Ain't No Real Wound: Drawings by Britta Urness

Lansing-based artist Britta Urness displays graphite drawings from her "Lady Series" now through Saturday, Feb. 27 at Cafe 1923 in Hamtramck. View more of her work at brittaurness.com

Hands On at Hatch Art: Collage

Monday, February 8th, 6pm – 9pm
Hatch Art Center, 3456 Evaline St. Hamtramck, MI 48212
Instructor: Jack O. Summers & Alice V. Schneider
Fee: $30 per adult; Adult with child $45; adult with two children $60; Please, no children unless they are accompanied by a parent. Parent/adult must supervise their children.

Register here:  https://form.jotform.com/60275846329968

Join us at Hatch Art for a workshop where we'll make collages with Alice V. Schneider and Jack O. Summers. We'll use papers of all kinds, cardboard, old postage stamps, ticket stamps, photographs, bits of fabric and other items to create collages on the surface of your choice - boxes, illustration board, book covers, wood panels, paper etc.

The workshop is open to adults, and children accompanied by a supervising adult.

The workshop will be easy enough for beginners, but more experienced artists will be able to make more elaborate insects from the basic materials.

Some materials will be provided. We'll bring papers of all kinds, fabric scraps and other materials you can use to for your collage. We'll bring our favorite adhesives, and some brushes. We won't be mad if you bring some brushes and glue of your own. We will provide some objects and materials as a base for your collage, but you may want to bring your own cigar box or other box; stretched canvas; wood panel; heavy paper; vintage book cover; or other material as a base. We encourage you to bring any special materials you may want to use or share.

Hands On at Hatch Art: Drunk Painting on Velvet

Friday, February 5th, 6pm – 9pm
Hatch Art Center, 3456 Evaline St. Hamtramck, MI 48212
Instructor: Alice V. Schneider
Fee: $40 (includes supplies)

Register here: https://form.jotform.com/53198450447966

Join us at Hatch Art for a workshop where we'll make Paintings on Velvet with Alice V Schneider... the drunk part is optional! A velvet painting is a type of painting distinguished by the use of velvet (usually black velvet) as the support, in place of canvas, paper, or similar materials. The velvet provides an especially dark background against which colors stand out brightly.

We will provide 1 individual velvet "canvas", easels and brushes for each person that registers! We only can fit 15 so register early!

The workshop is open to adults only, please no children... 18 and over. The workshop will be easy enough for beginners, but more experienced artists will be able to make more elaborate Velvet Paintings from the basic materials. We strongly suggest you bring some ideas and materials of your own… Please reach out to Alice beforehand if you have any questions! 

#photo

Saturday, February 6th, 6-10pm, Opening Reception
Saturday, February 13th, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours
Saturday, February 20th, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours
Saturday, February 20th, 2pm, Art Talk
Saturday, February 27th, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours

Hatch Art, 3456 Evaline, Hamtramck

Hatch Gallery presents #photo, featuring 8 photographic artists: Carla Anderson, Tim Householder, Rob Kangas, Shanna Merola, Daniel Seybold, Silke Seybold, Vagner Whitehead, and S. Kay Young.

Social media and technological advances are rapidly changing the way photography is used and perceived. People working in the medium have found themselves working to adapt or fighting to keep what they love about photography alive. 

This group exhibition shows a variety of work, some rooted in tradition, some exploring change, and some forging into new frontiers.

Hands On at Hatch Art: The Camera Beyond the Basics

Sunday, January 31st, 6pm – 8pm
Hatch Art Center, 3456 Evaline St. Hamtramck, MI 48212
Instructor: Christopher  Schneider
Fee: $15

Register here: https://form.jotform.com/60220163055946

It is best to master the equipment you have rather than trying to improve as a photographer by buying more stuff. This workshop will help you master your camera, understanding just what it is capable of doing in your hands. Learn the purpose of those curious buttons, confusing menu items, and strange symbols that riddle your camera. Pick up pointers on camera tricks and difficult shooting situations.

We will start with the assumption that you know how to use your camera's exposure settings but want to know more to unlock its full potential.

Christopher Schneider has been teaching photography in high school and college for over 20 years. He has shown his artwork worldwide and has done commercial work for clients such as Wired Magazine and Cranbrook Art Museum.

Come join this hands on, friendly, social workshop and bring your camera!

RESCHEDULED: Hands on at Hatch Art: Monotypes

Tuesday, February 2nd, 6pm – 9pm
Hatch Art Center, 3456 Evaline St. Hamtramck, MI 48212
Instructor: Alice Schneider

$30 per adult; Adult with child $45; adult with two children $60; Please, no children unless they are accompanied by a parent and over the age of 10. Parent/adult must supervise their children.

