Category: EVENTS

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.
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10/12/19 Sadie Nielson “Demons” @ Popps Emporium

“DEMONS” is a collection of demons rendered by Sadie Nielson, our September/October artist in residence. Over the course of Sadie’s first month at Popps, Sadie made a series of small paintings, and hanging fabric sculptures inspired at least in part by her recent increased awareness of the destructive nature of human activity on the earth as well as the existential threat it poses to itself.

8/22/19 Regine Rode / Floral Hygiene

 

Popps Packing is excited to present, Floral Hygiene by Momm and Popp, Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellow, Regine Rode (DE)!

Rode began working primarily in sculpture and installation while living in LA where she received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design. Her works aim to disrupt the traditional forms of sculpture by intertwining autonomous elements from her current surroundings. Please join us for her most recent body of work, Floral Hygiene this Thursday from 6-9PM!

Floral Hygiene / Regine Rode
August 22, 6-9PM
@ Popps Emporium
2025 Carpenter, Detroit MI ,48212

06/28/19 June Residents Open Studio

Join us this Friday, June 28th from 6-9PM at Popps Packing for open studios and view our June Resident’s works in progress!

Friday, June 28th
6-9PM
Popps Packing 12138 St. Aubin St. Hamtramck, MI

Carley Zarzeka (PA) received her MFA in Studio from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her work in progress series “Wear Closed Toed Shoes”, Zarzeka explores how standardization has become essential in the world of product design and their relationship to the domestic space. She does so through a sculptural and installation-based practice collecting common objects to construct a framework of time and place that though aims for individualism, falters due to unconscious, generic consumerism.

Michael Hubbard (TX) born and raised in the Detroit-area, has been creating a multi-panel painting inspired by women of Detroit’s music history. Titled “Rocksteady,” the painting combines images of Aretha Franklin, Mary Wells, and other soul artists, forming a complex portrait of a sound.

Gabrielle Finn Egnater (CA) is in the midst of a series titled, “Mini Monuments” , that questions which objects can “mark importance” and which objects are a “marker of importance”. Egnater’s newest body of work aims to allow the audience to place their own memories and desire on the “marker of importance” by creating “adjustable monuments”.

5/30/19 Together We Sound Festival

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/

5/23/19 Creators of Culture Grants Information Session

 

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

5/18/19 (W)here: Opening Exhibition

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.

https://www.facebook.com/events/324762941553816/

5/18/19 Weed Walk With Zarah!

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.