Creative Roots Detroit

🌱How we aspire to support artists’ growth🌱

Creative Roots aims to act as a web of resources to help artists grow by providing everything from platforms to refine and showcase artwork, to tools to develop business practices and skills, as well as offering opportunities to network.

We know that the creative process can be a struggle sometimes, and have in the past found it very useful to participate in group-led constructive critiques.

We also know critiques can be triggering for some individuals and we are seeking to reclaim that space by hosting empowering art critiques.

Our intention with these critique spaces is to empower artists to share their work and encourage them to be open to problem solving and considering approaches from multiple perspectives.

Artists will also have opportunities to submit finished work for solo and/or duo shows within Creative Roots’ gallery space, as well as submit work for sale in our shop display case.

Each of these opportunities offers artists the potential to gain business experience (such as pricing, branding and promoting work) and to interact with diverse customer audiences.

Creative Roots’ networking opportunities include a variety of community events we plan to host, from art exhibitions, open mic nights and live performances, to more playful and laidback events such as game nights and movie showings.

At some of these events, we plan to offer vending spots to artists and other entrepreneurs looking to sell work and make new connections.

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🌀How we aspire to foster creative, collaborative exploration:🌀

As artists ourselves, we understand how important it is to have a safe space available to explore and create in, especially amongst other creators where collaborative ideas and skills can be shared and developed.

Creative Roots is eager to offer a small variety of membership options to emerging and established local creators. Knowing that there is a scarcity of affordable space available for creatives to work within the city, this drives us to help our community heal that gap.

A portion of our studio space will be a designated members-based lab, where members will have access to work surfaces, tools, storage space, community events and so much more.

We are also planning to host a variety of workshops focusing on a range of mediums to pique creative curiosity. These workshops will be taught by emerging and established art educators and intended to boost creative skills and confidence.

In addition to the members-based lab and workshops, we will be hosting regular figure drawing nights in the interest of not only developing our foundational drawing skills and gathering in community, but also to hold space for reframing body image, autonomy and acceptance.

We celebrate the diversity of bodies within our communities, and aim to uplift intergenerational, LGBTQIA+, POC and other marginalized identities.

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To read our full mission statement, visit https://linktr.ee/CreativeRootsDetroit 🍃

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