Friday, July 13, 2007

Arts in the Area

An Arts Incubator Takes Off in Hamtramck...

With a propeller-topped head, a ham sandwich and smoking jacket for a torso and a pair of fishnet-clad legs shyly responding to cheers and applause, man, woman, child and lunch are whimsically welded together by a quartet of artists. The mixed media piece is part of the Exquisite Corpse collage exhibit hanging on the walls of Hamtramck's Café 1923. Created by the members of HATCH, these collaborative art pieces provide the perfect metaphor for what this Hamtramck arts incubator and collective hopes to achieve. Read more at http://www.metromodemedia.com/features/Hatch0026.aspx
(republished from the Arts Alliance news letter, 7/07, artsalliance@annarborchamber.org)