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Art Environment: 3600 Block of Heidelberg, Detroit, MI 48207. Office: 3442 McDougall, Detroit, MI 48207. Phone: (313) 458-8414 | Email: information@heidelberg.org
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Jul 24, 2020 · An Urban Canvas. Today, the street is home an outdoor art environment called the Heidelberg Project. Two city blocks serve as an urban canvas that incorporates houses, the street, sidewalks, and discarded items. What began in the 1980s as a way to spotlight urban blight is evolving into an art community and “culture village.”.
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The Heidelberg Project has been controversial in Detroit since its inception. It was dismantled twice in the 1990s by people serving in the Detroit government, who thought the project drew attention to the city’s struggles with urban blight. In 2013, 2014, and even as recently as 2019, the project and its surrounding buildings have been victim to m...
When I visit, it’s a cold morning in late 2020, a year during which I faced unemployment, family death due to COVID-19, and separation from loved ones. Earlier in the year, Detroit’s streets—like so many others in the country—were filled with Black Lives Matter protests. I walk the Heidelberg Street sidewalks and wonder what I can learn from their ...
Using the GPS-based app to guide me, I weave through the various installations: A hot pink hummer peeps out from the grass where it’s half buried. Shoes, which symbolize souls (“soles”), are strung along fences and trees. Abandoned cars are bursting with found dolls. According to the app, one installation—a pile of shoes topped with a plastic angel...
Oct 24, 2009 · Tyree Guyton grew up in a Detroit that was a thriving city, and his house was in a growing, middle-class neighborhood. But in 1967, when Guyton was 12, he witnessed the destructive effects of the ...
Damon Casarez for The New York Times. On a bright morning last fall, the creator, custodian and de facto mayor of Heidelberg, Tyree Guyton, stood in the middle of the street, talking to a neighbor ...
Jul 7, 2020 · Published on July 7, 2020 at 3:11 PM. Heidelberg Project installations in Detroit, Michigan | Dominique Millette/Shutterstock. Jenenne Whitfield rolled up on the Heidelberg Project entirely by ...
Guyton, Tyree. Artist Tyree Guyton is an American Neo-Expressionist best known for creating Detroit’s Heidelberg Project. Guyton extensively uses found objects in his work, including bicycles, old shoes, baby dolls, and other discarded items. Faces, shoes, clocks, and colorful polka dots often appear as recurring elements in his work.
