Author: Graem Whyte

10/29/22: Fall Residency Open Studio

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.

8/25/22 Julian Pozzi, Residency Exhibition

Julian Pozzi earned a BFA at the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. He is a current member of The Painting Center in New York City, and has had solo shows at 1234 Gallery (LA), Jeff Bailey Gallery (NYC), and Songs For Presidents (NYC). He has participated in group shows at White Columns and Atelier Cardenas Bellanger (Paris), among other venues. His work has been written about and reviewed in the New York Times, Art and Antiques, and Particules Journal. His studio was recently featured on I Like Your Work as part of their featured studio visit series.
Julian’s most recent paintings are based in part on images of naturist resorts and hotels that have been culled from internet searches. The paintings use a formal, gridded language that draws upon mosaics, drawing, and science fiction in equal measure. The hotels, resorts, and other naturist spaces are rendered in various degrees of fidelity, with an attention that wavers from faithful reproduction of salient architectural details to outright improvisation that often veers into anthropomorphization.
For his artist-in-residence exhibition at Popps Emporium, Julian will be showing new and recently completed paintings and drawings made during his time at Popps.
julianpozzi.com

4/27/19: Macro View+ BYOBirdhouse

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

4/27/19: The Day Everything Became Nothing

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

Garlia Cornelia’s End of Residency Reading

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.

POPPS PACKING PINEWOOD DERBY FUNDRAISER

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

One Night Only Residency Exhibition with Allison Baker

Summer Artist Resident Allison Baker will be hosting an open studio exhibition at Popps Packing on July 7th.
https://www.allisonbaker.com/

“Sweetness is the most cunning means of crowd control.
Gilded gumdrops: pastel, gelatinous, rolled in sugar and arsenic that suck fillings from your molars and leave sweaters on your teeth.
My work is half melted-ice cream peppered with sand.
My work is an incantation.
Repulsive and candy colored to greedily over-consume until your stomach sours and the grape gum has lost all its flavor, yet you hungrily work your jaw, chewing away hoping that the cloying artificiality will rush back to your mouth still wet with anticipation.”

Paradise Travel Company by Jova Lynne

Popps Emporium is pleased to present Paradise Travel Company by Jova Lynne.

“The Travel agent is here to help plan your trip to Paradise, a remote location between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The travel agent is here to assist you in exploring the depths of your imagination – taking you to a place where fantasy becomes reality and colonization becomes conquest. Come to Paradise Travel Company, the place where everyone wishes they were.”
http://www.jovalynne.com/
© JOVA LYNNE

The exhibition will be on display in the emporium from July 7th, 2018 – August 11th, 2018