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243 Contributors Biba Bell (b. 1976, Sebastopol) lives and works in Detroit and NYC. Bell’s performance work has been shown at Time Square Arts, Visual Arts Center UT Austin, Insel Hombroich Germany, NADA Fair NYC, Detroit Institute of Art, The Garage for Contemporary Culture Moscow, Centre Pompidou Paris, The Kitchen NYC, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, PaceWildenstein Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery, Callicoon Fine Arts amongst others. She spent years dancing all over the place in galleries, theaters, libraries, spas, gardens, garages, and homes as a founding member of MGM Grand (Modern Garage Movement) and currently performs internationally with choreographer Maria Hassabi. The New York Times noted her “thrilling dancing” as one of the highlights of 2011, writing “it’s invigorating to watch someone who borders on wild.” Bell writes about para-studio practice and dance’s domestic labor, is achingly close to defending her dissertation in the department of performance studies at New York University, and teaches in the Maggie Allesee Department of Theater and Dance at Wayne State University. Samantha Bez studied English Literature at the University of Michigan before attending the College for Creative Studies (CCS), Detroit to study Animation and Critical Theory. Her essay on Paul Chan was the recipient of the 2014 Brewster-Smallenberg Prize at CCS. Ellen Blumenstein is Head Curator of the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin. Elysia Borowy is Executive Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (MOCAD). Vince Carducci is Dean of Undergraduate Studies at College for Creative Studies in Detroit and publisher of the blog Motown Review of Art. His research combines aesthetics and social science to examine ways in which aesthetic communities construct what Eric Olin Wright terms “real utopias.” He has written for many publications, including Artforum, Art in America, the Brooklyn Rail, Huffington Post, Journal of Consumer Culture, Logos, PopMatters, Radical Society, and Sculpture. In 2010, he received a Kresge Arts in Detroit fellowship for art criticism. Lynn Crawford, a fiction writer and art critic, is a 2010 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow and a founding board member of Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). Her recent publications include Fortification Resort, a series of art-related sestinas, and a novel, Simply Separate People, Two. Two books, a new selection of sestinas, The Stubborn Aunt, and a novel, Shankus & Kitto, are forthcoming from Hyperallergic/ Black Square Editions. She is curator of Evening of Art and Science, a forthcoming (May 2014) exhibition that pairs visual artists with medical scholars (specializing in stem cell research) from University of Michigan’s Taubman Institute. Her work appears in various anthologies (Oulipo Compendium, Fetish, Brooklyn Rail, Fence) and journals (Hyperallergic, Tema Celeste, McSweeney’s, Lilies and Cannonballs, Parkett, Bookforum). Lynn lives with her family north of Detroit. Brad Duncan is a writer and political activist. He is a regular contributor to KBOO in Portland, Oregon where he discusses the intersection of music and social change movements. A native of Detroit, Duncan now lives in Philadelphia. Mary Fortuna has been active in the Detroit art community for twenty-plus years. She graduated from Wayne State University with a BFA in 1992. She has exhibited her work extensively all over Michigan; in Berlin, Germany; Bregenze, Austria; Beijing, China; Prague, Czech Republic; Mirabor, Slovenia; and elsewhere in the United States. Over a period of many years, she has served on the Forum for Contemporary Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and on the exhibition committees for the Detroit Artist Market, Detroit Focus and Paint Creek Center for the Arts. She is a member of artist collectives The Slippery Weasel Society and Changing Cities. She has worked as a gallery director; picture framer; group home program coordinator; cook on a dive boat and on the midnight shift at a long series of greasy spoons; and as a part-time reindeer. She is currently employed as the Exhibition Director at Paint Creek Center for the Arts in Rochester, Michigan. When she’s not at work she draws and sews and knits and plays with dolls. Petrova Giberson was born in New Hampshire 1977. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006 and her MFA in sculpture from Yale University School of Art in 2008. Recently her work has been included in exhibitions at the Night Gallery in L.A. and the 2013 deCordova Biennial. Giberson lives and works in New Hampshire with her husband and two children.
