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FALL FETE 2024

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th  @ 6PM

Annual Gala Fundraiser 

Please join us for our 3rd Annual Gala featuring an exclusive VIP preview, live performances, and strolling dinner in the company of featured artists Machine Dazzle + Gracelee Lawrence.

All proceeds support WP Fund’s mission of providing funding to help artists bring to fruition special projects that might not otherwise be possible. Through immersive visual and performing arts experiences, WP Fund fosters artists of all disciplines and facilitates collaborations to generate meaningful connections throughout our community.

Limited Capacity, Please reserve tickets in advance. Valet Parking. Artful attire.


ARTIST WALKTHROUGH + CONCERT

THURSDAY, MAY 30TH @ 6:00pm

Registration Required – Tickets “Pay As You Wish”

We are delighted to welcome back artists Marina Zurkow, James Schmitz, Jasmine Murrell, Marshall Reese, and Nora Ligorano for a very special walkthrough of the exhibition Underfoot / Overhead. Please join us for an informal conversation with the artists followed by a piano concert with Justin Snyder.


DANDELION TEA WORKSHOP + CEREMONY

SATURDAY, MAY 25TH @ 2:00pm

Registration Required 

Join us for an afternoon tea workshop with featured artist Jasmine Murrell and her muse – the dandelion plant. A certified herbalist, Murrell will discuss the medicinal and healing properties of dandelion. Following the conversation, dandelion tea will be served. Ticket holders will receive a custom, limited edition tea cup designed and produced by exhibition partner Lisa Chan of Still Life Ceramics.


KITTEL & CO QUINTET

THURSDAY, APRIL 11TH @ 7:00pm

Registration Required / Tickets $20 / Doors @ 6:30pm

Jeremy Kittel returns with his five-piece string band. Join us for a performance inhabiting the space between classical and acoustic roots, Celtic and bluegrass aesthetics, and folk and jazz sensibilities.


NEW MUSIC DETROIT: ANYTHING RATHER THAN THE BURNING BRIGHTNESS OF UNMITIGATED REALITY

SATURDAY, MARCH 2ND @ 7:30pm

Registration Required / Tickets $20 / Doors @ 7:00pm

Pianist Justin Snyder presents a solo performance for piano, electronics, and video in response to Ken Aptekar’s Illuminated Manuscripts in The Age of Social Media and Texting


PANEL DISCUSSION: SHIFTING FREQUENCIES

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29th @ 6pm

Free to Attend / Registration Required

Please join us in welcoming back featured artists Laura Letinsky and Beth Lipman. Learn more about their individual processes and shared interests in conversation with Director and Curator of Wasserman Projects, Alison Wong. Free and open to the public. Presented in partnership with Cranbrook Academy of Art.


NEW MUSIC DETROIT: STILL LIFE

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8th @ 7pm

Registration Required / General Tickets $20 / Student Tickets $15

In response to the works of Laura Letinsky and Beth Lipman on display in Shifting Frequencies, “Still Life” is a sonic meditation on the illusion of time. 

Interpreting the complexity of sensations encapsulated in the blink of an eye, the seven compositions on the program each represent a still life reanimated through sound. As these individual worlds frozen in time begin to thaw, they unfurl to unearth an intuitive meaning that is felt rather than intellectualized.


DANIELA ROMA: PIANO CONCERT AND CONVERSATION

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2nd @ 6pm

Registration Required / Tickets $18/$20

Presented in Partnership with The Dante Alighieri Society Of Michigan

Daniela performed solo and chamber music concerts in prestigious theaters in Europe and the United States. She was the Artistic Director and organizer of the International Piano Master Classes in Palazzo San Bernardino, Rossano (Italy). She has been the Artistic Director of the Alfonso Rendano Cultural Association in Carolei, Cosenza, Italy, and she is the artistic director of the Alfonso Rendano International Music Festival held in Villa Rendano, Cosenza-Italy.

With the support of the Italian American Club of Livonia Charitable Foundation (IACLCF)
Under the Auspices of the Consulate of Italy in Detroit


A CONVERSATION WITH ITALIAN NOBEL LITERATURE NOMINEE DACIA MARAINI

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD  @ 6pm

Free to Attend / Registration Required

Presented in Partnership with The Dante Alighieri Society Of Michigan

Born in Florence in 1936, Dacia Maraini has for many years worked as one of Italy’s most committed and widely acclaimed feminist authors. She has won various awards in recognition of her literary contributions: the Formentor Prize for L’età del malessere (1963); the Premio Fregene for Isolina (1985); the Premio Campiello and Book of the Year Award for La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (1990); and the Premio Strega for Buio (1999). In 2013, Irish Braschi’s biographical documentary I Was Born Travelling recounted the story of Maraini’s life, focusing in particular on her childhood imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan during World War II and the journeys she made around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas. Dacia was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize and a three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Week of Italian Language in the World is organized under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic by the Consulate of Italy in Detroit, 
the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, with the support of the Italian American Club of Livonia Charitable Foundation (IACLCF)


