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Drawing in the Galleries: Arts of Africa

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Friday, Feb 16, 2024
6 – 8:30 p.m.

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*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.

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In the Museum

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

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Families Free

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience necessary. All supplies provided. For ages 6 and up (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult).
 

Dad and daughter drawing

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience necessary. All supplies provided. For ages 6 and up (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult).
 

Drawing in the Galleries: Contemporary

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Friday, Feb 9, 2024
6 – 8:30 p.m.

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*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.

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In the Museum

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

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Families Free

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience necessary. All supplies provided. For ages 6 and up (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult).
 

Patrons drawing in the contemporary galleries

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience necessary. All supplies provided. For ages 6 and up (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult).
 

Drawing in the Galleries: African American Galleries

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Friday, Feb 2, 2024
6 – 8:30 p.m.

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*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.

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In the Museum

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

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Families Free Heritage Month

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience necessary. All supplies provided. For ages 6 and up (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult).

Patrons drawing in the galleries in the African American galleries at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience necessary. All supplies provided. For ages 6 and up (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult).

Drop-in Workshop: Paper Doll Costume Design

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Friday, Feb 9, 2024
6 – 8:30 p.m.

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Saturday, Feb 10, 2024
12 – 4 p.m.

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Sunday, Feb 11, 2024
12 – 4 p.m.

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*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.

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Art-Making Studio

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

Families Free Workshops

Use one of our patterns or make your own to create one-of-a-kind outfits for a paper doll, inspired by costumes on view in Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971, and elsewhere in the DIA galleries. No experience necessary. All supplies provided.

Examples of paper dolls made in the DIA's Art-Making Studio

Use one of our patterns or make your own to create one-of-a-kind outfits for a paper doll, inspired by costumes on view in Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971, and elsewhere in the DIA galleries. No experience necessary. All supplies provided.

Drop-in Workshop: Collage Portrait

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Friday, Feb 2, 2024
6 – 8:30 p.m.

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Saturday, Feb 3, 2024
12 – 4 p.m.

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Sunday, Feb 4, 2024
12 – 4 p.m.

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*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.

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Art-Making Studio

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

Families Free Workshops Heritage Month

Use fabric, paper, and other materials to create your own collage self-portrait influenced by artists in the DIA collection including Benny Andrews, Betye Saar, and Mickalene Thomas. All supplies provided. Free with admission.

Collage portraits made in the DIA's Artmaking studio

Use fabric, paper, and other materials to create your own collage self-portrait influenced by artists in the DIA collection including Benny Andrews, Betye Saar, and Mickalene Thomas. All supplies provided. Free with admission.

Dolls and Diplomacy: The Japanese Friendship Dolls of 1927

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Sunday, Jan 21, 2024
2 p.m.

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*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.

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Lecture Hall

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

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Join author Alan Scott Pate for a presentation about a unique moment in Japanese-American history and the fine art of doll-making. In the late 1920s, during a time of escalating tensions between the US and Japan, two friends—Japanese business leader Eiichi Shibusawa and American educator Sidney Gulick—developed a program for children in each country to exchange dolls as a gesture of friendship and cultural understanding.

The American children sent more than 12,000 dolls, mass-produced but carefully customized for the program down to passports and train tickets, to their Japanese counterparts, who responded with 58 ichimatsu Friendship Dolls. Meticulously crafted by master artists, the Friendship Dolls were made to be ambassadors, each one as unique as the prefecture they represented. 

Alan Scott Pate is a noted authority on the history of Japanese dolls, known as ningyo. His publications include Ningyo: The Art of the Japanese Doll (2005) and Art as Ambassador: The Japanese Friendship Dolls of 1927 (2015).

This lecture is made possible with support from the Japanese Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the Audley M. Grossman Puppetry Fund.
 

Japanese girls day

Join author Alan Scott Pate for a presentation about a unique moment in Japanese-American history and the fine art of doll-making. In the late 1920s, during a time of escalating tensions between the US and Japan, two friends—Japanese business leader Eiichi Shibusawa and American educator Sidney Gulick—developed a program for children in each country to exchange dolls as a gesture of friendship and cultural understanding.

The American children sent more than 12,000 dolls, mass-produced but carefully customized for the program down to passports and train tickets, to their Japanese counterparts, who responded with 58 ichimatsu Friendship Dolls. Meticulously crafted by master artists, the Friendship Dolls were made to be ambassadors, each one as unique as the prefecture they represented. 

Alan Scott Pate is a noted authority on the history of Japanese dolls, known as ningyo. His publications include Ningyo: The Art of the Japanese Doll (2005) and Art as Ambassador: The Japanese Friendship Dolls of 1927 (2015).

