Living Arts Wins 2018 Knight Arts Challenge

Marquee, The Fillmore, November 7, 2018 -- Photo: Andrew Potter, Knight Foundation

With the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s 2018 Knight Arts Challenge, Living Arts will bring together artists and residents to design a film installation series that will be displayed on street walls in Southwest and throughout Detroit. The installations will be created in partnership with media artist Sacramento Knoxx and will feature a series of dance workshops and performances by Southwest artists, youth, and residents. These dance events will be led by Living Arts, Motor City Street Dance Academy, Ballet Folklorico Moyokoyani Izel and Compás, capturing modern, break, folklorico, Afro-Latin, and more. Through consensus-building sessions, the community will identify locations and themes for the site-specific work, focusing on dance as resistance. This project will challenge notions about the art, culture, and identity that stems from the Southwest Detroit community, embracing the power of dance to bring together people to leverage the power of their bodies in expression

The project is funded by the Knight Foundation.

The series of films will be installed on walls in conjunction with the Arise Detroit! Neighborhoods Day.

Knight Foundation previously funded our community performance series Teatro Chico.

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Read the Knight Foundation press release.

Katy Locker, Program Director Knight Arts Detroit, Alissa Novoselick, Executive Director Living Arts, Erika Villarreal Bunce, Director of Programs Living Arts, Victoria Rogers, VP Knight Arts