  Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen Post Number: 2313 Registered: 10-2003 |
"Works in Progress: Images from Detroit's Cass Corridor" will be shown at the Motor City Brewing Works this Thursday, June 7, at 9:30 pm. '70s Detroit art scene filmed "In the 1970s, an artistic flowering known as the "Cass Corridor movement" coalesced on the hardscrabble streets around Wayne State University, drawing much of its punch from the cheek-by-jowl juxtaposition of poverty and serious art. Kathryn Brackett Luchs watched all this as a wide-eyed teenager living with her older sister, who was enrolled at Wayne State. Ultimately, Luchs picked up a Super-8 camera and, since her sister knew many of the artists, filmed those painters and sculptors at work. "I was always very poor," says Luchs from her home in Lewiston, "so I filmed sporadically and randomly." She accumulated 11 hours and then put it away in a drawer. Some 25 years later, Luchs picked the project back up and re-interviewed all the artists, save Paul Schwarz, who had died. The result, which she produced with Shaun Bangert, is "Work in Progress: Images from Detroit's Cass Corridor," which will show Thursday at the Motor City Brewing Works. The artists, most of whom went on to significant careers, included Schwarz, Robert Sestok, Steve Foust, Ellen Phelan and Luchs' husband, Michael Luchs -- all once associated with the experimental Willis Gallery. ..." http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.d ll/article?AID=/20070604/ENT02 /706040329/1032/ENT | ||
Vas Member Username: Vas Post Number: 720 Registered: 01-2004 |
cool thanks | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 2316 Registered: 06-2004 |
I thought everybody was boycotting Motor City because they tried to steal free parking from TJ's? | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 1104 Registered: 10-2006 |
Kathleen, did you happen to attend the event or get any more information about this documentary? Mainly I was wondering if there is any chance that someone could buy a copy of it. |
