The Detroit Design Festival presents Eastern Market After Dark, a tour of the creative side. Eastern Market is often recognized as the food hub of Detroit, bustling with Saturday morning shoppers and specialty grocery stores. After dark a different hustle takes over the neighborhood, a creative movement hidden in lofts, studios and galleries living in the market. 
The night tour will take guests into studios, galleries, artists’ residencies, hacker spaces, shops and letterpress studios.
The tour will give guests a chance to explore the market often not experienced. Allowing for a sneak peak into a creative community that works late nights and early mornings to create on every level. The tour will stop at over ten locations in the market, opening their doors for workshops, shopping and viewing.
Studio doors will open at 7p.m. and close at 11p.m. Come see us!
The tour will give guests a chance to explore the market often not experienced. Allowing for a sneak peak into a creative community that works late nights and early mornings to create on every level. The tour will stop at over ten locations in the market, opening their doors for workshops, shopping and viewing.
Studio doors will open at 7p.m. and close at 11p.m. Come see us!
- Red Bull House of Art
- Cyberoptix Tie Lab
- Salt & Cedar
- Signal Return
- Detroit Mercantile Company
- Division Street Boutique
- OmniCorp Detroit
- fo2la
- 1480 Gallery
- Art Effect Gallery
- Workroom Detroit
- Frontera
- NNII International Gallery
- And more...
Date
Thursday, September 20
Time
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Venue
Address
Facebook Event
Eastern Market After Dark
Sounds for the evening provided by House of Art artist, Red Bull Music Academy Alumni and "Punk Rock Warlord," Jeff Risk.
Press release:
Sounds for the evening provided by House of Art artist, Red Bull Music Academy Alumni and "Punk Rock Warlord," Jeff Risk.
Press release:
More than 15 creative residents of
Eastern Market will open their studios, shops and spaces on Sept. 20, 2012, for
Eastern Market After Dark a Detroit Design Festival event produced by Arsenal.
The all-ages event will run from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. and is free of admission. A
shuttle will provide transportation between
the participating locations.
Audiences
are welcome to explore the following galleries: 1480 Gratiot Gallery, Red Bull
House of Art and Derrick May’s Transmat. The silk-screening shops, Aptemal
Clothing and Cyberoptix Tie Lab, will also be open to the public for the first
time ever.
Bethany Shorb, founder of
Cyberoptix Tie Lab, will provide a sneak peak into her latest artwork for her
upcoming solo exhibition at 323 East Gallery on Oct. 13, 2012.
Gregory
Holm’s newest project, Frontera will provide an environmental aspect to the
evening. “The event takes guests on a multi-sensory journey of architecture,
food, and instillation that references the original period of the building,
currently in the process of reconstruction,” says Holm. The performance begins
at 8:30 p.m. Donations will be accepted.
The fashion collective, Workroom, will present
a runway show at 10:30 p.m. Longtime Market resident Michelle Andonian and Luis
Resto will present a collaborative piece featuring photography and live music
in Resto’s studio. The Nick Speed Orchestra will perform at Bert’s Warehouse at
11:30 p.m. as part of the official after-party.
For more information, contact Nina
Marcus-Kurlonko at (810) 417-2510 or nmarcuskurlonko@gmail.com
