Artist Statement:
Webster’s Dictionary defines a blueprint as: “a photographic print in white on a bright blue ground or blue on a white ground used especially for copying maps, mechanical drawings, and architects' plans … as in serving as a model or providing guidance.”
Detroit is the Blueprint is a photographic installation that serves as an on-going, multigenerational archive of Detroit creatives. This body of work consists of 100 portraits of visual, literary, & performing artists as well as collectors, gallerists, and community activists inside of their creative spaces. Each subject has impacted the history and culture of Detroit’s art community, and serves as a model and provides guidance for future generations of creators.
Detroit is the Blueprint
Aaron Timlin
Adnan Charara
Andy Malone
Ann Mikolowksi - photo credit: Stewart & Stewart
Anne Harrington Hughes
Annette DeLorean
Asia Hamilton
Barry Roth
Brandon Walley
Bryant Tillman
Carl Wilson
Carole Harris
Charles McGee - photo credit: Estate of Charles McGee
Chris Turner
Christopher Gene
Clinton Snider
Constance Bruner
Dalejaun Littleton
Dalia Reyes
Daniel Geanes
Danielle Eliska Lyle
Darcel Deneau
Dawnice Kerhaert
Dayana Juarez
Dennis Nawrocki
Desawna Buford
Dolores Slowinski
Donita Simpson
Dr. Cledie Taylor
Eradajere Oleita
Eric Fogle
Ewolf
Gilda Snowden - photo credit: Donita Simpson
Glanton Dowdell - photo credit: Glanton Dowdell Estate
Gordon Newton - photo credit: Hill Gallery
Halima Afi Cassells
Harold Neal - photo credit: Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Henry Harper
Hubert Massey
Hugh Timlin - photo credit: Rachel Timlin
Ian Matchett
Ijania Cortez
Jaime Pattison
James H. Dozier
Jan Rosenbaum
Jeanne Bieri
Jeff Cancelosi
Jennifer Gariepy
jessica Care moore
Jo Powers
John Albert Murphy
Jon Onye Lockard - photo credit - Washtenaw Community College
Judy Bowman
Kenneth Josephson
Kim Fay
Laura Macintyre
LeRoy Foster - photo credit: Self Portrait as Martini Marti digitally restored by S. Kay Young
Lester Johnson
Loralee Grace
Maria Prainito-Winczner
Marilyn Zimmerwoman
Mario Moore
Mark Dancey
Marsha Music
Maurice Greenia, Jr.
Melba Joyce Boyd
Melissa Jones
Michael Reid
Miranda Kyle
Navjeet Kaur
Nicole Mcdonald
Nivek Monet
Olayami Dabls
Phillip Simpson
Ray Katz
Rick Bielaczyc
Rick Vian
Rose E. DeSloover
Russell A. Tayor
Ryan Herberholz
Sabrina Nelson
Scott Hocking
Scott Northrup
Senghor Reid
Sergio De Giusti
Shanna Merola
Shekenia Mann
Shelby Murphy
Shirley Woodson
Skip Davis
Steve Hughes
Sudani Shaah
Sue Carman-Vian
Sunn Anderson
Susan Aaron-Taylor
Susan Goethel Campbell
Taurus Burns
Uta Brauser
Yvette Rock
Zyaire Brownlee