HAMTRAMCK NEIGHBORHOOD ARTS FESTIVAL
October 9th, 2021
The BACK TO LIFE Special Edition
DEADLINE OCT. 1 to BE On PRINTED MAP
About THE Festival
Instead of an impersonal mega-event, HNAF was created to offer a humble way to engage with artists on a more intimate level. Last year we had to cancel...for reasons.
This year, we are Back, To, Life...Back, To, Reality.
We always get a slow start, so keep checking back for more information, or shoot us an email at HamtramckNeighborhoodArtsFest@gmail.com.
Also, if you are an artist in the area and already know what you want to do, please fill out the sign-up form! Deadline to be included on our printed maps is October 1st!
The Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Fest is a loosely curated showcase of artists, writers and musicians living in Hamtown and the surrounding neighborhoods. The Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival takes place annually the second weekend in October.
Our goal is to activate the city’s indigenous talent and create a walkable, neighborhood-scale, art experience on porches, in houses, on sidewalks and storefronts.
This Year's Events
View all event details below or print your own to share! VIEW THE EVENTS ON GOOGLE MAPS
Energic punk rock duo playing primitive, noisey tunes gleefully dressed as cavemen. Bring grandma!
Energetic punk rock duo bashing out primitive, noisey tunes gleefully dressed as cavemen.
This event will be considered a meet and greet with the artist, Dominique Mary Davis and a chance to get know her newly birthed wellness platform The Garden of Growth! Get a chance to connect for future endeavors, check out upcoming shows, and hear recently released music. Dominique Mary Davis welcomes you to The Garden of Growth
Dominique Mary Davis is a musical artist originally born in Columbia, South Carolina but bred mainly in Hamtramck, Michigan and the surrounding areas. Dominique has been performing for numerous Hamtramck events since the age of 9 and has blossomed into an artist all her own with original music full of soul that transcends generations.
For festival information and map pickup, stop by Bank Suey to see the HNAF folks. And if you donated to the Patronicity campaign, come pick up your swag!
The Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Fest is a loosely curated showcase of the artists, writers and musicians living in Hometown and in the surrounding neighborhoods.
12-1: demo of spinning a variety of fibers on a wheel and spindles. If you feel bold, try your hands (and feet) at it! 1-2: demos of various mending techniques. Grab a mending kit (as supplies last) and apply your newly learned skills to your own well-loved textiles.
Sydney (she/her) is, among other things, a self-taught fiber artist, graduate student of Library Sciences, and Book Suey member-owner living in Hamtramck. These identities and passions have pushed her to dream of an equitable world guided by justice, knowledge-sharing, and sustainability. When not making art, studying, or at Book Suey, she works at various libraries & volunteers at Arts n Scraps.
A collection of loosely related paintings that tell a fantastic story.
A collection of loosely related paintings that tell a fantastic story. The artist has created a number of pieces that depict their thoughts, emotions and life events. Full of texture and life these rich oil paintings are sure to catch your attention and spark curiosity introspection.
A Detroit native and artist who primarily uses oil on wood to portray life. Between a career in Applied Behavior Analysis my passion includes using art as a medium for expression, introspection and connection.
The "Deliberate Versatility" retrospective in the small gallery features the artwork of a well-known local Ukrainian American artist, Yarema Kozak. Artwork ranges from portraits, icons, abstracts, landscapes to book illustrations. The second exhibit features the Hnatiuk Collection of embroideries, ceramics, woodcarvings, and paintings.
The UAAM has been in Hamtramck since 1958 and has featured the culture, art, and history of Ukrainian Americans in the area.
A crazy hour of stories, songs, jokes and games for all ages: little kids, big kids, and grown-up kids! There'll be lots of silliness, surprises and good stuff to think about, as always. For the uninitiated: expect to sing along, laugh, maybe get up on stage, and join other folks in the wonder of a good story.
Phil is a former camp counselor turned actor, storyteller and Hamtramck Public Schools teacher.
Stop by my studio, and see my process. I will be featuring Linocut Print making. although my artwork is not limited to just that. Show up early to learn the process, and for a donation, you can print your own from my available blocks.
Alice V Schneider is an artist, curator and gallerist in Hamtramck, MI.
Come one, come all and participate in the Hamtramck Chalk Contest! Anyone can join. Sidewalk space will be provided at the Hamtramck High School. There will also be some tables for numerous arts and crafts for all ages to create including painting rocks, paper pumpkins, and more! There will be candy for the kids.
Emily is a new-comer to the Detroit area, but a long time art enthusiast. She passed the art portfolio review from Bowling Green State University and works as a student advisor. Her mission is to foster community through the joy of creativity and artistic expression.
Come explore an engaging art collection and dive into the creative world of Hamtramck's own commission costume designer, Lynn Blasey.
