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A collage of the events featured this weekend
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The Metro Events Guide: Tacos, tunes and the Back-to-School JAM! this weekend

WDET Digital Team August 21, 2025

Looking for something fun to do this week? Metro Detroit is packed with free festivals, family activities, and cultural events...

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The Detroit skyline as seen from Windsor, Ontario on March 19, 2025.
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  • The Metro

The Metro: Detroit and Windsor libraries team up to spotlight local creatives

Lauren Myers, Tia Graham, The Metro July 23, 2025

Listen to The Metro weekdays from 10 a.m. to noon ET on 101.9 FM and streaming  on demand.A new collaboration between...

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FILE — Blighted homes in Detroit.
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Detroit Evening Report: 8,000 homes demolished in Detroit cleanup effort

Nargis Rahman July 21, 2025

Detroit marks 8,000th demolition under Proposal NThe City of Detroit recently celebrated its 8,000th demolition under Proposal N. The proposal...

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A painting by Brian Delozier, a featured artist at the 2025 Ann Arbor Art Fair.
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  • The Metro

The Metro: The evolution of the Ann Arbor Art Fair

Tia Graham, Nadia Ziyad, The Metro June 30, 2025

The annual Ann Arbor Art Fair — one of the largest juried art fairs in the country — will attract...

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MOCAD interior DET
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The Metro: New MOCAD exhibit to highlight contributions of Black tech innovators

Tia Graham, The Metro April 28, 2025

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) is unveiling a new exhibition next month to help shine a light on...

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The Palmer Park Log Cabin, built in 1885.
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The Metro: Enjoy ‘Art in the Trees’ at Palmer Park in celebration of Earth Day

Tia Graham, The Metro April 22, 2025

The city of Detroit has a lot of concrete streets, slabs of road and old industrial buildings.  But green spaces...

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"Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within" will be on view at Cranbrook Art Museum through Jan. 12.
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Last chance to catch Toshiko Takaezu’s ‘Worlds Within’ retrospective at Cranbrook

Ryan Patrick Hooper January 10, 2025

Last call to see one of my favorite shows of the year, which closes this Sunday, Jan. 12. I knew...

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“Coltrane in Motion” by Curtis Chase (Top row from left); “Luxury Groove Bar” by ꓘeith Burns; “Starry Safari Waves” by Candy Lawson; “Enough is Enough” by Susan Brown; “Untitled” Dewitt Gallahan AKA Stained (center left); “Faraway” by Heavan (center right); “Please don't go in the water, Please” by Arthur E. Harriger (bottom row from left); “Tidal Waves” by Dayleisha Henderson; “Bonsai Tree” by David Lester; and “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder” by Danny Fenske.
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Incarcerated artists find creative outlet through annual U-M exhibition

Karen Brundidge December 27, 2024

The holiday season is extra special to Nora Krinitsky.“Every year we travel to every prison in the state, we meet...

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Ceramic work by Assyrian artist Kim Khamo, who creates under the label of Nahrain Ceramics.
  • Culture & Music
  • In The Groove

Still Life Studio’s winter ceramics show offers eclectic pieces from local artists

Ryan Patrick Hooper December 19, 2024

I’ve never thought of a ceramics sale as an art show until I rolled through the Still Life Studios in...

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A photo of a quilt depicting the daughter of fiber artist April Shipp.
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  • The Metro

The Metro: Ageless creativity and community building in needlework art

Sydney Waelchli August 14, 2024

It’s fascinating to see that in a world where technology is king, there’s still a strong love for needlework growing...

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WDET host Ryan Patrick Hooper wearing a flower headdress created by artist Lisa Waud.
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Artist Lisa Waud brings ‘silliness and joy’ to ‘Portrait’ flower art installation

Ryan Patrick Hooper June 27, 2024

Detroit botanical artist Lisa Waud is wrapping up her residency this weekend with “Portrait,” an interactive flower installation on the...

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Artist Lisa Waud poses on the grass set inside the Boyer Campbell Building in Detroit for her Petrichor botanical art installation on May 30, 2024. (Photo credit: Tayler Simpson, WDET)
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Artist Lisa Waud brings the outdoors indoors in ‘Petrichor’ botanical art installation

Ryan Patrick Hooper May 31, 2024

Detroit botanical artist Lisa Waud is back with her latest project focused on bringing the outdoors indoors in stunning, surreal...

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