Kresge Arts in Detroit has named the 20 recipients of its 2019 fellowships and awards in literary and visual arts, which are given annually to Detroit-based writers and artists working in different mediums. Each of the 18 artist fellows gets an unrestricted grant of $25,000, and the two winners of the organization’s Gilda Awards, which recognize artists early in their careers, receive $5,000 to support their practice.

Rashaun Rucker is named a 2019 Visual Arts Fellow by Kresge

While the word “metamorphosis” may call to mind images of a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis or major high school reunion glow-ups, artist Matthew Eaton is focused on the lesser witnessed process….

Matthew Eaton’s pop-up exhibition in the Detroit News. Exhibition on view May 31 to June 15, 2019.

Kilpatrick's experimental relief print from hand-carved soles, entitled “Two Wolves” was accepted into the American Illustration Winners annual book, edition 38.

For his latest series of paintings, Detroit artist Senghor Reid started with small studies, building a system of gestural movements that began to simulate something that surrounds us here in the Great Lakes State but perhaps can easily become taken for granted — water.

Don Kilpatrick on Detroit Performs, January 2019.