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Donald Calloway’s new studio at Irwin House

www.metrotimes.com A visit to Donald Calloway’s new studio at Detroit’s Irwin House

After 30 years in Greektown the multimedia artist has found a new home that he’s transformed into something like a museum with a sculpture garden to come

A visit to Donald Calloway’s new studio at Detroit’s Irwin House

Today's post is pure ego: an article written by a kokujin journalist ( 🤣 💘 ) that I love about a Detroit artist whose work I love. So sue me. No one's stopping you from doing likewise…

Inside Calloway’s new studio space at Irwin House

Calloway’s art career has spanned over three decades. His work has been featured at Arts, Beats & Eats, the Palmer Park Art Fair, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Arts Extended, inside Highland Park’s Avalon Village, and many, many more.

The last straw, he says of his Greektown spot, was when he came home to a pair of rats having sex in front of his door. They stopped and stared him straight in the face as if they were challenging him, “What you gone do?” Shortly after, he decided to move.

While working in slightly different media, I think Van Gogh and Monet (among others) also said something similar…

…when I ask him why food and cooking utensils appear so much in his work, Calloway says, “I never wanted to be a starving artist.”

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