Apprecier interviews Caroyln Carr, artists featured in upcoming group show Radical Plastic.
Tyree Guyton mentioned on the Huffington Post
Tyree Guyton mentioned in Huffington Post article "Stop Giving New York Transplants All The Credit For Detroit’s Art Scene." Read here.
Tyree Guyton featured on princeton.edu
Tyree Guyton mentioned in Princeton's article "Students explore artists' roles in remaking cities, with a focus on Detroit." Read here.
Dylan Spaysky at On Stellar Rays
Dylan Spaysky shows work in group exhibition I Pledge Allegiance at On Stellar Rays, on view through April 3.
Ken Gonzales-Day at LA Municipal Art Gallery
Ken Gonzales-Day shows work in group exhibition SKIN, on view at the LA Municipal Art Gallery through April 17.
Read more about the show here.
Golnar Adili in group show in Nyack
Golnar Adili shows work in the group exhibition “Where We Are Standing: Contemporary Women Artists from Iran," on view at Hopper House through April 24.
Read more about the exhibition here.
Yulan Grant featured on The FADER
Yulan Grant, panelist for last September's Social Medium program, lends her perspective to The FADER's list "5 Artists Explain How Digital Art Can Make The Real World Better."
Executive Director News
The Board of Directors announces that Dena Muller has stepped down as Executive Director of CUE Art Foundation. The Board acknowledges Dena’s many contributions to the organization during her tenure, thanks her for a deep commitment to the visual arts, and wishes her all successes for the future. Corina Larkin, the secretary of CUE’s Board of Directors, will serve as Acting Executive Director during the leadership transition. Please direct any questions to her at corina@cueartfoundation.org.
Carmen Papalia featured in the New York Times
Carmen Papalia featured in New York Times article on social practice. Read here.
Yulan Grant premiers mix on THUMP
Yulan Grant, panelist for program Social Medium: Art-Making with Social Media, premiers a new mix on THUMP.
Read the interview with the artist and listen to the mix here.
Country, Home feature on The Offing
Mimi Wong covers Country, Home for The Offing. Read here.
Naeem Mohaiemen presents at 2015 Creative Time Summit
Read about Mohaiemen and the Creative Time Summit here.
30-Year-Old Folk Art Project Remains a Constant in a Changing Detroit | Curbed
The Heidelberg Project offers a different experience every visit. On a blindingly blue and gold fall day, the trees lining Heidelberg street carry heavy canopy, the leaves brown and gold and green and yellow.
Read more here.
Detroit artist Tyree Guyton to represent U.S. in China exhibit | Crain's Detroit Business
Detroit artist Tyree Guyton and three others will represent the United States at China’s Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism this month.
Guyton, creator of Detroit’s famed Heidelberg Project and other found-object art installations, will contribute to an international discussion on how architecture and design act as catalysts for change and how they can make a place better for work and play.
Read more here.
PIONEERING ARTIST TYREE GUYTON TO REPRESENT U.S. AT CHINA'S SHENZHEN BIENNALE | BLACKBIRD
An innovative platform for international exchange, the 2015 Biennale features a select group of 12 artists, architects and designers from around the world in an exhibition entitled “Re-Living the City.” Guyton, renowned for transforming his impoverished Detroit neighborhood into a two-block-long art installation, the Heidelberg Project, was chosen as one of just four U.S. participants. He was awarded funding to collaborate on a site-specific collage that addresses the role of architecture in existing, human-made environments.
Read more here.
Naeem Mohaiemen contributes to e-flux exhibition
Read about the exhibition, Corruption: Everybody Knows… here.
Brash Stephens at ArtNxT, Tyree Guyton at U-Mich | The Detroit News
Decay and the impact of time, of course, have always figured in the work of Heidelberg Project founder Tyree Guyton, who has a show of new work at Gallery/DAAS, run by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.
Read more here.
Jerry Truong solo exhibition at Northwestern University
Jerry Truong’s “School Works” exhibition examines the political implications of the American educational system through large-scale blackboard-like paintings and sculptures that utilize objects typically found in a grade school classroom.
Read more here.
Rachel Reese Named Associate Curator at Savannah’s Telfair Museums | BURNAWAY
Rachel Reese has been hired as the new associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Telfair Museums in Savannah. She has been communications manager at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center since 2013; her last day at the Contemporary is October 24.
Read more here.
Open Call: 2016 Public Programming Fellow
OPEN CALL FOR 2016 PUBLIC PROGRAMMING FELLOW
CUE is currently seeking applications for the 2016 Public Programming Fellowship. The fellow will work with CUE staff to shape and realize a series of educational events produced in conjunction with CUE’s professional development program, Meeting Artists’ Needs.
In 2014 and 2015, our inaugural Public Programming Fellow, Cevan Castle presented if it’s not work, it must be PLAY: Discussions on the state of work in the arts. The successful candidate will continue this work of activating conversations, actions, and ideas that highlight artists as entrepreneurs, essential to our country’s culture and economy.
The fellow will curate and produce a series of (5) events and workshops to take place at CUE between August and December 2016. The selected fellow will receive an honorarium of $2,500, and a budget of $1,700 to divide amongst the participating program speakers. Applications from collaborative teams are allowed.
To apply for the program, please submit the following to shona@cueartfoundation.org with the subject line Public Programming Fellow-NAME by February 15, 2016:
+ Proposal (1-2 pages) outlining concept, breakdown of events, and proposed guest speakers.
+ CV and narrative bio