Opening PASC Detroit at LANTERN & "If Anyone Can Hear This" Exhibition

PASC is opening our newest exhibition If Anyone Can Hear This in our new gallery space, and our new studio in LANTERN.

We are excited to announce our first public exhibition If Anyone Can Hear This curated by Scott Vincent Campbell, marking the beginning of PASC's enhanced programming in our first permanent gallery space in Detroit. This inaugural exhibition, Opening May 9, 5-7pm at PASC Detroit Gallery at LANTERN, features the work of 25 PASC artists from all three PASC studios. The exhibition explores what it means to search for one's tribe? Not necessarily people who are the same as you, or even similar, but the puzzle pieces that surround you, and fit into your own irregular and contorted edges.

Exhibiting Artists: Jotina Ballard, Chanucy Bullock, Alyce Carter, Dennis Cenzer, Dwayne Curry, Chantell Donwell, Zaneb Elhassan, Nick Granch, Eric Green, Ronald Griggs, Rodney Hudson, Stanley Hudson, Shawn Jackson, Joseph Lucas, Richard Marshall, Nathaniel McNeal, Keisha Miller, Debbie Osteen, Alsendoe Owens, Joseph Ramps, Bruce Rice, Randy Rodriguez, Rodney Stevens, Aaron Taylor, James Tischler, Lorenzo Waters, and Willie Whitehead

PASC is an anchor tenant in LANTERN, a newly developed mixed-use building we share with arts organization Signal-Return, professional artist studios, a music residency Assembled Sound, restaurants, and retail spaces. LANTERN is part of several developments in the Detroit East Village neighborhood, nicknamed Little Village. Under the transformative vision of the Library Street Collective, this neighborhood is becoming an arts and cultural hub in the heart of Detroit, the first UNESCO-designated City of Design in the United States.

This move signifies a monumental chapter for PASC, Services to Enhance Potential (STEP), and the Detroit art world, situating us alongside other pivotal neighboring art organizations such as The Shepard, I. M. Weiss Gallery, Pewabic Pottery, Louis Buhl Gallery, and others, in this vibrant arts-and-culture-centric neighborhood. The proximity to other professional artists and the broader art community will empower PASC artists, expanding their cultural identity from artists with disabilities, to simply artists, playing a pivotal role in the evolution of Detroit's art and culture scene.

We hope to see you there.

Ronald Griggs, People on the Bus, 2024, pencil and acrylic on paper, 30 x 22 in

Interior images of PASC Detroit at LANTERN's empty studio and gallery space.

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