Heidelberg Project in Detroit, Michigan
Whether it is art or junk, the Heidelberg Project in Detroit, Michigan is fascinating! The Heidelberg Project is an outdoor neighborhood art display created in 1986 by the artist Tyree Guyton in Detroit, Michigan. For this video, I kept the narrative to a minimum with no music in order for the audience to experience the art and make their own interpretation.
Heidelberg Project, Detroit
This is a short drive through the Heidelberg neighborhood in Detroit. The street has been turned into a community art project. Have a look at my Detroit photo albums here
Tyree Guyton, Jenenne Whitfield - Heidelberg Project: Art as a Social Practice
Lecture date: 2012-03-12
Tyree Guyton and Jenenne Whitfield
Heidelberg Project: Art as a Social Practice
Enabling Lecture Series organised by Theo Spyropoulos
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The lecture will present a 25-year journey of how art and creativity have become a catalyst for revitalization in an urban community. It will further illustrate how the Heidelberg Project has become the driver of a new art movement in Detroit as our city struggles to find its new industry/identity.
Tyree Guyton is an artist born in Detroit in 1955. Primarily a painter and sculptor, Guyton has also been described as an urban environmental artist. He has waged a personal war on urban blight on Detroit's East Side, transforming his neighbourhood into a living indoor/outdoor art gallery. Through his art, Guyton has drawn attention to the plight of Detroit’s forgotten neighbourhoods and spurred discussion and action.
'When you come to the Heidelberg Project, I want you to think – really think! My art is a medicine for the community. You can’t heal the land until you heal the minds of the people', says Guyton.
This iconic colourfully painted polka-dotted neighbourhood, which symbolises society’s diversity, has played a vital role in transforming the visual indignities of poverty and has placed an international spotlight on the area, resulting in dramatic reductions in drug-trafficking, gang violence and crime. Guyton’s vision for Heidelberg is to transform the two-block area into a state-of-the-art cultural village
Guyton exhibits his work extensively throughout the United States and the world. He studied at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and in 2009 was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts. His work is featured in the Detroit Institute of Arts, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum of Harlem, among many others. He has received more than 15 local and national awards.
His work has been featured in major publications, books and television (including the Oprah Winfrey Show) and was the subject of the Emmy award-winning documentary, Come Unto Me, the Faces of Tyree Guyton. More recently, it was the subject of Connecting the Dots, Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project—a 2008 Michigan Notable Book (WSU Press 2007).
Jenenne Whitfield has served as the Executive Director of the critically acclaimed Heidelberg Project for the last 18 years. Under her direction, The Heidelberg Project has expanded its goals to include acquisition and restoration of property in the Heidelberg area, development of an artist-in-residence program and implementation of community art and education programmes. Her leadership and commitment have enabled the project to extend its reach by participating in joint projects with museums, universities and other educational organisations. Her work has been rewarded by a growing worldwide interest in the message she embraced on that summer 18 years ago when she made a wrong turn on to Heidelberg Street and unknowingly asked the artist, 'What is all this?' The answer still resonates. She left a successful banking career to join the project.
Organizational Awards and achievements received under her leadership include:Michigan Notable Book Award, Connecting the Dots, Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project (2007)Outstanding Community Achievement (2006)Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (2005)Environmental Design Research Association (2004)Emmy Award Winning Documentary, Come Unto Me, the faces of Tyree Guyton (2000)
In addition to her role as executive director for the Heidelberg Project, Whitfield lectures regularly with Guyton and also served as Vice Chair, for Create Detroit, an organization inspired by Gov Jennifer Granholm’s Cool Cities Initiative, that connects and supports ideas, events and opportunities to drive cultural and economic vitality in Detroit. Recently, Whitfield worked with Matt Clayson and the Creative Corridor on the Rust Belt to Artist Belt III Conference in Detroit especially to connect young local artists to the programme. She also served as a panellist and interviewer at the April 2011 event.
Aerials: Heidelberg Project building burns
A building that is part of the Heidelberg Project was burning Monday morning.