Register here: https://form.jotform.com/60124916542956

Join us at Hatch Art for a workshop where we'll make monotype prints with Alice V. Schneider. 

No experience necessary! Working with ink may tend to get messy so be sure and wear "messy" clothes or bring an apron! It’s an easy and fun way to make prints, each one as different as the next! You may be able to make a few monotypes, depending on your pace. We will have a few different colors of ink to choose from and some paper available, please feel free to bring some of your own! I will provide cotton balls and q-tips for removing the ink, but some people have had fun results by using other materials... different materials provide different subtractive mark-making.

The workshop is open to adults, and children over the age of 10 and they must be accompanied by a supervising adult. The workshop will be easy enough for beginners, but more experienced artists will be able to make more elaborate monotypes from the basic materials.

Materials will be provided, however, we strongly suggest you bring some ideas and materials of your own… Please reach out to Alice beforehand if you have any questions! 

Hands On at Hatch Art: Felting Fun

Wednesday, January 21 6pm-9pm
Hatch Art Center, 3456 Evaline St. Hamtramck, MI 48212
Instructors: Juana Moore and Alice Schneider

$30 per adult; Adult with child $45; adult with two children $60; Please, no children unless they are accompanied by a parent and over the age of 10. Parent/adult must supervise their children.

Register here: https://form.jotform.com/52928300395962

Join us at Hatch Art for a workshop where we'll make felting art with Alice V. Schneider and Juana Moore. We’re going to play with needle felting, putting wool fibers together on foam with needles. It’s an easy and fun craft, and we will have needles, foam, wires and pipe cleaners for armatures, and lots and lots of wool. You can see and try flat techniques for making pins or small decorative items, and/or making fiber creatures. There will also be samples and books on hand for inspiration.

The workshop is open to adults, and children over the age of 10 and they must be accompanied by a supervising adult, due to the "needle" part in needle felting. The workshop will be easy enough for beginners, but more experienced artists will be able to make more elaborate felted art from the basic materials.

Materials will be provided, however, we strongly suggest you bring some ideas and materials of your own… Please reach out to Alice and/or Juana beforehand if you have any questions! 

Hands On at Hatch Art: Hi, I Am A Camera

Tuesday, January 13, 7pm
Hatch Art Center, 3456 Evaline St. Hamtramck, MI 48212
Instructor: Christopher Schneider
Cost: $15.

Register online at: https://form.jotform.com/60034997717969

Your camera is not a magical device. It is a machine that operates in predictable ways. Make it bend to your will by learning how to control it. We will cover the basics of exposure, but we will also look at features often neglected.

Bring your own camera, or just come and watch. Any camera will work, but mostly we will be discussing DSLR operation.

Every two weeks, Hands On at Hatch Art is hosting a series of photography workshops, lectures, critiques, and socials. Open to anyone with an interest, each session will focus on a particular subject ranging from Photoshop to film, DSLRs to camera phones, art to family snaps, broad theory to quality print.

The host is Christopher Schneider, an artist, professor, business owner, and longtime President of Hatch Art. A graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art, he has taught photography for nearly 20 years, with artwork showing as far away as China. 

Most sessions will be two hours with social time to follow. Special dates will involve critiques, guest artists, and “walk abouts.”

Thelonious W. Bone: Total Trash

Saturday, January 9th, 6-10pm, Opening Reception
Saturday, January 16th, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours
Thursday, January 21st, 6-9pm, Gallery Hours
Saturday, January 23rd, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours
Sunday, January 24th, 2pm, Art Talk/Performance
Saturday, January 30th 1-6pm, Gallery Hours

Hatch Art, 3456 Evaline, Hamtramck

TOTAL TRASH IS PRETTY SELF EXPLANATORY WHEN YOU SEE IT.TOTAL TRASH IS GOOD FOR A LAUGH.IT’S BURNOUT-SIDER.IT’S FROM ANOTHER TIME.TOTAL TRASH IS STONED OUT AND FUCKED UP.TOTAL TRASH IS ROCK AND OR ROLL.IT’S NOT FASHIONABLY FASHIONABLE.IT’S A FARCE.TOTAL TRASH IS TOTAL TRASH.

