IN THE AIR II:
VOICES FROM DETROIT AND BEYOND
Billboard Location: 4717 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48201
Dates: September 1 through November 14, 2021; January 4 through April 24, 2022
Lecture Series: October 6, 2021; February 9 and April 6, 2021
The department is pleased to present IN THE AIR II: VOICES FROM DETROIT AND BEYOND, September 2021 through April 2022. The series was curated by Tyanna Buie and includes works created by local and national artists in response to the global pandemic and racial injustice, featured on a billboard, located at the corner of Woodward and E. Forest, Detroit. A total of seven solo-presentations, each one month in duration, will be on view beginning September 1, 2021.
Works by the following artists will be included in the exhibition series: Nour Ballout, Lancer Casem, Nandi Comer, Philip Crawford, Jamal Currie, Kim Miller, and Lillien Waller.
Nandi Comer and Lillien Waller are Kresge Artist Fellows and Nour Ballout is a Gilda Snowden Emerging Artist Award recipient. Each artist will participate in an online lecture series that will be held during their exhibitions. This programming has been made possible with the support of Kresge Arts in Detroit, in partnership with the Department of Art and Art History.
2021 – 2022 PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Lancer Casem
September 1 through September 17, 202
Art Department Lecture: Wednesday, September 15, 7PM
Zoom Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/3tawua86
Lillien Waller
September 21 through October 15, 2021
Kresge Artist Fellow Lecture: Wednesday, October 6, 6PM
Zoom Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/2wzby87a
Jamal Currie
October 19 through November 14, 2021
Philip Crawford
January 4 through January 28, 2022
Nour Ballout
February 1 through February 25, 2022
Kresge Artist Lecture: Wednesday, February 9, 6PM
Zoom Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/38efhywd
Kim Miller
March 1 through March 25, 2022
Nandi Comer
March 29 through April 24, 2022
Kresge Artist Fellow Lecture: Wednesday, April 6, 6PM
Zoom Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/hhkr5zxu
About the Curator
Tyanna Buie
A Chicago and Milwaukee native, Tyanna Buie received her BA from Western Illinois University, and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Buie is the recipient of multiple awards including the Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant, Kresge Artist Fellowship/Visual Arts, Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, and the 2020 Fellowship.art award, a top accelerator award/program funded through gener8tor, and was recently selected by artist Shepard Fairey to collaborate on the Milwaukee mural titled “Voting Rights is Human Rights.” Her work is included in major institutions, such as the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons in Milwaukee, WI, as well as private collections nationally and has been reviewed on Hyperallergic.com, Newcity Chicago Magazine, South Bend Tribune, and featured on Essay’d.com.
Currently, Buie is an Assistant Professor/Section Chair of Printmaking at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI.
