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HATCH is a grassroots collective of artists from Hamtramck and the greater Detroit area. It exists to support, grow and promote local art and artists.

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Hatchback 17

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Hatch Art's Annual Juried Exhibit

April 1 – April 30, 2023

Reception Saturday, April 1, 6-9pm

Artist talks offered throughout the month
Thursday April 6, 7-8pm
Saturday April 15, 2-3pm
Saturday April 22, 2-3pm
Sunday April 30, 4-5pm

Hatch Art Gallery, 3456 Evaline Street, Hamtramck, MI

Gallery Hours:
Thursday & Friday 6pm - 9pm
Saturday & Sunday 12pm - 5pm

Featured Artists:

Jide Aje

Marrim Akashi Sani

Kelly Ardito

Madeleine Barkey

Boisali Biswas

Katherine Bullock

Loralei R. Byatt

Nakia Camp

Miranda Cancelosi

Sandra Cardew

Marguerite Carlton

Ch Carroll

Chris Charron

Candace Compton Pappas

Melissa Dettloff

Jessica Dietz

Ava Doyle

Liz Frankland

Ani Garabedian

Dennis Gordon

Richard Halprin

Sean Healey

Taylor Knight

Maria Latour

Kimberly LaVonne Luther

Michele Leclaire

Miranda Lehl

Janice Martin

William Matthews

David Moroski

Lainey Morton

John Pappas

Marat Paransky

Michael Pfleghaar

Eric Pieti

Emerald Quartz

Denise Rieck

James Ritchie

Barry Roth

Melinda Rushing

Erin K Schmidt Celian

Emily Schnellbacher Bean

Steven Schoeberlein

Brenda Beene Shackleford

Coral M. Sifre

ATOM SIX

Emma Smith

Calvin Waterman

Marty Winters

Yuliia Zaluzhna

Larry Zdeb

Juror: Nancy Mitchnick

Nancy Mitchnick is a painter and educator who began as a Cass Corridor artist. She taught art for over 25 years at Bard College, California Institute of the Arts, and Harvard University. As an artist, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant, and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Her paintings are found in several museums in the US.

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Eye of the Storm

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Eye of the Storm: Processing Upheaval With Artistic Community
Ypsi Alloy Studios at Hatch Art

March 4th - 26th, 2023

Artist Talk: Saturday, March 18, 2pm

Reception: March 4th, 6 - 9pm

Hatch Art Gallery, 3456 Evaline, Hamtramck, MI

Gallery Hours: Thursdays & Fridays, 6pm - 9pm | Sundays & Saturdays, noon - 5pm

This exhibition is a collection of artwork made by present and former Ypsi Alloy Studios artists. Each artist was tasked with exploring how recent events shape how they see themselves and their artistic practice. In the center of it all is Ypsi Alloy Studios, an artist collective and studio space in Ypsilanti, MI.

Ypsi Alloy Studios is a place where visual artists can make, create and collaborate with one another. It’s a shared studio space featuring few walls, a blend of individual spaces and shared workspaces with community equipment. This allows for a more organic community to develop between all resident artists.

Artists include:

Alayna Coverly
Aaron Decker
Cathy Jacobs
Riva Jewell-Vitale
Takeisha Jefferson
Lorraine Kolasa
Jogendro Kshetrimayum
Barry Nelipowitz
Paloma Núñez-Regueiro
Yesenia Prewitt
Tim Scott
Meagan Shein
Stefanie Spivak-Birndorf
Jessica Tenbusch
Kari Thurman

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Jessica Harvey: Gestural Behaviors

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Gestural Behaviors: Kinesics Through Puppetry - Sculpture by Jessica Harvey

February 4 - February 26

Reception: February 4, 6 - 9 PM

Artist Talk: Saturday, February 18, 2pm

Hatch Art Gallery, 3456 Evaline, Hamtramck, MI


Gallery Hours:
Thursdays & Fridays, 6pm - 9pm, Sundays & Saturdays, noon - 5pm

Hailing from a lineage of craftsmen woodworkers, Jessica Harvey explores the complexity of human communication through puppetry. She sculpts gestural expressions which in turn become human powered automatons, where viewers are encouraged to touch and manipulate. Through these actions her work performs various non-verbal cues; a leg anxiously tapping, a winking wooden eye, a head slowly turning while appearing to scan the area for a friend, or a beckoning hand.