HEIDELBERG PROJECT - ONLY IN DETROIT - Plus Tim Burke
The Heidelberg Project is an outdoor art project in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on Detroits east side, just north of the city's historically African-American Black Bottom area. It was created in 1986 by the artist Tyree Guyton, who was assisted by his wife, Karen, and grandfather Sam Mackey (Grandpa Sam).[1] The Heidelberg Project is in part a political protest, as Tyree Guyton's childhood neighborhood began to deteriorate after the 1967 riots. Guyton described coming back to Heidelberg Street after serving in the Army; he was astonished to see that the surrounding neighborhood looked as if a bomb went off.[2]
At first, the project consisted of his painting a series of houses on Detroit's Heidelberg Street with bright dots of many colors and attaching salvaged items to the houses. It was a constantly evolving work that transformed a hard-core inner city neighborhood where people were afraid to walk, even in daytime, into one in which neighbors took pride and where visitors were many and welcomed.[citation needed] Despite the area being characterized by high levels of blight and poverty, the evolving art work grew Tyree Guyton worked on the Heidelberg Project daily with the children on the block. He and director Jenenne Whitfield gave lectures and workshops on the project around the country. Their main goal was to develop the Heidelberg Project into the city's first indoor and outdoor museum, complete with an artists' colony, creative art center, community garden, amphitheater, and more. In 2005 the Heidelberg Project was awarded the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence silver medal..
Detroit Artist Tim Burke
Tim Burke is another Detroit artist who has been on Heidelberg Street for a long time. In his own words....Hi my name is Tim Burke, a lot of people are taking photographs of my artwork and studio Gallery on Heidelberg Street and misrepresenting my artwork as the artwork of the Heidelberg Project, which it's not, I have been on Heidelberg Street for 17 years I own at pink House it serves as my studio gallery, and as a copy written art installation with the United States copyright office, on the front of the pink House there're two signs that properly identify my business they read Detroit industrial gallery artist Tim Burke with my telephone number on them, I have also painted the words approximately 20 times on the pink House that this is not the Heidelberg Project, I also painted the words that I was making art in this house 28 years ago in big bold letters and printed my name right underneath that, I also own for lots next to my house which comprise my metal sculpture garden with the big giant red flower it is surrounded with a green fence made out of pellets. So this is not a question for anybody to answer this is a public service announcement, to say that there are two artists on Heidelberg Street it's a residential street that serves as a venue in a residential neighborhood much like the Detroit Institute of arts houses over 5000 artists, and each artist has a name tag to identify their artwork, my artwork is not the artwork of Tyree guyton or the height of projectTim
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Throwback Trip To Belle Isle in Detroit Michigan
This is a trip we made to Belle Isle Park in the summer of 2016. Also in the beginning of the video we travel past The Heidelberg Project
Belle Isle, officially Belle Isle Park, is a 982-acre (1.534 sq mi; 397 ha) island park in the Detroit River, between the United States mainland and Canada. Owned by the City of Detroit, it is managed as a state park by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources through a 30-year lease initiated in 2013. Belle Isle is the largest city-owned island park in the United States and is the third largest island in the Detroit River after Grosse Ile and Fighting Island. It is connected to mainland Detroit by the MacArthur Bridge.
The island is home to the Belle Isle Aquarium, the Belle Isle Conservatory, the Belle Isle Nature Zoo, the Detroit Yacht Club on an adjacent island, the James Scott Memorial Fountain, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, a Coast Guard station, a municipal golf course and numerous monuments. It also previously housed a Nature Center where visitors were able to traverse wooded trails and view wildlife natural habitats, a former Belle Isle Zoo, riding stables and the Detroit Boat Club. The island includes a half-mile (800 m) swimming beach.
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Heidelberg project | Jenenne Whitfield | TEDxOaklandUniversity
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Ms. Whitfield discusses how the Heidelberg Project is much more than art.
Prior to her involvement with the Heidelberg Project she had a successful career in banking. Then, in 1993, she took a wrong turn and drove down a polka-dotted street– through a colorful chaos of paint and people– and asked a paint-spattered man, “what is all this?” The man was artist Tyree Guyton and what he told her sparked an obsession that changed her life forever. She could never have imagined giving up her fourteen-year career to work in a non-profit arts-related venture, but she recognized this seemingly wrong turn as a higher calling. With a leap of faith, she embarked on the challenge of a lifetime.
Under Ms. Whitfield’s direction, The Heidelberg Project has expanded its goals to include acquisition and restoration of property in the Heidelberg area, and implementation of community art and education programs. Her leadership and commitment have enabled the project to extend its reach by participating in joint projects with museums, universities and other educational organizations. Her relentless enthusiasm and tireless efforts have won increasing support and respect for this often-controversial endeavor. Her persistence has been rewarded by a growing worldwide interest in the message she embraced on that summer afternoon when she asked “what is all this?” and felt the answer resonate inside her.
Ms. Whitfield is currently leading the Heidelberg Project in the development of the Heidelberg Cultural Village and a new initiative with the Michigan Dept. of Edu. Whitfield is also building the framework for what she and Guyton call, Heidelbergology, a 27-year study of the work Guyton began in 1986.
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