This lecture is made possible with support from the Japanese Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the Audley M. Grossman Puppetry Fund.
 

Black History Month – New York International Children’s Film Festival: Celebrating Black Stories

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Saturday, Feb 24, 2024
2 p.m.

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*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.

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Lecture Hall

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

Families Free Films Detroit Film Theatre Heritage Month

Celebrating Black Stories spotlights Black narratives that transcend national boundaries, culture, and language with films in English, French, Shona, and even ASL! Join a young astronomer during a lunar eclipse, a meaningful first visit to a barbershop, and witness the magic of a neighborhood castle all in one sitting with this immersive collection of films highlighting Black storytelling.  

These audience favorites and award-winning films, from the latest edition of New York International Children’s Film Festival, are sure to inspire curiosity and conversation for viewers big and small. In English or with English subtitles. (63 min.) 

Powerful films for ages 8 and up, in the DIA’s Lecture Hall.

An animated mom driving a car with three children in the back

Celebrating Black Stories spotlights Black narratives that transcend national boundaries, culture, and language with films in English, French, Shona, and even ASL! Join a young astronomer during a lunar eclipse, a meaningful first visit to a barbershop, and witness the magic of a neighborhood castle all in one sitting with this immersive collection of films highlighting Black storytelling.  

These audience favorites and award-winning films, from the latest edition of New York International Children’s Film Festival, are sure to inspire curiosity and conversation for viewers big and small. In English or with English subtitles. (63 min.) 

Powerful films for ages 8 and up, in the DIA’s Lecture Hall.

Drop-in Workshop: Quilt Design

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Friday, Jan 26, 2024
6 – 8:30 p.m.

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Saturday, Jan 27, 2024
12 – 4 p.m.

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Sunday, Jan 28, 2024
12 – 4 p.m.

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Free with general admission

*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.

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Art-Making Studio

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

Families Free Workshops

Quilting has a rich and varied history throughout the world, with its earliest roots in ancient Egypt. Explore different quilt patterns, then create a design of your own using fabric glue to board.

Free with admission. All supplies provided.

Examples of quilt design made in the DIA's Art-Making Studio

Quilting has a rich and varied history throughout the world, with its earliest roots in ancient Egypt. Explore different quilt patterns, then create a design of your own using fabric glue to board.

Free with admission. All supplies provided.

Guest Artist Workshop: Collage and Trace Monotypes with Eleanor Anderson

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Saturday, Jan 20, 2024
12 – 4 p.m.

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Sunday, Jan 21, 2024
12 – 4 p.m.

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Free with general admission

*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.

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Art-Making Studio

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

Families Free Workshops

Join local artist Eleanor Anderson and have fun creating a project using collage technique and printmaking materials to make a one of a kind monotype to take home. This project will celebrate chance, mark-making and play.  Free with admission, all materials provided.

 

This program is made possible by the PNC Foundation.

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Collages with Eleanor Anderson

Join local artist Eleanor Anderson and have fun creating a project using collage technique and printmaking materials to make a one of a kind monotype to take home. This project will celebrate chance, mark-making and play.  Free with admission, all materials provided.

 

This program is made possible by the PNC Foundation.

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Stepping Through Time: Celebrating African American Dance in Early Cinema

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Saturday, Feb 17, 2024
2 p.m.

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*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.

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Rivera Court

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

Families Free Heritage Month

Bring the family for an afternoon of live music and dancing in the DIA's Rivera Court as Lisa McCall - choreographer, producer and educator who choreographed and managed Aretha Franklin's dancers - guides us through the roots of African American dance. Inspired by the acrobatic performances of the Nicholas Brothers as seen in the 1943 film Stormy Weather, Lisa and her dancers perform Lindy-Hop, Tap and will even demonstrate some basic steps that will get you out of your seats and on the dance floor! 

While at the museum, be sure to check out the DIA's special exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971 on view February 4 – June 23, 2024. 

For families of all ages.
 

Bring the family for an afternoon of live music and dancing in the DIA's Rivera Court as Lisa McCall - choreographer, producer and educator who choreographed and managed Aretha Franklin's dancers - guides us through the roots of African American dance. Inspired by the acrobatic performances of the Nicholas Brothers as seen in the 1943 film Stormy Weather, Lisa and her dancers perform Lindy-Hop, Tap and will even demonstrate some basic steps that will get you out of your seats and on the dance floor! 

While at the museum, be sure to check out the DIA's special exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971 on view February 4 – June 23, 2024. 

For families of all ages.
 

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