a laboratory for artists
Popps Packing is available for rentals this holiday season and beyond. We can host intimate groups of 30-75 for corporate, private and community events. Popps Packing gallery and studios available for larger groups (up to 75ppl) and Popps Emporium first floor is available for more intimate gatherings.
If interested please fill out our inquiry form here so we can learn more about the event you are planning.
Closing Reception December 4, 2022 12-4PM
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays 11-4PM or by appointment
Contact: Poppspacking@gmail.com, 248-568-9167
Popps is excited to present our first exhibition in 3 years, A snake in the grass, featuring the paintings of Julia Callis and the pottery and sculptures of Virginia Torrence . Callis and Torrence have been quiet forces in the Detroit art community for years and their poetic and distinct individual practices are often un-seen, like a snake in the grass.
Please joins us on Saturday, October 29th 6PM-9PM at Popps Emporium to celebrate these two artists.
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Seen or unseen
A snake
lay bare, the boneless body
to tie knot
in the rope, shed off with
The skin, an image
Can both stand alone or
in conversation with others.
Disperate figures
on pot or panel, A dance
between friends with Discrete,
individually separate and distinct, image
Snake, or snake-less
“The Grass divides as with a Comb-”
and image becomes another, anew
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Julia Callis (b. Detroit, MI) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Penny Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan and studied serigraphy in Florence, Italy. She currently works at Wasserman Projects as the gallery Assistant and makes work out of Klinger Studios in Hamtramck, Michigan.
Virginia Rose Torrence (b. 1991, Midland, Michigan) received her BFA in Craft/Ceramics from the College for Creative Studies in 2013 and her MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University in 2016. She is the co-founder of Ceramics School a community art school and residency. She lives and makes art in Hamtramck, MI.
Popps’ fall residents, Taylor Simone and Aino Aksenja invite you to see their works in progress on Saturday October 29th, 6-8pm at Popps Packing!
Aino Aksenja is an artist who looks for escape routes and tries to grow roots. Life and art intertwine in works that are site-specific installations, made-up rituals and stories. Aksenja often works with a camera. She studied photography in Sweden, Germany and Finland and fine art in Helsinki, Finland, completing her MFA in 2017. In 2021 she started studying landscape architecture, with the aim to connect art, landscape and architecture in her practise. Aksenja is based in Helsinki, and her works have been shown in Finland, Sweden, Russia, Germany, Portugal, USA and South Korea.
During her residency, Aino’s been working on a new video piece called Stranger. Through placing herself into it, the city slowly starts turning into a playground, St. Aubin Street into a stage. Dreams blend with reality in both this work and the embroidery piece she has begun in residence, Dream city.
Taylor Simone is an artist, organizer, and educator from Metro Detroit, currently living and working in Toledo, Ohio. She received her MFA in Visual Communication from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019 and currently works as an International Network Coordinator for the Design Justice Network. Simone is also the director/organizer of Exodus: School of Expression, an alternative space for BIPOC educators and artists to deepen their practice. Simone has exhibited Internationally in South Korea, Berlin and Italy.
Taylor will be showing the progress of her publication, Seeded in Flesh. This space and time have been one of world-building for Simone. Sitting with old and new symbolism that developed throughout their practice, they explore systems of selfhood and portraiture.
Our annual collaborative outdoor soundscape installation, Soundhenge is back! Please join us for this amazing sonic experience in the wooded lots across the street from Popps Packing this Saturday, September 24th from 4pm- dusk.
Opening Reception Saturday, April 27, 6-9PM
Macro View is the first exhibition in the newly renovate Popps Emporium Resource Space and features the macro photography of Joseph Ferraro who documents native pollinators and other invertebrates.
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BYOB ( Bring Your Own Birdhouse) is a garden installation of sculptural takes on birdhouses featuring Chris Riddell, Andy Kem, Julia Callis, James Viste, Graem Whyte, Bridget Michael, Sean Hages and more. Located in the gardens behind Popps Emporium.
April 27 -May 30, 2019
New Works by Karin Karinson
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Saturday April 27, 2019 . 6PM -9PM
Popps Emporium, 2025 Carpenter, Detroit
Popps Packing is excited to present the new works by spring artist in residence, Karin Karinson (Götaland, Sweden) for a one-night exhibition of a new body of work created during her two month residency at Popps Packing.
Karin is a sculpture artist, working primarily in clay and incorporating all stages, shapes and forms of the material into her work. Resting in the rivers of glossy glaze, she blends ready-made, found, porcelain objects with self-created sculptures; shards of people’s desires and fantasies, things forgotten, and left behind protrude through a dreamy manifestation of the fragmented natural world.
Learn more here and here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1210324182463367/?active_tab=about
Anyone for Tennis? 2018 summer residency showcase featuring Forrest Hudes (LA), Laurent De Wolf (NL) and Sereina Steinemann (SUI).
Drinks, Dutch pancakes and maybe even table tennis!!
Please Join us Sunday, July 29th from 7pm – 9pm after the Hamtramck Block Party for the culmination of Garlia’s Residency at Popps Packing. There will be a reading of the new work I have written during this two-week period.
Following the reading there will be a brief talkback and a chance to learn what I’ve been doing as a Writer and Producer in New York over the last 10 years.
RSVP using the Google Form
The Event is free of charge.
We’re looking forward to seeing you on Sunday!
GARLIA CORNELIA
Garlia is a writer, producer, photographer and mother. A Native of Detroit, MI, Garlia founded Blackboard Reading Series, a monthly series devoted to Black Playwrights in September of 2008, incubated by the cell, a performance space in Manhattan’s Chelsea. She is an OBIE Award winning Theatre producer with Harlem9, the producing collaborative responsible for “48Hours in…™Harlem” and “48Hours in…™EL BRONX”. Garlia holds an MFA in Playwrighting from The New School for Drama, and an MA in African American and African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University. Her Essays and articles have appeared in “The New York Times”, “The Washington Post”, “Howlround” and “Salon.com“. Residencies: Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America.
It has been 3 long years since we stood around a long sloping track in the Popps yard to watch goofy, crazy, amazing little art cars race for the title of fastest in the land. But we can wait no longer and are extremely excited to announce that Vol. 4 of the Popps Pinewood Derby Fundraiser will be happening on Saturday, July 28th!!
Silent auction of all one-of-a-kind artist made derby cars + food, drinks, raffle, live music and special performances. And lets not forget the extra special kids race that kicks off the event at 6PM.
5:30 Norma Jean Haynes (prelude music)
6:00 Kids Derby Race
6:30 Post Imperial Jazz Band
7:30 Artist Car Races
10:00 Botanical Fortress
and DJ Sisteranna will be spinning jams throughout the night!!
All proceeds go towards supporting Popps Emporium and related programs. to learn more:
https://www.patronicity.com/popps
