Bring out your inner artist at "Discovering Texture with Colored Pencil," a one-day workshop offered from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. tomorrow 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.
Ceramist John Albert Murphy will lead a Raku pottery workshop from noon to 4 p.m. Sept. 7 and 14.
All skill levels are welcome. The $80 fee includes all materials. The two-day workshop includes a lecture, demonstration in addition to creating, glazing and Raku-firing pottery.
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 today. 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.
"Craft Uprising: Creating a Design Revolution" is on tap from 6 to 9 p.m. next Friday at Biddle Gallery, 2840 Biddle Ave., Wyandotte.
This bracelet by Taryn Boyd of Talking Squid will be one of the pieces for sale from local indie crafters at "Craft Uprising: Creating a Design Revolution" next Friday at Biddle Gallery in Wyandotte.
Photo courtesy of Biddle Gallery
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Buy directly from Detroit-area indie crafters during the Third Friday event.
This month's theme, "Green Bunny," focuses on recycling and reusing with some bunnies thrown in for Easter fun.
Artist Michelle Pappas will offer felted handbags made from recycled sweaters while Joey Merchant will have plush bunnies and "Shrinky Dink" jewelry for sale.
Birch bark jewelry from Heather Fagan of BirdsGather will be available, along with handmade T-shirt rugs, embroidered ties and handmade jewelry from Taryn Boyd of Talking Squid.
Visit the gallery online at www.biddlegallery.com or call 1-734-281-4779 for more information. The gallery's winter hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.
"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.
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