555 Gallery / Studios in Detroit Michigan

The core mission of 555 Gallery/Studio is to further enrich and diversify cultural life in the greater Metro-Detroit area. In support of this mission 555 facilitates the development of emerging artists. 555 offers exhibition/installation space, leads and collaborates in the development of programs for the visual and performing arts, and provides workspace for practicing artists @ 4884 Grand River Ave • PO Box 8173 •Detroit, Michigan 48208 • (313) 894-4202

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555 was founded in the spring of 2002 in Ann Arbor Michigan. Jacob "Monte" Martinez, Andres Garces, and Carl W. Goines established 555 on Third in a 1500 sq. ft. corridor in the Ann Arbor Technology Center, located on Third Street between Huron and Washington. The Ann Arbor Technology Center began as an industrial warehouse and in the early 70’s became a grassroots cultural community housing over 150 artists, craftspersons, musicians, and developing entrepreneurs.

	Co-founder Carl W. Goines, (from the left)	Visual and Performing Arts Director
	Co-founder Monte Martinez,(from the right )	Co-Director
	Co-founder Nicole Parker,(center)	Director of Development
	Ill Magazine-Darryl Odom,
	Artist Sabrina Nelson,
	Clothing designer of District 81 Ty Haygood
	Ill Magazine-,Jason Matthews
	Artist ,Tammie Bryant,
	Artist Elizabeth Sutton
	Artist Erin Onweller
	Artist Richard Davis
	Artist H.A.Navarro
	Artist Scott Hullinger
Two Exhibition Closings on Saturday July,19th from 12 -5 pm Benjamin Franklin Exhibition and The Hair Loss Chronicles-Mary Laredo Herbeck
The Detroit Summer Live Arts Media Project is a group of youth, artists and activists in Detroit, using visual media and hip hop arts to transform themselves and the city of Detroit. In the summer of 2006 they created the hip hop audio documentary, Rising Up From the Ashes: Chronicles of a Drop Out, which used peer-interviews, poetry and rap to investigate the root causes of Detroit's over-50% drop-out rate. This summer they will take the project to the next level by creating "docu-music videos" around many of the same issues explored in Rising Up From the Ashes. They will work with acclaimed video artists-- Joe Namy and Diana Nucera as artist mentors. The program will involve in-depth exploration of both artistic technique and the social landscape of the city. The program will run from 9:00am - 4:00pm Monday thru Friday July 14th - 26th. A public screening of the rough cuts will take place Friday August 1st at 7:00pm at the 555 Gallery.

Current Artist in Residence :The Detroit Summer Live Arts Media Project
Performance Art Workshops By Barbara Neri
An internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist, a published writer and scholar and she has been performing and creating work professionally since 1980. Her most recent performance was juried into the 2005 NY International Fringe Festival. Visit her website barbaraneri.com. Her professional study was with LA performance artist Rachel Rosenthal and NY drama coach Mimi Turque and she holds a Bachelors degree in Visual Art from Herron Art School and Butler University and an MFA in Dance from the UM. See video of her here: http://www.barbaraneri.com/IFslideshow2/video2.html Since 1995 the focus of her work has been the life and work of Victorian Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In response, Neri created "The EBB Project." The project is a synergy of creative processes in performance, visual art & writing that sets in motion a dance between criticism and art, word and image. To register for the workshop email Kt Andresky kt@555arts.org, for scholarship information contact Nicole Parker nicole@555arts.org.