BIO:
Thelonius W Bone was raised by Van Halen in a secluded patch of woodlands , deserted by the US Army, just outside of Brighton MI. A true loner, T-Bone has created a world of art inhabited by real freaks, army guys, cowboys, rats, drugs, and dicks. He refuses to use any stick other than an exclusive custom Bic Firth heavy grade. They make them for him in the basement of Hard Cock Cafe, by the caseload.
Anyways…

The very real miracle of this outsider's work is that he has found a way to create a true sense of abandon and recklessness in his work, all while we are living in a world where there is no longer such a thing as culture or counter-culture. Against all odds, he has fucked 'the man'. It must be a matter of spirit. He continues to give many of us hope, while all we see around us is hopelessness. J. Kallio 2015

Hands On at Hatch Art: Ground Charcoal Drawing

Tuesday, January 5th from 6pm – 9pm
Hatch Art Gallery, 3456 Evaline St. Hamtramck, MI 48212

Join us at Hatch Art for a Hands On at Hatch Art workshop, where we will be making ground charcoal drawings on paper. Charcoal is used in art for drawing, making rough sketches in painting and is one of the possible media for making a parsemage. It must usually be preserved by the application of a fixative. Powdered charcoal is often used to "tone" or cover large sections of a drawing surface. Drawing over the toned areas darkens it further, but the artist can also lighten (or completely erase) within the toned area to create lighter tones.

We will provide paper, charcoal supplies, erasers, easels and guidance for each person that registers! We only can fit 15 so register early!

The workshop is open to adults only (may be nudity), please no children... 18 and over. The workshop will be easy enough for beginners, but more experienced artists will be able to make more elaborate drawings from the basic materials. We strongly suggest you bring some ideas and materials of your own… Please reach out to Alice beforehand if you have any questions! 

This 3 hour workshop will be $30.00.

Register here: https://form.jotform.com/53486447572971

Rosemarie Hughes: New Artworks

December 6 - 30

Cafe 1923 Coffeehouse
2287 Holbrook St, Hamtramck, Michigan 48212

Reception Saturday, December 12, 3-6pm

"Though I started my art career as a photographer, over the years I've realized that I'm most fulfilled working as a mixed media/assemblage artist. By combining a variety of materials and textures, I experience a creative satisfaction that I have yet to find in any one medium alone.
Found objects are what I use to create my assemblage pieces. Most of the items are repurposed and have a history I know nothing about. Who did the object belong to and what did it mean to its owner? Was it an every day, common item or something for special occasions? By creating art with these objects I am able to tell a visual story about a situation from every day life that may have become obsolete, a relic of times past. In telling my story I hope to inspire the viewers of my art to find their own story and experience of nostalgia."

Rosemarie Hughes' art will be on display at Cafe 1923 in Hamtramck through the end of December.

Hatch/Sketch

Tuesday, December 1,  6:00pm - 9:00pm
Hatch Art, 3456 Evaline, Hamtramck

Join AIGA Detroit @ Hatch to unleash your inner child & Doodle on gallery walls!

We will provide black paint and brushes. All you need to do is bring your creativity! (If you'd like to bring additional materials, feel free to do so, as long as it will not damage gallery walls)

Local Designer/Illustrator Jessica Krcmarik will provide a lettering demo, and artist/illustrator Mary Iverson will create drawing prompts as well as demonstrate how to work with various materials.

All skill levels are welcome. For those of you who need a little inspiration we will provide a list of fun and interesting ideas to inspire you.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Sponsored by Hatch Art, Team Detroit, and Du-All Art and Drafting Supply.

Dain Mergenthaler and Ana Hansa-Ogren: I'll Cry If I Want To

Dain Mergenthaler and Ana Hansa-Ogren: I'll Cry If I Want To

December 5th, 6-9pm, Opening Reception
December 12th, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours
December 17th, 6-9pm, Gallery Hours
December 19th, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours (artist Talk @ 2pm)
January 2nd, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours

Tile on my face, pale pink and cool under the bare fluorescent light of the upstairs bathroom, feels right. I know a guy who’s tough but sweet. Bass and thin laughter seep into this room like an echo trapped in a dirty mug. He’s so fine. Another five minutes before someone knocks. Time is losing steam, spreading out and thickening, my watermark veiled reflection becoming more saturated in the mirror. He can’t be beat. Flick the light off. Wrap a corner of the hot pink vinyl shower curtain around my waist and move in it. He’s got everything that I desire. Rotate a hip slow, seductive, sinister in this emptied out, satellite space that floats like a dark cloud above the party. Sets the summer sun on fire. Lock pupils with my own eyes. I want candy. Go a little deep and loose.

