Detroit, MI 48226
Dolores Slowinski, 1971 WSU art alumna, and Carol Cook Reid, current graduate student in WSU’s James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History, are showing work at Detroit’s Swords into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery. The show, titled Patterns and Textures, runs now through April 17 at 33 Adams Street in downtown Detroit; Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 11am – 3pm, with a closing reception Saturday, April 17, 1 – 4pm.
There are three components to the exhibit:
Pathway Patterns, by Carol Cook Reid is an evolving, interactive installation. Visitors are invited and encouraged to participate by extending -- and connecting -- fragments of patterns collected from 12 community groups into one integrated community pattern. Patterns were constructed by staff or participants in the following: Bowen Branch Library, NW Activity Center, Cass Technical High School, Children’s Hospital of MI, Project Challenge – Focus:HOPE, Friends School-Detroit, General Motors Hamtramck Assembly plant, The Hub of Detroit, the N.O.A.H. Project-Central United Methodist Church, Wayne State Univ. Student Center, and the YMCA of Metro. Detroit.
Dolores Slowinski’s works include drawings in oil pastel, hand-felted wool and thread pieces, hand-felted wool forms, and collaged structures. Often combining whimsy and unusual art forms, Ms. Slowinski’s works are both visually pleasing and thought provoking. Christine Monhollen’s poetry was written to accompany selected works by Ms. Slowinski.
Gallery hours: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 11:00am to 4:00pm or by appointment. For more information, please call (313) 963-7575.