Lynn is a commission costume designer whose work has been worn by Theatre Bizarre patrons, The Dirty Show performers/workers, Burning Man Event attendees, Slow Roll Detroit bicyclists, Burlesque performers, Clown Skate skaters, and displayed on mannequins and worn by patrons in exhibitions at the Scarab Club, Tangent Gallery, Atomic Cafe, etc, among others. She's also a mixed media 2D artist.
Come up to the table in front of the porch and personalize your own circus act! Walk away balancing your clown, to the amazement of onlookers! Pre-cut clown forms will be ready for you to color and embellish, while learning the science behind it all.
Ms. Vujic, a 6th Grade Teacher at Dickinson West Elementary, has a Science Certification and likes when ART and her curriculum overlap. A lover of all forms of art, she tries to use her talents practically.
Enter. Find there, upon a table, the singular copy of Abe and Ian’s Sentience Oceanic No. 1. Nearby, a figure playing musical instruments and wearing white buckskin shoes, their head replaced by a large papier-mâché sculpture of a brain, represents the vanguard of The Muse Collective Consciousness. You will be integrated.
Together, Ian and Abe are a multimedia art project that at one time presented itself, (with the help of others) as a band that nobody ever saw. Now they make singular, hand-made copies of novels that present themselves as MegaZines, (oversized, hardcover magazines.) Abe transmits the content from a future not our own into Ian by way of a pair of white buckskin shoes, and Ian does the rest.
The home/studio of local artist Emily Jane Wood will be open, so come view her personal collection of art and see where an how she does it all! All her drawings and sketchbooks will be open to peruse, there will be free comics, woodworking stuff, and live music by Jeff Jablonski at 4:pm!
Emily Jane Wood is a local artist, with a well-rounded portfolio that encompasses a number of mediums, her work has a level of authenticity that can only come from being intimately involved in her community.
Bingo time + More with Kinyel Friday @ Book Suey. Come meet children’s author Kinyel Friday from 3 to 5 pm at Hamtramck’s independent bookseller Book Suey. Kinyel will read from her work “Swim Like Fishes” and “I am My Hair” and play a round of bingo with little readers.
Kinyel Friday is the author of children’s books, I Am My Hair and Swim Like the Fishes, Books One and Two of Six of the Believe in Me Series, and short story, Troubled Minds. Activity books, I Am My Hair Coloring Book and Swim Like the Fishes Activity Book, accompany their picture books. She has a genuine interest in relationships, which serves as the focus of content in her stories.
The museum will present an eclectic assortment of art works donated by businesses and persons. It's a fascinating and unique mix of professional and amateur works, some with significant historical significance. All the works will be put in context to understand their provenance and significance.
On display will be an eclectic assortment of art woks assembled by the Hamtramck Historical Museum, including paintings, sculpture and more.
Handwoven & hand dyed yard sign sculptures installed in their natural habitat - the front yard (and maybe the alley too)!
Kit Parks is a weaver, writer, and performer based in Hamtramck, MI. They are figuring out what it means to live and make art in a late capitalist society in the midst of a climate crisis, grappling with themes of power and violence, gender, and human impact on the environment. In their spare time, they like to write tongue twisters, admire trees, and knit while watching bad tv.
Come Learn To Make & Play Homemade Musical Instruments on my front porch.
Michael "Revvy" Copado is an ordained progressive minister, audio visual specialist at Wayne State's Medical School, former public radio producer, award winning homebrewer and a "Junkyard Luthier" who builds musical instruments, mostly stringed, out of cigar boxes, cookie tins, found objects and other reclaimed and repurposed materials.
We are reigniting our workshops at Book Suey and want to invite other writers (local or nearby) who are interested in developing a community of writers.
Rey is a member-owner of Book Suey and has been the lead facilitator in previous workshops. When not writing or at Book Suey, he works with InsideOut.
Hatch will offer a gallery show of paintings and sculptures by Anna van Schaap, an installation by Anthony Brazeau, and open studios by resident artists. The galleries are open noon to 6pm; open studios from 3 to 5pm.
Hatch is an art hub, featuring 11 artist studios and two galleries. Located in Hamtramck's former police station, we are a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting local artists and connecting the community to the arts.
Water color paintings of Forhadul, featuring Houses of Hamtramck, will be exhibited on Cafe 1923. You can come, see and buy!
Forhadul Islam is a water color painter living in Hamtramck. His website - https://forhad.crd.co/
Putting together a list of local DJ's
Various Detroit DJ's and a Live Painter
Come peruse through some prints and watch me paint
Painter / Doodler of Hamtramck, specializing in custom pet portraits and line drawings of our favorite Hamtown Hotspots
A one person band, Shrinq Mountin will use loop pedals and effects to create full length original songs from scratch using guitar, keyboard, electric drums, and a microphone.
