The East Canfield Art Park
About
The East Canfield Art Park supports local artists by collaborating on public art commission, creating ongoing exhibitions, and community events.
Canfield Consortium is using the influence of art and the power of Detroit artists to enhance the East Canfield Village neighborhood and to highlight local culture. The East Canfield Art Display supports the organization’s mission of improving residents’ quality of life by enriching the community landscape and experience (and by establishing places to visit in our own neighborhood). These endeavors help broaden the art, historical, and cultural context of the East Canfield Village community.
The East Canfield Art Display is the latest addition in the East Canfield Art Park which opened in August 2021. The East Canfield Art Display will feature new art work on a rotating basis.
Managed by Canfield Consortium, The East Canfield Art Display was designed by Nivek Monet to serve as a community exhibition piece.
Canfield Consortium works closely with community partners to provide safe community spaces and engaging programming.
The East Canfield Art Display is free and open to the public.
Canfield Consortium is using the influence of art and the power of Detroit artists to enhance the East Canfield Village neighborhood and to highlight local culture. The East Canfield Art Display supports the organization’s mission of improving residents’ quality of life by enriching the community landscape and experience (and by establishing places to visit in our own neighborhood). These endeavors help broaden the art, historical, and cultural context of the East Canfield Village community.
The East Canfield Art Display is the latest addition in the East Canfield Art Park which opened in August 2021. The East Canfield Art Display will feature new art work on a rotating basis.
Managed by Canfield Consortium, The East Canfield Art Display was designed by Nivek Monet to serve as a community exhibition piece.
Canfield Consortium works closely with community partners to provide safe community spaces and engaging programming.
The East Canfield Art Display is free and open to the public.
Meet the artists featured in the inaugural showing of the East Canfield Art Display
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Hood ClosedElonte Davis is a Detroit- based photographer and visual storyteller. Davis’ photos documents life with a keenness that allows him to catch often overlooked and anonymous elements with a precision that magnifies the details of situations.
Davis considers his work to be photojournalism. Much of Davis’ work is centered around the complexities of the Detroit experience using his lens to display images and reference themes of Black culture in Detroit. Davis’ ability to draw life from still images enables him to capture scenes as if they were constructed. |
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JonCailyn Dawson’s (born 1999, Detroit, Michigan) based in Metro Detroit) figurative paintings explores issues of identity, specifically how themes of separation and displacement effect racial identity.
Cailyn received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College for Creative Studies and has exhibited at Detroit Artists Market, Amex Gallery, the College for Creative Studies, M. Contemporary Art, Scarab Club, and Buck Gallery. |
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George Floyd $20 BillK’Kio Hardin is a rare and exceptional talent who has a wide range of design sensibilities coupled with a strong ability to think strategically. Hardin has the capacity to focus on details with laser precision while working at the speed of light and maintaining a zen-like calm which sets him apart in the design arena.
Hardin has extensive experience in the auto, education, fashion, healthcare, luxury, publishing and telecom industries, which makes him an ideal collaborator. Hardin is the Founder and Creative Director of his own brand Detroit Kid and also lends his talent to TILT, an advertising consultancy, as Design Director. |
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Austen BrantleyDetroit-based sculptor Austen Brantley has exhibited work in venues across the country, been commissioned to create sculptures of public figures, and traveled the world to collaborate with other artists.
"Boy Holds Flower" “Boy Holds Flower” was commissioned by Canfield Consortium in 2020 and designed by Austen Brantley. It has stood in the East Canfield Pavilion and Art Park since August 2021. “Boy Holds Flower" is not just a beautiful work of art, it also represents the humanity of black boys and men |
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Nivek Monet
Nivek Monet designed, built and installed the East Canfield Art Display. As a multi-media artist inspired by nature, humanity, spirit, and the invisible world, he uses public art to move, transform, and educate people on the necessity and availability of healing and transformation through creativity.
Nivek's art conveys innate and timeless human emotion. His objective is for people be moved and transformed through experiencing public art. Program Manager in Welding at DPSCD Randolph Career and Technical Center. |
