A private vernissage of DETROIT SALON’s ‘A Blueprint of Resonance: Building Detroit’s Artistic Future’ at Palais de Tokyo.
A Blueprint of Resonance: Building Detroit’s Artistic Future is a multimedia exhibition centered on a new generation of Detroit-based artists who are actively shaping the city’s artistic landscape.
What makes Detroit’s art world unique is that its creative community is fundamentally rooted in relationships, resilience, and self-organization. Detroit artists build their own opportunities through formal collectives or informal friendship circles that function like extended creative families.
A Blueprint of Resonance offers a window into this evolving ecosystem. By highlighting artists who embody this legacy today, the exhibition demonstrates how collaboration and community care are not just tools for survival in Detroit but are catalysts for transformation.
In a city known for resilience and self-determination, contemporary artists create innovative work by supporting one another emotionally, materially, and socially, redefining what the art world can be: one driven not by competition or scarcity, but by care, cooperation, and collective power.
Artists : Zahra Almajidi, Peter Bernal, Akea Brionne, Allana Clarke, Maya Davis, James Benjamin Franklin, Levon Kafafian, Lauren Kalman, Na Forest Lim, Kylie Lockwood, Tiff Massey, Mario Moore, Joey Quinones, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Tylonn J. Sawyer, Graem Whyte, Andrew Wilson, and lisa wuad.