Edition No. 74
Arts and Culture
CANVS Interactive Street Art allows mural enthusiasts the ability to use smartphones to identify specific Detroit murals and artists.
Community and Family
Our Community Salutes Detroit ceremony recognizes and celebrates area high school seniors who are soon enlisting in the Armed Forces following graduation.
New app developed to track Detroit art murals
Like many cities across the country, Detroit’s canvas is interwoven with murals far and wide. They are admired by many which led a group to curate a new app to help track them.
According to a recent article in The Detroit News, the City’s office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship announced a new partnership with art technology company CANVS to identify all of the art on the city's walls and eventually create a digital map on the city's website. CANVS Interactive Street Art will allow residents, tourists and other mural enthusiasts the ability to use their smartphones to identify specific murals and the artist.
CANVS provides a more accessible way to connect with the art and the city. Detroit’s mix of eclectic murals, from Sydney James' "The Girl With the D Earring" on East Grand Boulevard to Desiree Kelly's mural inspired by her daughter at Meijer Rivertown Market.
The CANVS initiative is co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation and is part of ACE’s contribution to Mayor Duggan’s Blight to Beauty campaign.
To download the app, go to wherever you purchase apps and search for "Canvs Street Art."
To read the full Detroit News article, click the button below.
A salute to high school seniors
Our Community Salutes Detroit returns to an in-person ceremony for the first time in three years. The reception begins at 6 p.m. May 26 at The War Memorial’s historic Alger House, with a ceremony following at 7 p.m. The ceremony recognizes and celebrates area high school seniors who are soon enlisting in the Armed Forces following graduation.
The ceremony includes the presentation of the General Colin L. Powell Service Award, comments from Brig. Gen. Scott Hiipakka and Dr. Steven P. Bucci, with musical selections from the Motor City Brass Band.
This longstanding enlistee recognition ceremony is free and open to all who feel compelled to witness a stirring commitment to service. Online registration is required for all enlistees and guests.
The General Colin L. Powell Service Award will be presented to one or more high school guidance counselors from Michigan schools that best exemplify a counselor’s support of young adults in making their individual educational and career choices in high school and upon graduation.
OCS was established in New Jersey in 2009. Today, its chapters exist in over 23 states, and Puerto Rico and conducts over 30 ceremonies annually. For more information about OCS, check out OurCommunitySalutes.org.
To learn more and to register for this year’s OCS at TWM, visit www.warmemorial.org/ocs2022.
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