HAMTRAMCK NEIGHBORHOOD ARTS FESTIVAL
October 8th, 2022

The 100th Anniversary Edition

Schedule

Festival Guide

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cute and crass lo-fi punk band

The HNAF is a loosely curated showcase of the artists, writers and musicians living in Hamtramck and in the surrounding neighborhoods.

George Rahme was born in Lansing, Michigan to Lebanese natives Khalil and Violet. He has exhibited internationally and his work belongs to collections worldwide. He is also largely committed to the field of yoga, Iyengar Yoga Certified Teacher, and is heavily invested in electronic music production.

Hatch Art has two galleries and plus artist studios. We are a non-profit organization that facilitates the making and displaying of art for local artists for the past 16 years.

The Our City Series presents a variety of performances and experiences throughout 2022 which explore the culture of our community. Part One: Voices, featured seven performers reciting poetry in the original language. Part Two: Taste, explored culinary memories through personal story telling from women in the neighborhood. Part Three: Sights and Sounds uses film and music to inspire understanding.

Shrinq Mountin is one person live producing full songs from scratch. With roughly 17 years of music making, each show is a new experience as there are currently no samples used, everything is created live and looped when necessary. Instruments regularly heard are drum, synth, keyboard, guitar, oud, voice, bass, and more. Shrinq is currently working on a sophomore album entitled “Emergence”.

Kaitlin paints custom pieces from her home studio in Hamtramck, Detroit. Her goal is to create gallery quality pieces accessible to all. Inspired by the nooks & crannies of this great town- as captured in her “Places” prints.

The Honest to God Jug Band performs traditional American and Balkan folk music.

Sicily Amaris McRaven is a fibers and drawing installation artist, community arts facilitator, and activist working to move the conversation forward in her own right, on radical sobriety, social-behavioral/communication-based health, and art as social practice.

Rebecca Goldberg is an electronic music producer, DJ, live performer and graphic designer from Detroit.

Marcus Merritt is an artist who makes and sells drawings and prints from his home in Hamtramck. He teaches creative writing at EMU in Ypsilanti, and posts drawings and photography on twitter @mrxmrt

Sydney is an all-over fiber artist, librarian, lifelong 313 resident, and member-owner of the Book Suey co-op. Her love of fibers began as child, hit the backburner, and was reignited tenfold as an adult. One thing led to another and she now enjoys cross stitch, embroidery, crochet, knitting, spinning, weaving, sewing, mending, and trying out new fiber arts.

Multidisciplinary artist New York and Detroit, paintings, drawings, sculptural work, murals

Lynn is a commission costume designer whose work can be seen at Theatre Bizarre, burlesque shows, in the local wrestling scene as well as on private clients at various costume parties/events. Lynn also uses mixed media collage work to process life and emotions that cannot be expressed with words. As an avid art collector, she looks for pieces that speak to her soul.

Dawn Smith is a modern surrealist painter and Tattooist. She is focused on creating a body of paintings in the modern surrealist genre. Dawn opened and currently operates Harlequin Tattoo in Hamtramck. She maintains a vibrant art studio practice at H.A.T.C.H. Her work discusses psychology, society, femininity and the nature of human emotional reality.

Hatch Art is a grassroots art center that has two galleries and 11 artist studios.

I’m 20 and from metro Detroit! I enjoy multimedia arts including painting, sculpture, screen printing, ceramics, and digital art. I lean towards the weird and obscure forms of style, including surrealism and maximalism. I typically make faces or humanoid figures because the importance of using them to communicate in our everyday lives has always interested me. A lot of my work is symmetrical.

Paintings, projections, sculpture, and melodies!

Traditional South East Asian Jewelry and Henna Designs

I make paintings (plein-air and in-studio), nearly all Hamtramck-themed, so you may have seen me around town drawing or painting. I also make ceramics, draw a comic series about life in H'town and (shamelessly) leave them everywhere. When I have time, I also take pictures, sew, quilt, embroider, hook rugs, design fabric, make costumes and a bunch of other stuff, too!