MICHELE OKA DONER: A SEED TAKES ROOT

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14th  @ 10am – 12pm

Free to Attend / Advanced Book Purchase $25

A Seed Takes Root: A True Story, by acclaimed artist Michele Oka Doner, is an homage to the natural world and to one very special banyan tree in particular. The lyrical text is paired with evocative original artwork by Oka Doner inspired by (and at times incorporating elements of) a much-loved banyan tree in Miami Beach that has been a presence in her life since childhood. A book and work of art that defies classification, A Seed Takes Root is simultaneously an art book, a poetic meditation, a memoir, a fable, and a tale suitable for children and for readers of all ages.

Attendance to this event is free and open to the public however copies of A Seed Takes Root: A True Story are limited and it is encouraged to purchase in advance to guarantee availability and ensure your copy is signed by the artist.


COOPER HOLOWESKI: NOTHING EVERYTHING NOTHING

Guided Meditation with Live Sound

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12th  @ 6PM

$10 event only / $75 book + event 

Join us for a transformative experience at Wasserman Projects in Detroit, MI, USA. Immerse yourself in this guided meditation led by artist Cooper Holoweski, accompanied with mesmerizing live sound by Doc Holoweski

This meditation is part of the book launch of Cooper Holoweski’s artist book Nothing Everything Nothing, which will be available for purchase at the event. Admission is included with purchase of a book.


FALL FETE 2023

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st  @ 6PM

Annual Gala Fundraiser 

Please join us for an exclusive VIP preview and strolling dinner amidst a visual feast of art and performance, in the company of featured artists Laura Letinsky + Beth Lipman + Brian Bailey.

All proceeds support WP Fund’s mission of providing funding to help artists bring to fruition special projects that might not otherwise be possible. Through programming that supports artists at all levels of their careers – from emerging to established, WP Fund fosters professional development opportunities for artists and facilitates collaborations to generate meaningful connections throughout our community.

Limited Capacity, Please reserve tickets in advance. Valet Parking. Cocktail attire.


FALL EXHIBITION OPENING / DETROIT MONTH OF DESIGN

BETH LIPMAN + LAURA LETINSKY

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd  @ 5:00 PM 8:00 PM

Free and open to the public / Registration optional

Wasserman Projects is excited to share the opening reception of our Fall 2023 Exhibition with Design Core Detroit’s Detroit Month of Design. The exhibition features the work of Midwest artists Beth Lipman, and Laura Letinsky, and will be on view through December 16th. The event is free and open to the public, but we encourage you to SAVE THE DATE by reserving a spot via eventbrite.


ALEX SCHWEDER / CHARLI BRISSEY + SHANNON STEWART PERFORMANCE

THURSDAY, JUNE 1st  @ 7:30 PM DOORS AT 7:00

Tickets are required / General Admission and Student ticketing options available. 

The performance will run for approximately 2 hours, concluding once the sun has set. Audience members are invited to move freely through the space, come and go as desired, or witness the evolution of the event in its entirety.

Wasserman Projects is excited to host a special performance by Charli Brissey and Shannon Stewart on June 1st, in conversation with the work of artist, Alex Schweder, and his Spring 2023 installation, The Third Thing.

Using Schweder’s artist statement addressing the sensual nature of The Third Thing–“an effervescent cocktail of skin, sound, mirror, fur, milk”–dance artists Charli Brissey and Shannon Stewart intervene with an iterative looping performance exploring gender, form, and relationality.


HENRY FORD MUSEUM + WASSERMAN PROJECTS

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17  @ 6 PM DOORS AT 5:00

Tickets are free, with a $10 suggested donation option to support our future exhibitions and events.

Wasserman Projects is excited to partner with the Henry Ford Museum for a very special pairing of physical objects from the museum’s archives, in presentation with the paintings of our Spring 2023 featured artist, Caitlin MacBride.

We hope that you will join us on Wednesday, May 17th at 6PM, for a casual conversation with archivists from the museum, who will discuss the intriguing histories, relevance, function, and design, of the historic objects on site. Wasserman Projects, the Henry Ford Museum, and MacBride, collaborated in curating a selection of objects to be paired with her work for this special event.

Learn more about Caitlin MacBride and her work from her ARTSY Viewing Room!


SAND & STONE: NEW MUSIC DETROIT LIVE MUSICAL CONCERT

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9  @ 7 PM DOORS AT 6:30

Tickets are required / Limited Capacity General Seating

The concert will begin promptly at 7:00pm with a 1hour run-time.

Please join us for a live, musical program as a parallel reflection upon duality and the deep entanglement of the old with the new, and performed in conjunction with our Fall 2022 Exhibition, Ancient Entanglements, featuring Matter Design + Sanford Biggers and From Within by Alyssa Taylor Wendt.