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City of the Strait: Art by Jon DeBoer & Julian Wong

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City of the Strait: Art by Jon DeBoer & Julian Wong

January 7 - January 29
Reception: January 7, 6 - 9 PM

Hatch Art Gallery, 3456 Evaline, Hamtramck, MI

Gallery Hours:
Sundays & Saturdays, noon - 5pm
Thursdays & Fridays, 6pm - 9pm

Detroit (/dɪˈtrɔɪt/ dih-TROYT, locally also /ˈdiːtrɔɪt/ DEE-troyt; French: Détroit, lit. 'strait') is rich with history as one of the oldest cities in the Midwest, and the largest city in the State of Michigan. Named after the Detroit River, the city was founded in 1701 by a French explorer and nobleman named Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac. ‘City of the Strait’ is an exhibition that aims to highlight the nooks and crannies of Detroit from two different perspectives.

Jon DeBoer is a photographer living and working in Detroit. He studied photography at Lawrence Technological University, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design in 2010. This background in graphic design and interest in architecture has strongly influenced his approach to photography. He started exploring the city in 2009, documenting the evolving urban landscape ever since. DeBoer also works as a freelance commercial and event photographer.

Julian Wong was born in Boston, MA but raised in Hong Kong. As a youth in Hong Kong, Wong studied traditional Chinese painting with renowned artist Chao Shao An. After moving back to the States, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Painting at the University of California at Santa Cruz and then received a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design from California College of Arts, San Francisco. Wong is an accomplished industrial designer and international artist.

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Your Inner Critic Is A Jerk

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Your Inner Critic Is A Jerk:
A Pop-Up Exhibition at Hatch

One night only
Saturday, December 17, 2022
5pm – 9pm
3456 Evaline, Hamtramck, MI

Artists hold themselves to impossible standards. There are times we create a piece that we are so thrilled about and know others will like it. And then there are ones where we love it but something inside of us starts to doubt whether it’s good enough. These are the pieces being shown in this show. The ones where our inner critic tells us that no one will like it, or that it’s not as good as “this piece” or “as good as another artist.” Self doubt is a constant struggle for many of us even the most confident artists struggle with combating their inner critics as well.

Come see "Your Inner Critic Is A Jerk" on December 17th, one night only!

Featured Artists:
Zach Curtis
Von Ecker
Kyla Fischer
Davey James
Andrew Dall'Olmo
John Corbin
Cheryl Maus
Amy Feigley-Lee
Keto Green
Cindy Aubry Parsons
Tisch Mikhail Lewis
Dave Swartz
Mike Kelly
Molly Jeffrey

Curated by Cheryl Maus

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No True Mexican: Paintings by Peter Daniel Bernal

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November 12 - December 10

Artist Talk: December 3, 1 PM

Hatch Art Gallery, 3456 Evaline, Hamtramck, MI

Gallery Hours:
Sundays & Saturdays, noon - 5pm
Thursdays & Fridays, 6pm - 9pm
Closed November 24 & 25

Press
”No True Mexican: Artist Peter Daniel Bernal Reframes Identity In New Exhibit” by Ofelia Saenz, El Central, November 10 2022

“My paintings are only a record or footprint of my true objective- To find where I belong. While these were being painted, I thought about what my worth is as a person, and how it hurts to be excluded from a group despite being inherently part of it. In some ways I’m using my painting as a proxy for finding ideas of fitting in, of being a part of a family.

The exhibition is titled, “No True Mexican”, as in “No True Scotsman”. No True Scotsman is an informal logical fallacy, in this case applied to someone in a group that has an “undesirable” quality, as seen by a gatekeeper who has no right to make that declaration. It is an excuse to distance themselves from the “undesirable” quality or enhance their role in said group. I see it as forcing a stereotype. In other words, being a Scotsman is what makes a Scotsman, not what they do or how they eat their porridge.

Yes my paintings are angry, but a certain relief and joy comes when my emotions are expressed through using color and oil paint. Specifically, oil as a hijacked Catholic language. They are only technically pictures, the real purpose is the execution.

Much pondering is done while making an image, and over time the picture will change, becoming a collection of moods and thoughts overlapped. ”
— Peter Daniel Bernal
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Jonathon Sniezek: Roof Peaks of Hamtramck, Early spring of 2022

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Now through the end of November

Café 1923, 2287 Holbrook Ave, Hamtramck, MI
Hours: 8am - 6pm (Mon-Fri), 11am - 6pm (Sat & Sun)

As a photography student at College for Creative Studies, moving back to my hometown of Hamtramck has moved my work in a direction of new exploration of both the culture of the city and the work I can create within it. In each one of these homes resides families and individuals with their own ideals, personalities, religions, and backgrounds. Despite the individual differences of the people who reside in these places, the homes they live in stay relatively the same with slight differences in color, decorations, wear-and-tear, and foliage. All of these were details I wanted to use within the series to keep the same composition, yet with enough change in scenery to create a unique image with each home I photographed in this typological series.

