Detroit Institute of Arts celebrates Immigrant Heritage Month in June with special public tours Works with immigrant themes focus of tours Fridays and Saturdays in June beginning June 10
Updated Jun 14, 2016
June 3, 2016 (Detroit)—June is Immigrant Heritage Month and the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is offering a special public tour of works that have an immigrant story, either in the subject, artist or both. No registration is needed for the tours, which are at 2 p.m. June 10, 11, 17, 18, 24 and 25. They are free with museum admission, which is free for residents of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
Here is a sampling of the artworks on the tour:
“Bookshop: Hebrew Books, Holy Day Books” (1953) and “Composition for Clarinets and Tin Horn” (1951) by Ben Shahn, who was a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania. Shahn’s art speaks to issues new immigrants faced in urban society and ideas of social and political reform.
“The Kitchen V: Carrying the Milk” by Marina Abramović, a Serbian-born performance artist based in New York. This video is a reflection on the Franco era in Spain, orphans, women’s roles in nurturing children and people displaced by wars.
“Detroit Industry” frescos by Diego Rivera. Rivera’s depiction of Ford’s River Rouge assembly line includes a diversity of workers that includes immigrants. That people of different ethnicities and races worked together on the assembly line was Rivera’s ideal, not a reality of the time.
June 3, 2016 (Detroit)—June is Immigrant Heritage Month and the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is offering a special public tour of works that have an immigrant story, either in the subject, artist or both. No registration is needed for the tours, which are at 2 p.m. June 10, 11, 17, 18, 24 and 25. They are free with museum admission, which is free for residents of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
Here is a sampling of the artworks on the tour:
“Bookshop: Hebrew Books, Holy Day Books” (1953) and “Composition for Clarinets and Tin Horn” (1951) by Ben Shahn, who was a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania. Shahn’s art speaks to issues new immigrants faced in urban society and ideas of social and political reform.
“The Kitchen V: Carrying the Milk” by Marina Abramović, a Serbian-born performance artist based in New York. This video is a reflection on the Franco era in Spain, orphans, women’s roles in nurturing children and people displaced by wars.
“Detroit Industry” frescos by Diego Rivera. Rivera’s depiction of Ford’s River Rouge assembly line includes a diversity of workers that includes immigrants. That people of different ethnicities and races worked together on the assembly line was Rivera’s ideal, not a reality of the time.