Writer & Gallerist

Steve Hughes is a construction worker by day and author by night. Hughes is the writer and publisher of the zine Stupor. His primary subject matter in Stupor are stories he collects from local bars such as Outer Limits, The Painted Lady Lounge, and Bumbo’s and then he collaborates with local artists to illustrate these stories. Since 1995 Hughes has released over 40 issues of Stupor and has collaborated with artists such as Scott Hocking, Clinton Snider, and Scott Northrup. Oftentimes while collecting bar stories he will use a camcorder to record the event [with permission] that way he can play it back as he writes the zine. In addition to his zine, Steve Hughes published a poetry book, Wasted, which was illustrated by Alex Buzzalini. Aside from writing, Steve Hughes ran Public Pool gallery with his wife Anne Harrington Hughes from 2010-2019.

Visual Artist & Gallerist

Anne Harrington Hughes is a printmaker that was raised in Holland Michigan and moved to Detroit in 1995 with her husband, Steve Hughes. In 1995 Harrington Hughes was pursuing her MFA at Wayne State University, and while enrolled she took an electives course in printmaking which sparked a joy in her that was waiting to be found. From 2007-2009 Anne Harrington Hughes and her mother had an ongoing print and poetry correspondence via postcards, in which she has now turned it into book titled “Postcard Snapshots”. As a direct result of working on postcard-sized artworks for two years, she became accustomed to working small. “Small can also be big… Big ideas that can draw your viewer in and create an intimate moment”. In addition to being a working artist, Anne Harrington Hughes and her husband operated Public Pool gallery in Hamtramck from 2010-2019 where they birthed a creative safe-haven for local artists, bands, and djs.

Multidisciplinary Artist & Educator

Sabrina Nelson was born on the heels of the ‘67 Rebellion and has lived in Detroit her whole life. She is a visual and performing artist and an educator at the Detroit Institute of Arts and is in charge of admissions at the College for Creative Studies. Nelson has always known she was an artist, yet at a young age she didn’t know there was such a thing as being an artist. In 1987 Sabrina Nelson enrolled at the College for Creative Studies and she was hungry for it… she wanted nothing more than to create and learn. While enrolled at CCS she was under the mentorship of Gilda Snowden, the first black woman artist she had ever seen; “I saw her as my future”. Nelson’s artwork is wrought with emotion; both sorrow and hope. Her series “Why You Wanna Fly Blackbird” was made in result to Black and Brown mothers mourning the loss of their children that have been murdered and her series on Medicine was made as a result to healing ones self and community through all cycles of their lives.

Visual Artist & Educator

Clinton Snider is a painter and sculptor whose artwork depicts rural and postindustrial landscapes. “I’m deeply interested in the world and there’s a spirit in which I’m captured by it. I want people to know that there’s more to the world than what they’re looking at.” He is greatly fascinated by the urban landscape of Detroit living in the shell of a city at the end of an industrial revolution. He uses found objects and paint to tell the stories of a specific neighborhood or home; what can each blade of grass or lost shoe or abandoned furniture say about its history? Snider has worked alongside Scott Hocking to create their instillation series “Relics” that attempts to chronicle the 300-year history of Detroit through found objects alone. In addition to working as an artist, Clinton Snider is an educator at the College for Creative Studies and the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center.

Visual Artist & Writer

Jennifer Gariepy has always been accustomed to a life, or planet if you will, other than our own. That planet being “Planet Zanataz” which is “The place where you go to connect with the creative intelligence of other people”. She is a multi-disciplinary artist that is interested in scientific artwork, abstract processes, and asemic poetry. Whether Gariepy is working in textile sculpture, painting, book arts, illustration, or metal there is a sense of science and whimsy to her artwork; opening up a realm of possibilities for seriousness and playfulness.

