Mighty Real/Queer Detroit: Remembrance of things Past
Curated by patrick burton
Exhibition : June 1-July 9, 2022
Amplifying Black Voices: Freedom and Liberation, a Juneteenth Celebration with Tommye Blount, Mars Marshall, Lester Rambus, and Deidre D.S.Sense Smith
Wednesday, June 22, 6 pm
Image : Maureen Petrucci, Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense
Works by
Charles Alexander, Brian Buczak, Jeff Britting, Jan Brown, patrick burton, Patrick Bunyan, Brian Carpenter, Stephanie Crawford, Julio Dominguez, LeRoy Foster, Timothy Gass, Katy Hait, Erin Brott-Holtzman, Richard Jerzy, Marcus Leatherdale, Marcus Mannino, Ron Madalinski, Annie Meyer, Merel Noorlander, Kasper Ray O’Brien, Henry Petrucci, Maureen Petrucci, Deborah Rockman, Gregory Sobieraj, Joe Sposita, Jack O. Summers, James Stephens, Jarrad Tacon-Heaslip, Constantinos (Gus) Tsatsanis, Patrick Webb, Frederick Weston, S. Kay Young
The Mighty Real Queer Detroit project spans seventeen venues in metro Detroit. The exhibitions present a month-long historical examination of the diversity of the LGBTQ+ community and its longtime allies, featuring established and emerging Detroit artists, as well as artists whose careers were shortened by HIV/AIDS.
In conjunction with the project, a calendar of events highlighting panel discussions, artist talks, performances, and poetry readings will be issued in all media; a catalogue of selected artwork, including essays examining the exhibit from a variety of historical, cultural and personal perspectives, will be available. The exhibition catalogue will feature the juried works of 100 plus artists as well as important essays by Dr. Tim Retzloff, Dream Hampton, Dennis Nawrocki, Eve Kurcharski, and the project’s director, Patrick Burton.
As a further exploration, Mighty Real/Queer Detroit will address loss and remembrance by including significant, rarely seen and unexhibited art objects. Works