MUSICIANS

Percussion: Joe Becker

Violin: Yuri Popowycz
Cello: Úna O’Riordan

Piano: Justin Snyder
Voice: Jocelyn Zelasko

DABF MUSIC @ WASSERMAN PROJECTS

SATURDAY,  OCT 15  @ 7 PM 

Wasserman Projects is happy to host post fair festivities in a night filled with live musical performances, for the Detroit Art Book Fair’s eighth year. Sound by Thynk, Matthew Conzett, Maia Asshaq, and Efe Bes, and a first listen to the newly pressed record by Egyptian composer, Halim El-Dabh.


VIP PREVIEW + FALL GALA

THURSDAY,  SEPT 22  @ 6 PM 

Wasserman Projects along with co-hosts, Julie Rothstein + Jennifer Hermelin invite you to join us for an exclusive VIP preview of the site-specific exhibition by Brandon Clifford + Jo Lobdell of Matter Design featuring new experimental works by Sanford Biggers, produced in collaboration with Matter Design + MIT Labs. and strolling dinner, followed by a live performance by MoonMedicin. Guests will also receive a set of two limited edition vinyl records released in partnership with Third Man Records (valued at $400).

Limited Capacity, Please reserve tickets in advance. Valet Parking. Cocktail attire.

For more information please call 313.818.3550 or email info@wassermanprojects.com

Wasserman Projects Fund is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization. A portion of your ticket purchase is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the law. Following the event, you will receive a letter of recognition.


MAY PIANO PERFORMANCES WITH JUSTIN SNYDER 

THE SCENT OF LIGHT: FRIDAY,  MAY 6  @ 7 PM DOORS AT 6:30

LIQUID MEMORIES: FRIDAY MAY 13 @ 7PM – DOORS AT 6:30

Please join us for two live, musical concerts by Ann Arbor based pianist Justin Snyder, presenting a concept developed by Escforescent, and paired with scents by Detroit based Sfumato Fragrances.

JUSTIN SNYDER studied at the University of Michigan and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He has collaborated with artists of diverse disciplines including dancers, visual artists, poets, performance artists, fashion designers, and laser artists.
ESCFORESCENT formed by Irena Menk and Justin Snyder, is an artistic endeavor born out of a desire to escape the ordinary and actualize new dimensions of perception.  Escforescent focuses on immersive experiences via unique combinations of our various senses.
SFUMATO FRAGRANCES founded by Kevin Peterson and Jane Larson, prefer natural ingredients over the synthetics prevalent in most modern scents. Sfumato also seeks ties between fragrance, science, flavor, and experience through a range of collaborations with event directors, musicians, artists, chefs, and bartenders.

VIRTUAL ARTIST TALK / PENNY STAMPS LECTURE SERIES 

THURSDAY,  OCT. 21  @ 8 PM 

Please join us on air, in collaboration with University of Michigan’s Penny Stamps Lecture Series, for a unique opportunity to hear the artists and director behind Ocean Body, speak about their work.

Ocean Body is a multi-screen film and music instal­la­tion directed and designed by Mark DeChi­azza and col­lab­o­ra­tively cre­ated with com­poser — vocal­ists Helga Davis and Shara Nova who embody a sculp­ture built for two by Annica Cup­petelli, artist and Lec­turer II at the Stamps School of Art & Design.

Ocean Body exam­ines the decade-long close friend­ship between Davis and Nova and seeks a nec­es­sary bridge for the divi­sion that exists not only in our soci­ety, but in ourselves.


VIRTUAL ARTIST TALK / PENNY STAMPS LECTURE SERIES 

FRIDAY,  OCT. 9  @ 8 PM 

Please join us on air, in collaboration with University of Michigan’s Penny Stamps Lecture Series, for a unique opportunity to hear conversation with our Director and Curator, Alison Wong speak with

Form&Seek founder, Bilge Nur Saltik, and artist and designer, Aaron Blendowski, about the development of our current exhibition, Never Normal.
Also hear from featured artist and designers Karen Lee, Donut Shop, and Ebitenefa Baralaye, speak about their work.

VIRTUAL OPENING / FALL 2020 EXHIBITIONS 

THURSDAY,  SEPT 17  6-8 PM 

Please join us for the virtual opening on September 17th, 6-8pm of our Fall 2020 Exhibitions. Wasserman Projects in collaboration with Form&Seek is pleased to present Never Normal, a group exhibition bringing together over 20 designers across the US.
Diverging from conventional means of solving problems, the works in this exhibition seek to reexamine and reevaluate our personal relationships to our domestic landscape. Through craft or making, these designers are able to express value, preciousness, and care that offer intuitive moments of clarity on contemporary issues in response to the needs of a society in flux.
Presented in conjunction with Design Core – Detroit Month of Design, Never Normal seeks to honor Detroit’s history as the cradle of American design and to uphold the city as a platform for new experimental design.  The exhibition continues through December 12th with private viewing by appointment.

