17th Annual Community Group Art Exhibition

The DIA’s Community Group Program has partnered with human services agencies in the Detroit area for over 25 years, providing meaningful experiences through art with gallery tours and artmaking, allowing a safe, nurturing space for participants’ creative expression and socialization. The annual community group exhibition offers a unique opportunity for group members to share their artistic work with museum visitors.

In this past year, DIA studio instructors worked with our community partners at the DIA artmaking studio and locations throughout the tri-county area. Projects included assemblages, suspended wood sculptures, photo collage, clay tiles, clay masks, printmaking, acrylic painting, and mixed media vessels.

This Community Group Art Exhibition features works created by participants in human services agency programs from Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. Over 100 projects will be on view in the Learning Center at the DIA, adjacent to the DIA's Artmaking Studio, where most of the work was made.

This year’s participating groups are:

• ACCESS Hope House
• CARE of Southeastern Michigan
• Detroit Recovery Project
• Hannan Center
• John D. Dingell VA Medical Center
• Mariners Inn
• MCCMH (Macomb County Community Mental Health)
• OLHSA (Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency)
• Soul Studio, a division of Friendship Circle

The 17th Annual Community Group Art Exhibition is organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts and is supported by The Toni A. Wisne Foundation.