Face falls apart. Be still and silent, let the edges blur. I want candy. Vocals slither under the door. Got to see him when the sun goes down. Who is that. Ain’t no finer boy in town. You’re my guy, just what the doctor ordered. My body is me and everyone here. So sweet, you make my mouth water. Filthy bathtub, stained soft rug crumpled up in the corner. I want candy.

The window lets sharp cool air into this dense, sweaty bubble. Candy on the beach. There’s nothing better. But I like candy when it’s wrapped in a sweater. Someday soon I’ll make you mine. Then I’ll have candy all the time. I want candy. I want candy. I want candy. I want candy. I want candy.
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Dain Mergenthaler holds a BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art and is an MFA candidate in Fiber at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, he now lives in Hamtramck and has a studio in Highland Park, Michigan. Dain has traveled around the country for residencies, workshops, and exhibitions including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, Vermont Studio Center, and most recently ACRE Residency, as well as having shown work around the Detroit Metropolitan area, Chicago, New York, and Baltimore. When he’s not sleying threads at the loom, Dain can be found at the bar, slaying songs at karaoke.

Ana Hansa-Ogren is a studio artist, curator, and current MFA candidate in the Sculpture department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Hansa-Ogren employs sound, installation, video, and vocal work to navigate processes of meaning formation, complicate the authority of text and form, and conjure seductive yet unsettling environments. Select recent exhibitions include Raw (Forum), FLUX (Forum), The End is Near (Forum), How to Find a New Land (No Bones Projects, MKE), FREE MONEY (co-curated w/Michelle Grabner, MKE), Try a Little Tenderness (co-curated w/Pamela Fraser, MKE), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (auction), and Space Vulture Worship Project (Happy Dog Gallery, CHI).

Hands On at Hatch Art: Gold Leaf

Monday, December 14th, 6pm – 9pm
Hatch Art Gallery, 3456 Evaline St. Hamtramck, MI 48212

Join us at Hatch Art for a workshop where we'll make artwork with Alice V. Schneider and Dalia Reyes. We'll use any materials we can and apply gold leafing to it! BLING!

The workshop is open to adults, and children accompanied by a supervising adult.

The workshop will be easy enough for beginners, but more experienced artists will be able to make more elaborate artworks from the basic materials.

Some materials will be provided. We'll bring papers of all kinds, fabric scraps and other materials you can use to for your piece. We'll bring our favorite adhesives, and some brushes. We won't be mad if you bring some brushes and glue of your own. We will provide some objects and materials as a base for your piece, but you may want to bring your own drawing paper; a box; stretched canvas; wood panel; heavy paper; vintage book cover; or other material as a base. We encourage you to bring any special materials you may want to use or share.

$30 per adult; Adult with child $45; adult with two children $60; Please, no children unless they are accompanied by a parent. Parent/adult must supervise their children.

Register here: https://form.jotform.com/53215721503950

Hands On at Hatch Art: Drunk Painting

Friday, December 11th, 6pm – 9pm
Hatch Art Gallery, 3456 Evaline St. Hamtramck, MI 48212

Join us at Hatch Art for a workshop where we'll make Paintings on Velvet with Alice V Schneider... the drunk part is optional! A velvet painting is a type of painting distinguished by the use of velvet (usually black velvet) as the support, in place of canvas, paper, or similar materials. The velvet provides an especially dark background against which colors stand out brightly.

We will provide 1 individual velvet "canvas", easels and brushes for each person that registers! We only can fit 15 so register early!

The workshop is open to adults only, please no children... 18 and over. The workshop will be easy enough for beginners, but more experienced artists will be able to make more elaborate Velvet Paintings from the basic materials. We strongly suggest you bring some ideas and materials of your own… Please reach out to Alice beforehand if you have any questions! 

Due to the extra supplies this 3 hour workshop will be $40.00.

Register here: https://form.jotform.com/53198450447966

Hands On at Hatch Art: Felting Fun

Monday, November 16th, 6pm – 9pm
Hatch Art Gallery, 3456 Evaline St. Hamtramck, MI 48212

Join us at Hatch Art for a workshop where we'll make felting art with Alice V. Schneider and Juana Moore. We’re going to play with needle felting, putting wool fibers together on foam with needles. It’s an easy and fun craft, and we will have needles, foam, wires and pipe cleaners for armatures, and lots and lots of wool. You can see and try flat techniques for making pins or small decorative items, and/or making fiber creatures. There will also be samples and books on hand for inspiration.

The workshop is open to adults, and children over the age of 10 and they must be accompanied by a supervising adult. The workshop will be easy enough for beginners, but more experienced artists will be able to make more elaborate felted art from the basic materials.