DIGITAL ART FAIR

Wasserman Projects is proud to announce our participation in @ArtMileDetroit, a new citywide digital art exhibition that champions Detroit’s vibrant and diverse arts community by promoting public programs and online acquisitions. Taking place July 29 – August 5, Art Mile will feature nearly 60 of Detroit’s local art galleries, institutional non-profits, museums and artist-run spaces. Visit ArtMileDetroit.com for updates and more information.


GUIDED VIDEO EXHIBITION TOURS

SATURDAY,  APR 18 & APR 25 –  6:00 PM 

Please join us for a streamed video walk-through of our current exhibitions: Dorota & Steve Coy’s “The Five Realms” and Adrian Wong’s “Tiles, Grates, Poles, Rocks, Plants, and Veggies” – Guided by Director + Curator, Alison Wong with Artists, Dorota + Steve Coy + Adrian Wong.

Wasserman Projects is pleased to present this online exclusive viewing to the public in small groups. Limited to the first 25 registrants with availability on a first come basis.


CLOSING RECEPTION + PERFORMANCE WITH EFE BES

SATURDAY,  FEB 22 5:00 – 7:00 PM 

We invite you to join Wasserman Projects for the closing reception of our Winter 2020 Exhibition, “Reflecting Pool” with a special performance by exhibiting artist and musician Efe Bes. “Reflecting Pool” features seven artists: Efe Bes, Jason DeMarte, Jacob Feige, Matthew Hansel, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Virginia Rose Torrence, and Graem Whyte. From painting, to photography and sculpture, this exhibition explores a contemporary approach to the interpretation and representation of classical concepts and aesthetics.

Closing Reception: 5:00 – 7:00PM
Efe Bes Performance: 5:30 – 6:00PM
This event is free and open to the public with a $10 suggested donation.


ARTWORKS DETROIT – THE 24TH ANNUAL BENEFIT FOR MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES 

THURSDAY,  SEPT 12 @ 5:00 PM 

Wasserman Projects is pleased to host the 24th annual ArtWorks Detroit benefit event on Thursday, September 12th at 5pm., presented by Matrix Human Services to raise funds for educating children, supporting families and rebuilding neighborhoods across Detroit. ArtWorks Detroit will feature live and silent auctions of over 75 works from renowned local artists. Don’t miss this opportunity to purchase incredible works, enjoy local food, drink, and entertainment, while supporting an important cause!


PAINTINGS BY MARIA DICHIERA

SUNDAY,  AUGUST 25TH, 4:00 – 6:00 PM

The DiChiera Family invites you to an exhibition of paintings by Maria DiChiera, from the collection of her son David. All sales will benefit the David DiChiera Artistic Fund at the Michigan Opera Theatre. Maria immigrated to the US in 1920, a pregnant and poor peasant from Calabria, Italy.  She raised four children in America, including Michigan Opera Theatre founder David DiChiera. He and Karen DiChiera encouraged Maria to paint when she was in her sixties. Over a thirty year period she created hundreds of colorful and vibrant images, now offered for purchase. This exhibit is a one-day event, courtesy of Wasserman Projects. 


SIGHT X SOUND – DSO PERFORMANCE @ WP

TUESDAY,  MAY 21ST, 7:00 PM

Our second in the series of three events this season in collaboration with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Wasserman Projects is excited to present another night of music set in the galleries. This concert will begin with an introduction by Detroit-based artist Scott Hocking on his current exhibition followed by with three pieces of music connecting to his work performed by artists Shannon Orme (clarinet), Joe Becker (percussion), Zhihua Tang (piano), Sheryl Hwangbo (violin), and David LeDoux (cello). The evening’s program includes performances of Andy Akiho’s “Karakurenai” for open instrumentation, Osvaldo Golijov’s  “Mariel” for Cello and Marimba, and Paul Moravec’s “Tempest Fantasy”.


TOGETHER WE SOUND FESTIVAL – AKROPOLIS REED QUINTET CONCERT @ WP

THURSDAY,  JUNE 6TH, 7:00 PM

Join us for a special concert this summer by the award-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet, followed by Detroit experimental percussionist Zac Brunell performing works for amplified cactus by Steven Snowden and John Cage, and the world premiere of Steven Snowden’s new work,  SprocketSprocket joins the reed quintet with a rideable percussion bicycle designed and fabricated by Detroit resident and Kresge Arts Fellow, Juan Martinez, and performed on by local experimental percussionist, Zac Brunell.


