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STEP 1 // BECOME a member of MACAA

STEP 2 // REGISTER for the DETROIT: 2012 Conference

STEP 3 // SUBMIT a Paper Proposal View Call for Papers

STEP 4 // RESERVE your stay at the Westin Book Cadillac

Transportation to Detroit:

Transportation from DTW to the Westin Book Cadillac Detroit:

Distance from Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) to the Westin Book Cadillac: 25 miles

Westin Book Cadillac
1114 Washington Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48226
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Listing of Area Galleries: www.artdetroitnow.com

The Heidelberg Project

It's an open-air art environment in the heart of an urban community on Detroit's East Side. Tyree Guyton, founder and artistic director, uses everyday, discarded objects to create a two-block area full of color, symbolism, and intrigue. Now in its 25th year, the Heidelberg Project is recognized around the world as a demonstration of the power of creativity to transform lives..
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Pewabic Pottery

Pewabic is a multifaceted institution with active and growing education, exhibition, museum and design and fabrication programs. Pewabic fabricates heirloom quality architectural tiles for public and private installations, gift and commemorative tiles, vessels, garden ware, ornaments and both reproductions and adaptations of its historic designs. Founded in 1903 by Mary Chase Perry (later Mary Chase Perry Stratton) and her partner, Horace Caulkins, at the height of the Arts & Crafts movement in America. Pewabic's first home was a stable on Alfred Street in Detroit. Four years later, Pewabic Pottery moved to a new facility on East Jefferson designed by architect William Buck Stratton in the Tudor Revival style. In 1991, the building (which still houses the Pottery) and its contents were designated a National Historic Landmark and today is Michigan's only historic pottery.
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The Henry Ford

It began as a simple yet bold idea to document the genius of ordinary people by recognizing and preserving the objects they used in the course of their everyday lives. It grew into the ultimate place to explore what Americans past and present have imagined and invented — a remarkable destination that brings American ideas and innovations to life. The sheer scope and design of Henry Ford Museum is as grand as the vision that inspired it. It's impossible not to feel a sense of awe as your mind adjusts to a different sense of scale — vaster, more expansive and more diverse— by far— than anything you'll encounter in everyday life. The sweeping, single-floor space with its soaring 40-foot ceilings covers nine acres dedicated to showcasing the finest collection of its kind ever assembled.
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Detroit Historical Museum,

The Detroit Historical Museum, established in 1928, is one of America's oldest and largest museums dedicated to metropolitan history. Over 80,000 square feet of exhibition space house more than 600 historic artifacts in the heart of Detroit's Cultural Center district. You, your family and your friends will stroll through more than 300 years of metro Detroit history, including a 19th century street scene known as The Streets of Old Detroit, and an authentic auto assembly line known simply as The Motor City.
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Hitsville USA

2648 West Grand Blvd., 1959: After working as a trimmer at a Ford Motor Company assembly plant, Barry Gordy purchased the house and launches the forerunner to Motown Record Corp. He would apply the quality control management concepts he learned on the assembly line. The house continues today as the Motown Historical Museum.
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Piquette Model T

Detroit's Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is the birthplace of the Model T. Today, it is the only example of an early Detroit auto factory open to visitors. You can see where Henry Ford designed the Model T and built the first 12,000 "Tin Lizzies." Learn about the other models Ford built at the Piquette plant between 1904 and 1910. And the colorful personalities of Piquette who set the world's record for car production, making Ford Motor Company the world's largest manufacturer of automobiles in less than four years.
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The Detroit Institute of Arts

The DIA's collection is among the top six in the United States, comprising a multicultural and multinational survey of human creativity from prehistory through the 21st century. The DIA has been a beacon of culture for the Detroit area for well over a century. Founded in 1885, the museum was originally located on Jefferson Avenue, but, due to its rapidly expanding collection, moved to a larger site on Woodward Avenue in 1927. The new Beaux-Arts building, designed by Paul Cret, was immediately referred to as the "temple of art." Two wings were added in the 1960s and 1970s, and a major renovation and expansion that began in 1999 was completed in 2007. The museum covers 658,000 square feet that includes more than 100 galleries, a 1,150-seat auditorium, a 380-seat lecture/recital hall, an art reference library, and a state-of-the-art conservation services laboratory.
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The Dossin Great Lakes Museum

The Dossin Great Lakes Museum, a flagship of the Midwest's inland lakes maritime heritage museums, stands on the shore of Detroit's historic Belle Isle, one of America's grandest city parks. You, your family and your friends will take in a panoramic view of the Detroit River and experience many rare artifacts, including the reconstructed pilot house of the Great Lakes freighter S.S. William Clay Ford, the Miss Pepsi championship hydroplane, and one of the largest known collection of scale model ships in the world.
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Anna Scripts Whitcomb Conservatory

Anna Scripts Whitcomb Conservatory is located on Detroit's Belle Isle in the Detroit River, nestled between the city's near East side and Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Located just two miles from Detroit's downtown, it will soon be connected to that area via the city's burgeoning International River Walk. The Conservatory, in operation since 1904, features five distinct horticultural houses showcasing plants indigenous around the globe as well as an outside Lily Pond Garden and formal perennial gardens. It is a popular spot for weddings and a Mecca for both professional and amateur photographers.
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Cranbrook

For more than 75 years, Cranbrook has been home to some of the world's most renowned designers and artists. Eero Saarinen, Charles Eames, Daniel Libeskind, Michael and Katherine McCoy, and Jun Kaneko have all taught here, to name only a few. Our students have included Florence Knoll, Harry Bertoia, Jack Lenor Larsen, Nick Cave, Tony Matelli, Niels Diffrient, Lorraine Wild, and Hani Rashid. It's reasonable to say that the work emanating from Cranbrook in the 20th century changed the way people live, and the way they understand art and design.
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Henry Ford Community College, Sisson Gallery

Sisson Gallery at HFCC presents three shows by professional artists during the fall semester. Another longer run of a professional show runs in the winter. The season closes with a one- week "exit exhibition" devoted to the work of graduating students and then the annual all-student exhibition.
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College of Creative Studies

The College for Creative Studies nurtures the creativity that is vital to the enrichment of modern culture. The College educates visual artists and designers, knowledgeable in varied fields, who will be leaders in creative professions that shape society and advance economic growth. The College fosters students' resolve to pursue excellence, act ethically, embrace their responsibilities as citizens of diverse local and global communities, and learn throughout their lives. The College engages in community service by offering opportunities for artistic development and opening career pathways to talented individuals of all ages.
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Toledo Museum of Art

Since their founding in 1901, the Toledo Museum of Art has earned a global reputation for the quality of our collection, our innovative and extensive education programs, and our architecturally significant campus. More than 30,000 works of art represent American and European painting, the history of art in glass, ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, Asian and African art, medieval art, sculpture, decorative arts, graphic arts, and modern and contemporary art.
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