Community

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Talking Dolls

The mission of Talking Dolls is to empower our northeast Detroit neighborhood through justice-focused initiatives. We create a nexus of progressive art and community-led activism through access to our shop, artist studios, and gallery space for workshops, performances and celebration. It is led by co-directors Wes Taylor, Ron Watters, and Andrea Cardinal.

MDW

MdW (said like: “Midway”), is a regional arts coalition centered in Chicago and spanning across the Central Midwest. This iteration runs from May to September 2022, and includes an artist-run art fair, performances, screenings, lectures, publications, and road trips. MDW is planned and presented by seven artist-led projects assembled initially by some of the artist organizers at Public Media Institute in Chicago.

MDW PARTNERING ORGANIZATIONS

Confluence: An East Lake Studio for Community Design (Minneapolis, MN)* - Public Space One (Iowa City, IA)* - Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, MO)* - Wormfarm Institute (Reedsburg, WI) - Public Media Institute (Chicago, IL) - Big Car (Indianapolis, IA)*

RUNNER MAG

Runner magazine is a grassroots publication project based in Detroit, Michigan that investigates and publishes work and ideas by artists, thinkers and other kinds of cultural producers in an effort to prompt active discourse, expand their reach and highlight their voices in local, national and international conversations.

ACRE

Founded in 2010, ACRE is a non-profit organization based in Chicago designed to support emerging artists develop, discuss and present their artistic practices.

As a community-coordinated effort to provide emerging artists with an accessible, equitable, and interdisciplinary residency and exhibitions program, ACRE has welcomed over 1,000 visual artists, sound artists, musicians, performance artists, writers, curators, scientists, chefs and others to its Wisconsin and Illinois communities.