SIGHT X SOUND – DSO PERFORMANCE @ WP

TUESDAY,  MARCH 19TH, 7:00 PM

In collaboration with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Wasserman Projects is excited to present a night of music set in the galleries. Inspired by Esther Shalev-Gerz’s exhibition “The Gold Room”, the program speaks to human migration and driving factors for leaving ones homeland through the works of Mendelssohn and Shostakovich who wrote during oppressed times and war. Please join us with Esther Shalev-Gerz and DSO Performers: Will Haapaniemi (violin), Heidi Han (violin), Han Zheng (viola), Jeremy Crosmer (cello).

MARELA ZACARIAS + SARAH MEYOHAS – FILM SCREENING (3pm) + ARTIST TALK (4pm)

SATURDAY,  NOVEMBER 10TH, 3:00 – 5;00 PM

Please join us for a discussion with featured artists, Marela Zacarias and Sarah Meyohas as they share the inspiration and concepts behind their work. The talk will take place in the gallery, among the two exhibitions Zacarias’s “Coatlicue’s Return” and Meyohas’s “Speculations” with a film screening of Sarah Meyohas’s “Cloud of Petals” at 3:00pm. Discussion will begin at 4:00pm.

ARTWORKS DETROIT – THE 23RD ANNUAL CHARITY ART AUCTION & FUNDRAISER

THURSDAY,  SEPT 13 @ 6:00 PM 

Wasserman Projects is honored to host this year’s 23rd annual Artworks Detroit benefit event on Thursday, September 13th at 6pm., presented by Matrix Human Services to raise funds for educating children, supporting families and rebuilding neighborhoods across Detroit. Join us for an exciting evening of live and silent auctions of donated artworks by renowned national and Detroit-area artists, delicious food from outstanding local restaurants, Live music, a fashion showcase curated by Walk Fashion Show, and much more!


ALCHEMICA – AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERIENCE EXHIBITION

THURSDAY + FRIDAY,  SEPT 6 + 7

Wasserman Projects and The Consul of Italy Maria Manca invite you to a very special exhibition Sept. 6 & 7, 2018 presented in the context of the 2018 Giornata del Contemporaneo – Italian Contemporary Art and in collaboration with the Milan-based graphic agency Alkanoids.  “Alchemica” will include 32 works developed with the technology of the augmented reality by a collective of Italian artists (illustrators, animators, sound designers). Presented for the first time in the United States, the exhibit will allow visitors to experience augmented reality through their cellphones starting from two-dimensional images.


MICHELE OKA DONER – ARTIST TALK + BOOK SIGNING

THURSDAY,  MAY 3 @ 5:00 PM 

Please join us in welcoming back Michele Oka Doner on Thursday, May 3rd at 5pm. Oka Doner will give an artist talk, providing first hand insight to the influences and development of her practice as well as how her time in Detroit shaped her work. We will also be unveiling a special publication produced on the occasion of Michele Oka Doner’s exhibition “Fluent in the Language of Dreams” which includes Detroit legend, Marsha Music as a contributor. Following the artist talk, Marsha Music will read “Ode to Oka D” the featured poem inspired by Michele Oka Doner and her work. Books will be available for purchase with the opportunity to have them signed by the artist at the event. This event is free and open to the public.


CLOSING RECEPTION + BENEFIT FOR DABLS AFRICAN BEAD MUSEUM

SATURDAY,  DECEMBER 16,  4:00 – 8:00 PM 

Wasserman Projects is excited to host a benefit for Dabls’ African Bead Museum in conjunction with the closing reception for our current exhibitions. Come celebrate collaboration, community, art, music, & culture in Detroit. This event is timed with a fundraising and awareness-building campaign for the African Bead Museum. Please join us for performances, live music, workshops, discussion, and more. The event is free & open to the public but registration is required! Donations can be made at registration, direct to campaign site, & at the event.

DOLLHOUSE – MARSHA MUSIC & JOHN SINCLAIR WITH JEFF GRAND

THURSDAY,  NOVEMBER 16 @ 7:00 PM 

Wasserman Projects is pleased to present a poetry reading by Marsha Music that will take place within the current exhibition “Homemade Ice Cream”. Described as a “Primordial Detroiter” Marsha’s experience shows through in her acclaimed essays, poetry, and narratives about Detroit’s past and future.  Marsha will perform a new work of poetry that is inspired by themes present in Homemade Ice Cream. Groundbreaking jazz poet, John Sinclair, will perform his spoken word accompanied by legendary Detroit bluesman Jeff Grand. This event is free and open to the public.


FERRANTE FEVER – ANN GOLDSTEIN

FRIDAY,  OCTOBER 27 @ 6:00 PM 

Dante Alighieri Society brings Ann Goldstein, to speak about Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels which she translated between 2011 – 2015. The novels tell the story, in sometimes excruciating psychological detail, of the sixty-year friendship between two girls from a crumbling, violent neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples.
This event is free and open to the public.

