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- The Heidelberg Project has a proposal at City Hall to turn this once blighted neighborhood into a vibrant artists' village, with live-work studios, an arts academy and businesses that cater to them. They've even trademarked their own school of art, called Heidelbergology.
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Sep 25, 2023 · DETROIT – Financial hardships put the internationally renowned Heidelberg Project on pause in Detroit as the nonprofit has decided to lay off its staff and temporarily suspend its...
Sep 18, 2023 · The Heidelberg Project’s board of directors approved plans Friday to sell its headquarters building on McDougall Street, which contains two buildings and five lots. The proceeds, the organization said in a Monday statement, will be directed toward “maintaining and improving the core art environment” of its outdoor sites in the McDougall ...
Aug 21, 2019 · The Heidelberg Project CBS News. Guyton's so-called Heidelberg Project now attracts an estimated 200,000 visitors a year from all over the world, adding more than $3 million annually to...
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Jul 26, 2022 · Leaders say yes. Sitting at a long table in an airy multipurpose space inside the Heidelberg Project's headquarters on McDougall on Detroit's east side, Jenenne Whitfield, its president and...
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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...
Sep 21, 2023 · News. Detroit Evening Report: Heidelberg Project lays off staff, plans to sell headquarters after facing financial hardship. Hernz Laguerre. September 21, 2023. Listen to the latest episode of the “Detroit Evening Report” podcast. The Heidelberg Project artwork entitled "Penny Car."
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]
