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PODCAST: Meet The Man Chronicling All Of Detroit's Beautiful Street Murals, Viranel Clerard

Detroit is becoming a mecca for murals. Our guest on the Daily Detroit Happy Hour today is aiming to catalog it all. Viranel Clerard is the man behind the Detroit Mural Project, which you can find on the Internet machine at detroitmurals.com. The site organizes murals by neighborhood and includes a description of the artist and who it was commissioned by, when known, a link to the artist’s Instagram page, and location of the mural. He saves his commentary about the murals mostly fo...

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New Mural On 8 Mile To Be Created By Detroit Artist Ndubisi Okoye

The Eight Mile Boulevard Association has chosen the artist whose winning design will become a mural on the wall of a vacant building near Livernois to kick off its Art on 8 program. Ndubisi Okoye is a Detroit-based artist and illustrator who has done murals in Detroit for Our/Detroit Vodka building and a design-install project for the General Motors International Singapore Office Project. His work has appeared on HGTV. The project is funded by a $5,800 grant from Mercedes Benz Financial Serv...

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6 Amazing Murals Popped Up In Town, Check Them Out Here

The six murals for the Small Business Mural project are complete. The mural project partnered small business owners from around Detroit with an artist to create a mural together. The murals reflect the business, the artist and the community it is in. The program was sponsored by the Quicken Loans Family of Companies. Three of the artists had volunteer help completing the murals over the weekend to complete these with lightning speed. They’re all located in the city of Detroit. Cutz Lounge...

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28 Photos Of The Stunning New Murals In Eastern Market Show Detroit Is A Hub Of Art

Amazing. Jaw-dropping. Yes, they’re strong words, but these new murals in Eastern Market, put up last month by various artists as part of the “Murals in the Market” program, live up to the high praise. This is the second year where artists from near and far have descended on Detroit to paint some of the biggest canvases there are – the sides of buildings. It proves you can teach an old dog, in case Eastern Market that’s been around for more than 150 years, new tricks. We focused on the new m...

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These 18 Amazing Street Murals In Detroit Rival Anything In The World

The creative spirit is alive and well in the Motor City. Detroit is an appealing place for many street artists and a place to go if you want to make something amazing. Murals In The Market happened happened last fall and the results are breathtaking. 45 artists applied their skills to the walls of Detroit’s historic Eastern Market area, and you could feel the good energy when we spent the afternoon photographing them and talking to various artists. Detroiters of all kinds could be see taking...

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Shepard Fairey, Obama “HOPE” Poster Designer, To Create Giant Mural In Detroit

He left his mark on a presidential campaign, and now he’ll be leaving his mark on Detroit. Shepard Fairey, the creative artsist who created the iconic “Hope” poster for then candidate (now President Barack Obama) is going to paint a section of the wall of the Compuware Building in the heart of downtown Detroit over the next two weeks. The mural will be 184 feet tall and 60 feet wide and it will be on the side along Gratiot Avenue. It will be Fairey’s tallest to-date. There also will be a s...

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WATCH: A Timelapse Video Of Those Sweet Hopcat Murals

The new Hopcat Detroit may have a bazillion beers on tap, but before you see any of that you see stunning murals. Here’s a short look behind the scenes. The “4731 Group” curated six murals for the newly-opened Hopcat Detroit. You might know them from their work on the Grand River Creative Corridor. This Hopcat project features Detroit artists Fel3000ft, MALT, Kobie Solomon, MELO and ELMER. The place has been met with much fanfare and conversation, but we thought these to be pretty amazing. T...

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WATCH: A "Splice Of Life" Mini-Doc Of An Ex-Pat Street Artist Coming Home To Paint

“What I really like about Detroit is the old architecture, the old buildings. It’s like a whole piece in itself.” – Evan Rossell With more than 90,000 plays, apparently folks thought this one interesting. This mini-documentary called “Nothing Stops Detroit” features Californian Evan Rossell and is by Riley Blakeway. It is shot in Super 8 and 16mm film and has a jazz soundtrack to it that gives it an interesting pace and a feel as if it was shot in another era. Moreover, it shows the intense al...