PANEL DISCUSSION – JASON YATES / BRUCE HAINLEY / PATRICK HILL

SATURDAY,  OCTOBER 21 @ 5:00 PM

Wasserman Projects is pleased to present Jason Yates in conversation with LA based writer and art critic, Bruce Hainley, and Detroit based artist, Patrick Hill. In addition to discussing the artist’s personal practice, the conversation will explore themes surrounding Yates’ current exhibition at Wasserman Projects, Homemade Ice Cream. This event will be held in the gallery and is free and open to the public.

PENNY ARCADE – LONGING LASTS LONGER

SATURDAY,  OCTOBER 21 @ 7:00 PM

In partnership with University of Michigan Penny Stamps School of Art and Design, Wasserman Projects will be presenting an exclusive performance by Penny Arcade. Internationally respected as a performance artist, actress, poet, and theater maker, Arcade’s work is a cultural critique on class, race, and identity. She is an original member of New York’s seminal rock and roll, political theater The Playhouse of the Ridiculous and was a teenage superstar in Andy Warhol’s Factory. This event is free and open to the public.

ALLEE WILLIS PERFORMANCE

SATURDAY,  SEPTEMBER 23 @ 7:00 PM

Join us for a special event with Detroit legend, Allee Willis, a Grammy, Emmy, Tony and Webby award-winning and nominated songwriter, performer, visual artist, multimediaist, director, collector, social artist, and party thrower. Willis will be performing from the front porch of Jason Yates’ installation featured in ‘Homemade Ice Cream’. The evening will celebrate our love of Detroit through storytelling, a sing-along, and good times! Event is free and open to the public but space is limited, register today!

CONCERT AT WALKABOUT FARM – JEREMY KITTEL

WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER 27 @ 7:00 PM

Visit Koen Vanmechelen’s Planetary Community Chickens in their current installation at Walkabout Farm in the presence of the artist.
The evening will include a performance by The Jeremy Kittel Quartet – featuring Kittel on fiddle, Josh Pinkham on mandolin, Nathaniel Smith on cello and Simon Chrisman on hammered dulcimer. The quartet blends traditional roots, jazz, Celtic and classical styles. Doors at 6:00 PM, concert at 7:00 PM.

HAVE+HOLD – PANEL DISCUSSION

SATURDAY, AUGUST 26 @ 5:00 – 6:00 PM

Join Artists Shane Darwent + Sophie Eisner, Curator Alison Wong, and Moderator Trisha Holt for a panel discussion about the ongoing collaboration between Butter Projects + Wasserman Projects, the concept for Have+Hold, and development of selected works.

Closing Reception to follow from 6:00 – 8:00 PM. Free and open to the public.


TIME FOR THREE

JUNE 7 @ 7:00PM

Known for their unique style that blends elements of classical, country western, gypsy, and jazz, groundbreaking trio, Time for Three (Tf3) brings a high-energy performance to Wasserman Projects.

Nicolas Kendall, violin / Charles Yang, violin / Ranaan Meyer, double bass

Performance is presented in partnership with The League of American Orchestras, Park Avenue Artists, and Detroit Symphony Orchestra.  Limited seating, reserve your ticket today.


THE TENT OF CASUALLY OBSERVED PHENOLOGIES

MARCH 24-25, 2017

James Leonard will be bringing the Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies to Wasserman Projects March 24-25, 2017. The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies is an interactive contemporary artwork that invites participants to contemplate nature and the future of the planet through divination readings.
The artist will offer free, private, climate change readings inside the tent March Friday 4-7PM and Saturday 11AM-3PM, with an artist talk to follow..

AN EVENING WITH DAVID DICHIERA

MARCH 14, 2017 | 7:00 – 8:30 PM

Wasserman Projects and The Michigan Opera Theatre invite you to join composer David Dichiera for a live performance of selected original works to be featured on the Legacy Recording.

DiChiera founded Michigan Opera Theatre in 1971 with a mission to create a world-class opera company that served and represented the diverse community where it resided. His priorities included championing artists of color, mentoring the next generation of opera singers, and supporting Detroit’s revitalization. After many years of dedicated service to the opera theatre, DiChiera will now move on to become the MOT Artistic Director Emeritus.

Featuring Angela Theis (soprano), Briana Elyse Hunter (mezzo soprano), Yury Revich (violin), Aleksey Shadrin (cello), Ivan Moshchuk (piano).

In lieu of a ticketing fee, we invite you to contribute to the DiChiera Legacy Recording Fund at Michigan Opera Theatre.


REBECCA FOON

MARCH 2, 2017 | 7:00 – 10:00 PM

Wasserman Projects will host an intimate concert with performances by both Rebecca Foon and Jesse Paris Smith, Thursday March 2nd, 2017. This concert will take place in the gallery among the current exhibition “After Industry”.

