20 Detroit Artists You Should Know

Detroit has an ever-growing brigade of artists who are helping to maintain the city’s reputation as a hotbed of cultural activity.

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Although the bulk of today’s headlines about Detroit tend to focus on the city’s financial dramas, there’s another story coming out of the Motor City, and it’s not an unrelated one: the rising art scene. While the city’s 2013 bankruptcy filing has put the future of venerable organizations like the Detroit Institute of Arts into an uncertain place, neighborhoods like the Sugar Hill Historic District—home to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, and the artist residences at 71 Garfield—are keeping Detroit’s creative spirit alive.

Like New York City’s SoHo or Miami’s Wynwood, it’s Detroit’s ever-growing brigade of artists who are helping to maintain the city’s reputation as a hotbed of cultural activity. Here’s a look at 20 Detroit Artists You Should Know.

Noah Stephens

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Joe Mazzola

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Carl Wilson

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Hubert Massey

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Aaron Blendowski

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Jason E. Carter

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Vanessa Miller

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Tyree Guyton

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Sarah Wagner

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Bruce Giffin

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Bethany Shorb

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Franklin Jonas

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Matt Gordon

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Chido Johnson

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Marie T. Hermann

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Alphonso Cox

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Corrie Baldauf

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John Dunivant

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Scott Hocking

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Sebastian Sullen

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