Mitch Cope, b 1973 is a studio artist working mainly in large scale 2D as well as video and sculpture and architectural design. Mitch has worked collaboratively with the Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop, Design 99 and Power House Productions. He has won the Kresge Arts Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award and Juried Award from Art Prize. He currently lives and works in Hamtramck, MI.

Faina Lerman (b. Riga, Latvia) Is a visual and performing artist based in Hamtramck. She has a BFA from CCS. Her work has been exhibited and performed in both solo and group shows locally and nationally and her performance art duo, Tzarinas of the Plane, was named as a 2015 Kresge Visual Art Fellow. She is the mother of two and the co-founder and Executive Director of Popps Packing.

Graem Whyte is an artist based in Hamtramck, MI. His work utilizes a wide array of materials and fuses sculpture, architecture, installation and relational art. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and was a 2021 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the arts venue Popps Packing,

Clifton’s artwork is primarily done on wrapped canvas with acrylic inks applied with a ‘Dip Pen’ circa 1850’s technology. Occasional use of acrylics paints compliment some of his paintings. His original artwork is professionally digitized to offer archival quality replications (Giclee) on both wrapped canvas and fine art papers.

What do you get when you mix two siren flower hippies with some forest twigs & also a kazoo? Kinsman Redeemer, that’s what. The soul-singing, hula-swinging Tessa joins her pilgrim sister Charis in a musical match that can only be described as crunchy & delicious. Says one fan, “I came to listen to angelic folk harmonies, but I left with granola in my pockets. I still don’t know how it got there!”

Roman Baranyk was born in Ukraine and has lived in Canada and the U.S.A. since 1950.

Mike Ross's latest series of work plays with shape, color and pattern, and the way these three elements bounce off of each other, relate to each other and the ways in which they influence the way the viewer observes and relates to the piece. Ross is a painter and muralist working out of 333 Midland Studios in Highland Park and has been exhibiting work locally and nationally for the past ten years.

Photo Exhibit

Phil Leslie is a local public school teacher and storyteller who believes in the necessity of sharing stories out loud. He has been performing some iteration of the StoryTime variety hour for 9 years in Hamtramck after honing his chops around the campfires of northern Michigan and Wisconsin.

Smushbox Art creates contemporary pop surrealism pieces using imagery from dreams, a dark sense of humor and a love for all things esoteric. Acrylic and watercolor pieces made with bright saturated colors that combine a classical painting style with a cartoon aesthetic.

Ceramics School is a community art school and artist residency program located in Hamtramck, MI. Our classes, memberships, residencies, studio access, and public programs offer a safe, supportive, critical, and communal platform for art making and education.

RVDS aka Richard von der Schulenburg is a luminary out in Hamburg (Germany), who produces and DJs as RVDS. Whoever had the chance to listen to his sets at the legendary Golden Pudel Club knows where his magical charming sound comes from. With his releases for own label “It’s", BureauB, Uncanny Valley, etc. he already created a tiny fanhood of moonaddicts and dreamers all around the globe.

The HNAF is a loosely curated showcase of the artists, writers and musicians living in Hamtramck and in the surrounding neighborhoods.

The Hinterlands creates performances and public events equal parts playful and surreal. Through an ongoing physical and vocal practice that undergirds our collaborative process and catapults across disciplines and contexts, our work pushes into the unknown parts of personal and collective history with fearless physicality and a sense of humor. thehinterlands.org

Lisa Poszywak is a Detroit based artist, musician, and educator. She graduated with a BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2009. Since then she’s been working primarily in painting and exhibiting them both locally and nationally. Since 2011, she’s played music and made records as one half of the post-punk duo, Rogue Satellites.

No Label Audio is an artist focused recording and performance studio

weird electronic music producer /performer and painter from Canada, just moved to the neighborhood!