Tyree Guyton, creator of the Heidelberg Project in Detroit, is primarily a painter and sculptor, but has also been described as an urban environmental artist. He has waged a personal war on urban blight on Detroit's East Side, transforming his neighborhood into a living indoor/outdoor art gallery. Through his art, Guyton has drawn attention to the plight of Detroit’s forgotten neighborhoods and spurred discussion and action. Guyton’s vision for Heidelberg is to transform the two block area into a state-of-the-art Cultural Village. Guyton also exhibits his work extensively throughout the United States and the world. Guyton studied at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and in 2009 was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Fine Art. His work is featured in the Detroit Institute of Arts, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum of Harlem, and many others. His work as an artist has earned him over 15 awards, locally and nationally. Guyton has been featured in major publications, books, and television (including the Oprah Winfrey Show) and was the subject of the Emmy Award Winning Documentary, Come Unto M: Tthe Faces of Tyree Guyton; and more recently the subject of a book published in 2007 by WSU Press, Connecting the Dots: Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project—a 2008 Michigan Notable Book. In 20011-2012 Guyton held a residency at the Laurenz House in Basel, Switzerland. Guyton is married and continues to live and work in the city of Detroit. Scott Hocking was born in Redford Township, Michigan in 1975. He has lived and worked in Detroit City proper since 1996. He creates site-specific sculptural installations and photography projects, often using found materials and abandoned locations. Inspired by anything from ancient mythologies to current events, his installations focus on transformation, ephemerality, chance, and discovering beauty through the cycles of nature. He is left-handed and wears contact lenses. He has a speech impediment and was once hypnotized in an effort to correct this. He is a Pisces, born on the day of creative isolation, in the week of the loner, and the year of the cat. A psychic once told him he would have an “average life” and die at 88. He does not know how to roller-skate, ice skate, ski, or drive a stick shift. He is a talented percussionist and can play the glockenspiel part in Jupiter from Holst's Planets suite. He can read palms. He grew up on a dirt road, near a railroad track, with a dog named Bubba, who sometimes slept on the kitchen table. In elementary school, a visiting barnyard turkey took a shit on his head. At 19, he lived in a Toyota Corolla for 4 months. At 27, he lived in a French chateau for 2 months. He has 3 tattoos. He is a 6 of spades. He is the number 11. He has been to 42 of the 50 states. He once hiked the Death Valley dunes on a 117°F day, which led to a lesson from the sheriff, who said: “Son, people die in the desert.” He’s been stalked by a New Mexican mountain lion. He once slept on a Toronto billboard. He has eaten reindeer in Akureyri, deep-fried honeybees in Shanghai, kangaroo in Cambewarra, and drank eggnog in Ciudad Juarez. His spirit animals are the dog, which walks on his left, and the crow, which flies on his right. His childhood nickname was Scooter. He is Cornish, Flemish, Polish, and may have the blood of Spanish soldiers. Two dogs have bitten him in his life: Once on the right calf, and once above the right eye. His favorite films are Le Samourai and The Road Warrior. He has been arrested 6 times, and accumulated more traffic tickets than anyone you know. His artwork has been exhibited internationally, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Cranbrook Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the University of Michigan, the Smart Museum of Art, the School of the Art Institute Chicago, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, the Mattress Factory Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Kunst-Werke Institute, the Van Abbemuseum, and Kunsthalle Wien. He was recently awarded a Kresge Artist Fellowship, and he is represented by Susanne Hilberry Gallery. Dan Hoffman, formerly Head of the Department of Architecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1971-1986, is currently Clinical Professor, School of Architecture, University of Utah. Hoffman is also a co-founder of Studio Ma, a collaborative design practice located in Downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Marissa Jezak graduated in 2014 with a BFA in Photography and a Minor in Critical Theory from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit. She currently lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. Addie Langford is a painter and ceramic artist living in Detroit. Her most recent exhibition was as part of a three person show at the N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit (2013). As a Fulbright Fellow from Cranbrook Academy of Art she went to Madrid where she studied Baroque art, tapestry and collage sensibility. She is currently writing up this research expanding it to include the work of the French artist François Rouan and the philosopher-art historian Hubert Damisch whose work on texture and underneathness has opened new ways of engaging with the embodied experience of making and looking. Glen Mannisto is a poet and a Detroit based art journalist. He writes regularly about both Detroit gallery exhibitions and for nationally published art journals. He teaches the History of Modern Design at the College for Creative Studies and has edited two art journals-- Straits and Trait. He is currently working on a monograph about Michigan WPA Post Office murals commissioned in Michigan. 244
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1 DETROIT RESEARCH post-studio art,
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