Join us Saturday, May 11 from 10-5pm at Popps Emporium for a BIG neighborhood cleanup day!
In association with Motor City Makeover, help us keep our district clean!
5/11/19 Motor City Makeover Volunteer + Cleanup Day
Category: EVENTS
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
BYOB (Bring Your Own Birdhouse)
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.
March 8 / “boundaries” a CCS Craft Department Exhibition
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
Dead of Winter Purge-It Fest
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
November 10th: Double Header!
A Conspiracy of Accidents: Group show curated by Timothy van Laar
Featuring artists: Barbara Kendrick, Ryan Standfest, Michelle Wasson, and Timothy van Laar
Opening reception at Popps Packing on November 10th from 7-10pm and running through January 5, 2019. The gallery will be open to the public Saturdays from 12-5pm or by appointment at poppspacking@gmail.com.
A Conspiracy of Accidents examines the use of collage in the work of four artists, Barbara Kendrick, Ryan Standfest, Timothy van Laar, and Michelle Wasson. Collage is an image making process that formally disrupts more stable contexts, offers startling reconstructions and hybridity, and questions assumptions about the original sources of its images. Since collage acknowledges both the previous meaning of an image and the rupture of that context into something new, collage promotes the multiple uses of images and the uncertainties that this multiplicity generates. This exhibition considers the nature of collage through four very different approaches to the medium.
POPPS PACKING
12138 ST. AUBIN ST.
HAMTRAMCK, MI 48212
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Popps Emporium Presents:
Clock Cage, by Andrew Mehall
Opening reception November 10th from 7-10pm at Popps Emporium
Clock Cage will be on view through January 5th, 2019. The Emporium is open Saturdays from 12-5pm or by appointment at poppspacking@gmail.com.
POPPS EMPORIUM
2025 CARPENTER
DETROIT, MI
Jordan Sullivan Residency Exhibition
A native of the Detroit area, Jordan Sullivan’s new paintings present a diverse cast of characters gathered in public and private spaces. Made on canvas and found wood from abandoned and demolished Detroit houses, the images become part of an ongoing narrative of belonging, community, and coexistence.
Anyone For Tennis?
Anyone for Tennis? 2018 summer residency showcase featuring Forrest Hudes (LA), Laurent De Wolf (NL) and Sereina Steinemann (SUI).
Drinks, Dutch pancakes and maybe even table tennis!!
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.