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A Month of Desire: 17 Artists Showing What's Sexy

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October 8 - November 5
Reception: October 8, 6 - 9 PM
Hatch Art Gallery, 3456 Evaline, Hamtramck, MI

Gallery Hours:
Sundays & Saturdays, noon - 5pm
Thursdays & Fridays, 6pm - 9pm

Along with evolving attitudes toward gender identity, the notion of what is sexy is also changing for the better. We are moving away from the hetero-male-centric, media-defined ideal that often dealt in harassment and exploitation. This makes us freer to have a broader, diverse array of interests that are healthier, humane, and oh so alluring. In this (semi) post-COVID time of re-emergence, it is our chance to say: let’s celebrate the new sexy!

17 Detroit-area artists with a wide range of views are showing work, either by expressing what they find appealing, or by expressing their own sexiness.

Participating artists are:

Jetshri Bhadviya
Kaleigh Blevins
Doug Cannell
Jessica Dietz
Roy Feldman
Jessica Frelinghuysen
Madhurima Ganguly
Christopher Gene
Keto Green
Donna Jackson
Heather Kelly
Tom Livo
Miles Marie
Erin K. Schmidt
Scott Northrup
Anna van Schaap
Christopher Schneider

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Solace: Paintings by Deborah Friedman and Deborah Sukenic

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September 10 - October 1, 2022
Artist Talk Saturday, September 24th 2pm

Hatch Art Gallery, 3456 Evaline, Hamtramck, MI

Gallery Hours:
Saturdays & Sundays, noon - 5pm
Thursdays & Fridays, 6pm - 9pm

Embracing a subject that provides a source of comfort inspires these two bodies of work. They are drawn to objects in nature, the ‘sea grape leaf’ for Deborah Friedman and the ‘shrub’ for Deborah Sukenic. These subjects act as the vehicle to express the artists’ emotional state.

For Friedman, the study of the sea grape plant has been feeding her endless restorative investigations. This plant provides her with a feeling of “the soundlessness of nature impressing and embracing her spirit.” Sukenic is drawn to the images of ordinary shrubs as it relates to her work about the idea of ‘place’. This focus on singular ‘shrubs’ is a symbolic representation of place, providing respite during difficult times.

Through their investigations, both artists embrace beauty through shape, color, and form. The imagery from nature informs personal restoration and solace.

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Drop-in Volunteer Days @ Hamtramck Disneyland

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Sundays (weather permitting) Now through October 25: 2pm -6pm (September 18 hours 1pm - 4pm)

12087 Klinger Street, Hamtramck, MI

We're doing our summer volunteer days again, everyone is welcome!!

Starting Sunday, August 7th, drop-in workdays resume at Hamtramck Disneyland! The first tier of the brand new central structure is nearly finished and we need helping hands to rebuild, repair, and replace all the wonderful whirligigs and doo-dads that have come down over the years.

Interested in volunteering some other day? We're looking for individuals and groups to help out --Contact us for details!

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Atmospheric Pressure: Sculptures by Jeff Schofield

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July 9 - August 6
Opening Reception Saturday, July 9th 6pm-9pm
Artist Talk Thursday, July 28th 7pm

Hatch Art Gallery, 3456 Evaline, Hamtramck, MI

Gallery Hours: Saturdays noon - 6pm | Thursdays & Fridays 6pm - 9pm

Sustainable artist Jeff Schofield presents large scale immersive installations featuring environmentally themed artworks made with natural materials and found objects. The exhibition showcases his multi-disciplinary art practice including performance, video, sculpture and installation art. On opening night, Schofield will present a performance piece which will be broadcast online for remote viewers to enjoy. The show runs through Saturday August 6th. The gallery will host an artist talk for the general public to attend on Thursday July 28th in celebration of World Nature Conservation Day.

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Keto Green @ Café 1923

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Keto Green is an artist from Detroit who keeps a studio in the Hatch gallery in Hamtramck, which hosted his most recent exhibit, "The Art of Not Giving Up." Keto recently sustained a serious injury that left him with fractured cervical vertebrae; proceeds from the sale of his artwork will help cover his medical expenses.

