Bring out your inner artist at "Discovering Texture with Colored Pencil," a one-day workshop offered from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. March 15 at the Downriver Council for the Arts, 20904 North Line Road, Taylor.
Artist and DCA staff member Martine MacDonald will help participants explore basic techniques and concepts for creating colored pencil artwork.
A $15 fee applies and registration is required. Students should have some background in drawing. A supply list will be available when registering.
For more information on this or upcoming workshops, visit www.downriverarts.org or call the DCA at 1-734-287-6103.
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 next Friday. 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.
"Elements," an exhibit featuring the works of artists K. Carlton Johnson, John Albert Murphy and Dolores Slowinski with poems by Christine Monhollen, runs through April 4 at the Downriver Council for the Arts.
Johnson, a minimalist painter, explores issues of symbolic communication in her abstract and landscape paintings.
Ceramist Murphy creates porcelain vessels suggestive of sacred ritual objects.
Slowinski constructs intimate mixed media structures, which will be accompanied by Monhollen's companion poems.
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.
For more information, visit www.downriverarts.org or call 1-734-287-6103.
Artist William Glackens' oil on canvas work, "Chez Moquin," offers a glimpse of how Americans spent their leisure time 100 years ago as part of "Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan School's Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925" at the Detroit Institute of Arts through May 25.
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Get a glimpse of how Americans spent their leisure time 100 years ago at "Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan School's Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925" at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, through May 25.
The 80-painting exhibition depicts different social classes enjoying prizefights, the ballet, parks and beaches at the turn of the last century.
All works are the creations of a group of American artists led by Robert Henri known as the Ashcan School.
Much of the group's work showed the grittier side of big city life, but this unique exhibit focuses on another facet of urban life.
Tickets, which include museum admission and an exhibition audio tour, are $12 for adults and $6 for children ages 6 to 17. DIA members get in free.
Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. For more information, call 1-313-833-7971.
"Our Throwaway Society," an art exhibition exploring the stigma of mental illness, homelessness and poverty, is on display through March 16 at the Madonna University Exhibit Gallery, 36600 Schoolcraft, Livonia.
For more information, call exhibit curator Nancy Paton at 1-734-276-9376.
The Detroit Institute of Arts is offering special programs throughout the month.
Families and aspiring artists can enjoy workshops, presentations, music, films and storytelling at the weekend events like "Friday Night Live!" and "Target Family 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.
"Soup to Nuts: Special Dishes for Everyday Use," featuring the work of artists such as Lucy Breslin, Scott Lykens and Gwen Yoppolo, runs through today at Pewabic Pottery, 10125 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit.
Pewabic also will hold its annual birthday celebration from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 15.
Hourly tours will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the first 300 guest receive a gift. Refreshments also will be served.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. Visit pewabic.org or call 1-313-822-0954 for more information.
"Drawing in Space: An Installation by Sheila Pepe" and "Weaving With Light and Shadow: Paintings by Janet Hamrick" concludes today at the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, 480 W. Hancock, Detroit, on the Wayne State University campus.
New York artist Pepe creates knotted, crocheted, tied and draped domestic and industrial materials to initiate profound interrogations of sculptural space while engaging the viewer in the process of her art.
Hamrick, a Detroit artist, will exhibit 12 abstract oil paintings weaving intricate patterns in monochrome fields reminiscent of woven jacquards.
Also on display in the Community Arts Gallery through April 4 is "MFA Thesis Exhibition II: Erica Bartels, Carol Tomasso and Darcie Trame."
The insightful and finely crafted works sum up the experiences of three of WSU's master of fine arts students.
Call the gallery at 1-313-993-7813 for more information. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Fridays.
"ReFUSING FASHION: Rei Kawakubo," an exhibit of the unique clothing by Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo, runs through April 20 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
The installation includes more than 40 key pieces, along with photographs and runway footage.
The museum is at 4454 Woodward Ave., Detroit. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays and Sundays, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. For more information, call 1-313-832-6622 or visit www.mocadetroit.org.
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