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2017 Artspace Annual Report

Jan 1, 2018
In 2017, Artspace experienced tremendous momentum and manageable growth, with vibrant activity happening in each of our existing 40 projects in operation, as well as construction on six new projects in six communities. We created opportunities for low-income artists by providing more than $3 million in total rent subsidy, and thousands of people came through the doors of Artspace buildings to attend more than 600 performances, programs, exhibitions, and community events in our spaces.
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Outside dancers

Artspace quARTerly Newsletter Winter 2017-18: Inaugural Giving Back Ed

Nov 1, 2017
A profile of creative entrepreneur Kate Herzog, news about Immersion Twin Cities, a recap of the El Paso grand opening, now leasing information on Memphis & Mesa, a resident spotlight of Tashia Hart and Janathan Thunder, and a holiday event roundup.
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Kate Herzog

Artspace Announces Innovative Partnership with Interests for Others

Sep 1, 2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESEPTEMBER 2017CONTACT:Tio AikenCommunications Managertio.aiken@artspace.org / 612-321-1841  ARTSPACE ANNOUNCES INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH INTEREST FOR OTHERS FOUNDATIONArtspace Joins a New “Social Giving” Initiative that Taps Donations of Earned Interest on Donors’ Bank Accounts 
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Fall 2017 Newsletter

Aug 28, 2017
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Arab American Museum Gives Platform to Contemporary Saudi Artists

Jul 18, 2017
  Television screens show a disjointed man as he listens to music weaponized for torturing prisoners, a photograph gives viewers a stomach-turning vista from the top of a crane overlooking Mecca, and brightly colored, hand-painted walls fill Dearborn’s Arab American National Museum for the Epicenter X: Saudi Contemporary Art exhibit running from July 8 to Oct. 1. The exhibit is the first of its kind in Michigan to focus on and give a platform to Saudi art, says Museum Director Devon Akmon.
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Ahmad Angawi's artwork.

Survey could bring multi-million dollar project to Utica

Jul 13, 2017
 The City of Utica has the potential to earn a multi-million dollar arts development project. Mayor Palmieri, Artspace representatives, Cornell Rust to Green Urban Studio and the City's Utica Artspace Committee announced an online Utica Artspace Arts Market Survey that is now live online at www.UticaArtspaceSurvey.orgThe group issued a call to action from the regional arts community to take the survey - setting the stage for a potential $20 million arts development project in the city.
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view of of the city of utica and famous clock

Artspace Lofts Construction Moving in Downtown Mesa

Jul 10, 2017
 More artists will be flocking into Mesa’s city limits by next year thanks to the new Artspace Lofts being built at 155 S. Hibbert St. The 50-unit complex is designed to offer artists a live-and-work environment by including 2,900 square feet for creative exploration with spaces for classes, studios, galleries, food pantries and more. Set to be completed in May 2018, these lofts are Artspace’s first venture in Arizona.
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Last Thursdays art walk offers chance to discover Downtown artists

Jul 7, 2017
On the last Thursday of every month, something wonderful happens on the streets of Downtown El Paso.   People get out of their cars and stroll through intriguing artist studios, often not knowing what they will find. They meet new and interesting artists with a story to tell or artwork to show. And they become part of a vibrant community.
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Artist spraypainting a giant skull.

How Dearborn, Michigan became the heart of Arab America

Jul 5, 2017
By Nick Leech, The National In Detroit, the crucible of Henry Ford’s industrial empire, the Arab-American community is finding a voice, and telling stories through its people and its national museum
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Arab American National Museum

Arab museum launches artists' residency in Dearborn

Jul 4, 2017
  The Arab American National Museum has launched an artists’ residency that provides space for work and living across the street in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn’s former City Hall.   The museum’s first resident living and working at City Hall Artspace Lofts is Ayman Yossri Daydban, a Palestinian conceptual artist from Saudi Arabia. His work is part of “Epicenter X: Saudi Contemporary Art,” which opens Saturday at the museum and features the work of about 40 Saudi artists.
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Arab American National Museum logo.