[Marxism] The Detroit Artists' Workshop celebrates its 40th anniversary

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Shakin' Street

The Detroit Artists' Workshop celebrates its 40th anniversary



by Lisa M. Collins
11/3/2004

Detroit, despite all its cultural pretensions, has been artistically "dead"
for longer than most people here want to admit. Young artists of all
disciplines - music, poetry, painting, photography, filmmaking - have made
it a necessary point in the past generation or two to get out of Detroit as
soon as possible for the vital centers of U.S. kulchur - New York, San
Francisco, even Chicago - because the Detroit milieu is if anything
anti-artistic. Detroit has been really nowhere, as the saying goes: one
halfway decent theater, one museum, a decaying jazz scene, no community of
poets, painters, writers, anything.

A group of young Detroit artists - at first primarily poets and musicians,
most of them students at Wayne State University - got together and decided
to do something to make Detroit a viable and vital place to live and work.
The Artists' Workshop Society was formed by 16 charter members, all of whom
donated five dollars toward the cost of renting a suitable facility. After
examining a number of buildings and storefronts in the area, the group
picked a large house in the "urban renewal" area around [Wayne State]
University for their headquarters.

-Quoted from an article by filmmaker Robin Eichele and poet John Sinclair
for New University Thought magazine in the summer of 1965.
        



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