Focus on Solutions & Celebrate Detroit Month of Design This September With Exciting Interactivity

Detroit is a national and global design capital and USA’s only UNESCO-designated Design City. This year, Detroit Month of Design’s programming centers on design strategies with the capacity to strengthen community resources and mutual aid. Design Core Detroit’s 12th Annual Detroit Month of Design takes place September 1-30, 2022. Bring your curiosity for this year’s installment, which will feature over 80 events spanning categories ranging from exhibitions, such as the I.M. Weiss Gallery, to the return of Eastern Market After Dark (EMAD), installations, workshops, and many more.

Detroitisit rounded up a list of event highlights/exhibits across Metro Detroit that invite us all to engage in the present while investing our hearts in Detroit as it models the future-facing creative potential of post-industrial cities.

ENDANGERED SAOLA, PHOTO SUSAN AARON-TAYLOR / CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART ALUMNI STUDIOS

Date & Location: September 1-30, 2022 

First National Bank, 660 Woodward Ave, Ste 7

BCF CHAIR, PHOTO MANDA MORAN / THE CRANBROOK CHAIR SHOW

Also at the same location as The Cranbrook Architecture Alumni Show, the Cranbrook Academy of Art 3D Design Department will be hosting the Cranbrook Chair Show. This exhibition of art and design works centers around the subject of the ‘chair’. In continuation of The Academy’s strong tradition of producing iconic chair designs. The exhibition will feature works in all media that offer a potent perspective of the meaning of a chair.

BLACK FOOTWEAR FORUM 2019 PHOTO PENSOLE LEWIS COLLEGE / PHOTO BLACK FOOTWEAR FORUM

SEWING THE THREADS OF DETROIT’S FASHION COMMUNITY, PHOTO ISAIC / BUSINESS OF FASHION

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