De’Shaia Ventour, a senior at Cass Tech, started making more elaborate duct tape painting after she joined Mint and sold her work at the Palmer Park Art Fair and other Mint events. She still creates beautiful duct tape flower pens and wallets, but her work has gotten bigger, more elaborate and in more venues. Her duct tape painting Black Roses …
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Mint’s successes and miracles: A yearend letter from our director
Dear friends of Mint, Mint Artists Guild is finishing a year of successes and firsts. We are proud of these – and we see how many more opportunities and challenges we could tackle in 2020 and 2021, with your support and donations from individuals, businesses and foundations. Some of our successes have names: Seyi, a photographer, learned to paint with …
How Jessica ended up in two Mint videos and a show in the Fisher Building
Jessica Fligger showed up with her family for the Mint Paint Detroit with Generosity opening last month, a rare artist with a rare opportunity – two of them. She left 90 minutes later with two interviews completed and her paintings shining. This young painter and ceramics artist was thrilled to have her art featured in the Fisher Building – and …
Meet Mint’s new marketing intern Journey
She smiles and creates videos and digital art. Learn more about our new marketing intern.
Tea and friendship
Consider hosting a Mint Tea, or joining us at a future one to connect with creatives and support Mint Artists Guild.
Creative, beautiful art at Mint Masterpieces, Part 1
Guests at Mint Masterpieces on Oct. 19 will savor art that has been collected by our co-hosts Judge Deborah Geraldine Bledsoe Ford and attorney Jerome Watson. And they will be able to bid on and take home some art created by Mint Artists as well. Our silent auction features certainly work by well established artists including Anthony Brass, Donald Calloway, …
Big dreams, jump in right now: Our story in The Creative Armory
Mint is featured in The Creative Armory blog: quotes, our history and a lot of our beautiful youth art.
A beautiful fair on Belle Isle; save the date
Summertime seems better and more beautiful with a trip to Belle Isle. And Belle Isle State Park on a weekend with 100 artists, plus food trucks, tropical drinks and more, sounds like a slice of heaven. So mark your calendar for Aug. 3 and 4 for the Belle Isle Art Fair, produced by our long-time supporter Integrity Shows. (Mark Loeb, …
Creativity, serendipity and Live in the D
Mint Artists Guild is featured on WDIV’s Uniquely Detroit, and on Live in the D, thanks to a visit by journalist Alex Atwell. Atwell, who is known as Camera Guy Al, strolled into the Mint tent at the Palmer Park Art Fair, and he spotted a story: Mint. So he asked us for interviews, and of course, we agreed. It …
Why artist Judy Bowman believes in Mint
Artist Judy Bowman believes in Mint – and supports Mint and other emerging artists. Hear her advice and watch the new Mint video of her career.
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