Session Title
Collecting, Documenting, and Sharing Detroit Arts Culture: In and Around Wayne State, 1960s-1980s
Start Date
4-10-2012 9:45 AM
End Date
4-10-2012 11:45 AM
Session Description
Collecting, Documenting, and Sharing Detroit Arts Culture: In and Around Wayne State, 1960s-1980s
In the 1960s, as explosive social and political movements gave rise to the rejection of post-World War II middle-class society, Wayne State University and its nearby environs emerged as a cultural force. A loosely drawn community of artists, poets, musicians and politicos became active participants in this boldly expressive movement, with much activity centered in the Cass Corridor, adjacent to campus. While this mirrored what was going on in other parts of the country, Detroiters had their own source material, inspiration, and tools for expression.
This panel will present and discuss this important time in Detroit's cultural history, and a number of projects undertaken to preserve its heritage. Featured will be a video which includes the work of a number of Cass Corridor artists from that time period, and two collaborative oral history projects which document the stories of Detroit's art, poetry, and music communities.
The panel will be of interest to artists, art educators, art historians and those interested in Detroit arts history, as well as documentary practices.
Conference session summary is available here.
Presentations:
Sandra Schemske: Video presentation: 'Time and Place: Art of Detroit's Cass Corridor from the Wayne State University Art Collection' (not available in DigitalCommons@WayneState)
Dr. Joseph Turrini: Training Oral Historians for the Cass Corridor Documentation Project (not available in DigitalCommons@WayneState)
Dennis Nawrocki: 'Ménage À Detroit’: Three Generations of Expressionist Art in Detroit 1970-2012
Gilda Snowden: Documenting the local gallery scene on YouTube
Monika Berenyi: The Detroit City Poetry Project
Diane Sybeldon: From the Library...: Collecting, Documenting and Sharing Detroit Arts Culture In and Around Wayne State, 1960s-1980s
Session Title Slide
nawrocki_presentation.ppt (19492 kB)
'Ménage À Detroit’: Three Generations of Expressionist Art in Detroit 1970-2012 (Dennis Nawrocki)
snowden_presentation.pptx (22686 kB)
Documenting the local gallery scene on YouTube (Gilda Snowden)
berenyi_presentation.pptx (20568 kB)
The Detroit City Poetry Project (Monika Berenyi)
sybeldon_presentation.ppt (5220 kB)
From the Library...: Collecting, Documenting and Sharing Detroit Arts Culture In and Around Wayne State, 1960s-1980s (Diane Sybeldon)
Collecting, Documenting, and Sharing Detroit Arts Culture: In and Around Wayne State, 1960s-1980s
Collecting, Documenting, and Sharing Detroit Arts Culture: In and Around Wayne State, 1960s-1980s
In the 1960s, as explosive social and political movements gave rise to the rejection of post-World War II middle-class society, Wayne State University and its nearby environs emerged as a cultural force. A loosely drawn community of artists, poets, musicians and politicos became active participants in this boldly expressive movement, with much activity centered in the Cass Corridor, adjacent to campus. While this mirrored what was going on in other parts of the country, Detroiters had their own source material, inspiration, and tools for expression.
This panel will present and discuss this important time in Detroit's cultural history, and a number of projects undertaken to preserve its heritage. Featured will be a video which includes the work of a number of Cass Corridor artists from that time period, and two collaborative oral history projects which document the stories of Detroit's art, poetry, and music communities.
The panel will be of interest to artists, art educators, art historians and those interested in Detroit arts history, as well as documentary practices.
Conference session summary is available here.
Presentations:
Sandra Schemske: Video presentation: 'Time and Place: Art of Detroit's Cass Corridor from the Wayne State University Art Collection' (not available in DigitalCommons@WayneState)
Dr. Joseph Turrini: Training Oral Historians for the Cass Corridor Documentation Project (not available in DigitalCommons@WayneState)
Dennis Nawrocki: 'Ménage À Detroit’: Three Generations of Expressionist Art in Detroit 1970-2012
Gilda Snowden: Documenting the local gallery scene on YouTube
Monika Berenyi: The Detroit City Poetry Project
Diane Sybeldon: From the Library...: Collecting, Documenting and Sharing Detroit Arts Culture In and Around Wayne State, 1960s-1980s