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Lovesick at Lift Detroit February 4th, 2012

Our friend Heather Hansma is part of a three person show that opens this Saturday, February 4th at Lift Detroit in Royal Oak. The show, Lovesick, features the work of Heather Hansma, Cody Schibi & Josh Buckenberger. The opening reception is from 7-10 pm. If you are unable to make the opening all of the pieces will be available online.

Heather Hansma

Cody Schibi

Recap – Transliteration at 323 East Gallery

Dennis Jacobs

Dan Armand

Last year, I was lucky enough to be invited by 323 East Gallery to be part of a two person show in 2012. That show, featuring my work and the work of Dan Armand opened this past Saturday. The show, titled “Transliteration” featured work that spanning multiple mediums. In all, the show featured 33 pieces, including collage, paintings, and sculptures, all with underlying, often political, literary themes.

Much more, including photos from the opening behind the cut.

After the Factory

What happens after the factory? Detroit Lives traveled to Poland to make a documentary about reinvention in post-manufacturing cities. It parallels Detroit with Lodz, whose textile industry has seen a similar decline to Detroit’s auto business. After the Factory premieres at the DIA’s Detroit Film Theater on Thursday, February 2nd at 7pm. Check out the Facebook invite for all the details on the event. It looks to be a beautiful film that gives new context to the problems we’ve been facing for years. Definitely looking forward to it.

See the trailer for After the Factory after the jump…

In the Streets of Old Detroit

A couple of weeks ago, Dennis and I visited the Detroit Historical Museum for a party in the Streets of Old Detroit. We were there in honor of our dear friend Amy, blogstress at The Night Train, who just wrote a book (!) called The Hidden History of Detroit. It was so much fun, and we took lots of pictures of old typography to be inspired by.

Read more about The Book Party To End All Book Parties…

Upcoming Holiday Craft Shows

Winter is coming.

This upcoming weekend brings the first of three Holiday craft shows that we are doing. We will be, for the third time, vending at Crafty Supermarket in Cincinnati on Saturday, November 19th. This is the only out of state show we’re doing and it’s one of our favorites we do all year.

On December 3rd and 4th we will be participating in our second Detroit Urban Craft Fair, which is this year being held at the Masonic Temple.

One week later, on December 10th and 11th we will be part of DIYpsi, held at the Corner Brewery. We are super excited to be in this show. This will be the first time we’ve vended at DIYpsi, and the Ypsilanti / Ann Arbor area in general.

UPDATE: We’ll also be a vendor at the 6th year anniversary Holiday Baar Bazaar! This is always a really fun late night show with live music. Baar Bazaar is Saturday, December 17th from 8pm to 2am at The Majestic Theater.

This is our favorite time of year. Despite all of the sleepless nights and stress associated with the planning for Holiday shows, we love hanging out with all of the other artists that we’ve met over the last year and a half we’ve been doing craft shows. We’ve been hard at work on newly designed holiday cards, mixtape kits, book marks, and will have over 20 different screen printed posters available.

There are a ton of great craft shows in Michigan this time of year, and Amanda Schott, of Dang Argyle posted a show guide on her site.

We hope to see you at the shows!

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