Celebrate the final day of Environment + Microclimates AND ArtClvb's 3-day Art Fair | Detroit at the Boyer Campbell Building in the Detroit Design District!

• Art Fair | Detroit at the Detroit Design District

• Environment + Microclimates

• Music performances by Battle Elf featuring Gretchen Gonzales, Dave Hurley, and Chris Peters

• 3:30-4:30PM: Live acoustic music by 3rd Floor featuring Diego Perez-Cuellar, John Pablo Rojas and Indira Edwards

• Popsicle Pop-Up with The Detroit Pop Shop

After processing milkweed pods for its floss in the earlier part of the day (see Leslie Rogers’ workshop), let’s put the seeds back in the earth, like a Goo. We’ll be planting the seeds around the Boyer Campbell building. Learn how to plant milkweed seeds and take some home to plant yourself.

Learn about Michigan milkweed history, from foraging milkweed for life vests during WWII to processing the floss in Petoskey, as Leslie shares examples of her floating quilt projects that incorporate milkweed. Discuss ways to sustainably and safely forage milkweed before heading out to forage milkweed in the neighborhood - you may even don a monarch butterfly costume! Return to utilize a variety of methods and contraptions to separate floss from seeds and pods.

Western Sensibility invites you to investigate designing for the pluriverse and how it cultivates empathy, connection, and non-linear sensibility in our diverse community. Join us and participate in a communal sewing circle to contribute to an ever-evolving tapestry. All ages and experience levels are encouraged — bring old or new friends, family, children, neighbors — all are welcome.

All artists, crafters and makers welcome to participate in this BIG CRAFT community gathering facilitated by knitwear specialist Tina Tse.

This craft gathering features two special guests: Leslie Rogers and Lisa Shackleford-Anderson.

Help Leslie Rogers sew butterfly costumes for her milkweed workshop coming up on Saturday, September 28. Participants can return to don the costumes to forage milkweed in the Detroit Design District/Milwaukee Junction neighborhood around the exhibit. This is intended to generate butterfly wings that will be used at Saturday’s milkweed experience!

Lisa Shackleford-Anderson will also be back with her Art in Bloom project. Come learn to crochet and/or participate in the crochet project to fill the Detroit Public Library with floral blooms as part of Lisa’s Art in Bloom garden-themed installation program. Beginners and experienced crocheters welcome.

Mutualisms is a two-part concert series which explores the relationships between human and algorithmic art through musical performance. On two different dates, four performers will interface sonically with Nick Szydlo, Lindsay Skvarek, and Sean Monaghan’s “Saphotrophic Commune” installation, a multidisciplinary collaboration utilizing ceramics, textiles, and sound to create an algorithmic mushroom forest.

Western Sensibility invites you to investigate designing for the pluriverse and how it cultivates empathy, connection, and non-linear sensibility in our diverse community. Join us and participate in a communal sewing circle to contribute to an ever-evolving tapestry. All ages and experience levels are encouraged — bring old or new friends, family, children, neighbors — all are welcome.

Evening of poetry readings, including poems from Jen Barker’s quilted poetry installation on the theme of “people or places you consider home.”

Collaboration between Jen Barker, Mariko Brenner, and Abigail Rist, featuring:

Simon Albaugh

Bootz the Poet

Jen Barker

Mariko Brenner

Lore Elyse

Christiana Lane

Matthew Landrum

Abigail Rist

Edie Roberts

Fiber Club* currently meets monthly in Detroit to provide artists with an opportunity to share their work and get feedback, discuss individual and collective ideas, network, and share information about shows, calls for art and related opportunities.

Join Lisa Shackleford-Anderson for an afternoon of floral crochet! Arts In Bloom is an immersive, large-scale installation soon to grace the historic Strohm Hall at the main branch of the Detroit Public Library.
Participate by crocheting part of the floral installation; learn to crochet; and/or learn how to volunteer with the program.

Catch this live performance POSE DOWN by A Ranic every fifteen minutes from 12-4pm

All artists, crafters and makers welcome to participate in this community gathering facilitated by knitwear specialist Tina Tse.

Come watch and listen as Jeffrey Evergreen creates a live, pattern-based video performance using analog video synthesizers. Jeffrey will spend time with visitors to explain how patterns are being generated, and their relationship to weaving drafts. Guests are welcome to interact and play with the controls to see real-time changes in patterns.

Western Sensibility invites you to investigate designing for the pluriverse and how it cultivates empathy, connection, and non-linear sensibility in our diverse community. Join us and participate in a communal sewing circle to contribute to an ever-evolving tapestry. All ages and experience levels are encouraged — bring old or new friends, family, children, neighbors — all are welcome.

Mutualisms is a 2 part concert series which explores the relationships between human and algorithmic art through musical performance. On 2 different dates, four performers will interface sonically with Nick Szydlo, Lindsay Skvarek, and Sean Monaghan’s “Saphotrophic Commune” installation, a multidisciplinary collaboration utilizing ceramics, textiles, and sound to create an algorithmic mushroom forest.

All artists, crafters and makers welcome to participate in this community gathering facilitated by knitwear specialist Tina Tse.

Western Sensibility invites you to investigate designing for the pluriverse and how it cultivates empathy, connection, and non-linear sensibility in our diverse community. Join us and participate in a communal sewing circle to contribute to an ever-evolving tapestry. All ages and experience levels are encouraged — bring old or new friends, family, children, neighbors — all are welcome.

Lisa Kim will be making her super special Korean burritos. Detroit Coffee Club will be on site with their full menu, plus a special secret drink. Do not miss this rare pop-up!

Prepare to be enveloped in a cocoon of deep relaxation with this Somatic Sound. Led by Rosemary "RO" Fajardo and Mariko Brenner, we will use our voices, crystal singing bowls, and various other instruments to guide you through a transformative sound experience. Different sound frequencies awaken a deep sense of well-being, like a full day of relaxation at the beach condensed into a 40-minute session. We recommend bringing a yoga mat, blanket, and pillow to ensure your utmost comfort during this immersive sound journey.

Western Sensibility invites you to investigate designing for the pluriverse and how it cultivates empathy, connection, and non-linear sensibility in our diverse community. Join us and participate in a communal sewing circle to contribute to an ever-evolving tapestry. All ages and experience levels are encouraged — bring old or new friends, family, children, neighbors — all are welcome.