The Imagination Station presents:
"Salvaged Landscape" a new installation by Catie Newell
the re-use and reclamation of an arsoned space
Food by Supino Pizzeria
Drinks by McClure's Pickles
Music by:
Matt Jones
Body Holographic
Scarlet Oaks
Don Duprie of the Inside Outlaws
$5 donation suggested
The Imagination Station is a non-profit campus in Detroit's Corktown...
[read more] The Imagination Station presents:
"Salvaged Landscape" a new installation by Catie Newell
the re-use and reclamation of an arsoned space
Food by Supino Pizzeria
Drinks by McClure's Pickles
Music by:
Matt Jones
Body Holographic
Scarlet Oaks
Don Duprie of the Inside Outlaws
$5 donation suggested
The Imagination Station is a non-profit campus in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood. We purchased two houses on Roosevelt Park directly facing Michigan Central Station and are busy turning one into a digital media center with an artist in residence space and the other --which was badly burned in an arson fire last winter-- into a art installation space with new projects rotating in seasonally. The Imagination Station has four focuses: Community, Sustainability, Technology, and Arts.
"Salvaged Landscape" is the second art work created on the Imagination Station campus and the first opening reception that we are hosting. The artist, Catie Newell, is a lecturer at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and you can check out some of her previous work here:
http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/architecture/faculty/fellowships/5fellows/newell/ We really love Catie and her work…. we're sure you will too! :)
"Salvaged Landscape" has been constructed exclusively from charred materials taken from the burned portions of the arsoned building (and nails, lots and lots of nails). It a piece about reclamation of a space that was once a haven for blight, drugs, and arson and it's reclamation by the community (most of us on the Imagination Station Team are Corktown residents, and *all* of us are Detroit residents! :) ), giving life back to the house and the materials.
Right on the Detroit city flag it says Speramus Meliora and Resurget Cineribus, meaning "We hope for better things" and "It will rise from the ashes."
At the Imagination Station, we do. And it will.
