PASC END OF SUMMER 2024 NEWSLETTER

If you step outside in Southeast Michigan right now, Summer is still hot and certainly going strong. Yet we can already feel the Fall changes working their way in. Nights are getting longer, school is, or is about to be, back in session and even some leaves are starting a small but noticeable change in color.

Change is part of life, but for some the immediate transition Fall symbolizes, particularly in dramatic temperate regions of the US like Michigan, can be complicated for some to navigate. Some love the colors of Fall, the longer nights, and the changing seasons. But for others the dramatic changes can produce anxiety, and feel a bit gloomy. Even the word ‘Fall’ itself can feel a bit like defeat. But in these moments it is helpful to mentally step outside the immediate and try to consider the importance of the longer cycle of change that Fall begins.

Fall is a time when we focus on trees, our essential symbiotic partners. And for a tree Fall is a moment of preparation for the future. Shedding it's leaves is a tree's act of self-protection and renewal. Because water expands when frozen if a tree's leaves didn’t fall they would freeze, expand and rupture the cells of each leaf making them useless for photosynthesis, the trees way of producing energy. A tree also drops its leaves to secure itself against potential damage from ice and snow that could accumulate on the tree’s leaves weighing them down and potentially breaking limbs. Leaves by the Fall season have also undergone a lot of abuse, from insects eating them, diseases, and other damage. Thus, Like a haircut, a new coat of paint, or a trip to the nail spa, shedding leaves allows the tree to start new in spring. And the fallen leaves are never discarded or wasted, the nutrients from the decaying leaves break down on the ground and help new plants to grow. In this way Fall is a reset, a pause that marks the beginning of regeneration, a moment when the tree reminds us, to take a minute to stop, breathe, and contemplate our future, to emerge renewed, refined and powerful.

PASC has a busy Fall ahead. We have many fun events happening in September so mark your calendars and join in.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

Image Caption: PASC curators and artists Lauren, Lewis, Keisha and Rodney standing in the Creatives In Control exhibition

PASC CURATOR TALK WITH KEISHA, LAUREN, LEWIS, AND RODNEY

Date/Time: September 5th, 12:30pm

Location: PASC Detroit Gallery, 9301 Kercheval Ave, STE 2,

Detroit, MI, 48214

The curators of Creatives In Control, Lewis Foster, Rodney Hudson, Keisha Miller, and Lauren Williams, the newest exhibition at PASC Detroit Gallery, will be speaking about the process of putting this unique exhibition together, alongside staff facilitators, Chloé Hajjar and Amber Nax. Come on out to PASC Detroit Gallery and listen in on this wonderful informal conversation.

Image Caption: Logo for the tenth edition of the Detroit Art Book Fair, top text reads "Detroit Art Book Fair X, 2024", below is a line drawing of an open book with a slash through the right page.

PASC AT THE DETROIT ART BOOK FAIR

Dates/Time: 9/14 - 12pm-6the pm and 9/15 - 12pm-4pm

Location: Trinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Ave, Detroit, MI 48207-2723

PASC will be presenting dozens of artist books at the Detroit Art Book Fair (DABF) for the third year in a row. DABF brings together dozens of independent publishers, artists, writers, and collectors to present their books, zines, and prints to the public. PASC will be presenting numerous unique artist books alongside some original artwork, zines and prints.

Image Caption: Title image for Cup of Sugar featuring a drawing by PASC artist Keisha Miller and type by Signal-Return

CUP OF SUGAR

Opening Date: Opening September 26, 5-7pm

Exhibition Dates: September 26 - November 2, 2024

Location: PASC (STE 2) and Signal-Return (STE 1) galleries, 9301 Kercheval Ave, Detroit, MI, 48214

Curated by PASC and Signal-Return staff

PASC’s next exhibition is a a group show with artists and staff from PASC and our neighbors Signal-Return a non-profit dedicated to preserving and teaching traditional letterpress printing, and building a community center for art, craft, design and collaboration. This show is about the people who work, represent, support and create in both these non-profit art incubators. This show will present artists with and without diagnosed disabilities alongside to each other and will span across both organizations galleries. 

This exhibition is also a preamble to a print project Signal-Return is doing with PASC artists Sherri Bryant, Chantell Donwell, Ronald Griggs, Shawn Jackson, Keisha Miller, Thomas Saunders, Aaron Taylor, and Jeremy Taylor, to premier later in the Fall of 2024. More info on this project forthcoming.

This exhibition is being presented as part of the Detroit Month of Design. 

https://www.detroitmonthofdesign.org/event-details/cup-of-sugar

Participating artists: Lynne Avadenka, Emilee Bergum, Sherri Bryant, TomMarla Day, Chantell Donwell, Santina Dionisi, Ronald Griggs, Joel Grothaus, Benjamin Haddix, Carol Harris, Chloé Hajjar, Elaisha Hilliard, Lauren Hurst, Shawn Jackson, Taylor Jenkins, Dominick Lemonious, Hannah Lilly, Anthony Marcellini, Charles McGee, Keisha Miller, Amber Nax, Renata Palubinskas, Pat Perry, Suzy Poling, Rashaun Rucker, Thomas Saunders, Tylon Sawyer, Kevin Shureb, Todd Stevens, Aaron Taylor, Jeremy Taylor, Sue Carman Vian, Renee Willoughby, and Eleni Zaharopoulos.  

Image Caption: Structurally Sound flier featuring the title text and an image of PASC artists working in the studio.

STRUCTURALLY SOUND AT PASC

Date/Time: Sunday, September 29, 3PM

Location: PASC Detroit Studio, 9301 Kercheval Ave, STE 2,

Detroit, MI, 48214

Calling on experiences from within her own family, Detroit Chamber Wind and Strings (DCWS ) horn virtuoso Johanna Yarbrough brings together a concert of storytelling through music. This concert will be presented in the PASC Detroit Studio, reverberating off the thirty foot tall walls of our voluminous studio space.

For More information and tickets: RSVP here: 

https://detroitchamberwinds.org/performance/pasc/

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