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 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult). Capacity is limited.
 

Create your own one-of-a-kind wearable art pins using a variety of traditional and nontraditional jewelry-making materials.

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 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult). Capacity is limited.

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 and up (children 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult). Capacity is limited.
 

Virtuoso violinist, Juilliard instrument curator, and Hoboken, N.J. resident Eric Grossman will be joined by family members Lida Lopez Mancheva (piano) and Cecilia Grossman (cello) for this survey of famous composers of the Baroque period, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, and their contemporaries.

Hitting the road soon? In this workshop, you’ll create your own personal travel journal to keep track of your adventures. All supplies provided.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Betsy Campbell Lecture on Saturday, October 14 has been canceled.

The Detroit Institute of Arts’ (DIA) Friends of Art & Flowers auxiliary welcomes its 2023 speaker, Claudia West, a leading voice in the emerging field of ecological planting design and co-author of Planting in a Post-Wild World.  

Our cities and suburbs desperately need more inspiring, ecologically rich planting. Yet, budgets are tight and crews and gardeners are often unfamiliar with diverse planting technologies. In her lecture entitled, "Rebuilding Abundance with Ecologically Rich and Evocative Planting," West will share the techniques that her landscape architecture firm, Phyto Studio, applies to tackle the maintenance challenge and create ecologically rich and inspiring planting.
 

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 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult). Capacity is limited.
 

Join InsideOut Literary Arts and some of Detroit's finest poets for a performance celebrating the photography of James Barnor. Featuring performances by MARS, Kweku Abimbola, La Shaun phoenix Moore, Peace Bell, and Robert Laidler, the event will showcase new poetic works written during visits to the exhibition James Barnor: Accra/ London. 

• Kweku Abimbola is of Gambian, Ghanaian, and Sierra Leonean descent. His first full-length poetry collection, Saltwater Demands a Psalm, won the Academy of American Poets First Book Prize. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writing Program. 
• MARS. is a writer and cultural organizer born and raised in Detroit. MARS is a 2021 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow in Poetry and a 2019 Lambda Literary Art Emerging Writers Fellow in Poetry. Their debut chapbook, FLOWER BOI, is available via Gold Line Press.  
• La Shaun phoenix Moore is a Detroit-based vocalist, spoken word artist, activist and culture creator whose work incorporates personal and cultural influences. She is the recipient of the 2020 and 2021 Creators of Culture Award by CultureSource. 
• Peace Bell is a recording artist, Grand Slam champion and InsideOut Literary Arts writer-in-residence. Peace is the producer and host of the Open Mind Mic Series in downtown Detroit with her husband, comedian J Bell. 
• Robert Laidler is an assistant professor at Wayne State and the author of a poetic libretto, The Fallen Petals of Nameless Flowers, which premiered at Chamber Music Detroit in 2022. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writing Program. 

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 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult). Capacity is limited.