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Drawing in the Galleries: Native American galleries

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Friday, Dec 23, 2022
6 – 8:30 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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In the Museum

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

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Families

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

A visitor sitting on a drawing bench drawing on paper with a large clipboard in the Native American Galleries

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

Drawing in the Galleries: Arts of the Ancient Middle East

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Friday, Dec 16, 2022
6 – 8:30 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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In the Museum

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

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Families

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience is necessary. All supplies provided.

For ages 6 - Adult (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult). Capacity is limited.

A visitor sits beside a stool, drawing on a bench in the Ancient Middle East galleries at the DIA

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience is necessary. All supplies provided.

For ages 6 - Adult (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult). Capacity is limited.

Drop-In Workshop: Printmaking Notecards

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Saturday, Dec 10, 2022
12 – 4 p.m.

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Sunday, Dec 11, 2022
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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In the Museum

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

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Families Workshops

Use foam printing plates, water-based inks, and a wooden stylus to create beautiful, one-of-a-kind hand-pulled prints on paper. Fold in half to make a card. Envelopes are provided!

An example of print making cards made at the DIA's drop-in Art-Making studio

Use foam printing plates, water-based inks, and a wooden stylus to create beautiful, one-of-a-kind hand-pulled prints on paper. Fold in half to make a card. Envelopes are provided!

Drawing in the Galleries: Modern galleries

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Friday, Dec 9, 2022
6 – 8:30 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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In the Museum

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

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Families

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience is necessary. All supplies provided.

For ages 6 - Adult (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult). Capacity is limited.

Visitors drawing on stools in the modern art galleries at the DIA

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience is necessary. All supplies provided.

For ages 6 - Adult (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult). Capacity is limited.

Noel Night: Manual Cinema's A Christmas Carol

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Saturday, Dec 3, 2022
4:30 p.m.

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Saturday, Dec 3, 2022
7 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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Detroit Film Theatre

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

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Families Films Community Events

As part of Midtown Detroit's annual Noel Night celebration, the Detroit Film Theatre will present Manual Cinema's take on Dickens’s holiday classic with an inventive shadow play adaptation, first performed in December 2020.

Aunt Trudy has been recruited to channel her late husband's famous holiday cheer by performing his annual puppet show over a Zoom call. As she becomes absorbed in her version of the story, it transforms into a stunning cinematic rendering of Dickens’s classic ghost story.

 

A hand drawn image of an old man wearing gray pajamas speaking to a large, tattooed and bald Santa.

As part of Midtown Detroit's annual Noel Night celebration, the Detroit Film Theatre will present Manual Cinema's take on Dickens’s holiday classic with an inventive shadow play adaptation, first performed in December 2020.

Aunt Trudy has been recruited to channel her late husband's famous holiday cheer by performing his annual puppet show over a Zoom call. As she becomes absorbed in her version of the story, it transforms into a stunning cinematic rendering of Dickens’s classic ghost story.

 

Drawing in the Galleries: American Galleries

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Friday, Dec 2, 2022
6 – 8:30 p.m.

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Free with general admission

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

Location:

In the Museum

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

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Families

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

American galleries

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

Drawing in the Galleries: Japanese & Korean Art and Indian & Southeast Asian Art

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Friday, Nov 25, 2022
6 – 8:30 p.m.

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Free with general admission

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

Location:

In the Museum

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

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Families

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

Two children sitting in the DIA's Asian galleries and drawing on large clipboards.

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

Drop-In Workshop: Watercolor Postcards

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Friday, Nov 25, 2022
12 – 4 p.m.

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Saturday, Nov 26, 2022
12 – 4 p.m.

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Sunday, Nov 27, 2022
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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In the Museum

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

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Families Workshops

Join us in the DIA's Art-Making Studio to create postcards of your own design to send to friends and family.

Examples of watercolor postcards made in the Detroit Institute of Arts' Art-Making Studio

Join us in the DIA's Art-Making Studio to create postcards of your own design to send to friends and family.

Drawing in the Galleries: American Galleries

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Friday, Nov 18, 2022
6 – 8:30 p.m.

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Free with general admission

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

Location:

In the Museum

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

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Families

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

American galleries

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

Artist Demonstration: Signal-Return

Updated Oct 21, 2022

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Signal-Return is a Detroit nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and teaching traditional letterpress printing, and building a community center for art, craft, design and collaboration.

Signal-Return is a Detroit nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and teaching traditional letterpress printing, and building a community center for art, craft, design and collaboration.

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