Some materials will be provided. We'll bring papers of all kinds, paint, fabric scraps, wire, some beads, our favorite adhesives, and some brushes and other materials you can use. We strongly suggest you bring some ideas and materials of your own.

$30 per adult; Adult with child $45; adult with two children $60; Please, no children unless they are accompanied by a parent and over the age of 10. Parent/adult must supervise their children.

Register here: http://www.jotform.com/?formID=52928300395962

Sean Hages: How to Quit Smoking and Like It

Hatch Art Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent works by local artist Sean Hages. Please join us on November 7th from 6-10pm for the artist's reception!

Dates to Remember:
November 7th, 6-10pm, Opening Reception
November 14th, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours
November 21st, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours, 2pm, Art Talk
November 28th, 1-6pm, Gallery Hours

There is a certain comfort in repetition. Repetition is like an addiction to the known. Repetition is a story that has no ending. Repetition contrasts itself against itself. Repetition represents an order within chaos. Repetition is a search for sublime perfection through routine. There is a certain comfort in repetition.

Lila Kadaj coming to Cafe 1923

Sean Bieri: Having Words

September 27-November 2
afe 1923, 2287 Holbrook. Hamtramck, MI 48212

"Having Words" is a series of small text-based paintings by Sean Bieri, drawing inspiration from various sources: Amateur signage, inspirational jpegs, artists such as Jenny Holzer, Yoko Ono, and Bruce Nauman, zines, gag cartoons, quilting, and a longtime Scrabble habit, among other things. Half-remembered dreams, half-baked ideas, disembodied punchlines, fragmented poetry, miscellaneous brainfarts, and other forms of word play all figure into the equation.

Scott Northrup: I WAS RIGHT HERE THE WHOLE TIME

Hatch Art Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent works by local artist Scott Northrup in "I WAS RIGHT HERE THE WHOLE TIME". Join us for the Artist's Opening Reception, Saturday, October 3rd 6-10pm.

Dates to Remember:
Gallery Hours, Saturday, October 10th 1-6pm
Third Thursday, October 15th 6-9pm
Gallery Hours, Saturday, October 17th 1-6pm
Gallery Hours, Saturday, October 24th 1-6pm
Artists Talk 2pm
Gallery Hours, Saturday, October 31st 1-6pm

"I am most interested in big abstract questions of romance, loss, and longing, especially the feelings that we secretly harbor for one another. My work explores this through personal and collective memories, actual and constructed experiences, and the tangling and untangling of the very loose threads that connect us — the real and the unreal. I often employ found objects and appropriated imagery and text, which are preloaded with history and meaning, as a form of cultural shorthand toward my personal visual vocabulary. This is both an attempt to communicate with others and to fill in the blanks of memory and persona. The inclusion of religious and popular iconography in my work takes into account these parallel forms of worship while aiming at a larger sense of function and design in our daily lives. Through the construction of self-portraits, personal landmarks, and mash notes to the American Dream, I am self- mythologizing, exploring objects and actions that might seem remarkably unremarkable on their own. I see this as a form of transubstantiation, in that through my intervention with these common objects, I might bring something to light that was secreted there all along."
-S. Northrup

Artist Biography
Scott Northrup was born and raised in Metro Detroit. He earned his BFA at the Center for Creative Studies (Detroit; 1992) and his MA in Media Studies from The New School (New York; 2003).

Northrupʼs varied body of work includes film, video, assemblage, collage, photography, handmade books, and other non-traditional media. His work has shown in galleries, museums and alternative spaces including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, NYC), the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD, Detroit), vOID (NYC), Gesamtkunstwerk Projectraum/Butter (Miami), The NʼNamdi Center for Contemporary Art (Detroit), and the Max M. Fisher Music Center (Detroit). His experimental films and video installations have been official selections of the Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF, Ann Arbor, MI), Media City (MC, Canada), Dlectricity (Detroit), and the Detroit Design Festival (DDF, Detroit), among others. He has curated film and video exhibitions for galleries and alternative spaces including the Detroit Fringe Festival at the Music Hall (Detroit; 2009) and has served on the Board of Directors for House of Toast (HOT, Canada) and the Education Committee for the AAFF (Detroit).

Northrup has received state and private grant funding toward video projects with youth support groups and art therapy programs within the Henry Ford Health System (Detroit; 1994, 2006) and volunteered with Ground Hero Kids (NYC, 2001). Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Entertainment Arts at the College for Creative Studies focusing on filmmaking and experimental media.