Gallerist, Poet, Playwright, & Puppeteer

Creativity is key for Aaron Timlin. No matter the endeavor, it’s always ‘go big or go home’ like the time he walked from Detroit to New York wearing a giant box that read “got art?” to raise money for city kids to receive an art education. As the son of two creative parents [Hugh Timlin and Two Moons] it’s no surprise he chose to pursue a career relating to the arts. Timlin is a well-known gallerist and has worked for and directed galleries throughout Detroit, such as: the Detroit Artists Market, CAID, the DIA, and detroit contemporary. In addition to advocating for arts & culture in the city, Timlin is also a poet, playwright, and puppeteer. He has aided in writing, directing, and producing plays such as Lambert Street and Walk Tall.

Multidisciplinary Artist

jessica Care moore is an internationally renowned poet, playwright, performance artist and producer. “Poetry is my bread & butter… it’s how I eat.” With her creative mind, anything around her has the potential to become a poem, but her strongest muse is love. She advises future creatives to: “Create and don’t stop. Be relentless; don’t let anyone tell you what to do. If it feels like a job, don’t do it”. Perhaps moore has had the strength to launch multiple creative programs because she is so passionate towards the arts and her community. moore is the CEO of Moore Black Press, Executive Producer of Black WOMEN Rock!, and founder of the literacy-driven, Jess Care Moore Foundation. Moore Black Press was created by jessica Care moore in 1997 with a mission to publish and amplify the voices of Black authors. In 2004 moore began Black WOMEN Rock! to pay homage to Betty Davis and promote black women rockstars.

Visual Artist

Andy Malone is a sculptor that was raised by an artist father and activist mother; arts and culture was the norm in his household. Malone’s background in the arts began with architecture and exhibit and custom furniture industry, and has since transitioned to interactive works and kinetic sculptures. His sculptures are primarily made of carved, wooden gears and varying simple machines. These sculptures are made with the intent to be handled; they are sturdy and playful. There is a lot of sketching an experimentation involved in the process of making one of these machines, but through trial and error a beautiful artwork is created and the scraps from other projects are disassembled and transformed into a new work.

Visual Artist

Since Taurus Burns was a child drawing has always been an outlet. In the late 90s Burns enrolled at Washtenaw Community College where he met Mr. Jon Onye Lockard. “If I hadn’t met him I probably wouldn’t be on the path I am now. I was a sponge and he saw potential in me and helped build my confidence as an artist”. Taurus Burns grew up in rural neighborhoods where few Black and Brown people lived and anti-blackness was common. As a mixed-race person, Burns he has undergone lifelong introspections on race, identity, and society and his views on these subjects come to life in his oil paintings. Taurus Burns uses a black and white color palette and symbols to showcase tension between the Black and White race, his own internal conflicts, and the battle of systemic racism.

Visual Artist & Educator

Brandon Walley has been surrounded by arts & culture from a young age whether it was from his mother’s own artistic pursuits or his father sneaking him into jazz concerts as a child. Walley is a filmmaker who uses 16mm, Super 8mm, and digital films that explore the abstractions between humanity, ecology, industry, and technology. Throughout the city Brandon has brought the adventure of film experiences with him to arts & culture venues and he is in partnership with organizations such as: Hamtramck Free School, Trinosophes and Media City Film Festival. Brandon was an Artist Fellow with Kresge Arts in Detroit in 2020. In addition to being a filmmaker, he has partnered up with Aaron Timlin for the Detroit Broadcasting Company and has mentored students from CCS about realm of filming.

Visual Artist & Musician

Shelby Murphy is a cosmic being of love and light and is a well-known local musician and artist from Detroit. Murphy has always found different ways to express herself creatively whether it be through visual art, hairdressing, or playing instruments & singing. In 2012 Shelby Murphy underwent a theophany after sungazing in her friends backyard in Hamtramck. While staring into the sun a ball of light entered her body and afterwards she was blessed with newfound talents such as the ability to write in light language and codes; which can be observed in her artwork and automatic writings. She was asked by Dalia Reyes and Adnan Charara to design a large mural in the entryway of Galerie Camille using her light language and codes. In addition to her visual art, Murphy is the drummer for the local band The Demolition Doll Rods.

