The Carpenter Creative Corridor (CCC) is a decentralized community art school along the north Hamtramck/Detroit border. The Carpenter Creative Corridor is a partnership between us and our neighbors, friends and collaborators: The Hinterlands and Playhouse Laboratories, Ceramics School, Shanna Mauritzi (DIY Film workshops) and the Bangla School of Music. Together we offer ongoing free public art classes for all.
PLAY HOUSE LABORATORIES /CERAMICS SCHOOL/ BANGLA SCHOOL OF MUSIC / DIY FILM WORKSHOPS
CERAMICS SCHOOL is a community art school and artist residency located in Hamtramck, MI – an extraordinary two square mile city within the city of Detroit. Our classes, memberships, residencies, studio access, and public programs offer a safe, supportive, critical, and communal platform for art making and education.
THE HINTERLANDS is a Detroit-based company creating performances and public events that are equal parts playful and surreal. In addition to thier own performance work, The Hinterlands run Play House Laboratories – a neighborhood-embedded artist-run organization supporting artistic training, experimentation, and collaboration in performing arts and adjacent fields. Their work integrates performance practices into the daily life of the community, creating public events that facilitating exchanges of experiences.
Guest Artist: Shanna Maurizi- Shanna Maurizi is an artist and filmmaker. Her work is experimental in nature and spans photography, sculpture, expanded cinema and film.
The CCC is supported in part by the Michigan Community Center Grant through the Michigan Community Service Commission.