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Exhibitions
Events
Drop-in Workshop: Wearable Wire Sculpture
Find inspiration in the galleries, then head to the Artmaking Studio and create your own sculpture using colorful wire. Make a portrait, an animal, or a unique creation of your own to hang on the wall or in the window. You can even make something to wear!
Fri
Sep 27, 2024
Workshops
Guest Artist Workshop: Creative Compositions with Elonte Davis
Join Detroit photographer Elonte Davis as he shares techniques and inspirations from his work.All participants will also create a polaroid portrait mixed media collage using a variety of artmaking materials like decorative papers, magazines, paint markers, and more. This program is made possible by the PNC Foundation.
Sat
Aug 17, 2024
Workshops
Drop In Workshop: Mixed Media Pet Portraits
Use a variety of drawing and collage materials to create a portrait of your favorite pet or animal!
Wed
Jul 31, 2024
Films
Terrestrial Verses
Iran/2023—directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami | 77 min. Through a series of stirring vignettes, often humorous and always affecting, Iranian directors Asgari and Khatami follow people from all walks of life in contemporary Tehran. As they navigate cultural, religious, and institutional constraints, this audacious film captures the spirit and determination of people facing daily adversity, while offering a nuanced portrait of a complex society. The sole Iranian film selected by the Cannes Film Festival in 2023, it was also a London, Chicago and AFI Film Festival selection. In Persian with English subtitles. “One of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge from Iran in recent years.” —Godfrey Cheshire, rogerebert.com
Fri
Jul 12, 2024
FMCA Annual Meeting & Artist Lecture by María Magdalena Campos-Pons
Please join the Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art for our Annual Meeting from 5:30–6 p.m. At 6 p.m., guest artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons will give a lecture on her work, which is free with registration. The lecture will be followed by an exclusive FMCA Member reception in FJC Dining Rooms A&B. María Magdalena Campos-Pons combines and crosses diverse artistic practices, including photography, painting, sculpture, film, video, and performance. Her work addresses issues of history, memory, gender, and religion; it investigates how each one of these themes informs identity formation. Campos-Pons was born in 1959 in Cuba and resides in Nashville, Tennessee. She has served as Vanderbilt Chair Professor of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University since 2017. Campos-Pons has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada. Behold, a survey of her work spanning four decades, is currently on tour at the Brooklyn Museum, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, and the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, closing May 4, 2025. She has presented over thirty solo performances commissioned by institutions that include the Guggenheim Museum and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Her works are held in more than thirty museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 2023, Campos-Pons was awarded the prestigious MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship for exploring personal and collective histories across the Caribbean with a distinctive and expansive visual style. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Campos-Pons has founded or co-founded several non-profit arts organizations including the Intermittent Rivers, a Biennial Project in Matanzas, Cuba; the Engine for Art Democracy and Justice at Vanderbilt with Vanderbilt and Fisk University; and When We Gather, a multi-faceted art project celebrating the elemental role women have played in the United States. The Detroit Institute of Arts acquired Campos-Pons’s work Soy una Fuente (I Am a Fountain) in 2023. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Fri
Jun 28, 2024
Artists & Artworks
Portrait of a Mughal Prince, possibly a copy of a portrait of Sultan Shuja (1616-1659)
Islamic, Indian
Self-Portrait
Adolf Ulrik Wertmueller
Self-Portraits
Aline Fruhauf
Portrait
André Kertész
Self-Portrait
Multiple makers
Self-Portrait
Claude Cahun
Self-Portrait V
Multiple makers
Self-Portrait
Gilda Snowden
News & Letters
Blog
Director’s Letter, October 2016
Jul 20, 2022
Learning Resources
The Impact of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington
Using Jean-Antoine Houdon’s portraits of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington at the Detroit Institute of Arts, students will explore the life stories of these figures to deepen their understanding of the importance of individual political and social contributions during the American Revolutionary period.
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DIA At Home | Drawing Activities
Students call upon their own life experiences and imagination in these drawing activities as they explore what elements can be used to create a still life, portrait, and self-portrait.
Picturing Identity: Exploring Portraiture at the DIA
Through exploration of portraiture and self-portraiture across time and cultures in the DIA’s collection, students will understand how artists use pose, symbolism, clothing, facial expression, objects and other details to communicate information about people’s identity in portraits and their place within their culture.
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