Banglatown neighborhood, placemaking and placekeeping with art, community building, migration and socially engaged art projects. Stops of the tour have been, FILTER Detroit, PlayHouse Labs, C+C Art Factory, Zadza Space - Jar House, the Ride It Sculpture Skate Park and the Desh Bhoji, Bangladesh Restaurant on Conant Street. A big Thank you to all the participating artists, cultural workers and initiatives.

Thanks to John Austin (Senior Fellow, Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College and Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution) for inviting and Tobias Luthe (Head of Young Leader Program, Atlantik-Brücke).

The Young Leaders Program is an interdisciplinary exchange and discussion program connecting young German and American leaders. More information on the Young Leaders Program can be found under: www.atlantik-bruecke.org

Photo credits: Thanks a lot to Cory Marie Podielski for the documentation of this event!

Over the past decade, neighborhood transformation in Campau/Banglatown has been driven by two residential communities. On the one hand, by the artist community with their studio and workspaces and community-engaged projects with, in and around single-family homes as well as by recently arrived immigrants from e.g., the Bangladeshi American community who have established everyday infrastructures such as grocery stores, restaurants, community spaces and gardens, in addition to being homeowners. As homeowners, both communities have produced social spaces and created possibilities and access for engaging and participating in the neighborhood’s development through and with their single-family homes by taking care of them individually.

 The homes in Campau/Banglatown do not only provide spaces for living. They also provide spaces for community, work, recreation, and informal cross-cultural exchanges. In this neighborhood single-family homes have also contributed to a sense of belonging for both communities, independent from religious and ethnic backgrounds and class or cultural traditions, because of their architectural features, flexibility of use, low maintenance costs, and safety as well as their social and communal functions. (Kerstin Niemann, 2023)

Participating initiatives, artists and cultural workers:

FILTER Detroit

Dr. phil. Kerstin Niemann is the director of FILTER Detroit, which she founded in 2010. She is an urban researcher and a curator with a background in real estate administration and finance. She works as academic staff member at University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam for the study program arts management and cultural work. Her PhD thesis on Campau/Banglatown has been published in 2023 => Single-Family Homes in Campau/Banglatown: Values of Placemaking, Homemaking and Placekeeping in a Neighborhood of Artists and Immigrants in 21st Century Detroit. https://doi.org/10.34712/142.38

Play House Laboratories is a neighborhood-embedded artist-run laboratory for performance that facilitates training, exchange, and collaboration out of the house-turned small-scale venue Play House. playhouselabs.org

Liza Bielby and Richard Newman (Co-Directors, The Hinterlands; Co-Founders, Play House Laboratories) created Play House with Power House Productions in 2012. Liza Bielby is a performer, performance-maker, teacher, and translator whose work is organized around a search for roots in ever-increasing circles of inquiry: from her own body to the neighborhood where she lives and works to notions of national cultures and international identities. Richard Newman is an actor, director, performance-maker, and musician whose genre-defying performances and public events unlock cultural memories and collective histories through a rigorous investigation of U.S. culture. thehinterlands.org

C+C Art Factory is the collaborative partnership of Caleb LeFevre (caleblefevre.com) and Cory Marie Podielski (podielski.com). Caleb is a fine artist, woodworker, and fabricator currently an MFA candidate in the Print Media MFA Program at Cranbrook. Cory is a designer, photographer, and dance caller. They purchased the Powerhouse one year ago and have focused on carrying on the legacy of developing space & home as an art practice rooted in community and creativity.

Sadza Space is the new home for the Zimbabwe Cultural Center in Detroit (ZCCD) and the headquarters for the Wirecar Auto Workers Association of Detroit (WAWAD). It´s mission is to create a community where borders are porous, relationships are formed, and collaborations through art, music and food are created. sadzaspace.org

Chido Johnson is the co-founder and director of Sadza Space. He is an artist and professor as well as Section lead of Sculpture at College for Creative Studies, Detroit. chidox.com

Talking Dolls' is an artist space and an incubator residency designed so that artists can spend time building their practice while engaging with the city of Detroit. talkingdollsdetroit.com

Wesley Taylor co-directs Talking Dolls and is an interdisciplinary designer and fine artist, musician, filmmaker, and curator. He is associate professor at Wayne State University, Detroit.

Ale González

July / August 2024

As artists and urban researcher, Ale is interested in digital technologies and the design of cities. He is an architect by training and has a background in working with digital technologies as a form and tool for citizen participation.

During his residency in Detroit, he aims to explore and investigate the resilience of the city despite its economic decline and the urban politics surrounding it. He is interested in the concept of urban resilience and the narratives associated with it. During his residency at FILTER Detroit, he is working on a comparative study between the city of Linares and Detroit. Today, Linares (Spain) is a motor city in crisis.

For more information about Ale´s work, please visit: https://414c45.net/en/

 ‘Mono Waltz’ by Sgart (Scott Grooves)

May 19 – June 16, 2024

Immerse yourself in the multi-sensory experience of ‘Mono Waltz’, where art meets sound in a beautiful symphony of black and white. Uncover the deeper meaning behind 'Mono Walz' and its role in providing a space for reflection and decompression. We welcome you to join the exhibition as Sgart shares his insights into the complexity and harmony of light and darkness.

From the artist; "I admire the understated allure of black and its hues, yet I equally like its ability to make a strong statement on its own. Its number one strength is versatility, much like my own strength as a contemporary artist and musician." Sgart

Embark on a journey through the convergence of black and white drawings, paintings and prints. Explore the visual monochrome approach with its interplay of sound and space. We cordially invite you to the opening reception on May 19 from 5 to 8 pm @FILTER Detroit. As part of this unique exhibition, we are delighted to invite you to an audio event, a one-day only sound gathering at Play House, May 23 from 5 to 8 pm. During these events there will be an opportunity to engage with the artist.

‘Mono Waltz’ by Sgart is a collaboration with FILTER Detroit and Play House Laboratories. Curated by Kerstin Niemann.

Opening: Sunday May 19, 5 to 8 pm @ FILTER Detroit

Location: FILTER Detroit, 12645 Moran Street, 48212 Detroit. Please use backyard entrance.

Sound Gathering ‘After the Dance Phone Home’ : Thursday May 23, 5 to 8 pm @ Play House

(12657 Moran Street, Detroit, next to FILTER Detroit)

FILTER Detroit hours:

Monday May 20 - noon to 4pm

Tuesday May 21 - noon to 4 pm

Thursday May 23 – 5 pm to 8 pm

All the other times by appointment only: filterdetroit@gmail.com

Play House Laboratories is a laboratory for experimental performance and exchange: https://www.thehinterlands.org/play-house

Learn more about Scott Groove's art: https://sumgoodart.com/