A conversation between Melannie Chard, founder of M Contemporary Art, and Isabelle Weiss, founder of NEXT : SPACE Detroit, a design consultancy.

M Contemporary will exhibit as part of Detroit Art Mile 2021.

On Thursday April 29 Senghor Reid and Rashaun Rucker had a virtual discussion on Zoom to talk about their most recent bodies of work and the intersections in their individual practices. The talk was hosted by Melannie Chard and M Contemporary Art gallery in Ferndale, Detroit, Michigan.

Join us on Thursday April 29 at 6 PM EST via Zoom for an exclusive conversation between gallery artists Rashaun Rucker and Senghor Reid.

We’re proud to announce that Rashaun Rucker recently received a residency through the Kettering Family Family Foundation’s The International Studio & Curatorial Program.

Ryan Patrick Hooper, host of ’CultureShift’ on 101.9 WDET, curates your guide to the month in arts and entertainment

By Ryan Patrick Hooper - February 24, 2021

Listen to the gallery’s first episode of our new podcast “In the Gallery.” The inaugural episode is a conversation between Melannie Chard, founder and director of the gallery, and Meighen Jackson, a visual artist in her own right, wife of the late photographer Bill Jackson.

The paintings by Marcia Freedman and Ani Garabedian in Figuratively Dreamingpresent a current interpretation and exploration of a genre that is versed and familiar but still evolving. Abstract painting rose from a multi-century evolution that moved away from the realistic religion-based storytelling of the Italian Renaissance through the French Impressionists and on to schools of thought like Dada.

For his latest solo exhibition, Detroit photographer Kenny Karpov took to the Mediterranean Sea for a closer look at Europe's refugee crisis.

Many of the photos show Black bodies packed onto ship decks, calling to mind a modern-day slave ship. What gets lost in the mainstream media narrative of the refugees, Karpov believes, is that any of the African and Middle Eastern refugees are in fact fleeing the horrors of modern-day slavery, human trafficking, famine, and war.

Looking through his lens, photographer Kenny Karpov tries to capture who people truly are — their expressions, their bodies and the light in their eyes. His emotional portraits, paired with written work, tell their stories.

In Karpov’s latest project, the book “Despite It All We Never Learn,” he tells the stories of refugees, the real people going through travails on a journey toward better and safer lives.

Artist Matt Eaton explores themes of nostalgia and space.

Episode 908/Segment 2

The Vanguard Artist Collective is a semi-formal nod to pioneering Chicago-based black art collectives like the Organization of Black American Culture and AfriCOBRA, which were founded during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

“We push each other to be better artists and better people — even when it’s critical,” says Rucker.