Spunky Monkey Art Association will present its kick-off event, "Have a HEART," from 1 to 4 p.m. tomorrow at Grosse Ile Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall, 7925 Horsemill Road.
Valentine's Day-related activities for all ages are on tap, including creating handmade valentines, interactive musical theater performances, storytelling and cookie decorating.
Beverages will be available. The program is free, but a donation to the Spunky Monkey Art Association for future programs is appreciated.
For more information, visit spunkymonkeyart.blogspot.com, e-mail spunkymonkeyart@gmail. com or call Megan Uday at 1-734-645-7299.
"Abrakadoodle" art classes are under way for budding Picassos from 20 months to 12 years old now through March 7 at the Taylor Recreation Center, 22805 Goddard Road.
The art education classes focus on child creativity using a wide variety of three-dimensional art experiences, including sculpting, painting and mosaics.
Register now for the six-week sessions at the recreation center. Classes are $75 with a $12 materials fee.
Classes include "Twoosy Doodlers" for children 20 months to 3 years old; "Mini Doodlers" for ages 3 1/2 to 5; and "Doodlers" for ages 6 to 12.
All materials used in the classes are non-toxic and washable. Artwork will be framed and displayed to family and friends at a special gallery showing.
Call the Taylor Department of Golf, Parks and Recreation for more information at 1-734-374-3906.
Socially conscious rapper Common is one of the hip-hop artists portrayed in life-sized portraits in "Holy Hip-Hop! New Paintings by Alex Melamid" on exhibit through Feb. 20 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Photo courtesy of MOCAD
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River's Edge Gallery, 3024 Biddle Ave., is hosting "Underexposed," two floors featuring work by 12 underexposed artists ranging from sculptors and painters to photographers and potters.
Photographer Marianne Letasi's exhibit, "A Life," is featured upstairs in the Patricia Izzo Fine Art Photography Studio and Gallery.
The show runs through March 14. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
For more information, call 1-734-246-9880.
"An Uncommon Life: The Still Life Paintings of Margie Guyot" and "Brian Buck: Points of View" are two new exhibits at the Downriver Council for the Arts through next Friday.
Guyot, of Charlevoix, who uses oil paints to depict still life paintings that evoke a lush and hypercolorful world, will have her works displayed in the Home Gallery.
Buck, of Kentwood, uses a fine-point technical pen to create intricate, detailed drawings of the natural world. Buck's pen-and-ink pointillism drawings will be displayed in the Skylight Gallery.
The exhibit is one of several events planned in celebration of the DCA's 30th anniversary.
The DCA is at 20904 North Line Road, Taylor. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays and noon to 3 p.m. Saturdays during the exhibit.
"Carnivora — The Dark Art of the Automobile," a shadowy realm where flesh and machine coalesce into humanity's greatest technical achievement — the automobile — is on display through Feb. 27 at "POP Gallery, 4160 Woodward Ave., Detroit.
More than 60 artists, including Robert Crumb, Mark Mothersbaugh and Niagara, contributed a piece of work for the exhibit and for a book of the same name.
Gallery hours are noon to 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Call 1-313-833-9901 or visit www.cpop.com for more details.
The Detroit Institute of Arts is offering special programs throughout February.
"Friday Night Live! features "Drawing in the Galleries for Youth and Adults" from 6 to 9 p.m. today where participants can create pencil drawings to take home.
"Adventures in Drawing" from 6 to 9 p.m. gives children the chance to explore creative expression through drawing with help from museum instructors.
Also from 6 to 9 p.m., a drop-in workshop, "Celebration Masks," offers an opportunity to create festive masks.
Jazz bassist Rodney Whitaker brings his Renaissance man musical style to the evening at 7 and 8:30 p.m.
At 7 p.m. today, the Detroit Film Theatre will show "Honeydripper," a musical fable set in the Jim Crow-era of the 1950s South, and "War/Dance" at 9:30 p.m., a documentary about three Ugandan children who taste triumph by competing in an annual music and dance festival. General admission is $7.50, and DIA members, students and senior citizens pay $5.
Tomorrow, adults can paint portraits or the full figure in oil or acrylic using draped or undraped models during the six-session "Life Drawing" series from 3:30 to 7 p.m. for a $210 member fee or $252 non-member fee.
A piece of West Africa comes to the DIA at noon with the Abuakwa African Music and Dance Ensemble. Tickets are $5.
Valerie Mercer, curator and department head of the General Motors Center for African American Art, leads a tour at 2 p.m. of the DIA's five new African American art galleries.
A drop-in workshop from 1 to 5 p.m. focuses on printmaking, and the showings of "Honeydripper" and "War/ Dance" will repeat at 7 and 9:30 p.m. respectively.
Target Family Sunday features another performance at noon from the Abuakwa African Music and Dance Ensemble. Tickets are $5.
A drop-in workshop from 1 to 5 p.m. teaches Senufo painting, a West African art form of painting on fabric.
From 1 to 5 p.m., "Drawing in the Galleries for Youth and Adults" and "Adventures in Drawing" repeat.
Deborah Willis, chair of the photography department at the Tische School of the Arts at New York University, will discuss representing beauty in the history of African American photography at 2 p.m.
Also at 2 p.m., "Fables, Fantasy and Tall Tales" will be the focus of foolish and wise tales from storyteller Tonya "Touchdown" Dallas.
The showing of "Honeydripper" will repeat at 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday.
All programs are free with museum admission unless otherwise noted. The DIA is at 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit. For more information, call 1-313-833-7900.
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