Visual Arts & Gallerist

Yvette Rock is a multidisciplinary artist that was born in Paramaribo, Suriname and raised in Miami Beach, Florida. At age 17 Rock moved to New York City where she received her BFA from Coopers Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and then moved to Michigan in 1997 to attend U of M for an MFA in painting. During her enrollment at U of M, Yvette Rock was introduced to Detroit in 1998 when she came to interview Gilda Snowden for one of her assignments and as a result of the interview they remained friends until Gilda’s passing in 2014. Rock inherited paint and brushes that had once belonged to Gilda and she has created many artworks using her materials. Yvette Rocks artwork exists in a healthy balance of figure and abstraction. With either approach to her work she addresses ideas of human conception, identity, motherhood, racism, and life and death. In addition to being a working artist, Rock is the founder of Live Coal LLC and Live Coal Gallery. The mission of Live Coal is to transform lives and neighborhoods through art, community development, and education.

Visual Artist & Educator

Senghor Reid is a painter and according to his mother, Shirley Woodson, by age four he was creating every day. “Whatever he did in life, art was going to be a part of it”. Reid’s primary subject matter in his paintings are bodies of water and the human figure. He explores the connections between arts & culture, social science, and the conservation of our natural environment. There is a spiritual and familial energy that radiates from Reid’s paintings; as though you can hear the waves crashing upon the shore or feel the warmth of the figures skin. In addition to working as an artists, Reid is an educator at Cranbrook where one discipline leads into the other; he is consistently learning and creating in unison with his students.

Visual Artist

Hocking once met a psychic that told him he would live an ordinary life and die at 88 years old. In the fall of 1996, Scott Hocking’s life took an unexpected turn. He was involved in a gnarly car accident that left him with a sense of rock bottom clarity on how quickly life can change; and in that moment he decided to go to art school. In the winter of 1996 Hocking met Sabrina Nelson at CCS and she helped him prepare his portfolio and was soon admitted into their BFA program. Scott Hocking is well-known for his site-specific installations and photography across the city of Detroit. He is interested in Detroit’s history and how “wasted” materials can take on a whole new life through sculpture. While there is no easy way of knowing if the psychic was correct, so far Hocking’s life as a creative has not been ordinary.

Visual Artist & Musician

Annette DeLorean’s creative endeavors began in the music scene in Ferndale, Michigan. She played in multiple bands and eventually wanted to create a music video for her band, but thing was, she has no knowledge in animation. Headstrong and determined DeLorean taught herself the ins and outs of animation. She currently writes short films and tv shows such as Punk Rock Yoga Bitch. DeLorean describes her artwork as a “multimedia bag of comedy and sorrow”. She addresses her Polish background and time in Hamtramck as well as skits about her coming of age. As a self-taught animator, DeLorean wanted a way to network with other creatives, so she created her own animated film festival in 2021 and plans to make it an annual event.

Visual Artist

Since he was a child Ryan Herberholz was always creating and knew he wanted to be an artist. As a young boy he was always drawing and in high school he discovered a love for ceramics and while in pursuit of his BFA at Uof M he delved into the realm of videography and metal & woodworking. It was not until the end of undergrad that Herberholz discovered his love for painting. At the end of undergrad and into his graduate degree at Wayne State University, Herberholz began painting abandoned buildings and homes around the city of Detroit. He would explore the area and paint from observation, but he wasn’t into the idea of “urban porn” or “urban blight photography”. It was much more than that, it’s about color and the character of the buildings. This fascination with the character of a building and who does/did live there has led him to create his most recent body of work, TEOTWAWKI, which is an acronym for “the end of the world as we know it”. TEOTWAWKI addresses the end of the world and how preppers, survivalists, and the Bushcraft people are readying themselves for the apocalypse.