If you’d line to help directly with donations, here’s the Gofundme link:



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Mighty Real / Queer Detroit

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June 4 - 25

Opening Reception
Saturday, June 4th 5pm-9pm (extended hours!)

"Left Listening"
(performance art by Vagner Mendonça Whitehead)
Thursday, June 9th

Artist Talk
Saturday, June 25th 2pm - 4pm

Press
 Randiah Camille Green, Detroit Metro Times, Jun 1, 2022
Kate Roff, Model D, June 1, 2022
Kim Fay, Real Art Detroit, June 23, 2022

Mighty Real/Queer Detroit is an art exhibition in June 2022 devoted to 77 years (1945-2022) of Detroit LGBTQ+ art. The exhibition presents a month-long historical examination of the diversity of the LGBTQ+ community and its longtime allies, featuring established & emerging Detroit artists, as well as artists whose careers were shortened by HIV/AIDS.

Hatch Art is proud to be part of Mighty Real / Queer Detroit, opening this Saturday, June 4th from 5-9pm.

We are featuring 19 artists that celebrate the contributions that the LGBTQ+ community has made to the Detroit art scene. The artwork we are showing on the theme "Happy, Carefree, and Gay" are Robbie Aaron, Seuil Chung, Michael Connelly, Andrea Costantini, Cyrah Dardas, Gary Eleinko, Michael Gute, Bryan Hoffman, Tom Livo, Maura Latty, Matthew Papa, Gordon Price, Julie Sabit, James Stephens, Jeremy Tacon-Heaslip, Joyce Tinkham, Charzette Torrence, Kevin Weeder, and Vagner Whitehead. Curated by Patrick Burton.

Of the 17 galleries around the Detroit area that are participating, three have openings at the same time in Hamtramck: Hatch, Oloman Cafe, and Public Pool. Come see all the great work! Visit www.mrqd.org for details.

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Abi Inman: Grief Cave

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Hatch Art Jail Cell, 3456 Evaline, Hamtramck
Gallery Hours Thursdays & Fridays (6pm-9pm) Saturdays (noon-6pm)

Grief Cave is a recycled textile and paper-based installation formed of stalactites and stalagmites, calcified overhangs, and patchworked grottos. It’s a cathartic space for visitors to sit with their grief. Anyone who enters is invited to write in the communal journal, share their story anonymously on the tape recorder, or leave a small token of their grief to be calcified into the walls of the cave.

The modern U.S. has a dearth of grief rituals. We’re unique, historically, in that grief is a private and unstructured thing. The last couple years have brought a layered grief into many of our lives, and Grief Cave holds space for mourning this as a community. The platitude “we’re all in this together” is so overused that it has become almost meaningless, but Grief Cave is a visual reminder of its truth. It’s formed by emotionally meaningful objects from Detroit citizens who have all struggled through the turmoil of the last couple years together.

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The Art of Not Giving Up: Paintings by Keto Green

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May 7 - 28
Artist Talk Saturday, May 21st 2pm

After his father went missing and his youngest brother committed suicide the next year, Keto was desolate, broken, and homeless. He turned to art and spirituality to get things turned around. "Loving that inner Light glowing within, I knew there was more to life," he says.

Now with a mission of unity and optimism, Keto scavenges for useful abounded objects to create his paintings, using doors, windows, and discarded wood. The complexity of surfaces and bright colors enables him to make positive changes in harsh environments.

Hatch Art Gallery
3456 Evaline, Hamtramck, MI

Gallery Hours:
Saturdays, noon - 6pm
Thursdays & Fridays 6pm - 9pm

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“Rising Proof”: Prints by Josué Fierro

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Café 1923, 2287 Holbrook Ave, Hamtramck, MI

9am-7pm daily

"In these works I would bake loaves of bread, take impressions of their slices and expose the image to a silkscreen. Using serigraph reduction and analog printing techniques I layered colors in between charred bread crumb taken from the original loaves of bread.

Also included in this show of works are exploratory monotypes on tea stained paper using discarded inks and matrices to find various shapes and forms."

Josué Emmanuel Fierro is a mixed media artist from El Paso, Texas currently based in Detroit Michigan.

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Hatchback 16

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Hatch Art's annual juried show and sale.