Shrinq Mountin is a loop pedal player who rotates between guitar, bass, keyboard, and drums, created from scratch each time. Shrinq has an EP on all streaming platforms called Train Tracks and is currently recording another album.
A down home Hamtramck act if there ever was one offering up a glimpse into their home base of operations and playing you their new album of witchy hits. Free fall treats and maybe even some street meat. Come on baby let's ball it up!
We started somewhere in the old bakery part of Baker Streetcar Bar where the ghosts go down the rattling rails to ball fields of lost little league and Turkey Stearns. Or maybe it was in that past Casmere flat to the sounds of motorbikes drag racing, church chimes, and train veins whistling reminders of what once was. Call to Prayer! Getting colder? We'll bring you that sweet heat.
Pop-up exhibit at Detroit Threads, checkout Thomas Bell's work at thomasbellart.com or instagram.com/thomasbellart
There are many reasons why one might paint. For fun, for money, for a release or for self expression. The main reason I paint is for survival. Painting gives me a purpose and a reason for living when I cannot seem to find that any where else. When I am wanting to call it quits or just give up I have my paints there to transform me from suffering to clarity. Painting is an escape yet at the same ti
I will be drawing caricatures live on paper with markers in 4 minutes and sharing services offered for private events.
Andrew enjoys drawing caricatures to make people feel seen for a moment and to bring laughter. When hired for weddings/parties/work events he can draw 15 faces per hour and can use custom paper. Check out some of his latest events at www.instagram.com/sigmanscaricature
Ten new abstract paintings that attempt to signify the spirit of their titular namesakes: scientists, lovers of nature, studiers of animals and humankind, explorers and musicians; people who make the world a better place through their curiosity and dedication and their actions.
Mike Ross studied art and anthropology at Oakland University, graduating in 2003. He currently lives and works in the Detroit area; since 2014 he has been painting out of 333 Midland Studios in Highland Park, Michigan (a city within the city of Detroit).
Join us in the backyard and view the 'Ant Party' mural by Milan Fliipec up close and personal. Peruse or purchase the visual art of David Morrison and soak up the sounds of the Honest to God Jug Band.
The Honest to God Jug Band performs traditional American folk music.
Skok w Bok (one night only) is an eclectic mix of Bumbo Krawczyk’s current paintings. This event is a cash and carry, meaning you can take the painting home with you.
Brian Krawczyk, also known as Bumbo, is a painter, musician, and sometimes reluctant chef residing in Detroit, MI. Of Eastern European descent, his heritage has influenced his creative accomplishments. Musical endeavors include Piranhas, Druid Perfume, Smelly Tongues and Bumbo’s Tinto Brass Band.
Ceramics School's current resident artist, Giovanna Pizzoferrato Ribeiro, will host an afternoon of chess in the garden on artist made chess sets and give an artist talk with projected images outside starting at 8pm
Giovanna Pizzoferrato Ribeiro is a dual-citizen Brazilian American artist, born in Los Angeles. she is currently based in Chicago and has been the Artist in Residence at Ceramics School in Hamtramck for the last 5 weeks. Following the residency, Giovanna will be returning to Chicago to instal a solo exhibition at Parlour and Ramp, featuring her ceramics, painting, and photography.
I will set up a small table and my typewriter.
Writer and poet doing soul poetry for anyone who wants an intuitive poem done for them on a vintage typewriter.
Screening as part of FilmFest Detroit! Special outdoor screening featuring a tapas tasting with Vinovi & Co! El Planeta is a dark comedy exploring contemporary poverty, female desire, and the always complicated filial relationships of mothers and daughters.
Amalia Ulman is an airport based artist with an office in New York City. Born in Argentina but raised in Spain, she studied Fine Arts in London. Her works, which are primarily voiced in the first person, blur the distinction between the artist and object of study, often creating humorous, gentle deceptions, while exploring class imitation and the relationship between consumerism and identity.
Folk artist TWILARK shows PAINTING THE WILD WOODS while Canal Radio provides MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC. Cash and carry paintings available.
Folk artist
Open Studio and Surprise Performances
Independent recording studio.
Giovanna Pizzoferrato Ribeiro will present selected works as the inaugural installation at The Waterfall, a space visible through a hole in the window frosting at 12185 Joseph Campau Ave in Hamtramck, MI.
Giovanna Pizzoferrato Ribeiro is a dual-citizen Brazilian American artist, born in Los Angeles. she is currently based in Chicago and has been the Artist in Residence at Ceramics School in Hamtramck for the last 5 weeks. Following the residency, Giovanna will be returning to Chicago to instal a solo exhibition at Parlour and Ramp, featuring her ceramics, painting, and photography.
