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Today, Tomorrow & Saturday

Come in from the cold...a few events today, tomorrow and Saturday, to warm your insides:

 
TONIGHT!!
Thursday, January 15, 6:30 p.m.
Cranbrook Welcomes Luis Croquer
The New Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)
deSalle Auditorium, Cranbrook Art Museum

Guests are invited to a special lecture with the newly appointed Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). Croquer was formerly special projects director at the El Museo del Barrio, New York City's only Latino museum dedicated to Puerto Rican, Carribean and Latin American Art. He was senior curator for the American Federation of Arts and curator of historical exhibitions at the Drawing Center in NYC. He has curated and coordinated exhibitions of Ed Ruscha, Eva Hesse and the Latin American artist Gego. Born in El Salvador, Croquer, the son of a Venezuelan diplomat, grew up in India, Spain, Austria, Africa and elsewhere. Please help us welcome Luis Croquer to Detroit.
 
Cranbrook Art Museum
39221 Woodward Avenue
Bloomfield Hills
248-645.3323
 
 
Opening Friday, January 16, 6-8 p.m.
College for Creative Studies' CENTER GALLERIES presents:
"Director's Choice: Obsession"
 
This exhibition, continuing Center Galleries' Anniversary Season, features work by six artists chosen by Center Galleries director Michelle Perron, including Detroiters ROBERT BIELAT and SALLY SCHLUTER TARDELLA, New Yorkers JAMES O. CLARK and MICHELLE HINEBROOK, from Ann Arbor LARRY CRESSMAN, and from St. Louis, MO, MARTIN BRIEF.  An artist's obsession is born of a compelling motivation or preoccupation with their work and ideas.  The work included in "Director's Choice" reflects not only the obsessive nature of art-making, but the curator's attraction to work that can, in the words of E.B. White, "be obscure clearly."
 
In Alumni & Faculty Hall: "Staff Meeting" An exhibition of work by over 20 artists of the CCS administrative staff.
 
These exhibitions run through February 28.
 
CENTER GALLERIES
College for Creative Studies
301 Frederick Douglass (corner of Brush Street)
Detroit
T: 313.664.7800
 
The Center Galleries Anniversary Season is generously sponsored by the
MASCO Corporation Foundation.
 
 
Also Opening Friday, January 16, 6-8 p.m.
Pewabic Pottery presents:
"Starting a Hare in Ceramics"
 
Curated by Tara Robinson, this exhibition looks at the rabbit and hare as contemporary sculptural forms in clay that refer to the multiple meanings assigned to these specimens in art and literature.
 
Exhibition runs through March 15.
 
Pewabic Pottery
10125 E. Jefferson
Detroit
313.822.0954
 
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Opening benefit reception: Friday, January 16, 7 - 10 p.m.
Detroit Artists Market presents:
"2009 Design Show"
A benefit for DAM - Tickets $45/member, $50/non-members
 
Each year in January, Detroit's attention turns to design with the Auto Show.  DAM takes its own look at design with the "2009 Design Show," featuring the work of artists and designers including chairs and other functional objects, jewelry, etc.  Food by Atlas Global Bistro, music by DJ Michael Oxner, and a jewelry runway show by Detroit Fashion Pages. 
 
Exhibition runs through January 31.
 
Detroit Artists Market
4719 Woodward
Detroit
313.832.8540
 
 
Opening Saturday, January 17, 1-4 p.m.
The Alfred Berkowitz Gallery at the University of Michigan-Dearborn presents:
"Forging the New Japan: Turbulent Times at the Turn of the Century"
 

In June of 1853, President Millard Fillmore sent Commodore Matthew C. Perry on a mission to establish trade with Japan, a country that had been isolated under the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Perry succeeded in negotiating a treaty that initiated dramatic changes in Japan and led to a complete change of the existing governmental structure and to the implementation of western industrial and military technologies.

Upheavals in the style and methods of modern communications provided new employment and income to the traditional woodblock print artists of that era. “Forging the New Japan” will present a collection of woodblock triptychs illustrating these events. The prints are on loan from the collection of Dr. & Mrs. Sheldon Seigel, the US Navy Museum and other sources.

 
Exhibition runs through March 6.
 
The Alfred Berkowitz Gallery
University of Michigan-Dearborn
located on the third floor of the Mardigan Library
4901 Evergreen Road
Dearborn
313.593.3592

 
Also opening Saturday, January 17, 7:00 p.m.
What Is That: a New Gallery of Fine Art & Craft presents:
"From the Mind of a Hypochondriac Artist: New Work by Johnny "Bee" Badanjek"
 
An exhibition of works by Johnny “Bee” Badanjek, made while on his last music tour in Europe. Badanjek is a painter and renowned drummer who played with such notables as The Rockets, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, as well as on Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My Nightmare”.
 
What Is That
A Gallery of Fine Art & Craft
130 West Michigan Avenue
Ypsilanti
734.485.0113
 
 
Also opening Saturday, January 17, 7-10 p.m.
The Cass Cafe presents:
"The Debt Collective: Chris Samuels + Ian Swanson"
 
The kick-off to the Cafe's 15th Anniversary Season!!
Exhibition runs through March 8.
 
The Cass Cafe
4620 Cass Avenue
Detroit
313.831.1400
 
 
If you're in Chicago...
Check out Cranbrook's own Beverly Fishman in
"Beverly Fishman and Pae White: COLOR"
The Rena Sternberg Gallery & Skestos Gabriele Gallery
378 Park Avenue, Glencoe, IL
847.835.0202
 
And...
 
If you're in New York City...
check out Wayne State's own:
"Mel Rosas: La Calle Desconocida (The Unknown Street)"
Maxwell Davidson Gallery/Davidson Contemporary
724 Fifth Avenue
New York
212.759.7555
 
 

ENJOY...INDULGE...ENGAGE...
This information is brought to you by
Michelle Perron at Center Galleries
College for Creative Studies
Manoogian Visual Resource Center
301 Frederick Douglass (Corner of Brush Street)
Detroit, MI  48202
Tel: 313-664-7800
Fax: 313-664-7880
Email: mperron@collegeforcreativestudies.edu  (Please note: new E-address)
Web: www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu