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Guyton is the focus of many scholarly journals and books in both the United States and Europe, and a book dedicated solely to his work, Connecting the Dots: Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project (Wayne State University Press, 2007) is still widely collected.
- Staff, Board of Directors & Advisory Board
Tyree Guyton. Director Emeritus, Heidelberg Project Board of...
- Mission + Vision
Art Environment: 3600 Block of Heidelberg, Detroit, MI...
- Timeline
Guyton exhibits Tyree Guyton: The whole world on fire at Art...
- The Founding Artist
Tyree Guyton. Primarily a painter and sculptor, Tyree Guyton...
- History
In 1986, artist Tyree Guyton returned to Heidelberg, the...
- Staff, Board of Directors & Advisory Board
Construction workers were rehabbing the Numbers House, one of the Heidelberg Project’s few remaining original structures, a sagging white frame house that Guyton had covered in a strange ...
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After studying art at Marygrove College and Wayne State University, Guyton worked as a firefighter and autoworker prior to doing his service in the U.S. Army. When he returned from his service around 1986, Tyree Guyton was astonished to see the deterioration of his neighborhood, the McDougall-Hunt district east of downtown Detroit.
The Heidelberg Project is an outdoor art project in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on Detroit 's east side, just north of the city's historically African-American Black Bottom area. It was created in 1986 by the artist Tyree Guyton, who was assisted by his wife, Karen, and grandfather Sam Mackey ("Grandpa Sam"). [1] .
