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The program was commissioned by the City of Detroit to create an art installation in the Brightmoor neighbourhood, also involving the youth in the creation. [ 7 ] In 2010 Chazz Miller and several volunteers painted plywood cutouts of butterflies as part of an anti-blight campaign called the "Papillion Effect" ("Papillon" is French for butterfly).
Pages in category "Artists from Detroit" The following 161 pages are in this category, out of 161 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Evelyn Ackerman;
This list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artwork visible inside a museum. Additional works can be found at: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog - database for Detroit; The Detroit Museum of Public Art - A catalog of Detroit sculptures and murals.
One of Detroit’s most notorious graffiti artists has been arrested. Hazel Park resident Bryan Herrin, who goes by the moniker BVIS, has spent the last few years obsessively drawing the face of ...
With a long, complicated history of greatness and turmoil, Detroit is a place where residents often take matters into their own hands. As Detroit's population finally grows, don't forget those who ...
Detroit's population increased from under 500,000 in 1910 to over 1.8 million at the city's peak in 1950, making Detroit the fourth-most populous city in the United States at that time. [9] The population grew largely because of an influx of European immigrants, in addition to the migration of both black and white Americans to Detroit. [ 10 ]
During the late 1960s, Aretha Franklin, a singer-songwriter from Detroit, became America's preeminent female soul artist, recording on the competing Atlantic Records label. In the late 1960s, Metro Detroit was the epicenter for high-energy rock music with MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges, [3] [4] the precursors of the punk rock movement.
Detroit, as seen from Windsor, Canada. The following is a list of people from Detroit, Michigan. This list includes notable people who were born, have lived, or worked in and around Detroit as well as its metropolitan area.