Metro Detroit Affiliate

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The Metro Detroit affiliate services Wayne, Oakland and Macomb County. The committee works with the home office to find support for and service our artist-in-residence programs for special education students in the region’s schools, and to train artists to work in these programs.

The affiliate is in the process of opening 4 new Club Create chapters: Club Create Macomb, and Club Create Northeast, Northwest, and Southwest Detroit.

Our affiliates are always looking for:

  • Passionate people to serve on the affiliate committee
  • Volunteers
  • People with talent in all art forms
  • Individual donors and corporate sponsors

Contact our Affiliate Committee Chairperson, Carolyn White, for more information at carolynwhite3040@gmail.com.

Detroit

Moses Field Center

Teaching artist Sherell Chillik inspires students to create  artwork in the style of famous masters using Tempera paint, 3d stickers, and markers. 

Clawson School District

Artist Residency with Visual Artist, S. Kay Young

Artist Residency with MiAA music teacher, Ben Schlatter

Artist Residency with MiAA dance teacher, Lisa LaMarre

Bloomfield Prep Artist in Residence Program

Michigan Arts Access collaborates with Bloomfield PREP Transition Program to provide teaching artists who integrate dance, theater, visual arts, music, media, poetry, and creative writing into the core curricula for students with disabilities. This year students worked with photographer S. Kay Young and muralist Hubert Massey to create a large permanent for the school, and to document the process through photographs.

S. Kay Young, Hubert Massey, and the students pose in front of the mural they created.
S. Kay Young, Hubert Massey, and the students gather around a table full of art supplies.
S. Kay Young, Hubert Massey, and the students take a group photo in front of abstract paintings.
S. Kay Young and Hubert Massey take students on a tour of their public artwork in Detroit

S. Kay Young and Hubert Massey demonstrate drawing with shapes on a white board to the students.
S. Kay Young and Hubert Massey demonstrate drawing with shapes on a paper with students.
Dr. Massey works with students on the mural design

Thank you gift designed by a student, abstract with dark colors like black, pink, purple, and blue with the word "Create" at the bottom.
Thank you gift designed students, colored shapes framing a piece of wood with all of the students signatures on it.
Thank you gifts the students created for the MiAA artists

Lincoln Center School in Wyandotte

Michigan Arts Access collaborates with The Lincoln Center in Wyandotte to provide teaching artists who integrate dance, theater, visual arts, music, media, poetry and creative writing into the core curricula for students with disabilities. The Lincoln Center services students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ages 5-26 years), and Cognitive Impairment/Emotional Impairment (ages 5-26 years) from 17 downriver districts. This year the students worked with visual artist Claire Moore and dancer Lisa LaMarre.

Students dance together in gym.
Students dance together in gym.
Dancer Lisa LaMarre dances in front of the students.
Students show off their dance moves under the direction of MiAA artist Lisa LaMarre

Art Class taught by Claire Moore

Students painting their sculptures.
Students painting and student posing with their blue sculpture.
Student smiling painting a piece of their sculpture blue.
Student smiling and posing showing off their collage.
Student smiling and posing showing off their collage.
Students painting their sculptures next to each other.
Students create a variety of artwork with MiAA artist Claire Moore