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
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
OPEN (BIRD) CALL FOR SCULPTURAL BIRDHOUSES
Call for unique, modern, and non-traditional takes on the standard birdhouse to be displayed in the Popps Packing gardens and various outdoor spaces.
Finished houses must be move-in-ready, equipped for install, and dropped off at Popps Packing with completed intake form.
Repurpose an old sculpture into the perfect birdhouse, or maybe you have a bird house that is ready to go, or make something new! Ideally, your birdhouse will be weather resistant, be able to house an actual bird (or birds, or bats, or bees), and be unique. Check out this link for some advice on bird house dimensions if you want to design for a specific species.
Think outside the box! Be innovative! Birds don’t just live in trees.
Drop off dates:
Mon. April 22, 12-6pm
Tues. April 23, 5-8pm
Wed. April 24, 12-6pm
Exhibition Opening: Saturday, April 27, 2019
Please RSVP via email if you’re interested in participating and for all questions. Email poppspacking@gmail.com
Popps Packing will take a 33% commission on all sales. Limit one birdhouse per artist.
Why do birds use birdhouses?: Birds are looking for nesting cavities in which to build their nest. Song birds that use tree cavities are not capable of creating their own nesting cavities because their beaks are specialized for hunting insects or gathering seeds. In an undisturbed ecosystem songbirds such as wrens, chickadees and nuthatches look for tree cavities created by other birds such as woodpeckers.
Tree cavities provide shelter for birds from predators. There are two kinds of cavity nesters: those that create their own nesting cavities (primary cavity nesters) and those that use pre-existing cavities (secondary cavity nesters). Insects or pathogens have also been found to assist in formation of cavities that are used by cavity nesters.
The graduating seniors from the College for Creative Studies’ Craft Department and Popps Emporium present, “boundaries”, a thesis exhibition with work in fibers, furniture, metalsmithing, glass, and ceramics.
Opening Reception: March 8, 5:58 – 9:17 at
Popps Emporium
2025 Carpenter St., Detroit, MI 48212
Join Popps and friends for the first ever Purge-It Fest, an installation and sale of indoor and outdoor objects, collectables and everyday items that have accumulated on our shores from the existential seas. This is a carefully curated selection of things we have enjoyed over the years: nick-nacks, whizbang, dialogues, consorts and many hats, literally… it’s a sculpturative shopping experience of lost treasures in the Emporium.
🥟We are featuring a Dumplings pop-up by Mastress Chef Yuen of Minion Corps on Wednesday (6-8 pm) and Sunday (11am-4 pm). Fresh homemade dumplings made to order with love.🥟
Come and fetch a deal… Come by and browse our racks, shelves and stocks and have a bite!
ALSO…
Norma Dream! Plays original songs and favorite ABBA covers for five-string banjo Wednesday from 5:30-7:30!
Kathy Leisen presents Beat Music straight from the crate Saturday at 4pm. Live performance, DON’T MISS IT!
https://kathyleisen.bandcamp.com/releases
