Michael Witucki and Helicon Associates, in conjunction with Fratello's Restaurant of Trenton, 4501 Fort St., are sponsoring the second annual art show tobenefit The Guidance Center's Kids-TALK program.
A painting by Frank English, in which he used a food storage container lid as a canvas, is among the artwork that will be on display at an art show fund-raiser at Fratello's Restaurant in Trenton tonight to benefit The Guidance Center's Kids-TALK program.
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The event will be from 6 to 9 p.m. today at Fratello's Restaurant, and will feature some of Wayne County's up-and-coming artistic talent. There will be examples of glassblowing, watercolors and oil paintings, wood sculptures, metalwork and more.
The evening will include a 50-50 raffle, prize raffles and a silent auction.
There is no cover charge.
The Downriver Council for the Arts Home Gallery, 20904 North Line Road, Taylor, presents the Seventh Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition, featuring work by Rosemary Bunea, Anna Patten and Erin Suess.
In the Skylight Gallery is a photographic and installation art exhibition by Rebecca Vogel.
The exhibitions run through April 13.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays and noon to 3 p.m. Saturdays during exhibitions. For more information, call 1-734-287-6103.
River's Edge Gallery, 3024 Biddle Ave., Wyandotte, presents exhibitions by a diverse trio of artists.
On the mezzanine level are new paintings by Amy Chenier and pieces by found-object sculptor Tim Burke.
Chenier combines highly realistic images of famous people, setting them in abstract alternate realities that reflect their inner life as well as scientific and philosophic principles.
Burke creates his three-dimensional art and sculptures from materials and objects he finds searching through the abandoned ruins of Detroit
On the gallery's third floor is a photographic exhibition, "In Bloom," featuring images by Elaine Redmond.
Redmond's reverse negatives and depictions of nature in various states of "aliveness" give an ethereal look to her images. They are beautiful but a little haunting, and they make her the perfect photographer with whom to welcome spring and to establish the new photographic gallery.
There will be a "meet the artists" night April 20. The exhibitions will run through May 12.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays; and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. For more information, call 1-734-246-9880 or visit www.artattheedge.com
Biddle Gallery, 2840 Biddle Ave., Wyandotte, is featuring "Vessels," slipcast porcelain vessels by international award-winning ceramic artist John Albert Murphy, through Aug 31.
Murphy casts thin wall forms to accentuate the translucent qualities of porcelain.
Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays. Call 1-734-281-4779 or visit www.biddlegallery.com.
Henry Ford Community College's Annual Student Art Exhibition is on display through April 13 in the Sisson Gallery, in the MacKenzie Fine Arts Center, 5101 Evergreen, Dearborn.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays; and by appointment. Call 1-313-845-6485 or 1-313-845-6476.
Works by 66 artists from 38 Michigan cities, including Kara Nagle of Lincoln Park, will be featured at the 26th annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition, through April 13 at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, 1516 S. Cranbrook Road, Birmingham.
Considered one of Michigan's most important competitions and exhibitions, the 2007 MFAC will showcase 85 winning artworks selected by a panel from four major Michigan arts institutions.
The exhibit is free and open to the public.
The Padzieski Art Gallery, 15801 Michigan Ave., Dearborn, is showing an exhibition by the Detroit Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.
The exhibition runs through April 21.
Gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays; noon to 5:30 p.m. Saturdays; and at intermission during performances at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center.
Call 1-313-943-3095 or visit www.DCACarts.org.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., is showing "Ansel Adams — America's Treasures from an American Treasure" through May 27.
From powerful mountain majesties, to a serene moonrise, to the urban landscape and architecture of mid-20th century America, the exhibition includes more than 100 black-and-white photographs made during Adams' long career. It includes his early works at Yosemite National Park; soft-focus and romantic photographs from the 1920s; large-format pictures from the 1930s; Western landscapes; and lesser-known works, including abstract studies, still life, urban and architectural views and portraits of his friends and fellow artists.
Tickets, which include an audio tour and general admission, are $10 for adults, $9 for adult groups of 20 or more and $5 for ages 5 - 17. DIA members are admitted free.
The University of Michigan Museum of Art is undergoing an extensive renovation. The museum is operating a temporary exhibition space at 1301 S. University, Ann Arbor, next to the university's central campus.
The gallery is showing the photographic exhibition "Imagining Eden: Connecting Landscapes."
This project represents a long-term study by artist Lyle Gomes of manmade landscapes. Gomes' images of parks, golf courses, gardens and garden cemeteries explore the human impulse to shape the landscape and strive for a harmonious balance between humankind and nature.
Gomes will speak at the Rackham Building Assembly Hall, 915, E. Washington, Ann Arbor at 3 p.m. Sunday to discuss the project and his techniques.
The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays; and from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Admission is free, but a $5 donation is suggested. Call 1-734-763-8662 or visit www.umma.umich.edu for more information.
"American City: Detroit Architecture 1845-2005," a photographic tribute to 160 years of great architecture, is on display through tomorrow at the Brown and Juanita Ford Gallery on the Wayne County Community College downtown Detroit campus, 1001 Fort St.
The exhibition includes 80 large photographs of Detroit's most famous buildings, including Fort Wayne, Michigan Central Railroad Station, the Wayne County Building, the Penobscot Building, Orchestra Hall and the Fox Theatre.
Wayne State University's Community Arts Gallery will present the Michigan Water Color Society's 60th Annual Exhibition June 22 through July 20.
This exhibition will feature approximately 50 works in water media, selected by this year's juror, internationally recognized artist Gladys Nilsson.
Nilsson will give a lecture at The Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium in Wayne State University's Law School Building from 1 to 3 p.m. June 22 before the exhibition opening reception at the Community Arts Gallery from 5 to 8 p.m. Both the lecture and opening reception are free and open to the general public.
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