PROJECTS | POPPS PACKING

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

or learn more here: https://www.culturesource.org/resources/creators-of-culture-grants

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

Register for Camp Carpenter!

Popps Packing Presents:

CAMP CARPENTER

Two Sessions: July 23 – 27 & August 6-10, 2018

Camp Carpenter is a weeklong outdoor adventure camp for ages 7-16 set in and around Popps Packing’s dynamic buildings, art installations, and green spaces. Campers will work alongside professional artists to design, build and create imaginative worlds of their own making. Youth will learn to use basic hand tools, to take their designs from idea to reality, to collaborate across age groups, to tell imaginative stories through theater games and role playing and more — all while contributing the betterment of the Detroit/Hamtramck community through the construction of a lasting play space for all. Register online here.

All Materials included. Bring a bag lunch, a good attitude and your imagination!!

This year we are offering 2 sessions!!

Dates: July 23-July 27 and August 6-August 10, 2018

(Mon. through Fri.) from 9:30AM-3:00PM

Weekly Rate: Pay what you can, Suggested $200 for non-residents; free for Detroit District 3, Hamtramck, and Highland Park residents

Location: Popps Packing, 2037 Carpenter St., Detroit, MI 48212

Register online here.

To see images form last years amazing camp visit our Facebook page here

Check out the great story by Zak Rosen about our camp on NPR last year here

Considering donating materials and supplies to the Camp!

broken wooden furniture,
wood scraps (no particle board or splintery stuff please,
workbenches,
saw horses,
ladders
large tarps
corrugated plastics and metal
hinges
rope
wood (2”x4”x96” wood, 4’x8’ 1/4” plywood, balsa wood)

Or Donate to support our teaching artists and staff so we can keep the camp free for local youth!

Checks be mailed to: Popps Packing 12138 St. Aubin, Hamtramck MI 48212

We are a 501c3 not -for -Profit organization so your donation is 100% tax deductible!!!

Contact us at poppspacking@gmail.com with any questions

Learn more about Adventure Playgrounds and some of our inspirations for Camp Carpenter:

https://beamcamp.org/projects/

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/08/04/334896321/where-the-wild-things-play

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/04/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631/

https://popupadventureplaygrounds.wordpress.com/welcome/pop-up-adventure-playgrounds/

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/04/03/395797459/the-value-of-wild-risky-play-fire-mud-hammers-and-nails

This Project is made possible with support from Michigan Council of Arts and Cultural Affairs Mini Grant Program and Culture Source, the Peck Family Foundation and Enterprise Collaborative Action Grant.

Residency exhibition with Eric Magassa.

ONE NIGHT ONLY EVENT!

Saturday April 21, 2018 7-10PM.

Join us for a special exhibition of works in progress by Artist In Residence , Eric Magassa (Sweden).

Eric Magassa (1972) is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Magassa has a rich cultural background and was brought up moving back and forth between Gothenburg and Paris with his Swedish mother and French father from Senegalese and Malian descent. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Magassa studied at Central Saint Martins, London and The Art Students League of New York.

“Eric Magassa’s body of work spans a variety of materials and methods ranging from painting, collage, and print to cinematic sequences and performative camera set-ups. His many years as a DJ built an intimate connection between his image creation and music. A brief glimpse into the Eric Magassa studio reveals inspirational material in the form of ethnographic artifacts, textiles, modernist sculptures, colored pieces of paper, spray paint, color tubes, books, music and snap shots of abstract urban environments reduced to structures, surfaces and compositions. Objects and artifacts that have long lost their meaning are captured and given new contexts. Driven by restlessness, but above all, curiosity, the fragments are used to reinterpret the world. Despite the vast range of sources, an unmistakable aesthetic with visual unity is created.
For Eric Magassa, art is not a representation of an objective view, but a way of understanding and connecting with life. He does this through heightened presence and concentration within a world of perpetual motion. Through the constant flow of images and impressions, his work suggests a holistic worldview, and the possibility of a utopia of diversity, and a world without borders.”
-Translated excerpts from an essay written by Angelica Olsson

This residency is made possible through an ongoing partnership with the Region Västra Götaland, Sweden.

Check out the Facebook event

Hamtramck Neighborhood Art Festival at Popps

Qbert in the Woods, 3PM-7PM
Behind 2037 Carpenter
A communal improvositational soundscape spead out in and around the Popps Back Forty including folks like James Cornish, Chris Pottinger, Sonic Stroker, Chris Riddell, Thomas Bell, David Shettler and more!

Camp Mossandsticks, 3PM- 5PM
12147 St. Aubin ( Cactus Lots across the street form Popps)
Artist, Alex Tsocanos leads a pop-up campsite with radical arts and craft workshops for feminist revolutionaries of all ages. Spark your inner political flame at a protest sign making party and marching practice! All materials will be included, just bring your spirit and let your voice be heard!

Mounts and Marvels, open 3-7PM
Popps Emporium 2037 Carpenter
A large wall drawing installation created by August ’16 AIR Isamu Krieger.

Peaches, open 2PM -7PM
Popps Packing Gallery 12138 St. Aubin
A fabulously fun fruit shows curated by Alice V. Schneider featuring 18 Detroit artists who gathered their dirty artistic minds to celebrate the diverse juicy fruit!

Friday, May 27 6PM- 9PM

Open Studio with Vincenzo Fagnani and Tana Santos

Please join us for an open studio with visiting artists, Vincenzo Fagnani and Tana Santos (currently living and working in Berlin). Vincenzo & Tana will present a large body of work installed around the Popps compound and beyond that focuses on the relationship between symbols, ethics and public spaces.

This works is part of a larger project titled, “The Sea After Crisis: Reality is amorphous. Ethics is graphics”.

About the “The Sea After Crisis”:

From Pre-Hellenic cultures until today humans have been determining a number of ethical geometries that survived and strengthened over the most significant epochal changes, above all the accession of monotheism. Those geometries also represent the basis of a social model which imposed its will worldwide over the past centuries.

“The sea after crisis” is a project about the dynamics of moral structures and the role of graphics in society. It is a long trip across etymology and symbology narrated through visual paradoxes, poster campaigns and art interventions to realize in three emblematic cities: Detroit (United States), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Athens (Greece). The experiences made in those cities will be then collected in a single book.

Some of Vincenzos published works can be found at Printed Matter.