PASC SUMMER NEWSLETTER
Happy summer everyone! We hope you had a good fourth and are celebrating the USA in all its feral complexity. And we hope you are enjoying the summer, taking time and remembering to breathe. We too, took a little summer break from our newsletter, due to a very busy month, so we have a lot to report.
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Anthony Marcellini and Hannah Lilly, early June at the Creative Growth gallery, Oakland, CA |
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PASC PARTICIPATES IN THIS YEAR'S CREATIVE GROWTH CONFERENCE
June started with a trip to Oakland California, where PASC Art Advisor, Hannah Lilly and PASC Program Manager Anthony Marcellini represented at the Creative Growth Conference, “Advancing Our Future Together”. The goal of this conference, which is now in its third year, was to bring together staff from progressive or supported art studios for disabled adults from across the United States, to network, share ideas, upsets and successes. This was an intensive four day conference with presentations ranging from Disability Justice and ableism, to Person Centered Thinking, to staff Self Care, to participating in Art Fairs.
As part of the conference PASC’s Anthony Marcellini led a discussion on strategies for developing artist’s practices, where three studios, Visionaries and Voices, Creative Growth and Tiera Del Sol, presented on the trajectories of a couple of their senior artists focused on how each studio helped them get started, how they established their practice, and how they have taken their practice to an advanced level. The goal was to understand how each studio supports artists through all stages of development, encouraging experimentation and exploration, and helping each individual build a professional practice.
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Visitors at the opening of Electric Relaxation at the PASC Detroit Pop-Up Gallery
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ELECTRIC RELAXATION at PASC DETROIT POP UP GALLERY
On June 10, PASC launched its second PASC Detroit Pop-Up Gallery exhibition, Electric Relaxation, curated by Anita Bates and Tom Pyrzewski. This show featured a range of artworks from large paintings to small drawings, by Jirard Bond, Stanley Brown, Alyce Carter, Donovan Clay, Robert Duncombe, Devontae Hampton, DeRon Hudson, Darlene Mahan, Tracy Mason, Stefan Payne, Debbie Osteen, Alsendoe Owens, Jocelyn Rice, Renee Rogan, and Ray Smith. This was another successful opening, with good audience attendance, fantastic cookies from steps Culinary Arts Program, and several artworks sold. PASC artists from all three studios, who were not able to make it to the opening, traveled to the gallery in June and explained their artwork to their peers. The show is up through July 10, 2022.
Our next exhibition, Affections, opens Friday, July 15, 6-8pm at our PASC Detroit Pop-Up Gallery. The show is curated by Bridget Finn, partner at the gallery Reyes | Finn. This show features the work of several artists who have exhibited before and a couple of artist for whom this will be their first time showing in our Detroit Gallery: Stanley Brown, Shawna Campbell, Ronald Griggs, Xavier Harris, Susan Hudson, Shawn Jackson, Darlene Mahan, Renee Rogan, Thomas Saunders, Ray Smith, and Promise Vos.
And in other exhibition news three PASC artists, Manuel Bart, Bobby Brooks and Thomas Saunders, will have artwork featured in an upcoming exhibition Everyday Heroes at Circle Contemporary in Chicago. Circle Contemporary is the gallery of the Chicago based progressive art studio Arts of Life.
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Stanley Brown explaining his artwork to WXYZ reporter Jenn Schanz |
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JENN SCHANZ VISITS PASC DETROIT POP UP GALLERY
We had a nice visit from Jenn Schanz at Detroit’s WXYZ-TV Channel 7, who came to the PASC Detroit Pop Up Gallery to interview PASC artist Stanley Brown, his mother Cynthia Brown, STEP’s CEO Brent Mikulski and PASC Program Manager Anthony Marcellini. Watch the profile on the WXYZ website.
We have been doing several events to engage with the community. On June 18 and 19, PASC had a table at Jazzin at the Vanity, a street fair put on by Jefferson East, on the South East side of Detroit, where we met members of the community where our future Detroit studio will be located. And on August 6-7 we will have a tent at the Belle Isle Art Fair, come out and visit us.
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City installation at PASC Westland |
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IMAGINARY CITIES IN THE STUDIO
And in the studios PASC Art Advisors have been supporting PASC artists to experiment with sculpture and model making. From cardboard, papier Mâché and hot glue entire cities have been growing out of our PASC Westland studios.
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SUPPORT PASC
As always our program continues to flourish because of your support. We appreciate your sharing our program with the broader Detroit and national community, as well as material and financial contributions.
We accept material donations, everything from yarn, to beads, to lightly used art supplies, and even picture/art books. Please email a description and an image of what you would like to donate to [email protected].
Or you can purchase something for our studio artists via our wish list at Blick here or our Amazon list.
Thank you
PASC and STEP
Progressive Art Studio Collective is a program of Services to Enhance Potential (STEP) a non profit organization which provides support and services to over 1,300 persons with developmental disabilities and mental health needs in Wayne County.
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Progressive Art Studio Collective |
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Services To Enhance Potential (STEP) News |
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