Cellist and composer Rebecca Foon has been a fixture of the Montréal music community for two decades, since moving to the city from her native Vancouver in the late 1990s. She co-founded the Juno Awardwinning contemporary chamber group Esmerine in 2002 and was a core member of the celebrated cult post-punk band Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra from 2001-2008 and the experimental instrumental collective Set Fire To Flames. Foon is a dedicated climate activist, and her passion for climate justice is a focal point of A Common Truth, the artist’s upcoming solo album (to be released March 31, 2017). For more info about Saltland click here.

Jesse Paris Smith is a composer, instrumentalist, activist,  producer, and co-founder of Pathway to Paris, a fundraising initiative and multi media event series focused on bringing awareness to climate change. She has performed globally in many configurations, collaborating with other musicians and artists, including Soundwalk Collective, Tenzin Choegyal, Tree Laboratory, Shyam Nepali, Raju Lamag, her brother Jackson Smith, and mother, Patti Smith. For more info about Jesse Paris Smith click here.

Doors at 7PM
Performance by Jesse Paris Smith 7:45
Performance by Rebecca Foon 8:15


CREATIVE MANY CRITICAL CONTEXT SUMMIT

JANUARY 26, 2017 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM

Wasserman Projects is pleased to host Creative Many’s Critical Context Summit. This event will engage local, national and international presenters in panel conversations focused on the relationships between artists and those representing, presenting, commissioning and contextualizing their work. Creative Many is a statewide organization that develops creative people, creative places and the creative economy for a competitive Michigan through research, advocacy, professional practice and communications.


KOEN VANMECHELEN TO SPEAK AT TEDxUofM CONFERENCE

FEBRUARY 8, 2017 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM

 Koen Vanmechelen will be speaking at this year’s TEDxUofM event at the University of Michigan’s Power Center for the Performing Arts. The TEDxUofM conference showcases many of the most fascinating University-affiliated thinkers and doers for a stimulating day of presentations, entertainment, art, and discussion. This year’s theme of the conference “Dreamers and Disruptors”,  unifies speakers of different disciplines to share their discoveries and ideas with the audience.


KOEN VANMECHELEN ARTIST TALK

NOVEMBER 5, 2016 | 3:00 – 4:00 PM

Join us for an artist talk with Koen Vanmechelen, whose recent exhibition Energy/Mass was featured in the New York Times. Koen Vanmechelen believes that art is a vital aspect of society and core to creating vibrant and healthy communities. His wide-ranging creative practice marries exceptional artistry, technological experimentation, and scientific research. Internationally renowned, Vanmechelen is best known from his ongoing Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (CCP), which he first launched in 1999 to explore cultural and biological diversity. A crossbreeding program-through which the artist breeds chickens from around the world-CCP fosters a dialogue on national identity and the interdependence of different cultures, species, and the environment.


EXCHANGE RATES FAIR: BUSHWICK, NY

OCTOBER 20-23, 2016 | 12:00 – 6:00 PM DAILY

Wasserman Projects artist, Michael Scoggins will be featured at Exchange Rates in collaboration with Butter Projects and their artists – Bridget Frances Quinn and Millee Tibbs. Exchange rates is an international exposition of artworks and curitorial programs in which host spaces in one art community open their doors and share their walls with visiting galleries. The exhibition space is located at ArtHelix 289 Meserole St. Brooklyn, NY 11206.


“NO LIMITS NO BOUNDARIES” BOOK RELEASE + RECEPTION

OCTOBER 15, 2016 | 5:00 – 8:00 PM

Join authors Julian English and Natasha Moulton-Levy as they launch their book “No Limits No Boundaries: My Journey through the ABC’s!” Julian English, is a preemie, special education student, athlete and now author at 12 years old. After surviving brain bleeds at birth, reading does not come easily for Julian. In No Limits, No Boundaries, Julian and co-author, his mom Natasha, take you along their journey, internationally and domestically, as Julian tackles his ABC’s with the help of family and friends.

STRANGE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC 9 AT WASSERMAN PROJECTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016 | 2:00 – 10:00 PM

Wasserman Projects will host New Music Detroit’s annual contemporary music marathon. The avant-garde production features experimental and far-reaching sounds ranging from contemporary chamber music and European folk to experimental electronics and noise improvisation.


ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ ARTIST TALK

JUNE 18, 2016 | 3:00 – 4:00 PM

 Esther Shalev-Gerz returns to Wasserman Projects Saturday June 18th to give an artist talk at the gallery.  The artist will discuss select works from her current exhibition at Wasserman Projects, ‘Space Between Time’. The exhibition features eight major artworks spanning three decades of Shalev-Gerz’s career in photography, video, sound, and sculpture, including the debut of two new works.

GREAT LAKES CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: THE BRITISH CONNECTION

JUNE 17th, 2016 | 8:00 PM

 Wasserman Projects will partner with The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival to present a dynamic musical performance at the gallery. The strolling performance will transform and reinvent British folksongs, through the different imaginations of a traditional folk singer, a cello/piano duo, a jazz ensemble and an electronic musician. The concert will be accompanied by a reception.

ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ ARTIST TALK

APRIL 27, 2016 | 5:00 – 6:00 PM

Join us for an artist talk with Esther Shalev-Gerz sponsored by University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design.

In anticipation of her solo exhibition “Space Between Time” at Wasserman Projects in Detroit’s Eastern Market, Shalev-Gerz will speak about her work in photography, video, sound, and sculpture. Constantly inquiring into transitional qualities of time and space and the correlative transformation of identities, locales and (hi)stories Esther Shalev-Gerz has produced a body of work that simultaneously records, critiques, and contributes to our understandings of the societal roles and value of artistic practice. The works unfold histories and cultural identities by opening dialogues with people whose testimonies elaborate on portraits of their individual and collective memories, desires, opinions and experiences amidst the construction of time.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 5pm. Art & Architecture Bldg 2000 Bonisteel Blvd. Ann Arbor MI, 48109, Room #2104.


PANEL DISCUSSION: ART IN ACHITECTURE

FEBRUARY 26, 2016 | 7:30 – 10:00 PM

Wasserman Projects is pleased to host a panel discussion about art in architecture . Panelists:
Alex Schweder (Featured Artist and Architect, NYC), Sean Anderson (Associate Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design, MOMA),  Cynthia Davidson (Editor of Log Journal / Co-curator of the US Pavilion for the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, NYC), Mitch McEwen (Assistant Professor of Architecture at Taubman College of Architecture Urban Planning, U of M), Reed Kroloff (Moderator / Principle of Jones Kroloff, Former Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum)
 
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CREATIVE MANY MINI-SUMMIT: CRITICAL CONNECTIONS

JANUARY 28, 2016 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM

Wasserman Projects is pleased to host Critical Connections – a Creative Many Mini Summit.  Creative Many is a statewide organization that develops creative people, creative places and the creative economy for a competitive Michigan through research, advocacy, professional practice and communications. This culminating session will engage local, national and international presenters in three panel conversations focused on the relationships between artists and those representing, presenting, publishing, and collecting their work.
 
Featured Panelists: Taylor Renee Aldridge (Arts.Black) – Liza Bielby (The Hinterlands) – Susan Goethel Campbell – P. Scott Cunningham (O, Miami Poetry Festival) – Mônica Novaes Esmanhotto (Latitude Brasil) – Rachel Harkai – Marie T. Hermann – Jamaal May – Matthew Mazzotta – Sterling Toles – Elaine Trevorrow (Blue Flower Arts) – Salome Sommer (Sommer & Kohl Berlin) – Rebecca Wolff (Fence) – Alison Wong (Wasserman Projects) + more

PERFORMANCE: THE KNIGHTS

DECEMBER 2, 2015 | 8:00 – 10:00 PM

 Please join us for an exclusive performance by New York orchestral collective, The Knights. The 60 minute program will include music from sources as diverse as Armenia to Appalachia to Sicily and spans from the 17th century to  present, including works written and arranged by members of The Knights.
 
About The Knights: The Knights are an orchestral collective, flexible in size and repertory, dedicated to transforming the concert experience. Engaging listeners and defying boundaries with programs that showcase the players’ roots in the classical tradition and passion for artistic discovery, The Knights have “become one of Brooklyn’s sterling cultural products… known far beyond the borough for their relaxed virtuosity and expansive repertory” (New Yorker)

PERFORMANCE: UNO NIX

NOVEMBER 19, 2015 | 8:00 – 10:00 PM

Jeffrey Sturges and Aaron Blendowski of Uno Nix, a collaborative group that creates tools and environments that are both created by and affect our many human inputs and outputs.  At Wasserman Projects, for one night only, Uno Nix will present an immersive light and sound experience.

Doors at 8:00 / Performance at 8:30 / Open to the public with suggested donation


AIA DETROIT PANEL DISCUSSION: MILLENNIALS IN THE WORKPLACE

OCTOBER 27, 2015 | 5:30 – 8:00 PM

AIA Detroit’s Emerging Professionals Committee and Haworth will be hosting a collaborative panel event on how millennials are reshaping the workplace and altering the status quo. Join us at Wasserman Projects for a moderated discussion with both Millennials and Industry Veterans.


ELF WAVES PERFORMANCE

OCTOBER 15, 2015 | 6-8 PM

Please join us for an interactive, public concert event held inside Jon Brumit’s sonorous grain silo, “Elf Waves”. In addition to a live performance from Jon Brumit, guests are encouraged to engage with the work by bringing their ipods, mp3 players, or phones to plug into the silo.


ART DETROIT NOW FALL GALLERY CRAWL

OCTOBER 3, 2015 | 10AM – 7PM

Stop in during Art Detroit Now’s Fall Gallery Crawl Come to experience the exhibition and stay to indulge in sweets from Rocky’s and bubbles from Cost Plus Wine! Click for more participating venues.