Watch on Youtube Migguel, like other artists, has had most of his performance opportunities postponed or canceled during this time of sheltering in place, but we are making lemonade out of this huge heap of lemons. He and his creative team just finished a short film called Maid in America that is inspired by his true-life experience as a hotel …
Our third “Pandemic Edition” features an interview with Ben Hall (the subject of Essay’d Installment #36) on food (in)security and the current moment. Ben is uniquely qualified to talk on this subject. In addition to being a widely exhibited artist and improvising musician, he is also a long-time chef/restauranteur/food activist in the city. As a chef, Hall produced the first “fully integrated, serially repeated, chef-driven …
By Jean-Carl Elliott My wife and I rent the top floor of a house in Ferndale. Jenny and Stephanie rent the ground floor and there’s a basement with a laundry room that we all share. When we moved in, we made sure to introduce ourselves to our new housemates and we exchanged contact info with them. We would text message here and there …
By Carlos Diaz When I begin a new project, I simply start and see where I am led. I usually know more about what I don’t want than what I do. So when I began photographing in Detroit a few weeks ago, I specifically decided to stay away from landscapes of abandoned streets. I apologize but for me that was …
Our second “Pandemic Edition” features the following thought-provoking comments on the current crisis from artist Gracie Xavier. Gracie is also the subject of a wonderful article by Kristin Palm, which can be found on the Essay’d Website. We hope that you enjoy both the essay and Gracie’s thoughts. Detroit Cultural Crisis Survey – Gracie XavierSent by e-mail on April 5 1. How has …
Essay’d has always played the long game. We publish a relatively small number of articles per year, and we hope that the writing will still hold up in five, or even ten, years time. But that cadence didn’t seem to fit the speed of the current crisis, so we’ve changed a couple of things. First, we’ve accelerated the publishing schedule – …