Opening Reception Saturday, April 2 6pm-9pm

Gallery Hours: Saturdays, noon - 6pm, Thursdays & Fridays 6pm - 9pm

Artist Talks Saturdays at 2pm (starting April 9)

Juror: Taurus Burns
Taurus Burns graduated with a BFA from CCS in 2002 and has been a fixture in the Detroit art scene ever since. He teaches art on the college level, works as an automotive clay sculptor, and in 2018 turned his solo show at Hatch into a successful solo show at Elijah Wheat Showroom in New York City.

Featuring the work of:

Ileana Bell
CJ Benninger
Kaleigh Blevins
Jan Brown
Loralei R. Byatt
Charlie Calhoun
Jeff Cancelosi
Barbara Melnik Carson
Sanda Cook
Bria Charise Erby
Eric Fogle
Deborah Friedman
Linden Renee Godlove
Jack Griffin
Jin Gwak
Richard Halprin
Ryan Brady Herberholz
Levi Hubbel
Carol Izant
Tom Kopcynski
Tom Livo
Chris Lujan
Luke MacGilvray
Christopher Gene
Janice Martin
William Matthews
Steve Miller
Dave and Bea Moroski
Jordan Morrow
Cal Navin
Bailey Newsome
Kristine Olson
John Pappas
Jon Parlangeli
Jaime Pattison
Catherine Peet
Leonardo Prielipp-Falzone
Laura Reed
James Rodriguez
Ron Rodriguez
Samantha Russell
Cayla Samano
Jennifer Sowders
Catherine Sweeney
Nicole Szymanski
Sajeev Kousallia Visweswaran
Justin Wentland
Marty Winters

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Important Message for Hatchback 16 Entrants

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To all who entered Hatchback 16:

For reasons beyond our understanding and control, several of you did not receive emails from Hatch regarding the jury results.

If you never received information, here are the results:

Taurus Burns, this year's jurist, has made all his decisions and it was difficult. This year 195 artists entered around 450 art pieces. 53 artworks were selected. It is not just lip service to say that it was difficult to get selected.

Hatchback 16 Logo by Suzanne Baumann

The following artists have work accepted into the show:
Ileana Bell
CJ Benninger
Kaleigh Blevins
Jan Brown
Loralei R. Byatt
Charlie Calhoun
Jeff Cancelosi
Barbara Melnik Carson
Sanda Cook
Bria Charise Erby
Eric Fogle
Deborah Friedman
Linden Renee Godlove
Jack Griffin
Jin Gwak
Richard Halprin
Ryan Brady Herberholz
Levi Hubbel
Carol Izant
Tom Kopcynski
Tom Livo
Chris Lujan
Luke MacGilvray
Christopher Gene
Janice Martin
William Matthews
Steve Miller
Dave and Bea Moroski
Jordan Morrow
Cal Navin
Bailey Newsome
Kristine Olson
John Pappas
Jon Parlangeli
Jaime Pattison
Catherine Peet
Leonardo Prielipp-Falzone
Laura Reed
James Rodriguez
Ron Rodriguez
Samantha Russell
Cayla Samano
Jennifer Sowders
Catherine Sweeney
Nicole Szymanski
Sajeev Kousallia Visweswaran
Justin Wentland
Marty Winters

The show runs from April 2 to April 23. Drop off of work is Wednesday, March 30 from 5-7pm and Thursday, March 31 from 3 to 5pm. Work should be ready to hang or have a plan for how it should be displayed. Framing is not required but typically a good idea. You are also invited to be on a panel of participating artists to talk about your work on April 9, 16, or 23 at 2pm. When you drop off work, we can discuss your participation (purely voluntary). I will also have a standard contract for you to sign. If you cannot drop off in the designated times, reply to this email to arrange another time. Please keep in mind that there are 48 artists in this show and my hands will be full with special requests. Pick up of unsold work is April 23 at 6pm or Sunday, April 24th from noon to 2pm. I look forward to a great show!

For those what were not accepted, thank you for entering Hatchback 16. Keep in mind that art is highly subjective, and that any given jurist would select an entirely different show. We hope you will still attend our show and keep checking for opportunities at Hatch-- exhibitions, events, studios, darkroom, Hamtramck Disneyland, workshops, open mic poetry, and more. We show art in three different spaces-- the main Hatch Art gallery, The Jail Cell, which is exclusively for installation art, and Cafe 1923, a cool, comfy coffee shop in Hamtramck. One of the reasons we do Hatchback is so we can find new artists for these spaces. I wish you the best and hope to see you at Hatch sometime soon.

Chris Schneider
Director, Hatch Art

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