Edition No. 146
New exhibits open at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit recently debuted four new exhibitions, including three solo shows and one celebrating the museum’s history. The exhibit runs through Feb. 4 in the museum’s south gallery.
Multidisciplinary artist Mark Thomas Gibson’s first solo museum show, “A Retelling,” explores race in proximity to American culture and identity through a humorous lens. Through an ensemble of works that engage with the complex history of painting and caricature, Gibson explores the potentiality of retelling by creating a palimpsest of American history. Each work presented is evidence of memories that have resisted erasure.
A Retelling is anchored by excerpts of Gibson’s Town Crier series, works on paper that demonstrate his catalog of various historical moments through satirical gestures. Utilizing humor to emphasize the obscene, these drawings are delivered through a caricature that Gibson has aptly named Town Crier, a play on the 19th-century anchorman who acts as a public authority by making public pronouncements that society deemed true.
The museum is located at 4454 Woodward Ave. in Detroit. For more information, click here.
Wellness in your wallet and workplace
Join us at The War Memorial for the first-ever Young Professional Network event, put on by the Grosse Pointe Chamber of Commerce.
The event, set for Oct. 11 from 7:30 to 9 a.m., will offer a chance to network with local young professionals and enjoy short presentations on financial and mental wellness topics. Light breakfast fare and coffee is included with the purchase of a ticket. Tickets are $25 for chamber members, and $35 for non-chamber members.
Two areas of emphasis are a focus on financial fitness, and weaving wellness into work. The financial wellness presentation will be given by Melissa Fradenburg. For weaving wellness into work, well-being educator and embodiment teacher Cass Ghiorse will discuss the importance of taking time for wellness at work.
To learn more about the gathering, click here.
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