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.
Durable/Flexible
12138 St. Aubin St. Hamtramck, MI 48212
September 21st – November 2nd
Saturdays 12-6PM
Durable/Flexible is a group exhibition that celebrates 10 years of cultivating, presenting and nurturing the arts and artists within our community and beyond. We have invited local and regional artists to submit original works that are loosely inspired by Aluminum and Tin, which are commonly associated with marking ten year milestones. More so than the the materials themselves we were interested in ideas around the properties of these metals that are often described as durable and flexible.
Demons, Sadie Nielson
2025 Carpenter, Detroit, MI 48212
Through November 2nd
Saturdays 12-6PM
“DEMONS”is a collection of demons rendered by Sadie Nielsen during her 2 month residency at Popps. Inspired in part by the destructive nature of human activity on the earth as well as the existential threat it poses to itself.
Sadie Nielsen is an artist who currently lives and works on the unceded coast Salish territory of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ nations, otherwise known as Victoria, Canada. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria in 2019.
Popps Packing is excited to be a part of the Together We Sound Festival in hosting a night of Detroit-based music with the Acropolis Reed Quintet, New Music Detroit, and Detroit Bureau of Sound+Kristen Carey & Chris Sies!
Thursday, May 30th from 7 pm – 11 pm @ Popps Packing 12138 St. Aubin St., Hamtramck, MI 48212
$10 door suggested donation (currently no advanced ticketing)
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2462225840456837/
Join CultureSource at Popps Emporium for an info session on the 25 grants they offer to the creative arts community!
Many types of arts activities happen in Southeast Michigan regularly, and regardless of scope and scale, they can contribute to the vitality of our communities. Through this program, each year for the next three years, CultureSource will offer 25 $3,000 grants to creators of culture, in collaboration with the Detroit Arts Support program.
Thursday, May 23 from 5:30-7pm @ Popps Emporium, 2025 Carpenter St., Detroit, MI 48212
Sign up on through the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/427290598036764/?active_tab=about
or learn more here: https://www.culturesource.org/resources/creators-of-culture-grants
Group exhibition with artists Ashely Beatty, Madelain Corbin, and Jeff Schofield
Opening Reception: Saturday May 18, 2019 from 6-9 PM
Popps Emporium, 2025 Carpenter, Detroit
Popps Emporium presents a group art exhibition, “(W)HERE”, showcasing sustainable artwork by three locally based artists, Ashley Beatty, Madelaine Corbin and Jeff Schofield.
“(W)HERE” features artwork expressing humanity’s complicated relationships with natural landscapes and urban terrains. This exhibition explores critical narratives about our globalized civilization that convey ecological concerns of life in the Anthropocene. While celebrating natural phenomena as essential elements of human existence, “(W)HERE” also explores human transgressions of both natural and constructed environments.
Join us 5/18/19 from 10-2pm for the second of the series of Weed Walks through Popps’ gardens with herbalist Zarah Ackerman!
These workshops will introduce participants to native plant and flower identification as well as how to forage a wild salad and make healing/nourishing remedies. Participants will be empowered to go home and meet the plants that grow right outside their door.
Participants are also welcome to browse through the Seed Library. Zarah has collected over 75 varieties of seeds throughout the years and they are housed in Popps Emporium to be shared with the community.
Zarah Ackerwoman is a Detroit based Performance Artist and Green Witch who is currently apprenticing with the radical author and herbalist Susun Weed, exploring the spirit and practice of the Wise Woman tradition.
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
