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​CAROLE HARRIS

Carole Harris (b. 1943, Detroit, MI) received a BFA from Wayne State University (Detroit, MI). Harris’ work has been presented across the United States and internationally, including the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI); Museum of African American History (Detroit, MI); The River Gallery (Chattanooga, TN); National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center (Wilberforce, OH); and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Montgomery, AL). Harris’ work has been published in numerous books and her work has been reviewed by several newspapers and magazines. Carole Harris’ work was included in The Sum of Many Parts: 25 Quiltmakers in 21st Century America, which toured China in 2012, where she was a guest lecturer. In 2017 her work was included in Footworks at the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne in France. Her work has received numerous awards and has been exhibited and published extensively, including a two-person exhibition Repetition, Rhythm, and Vocab with artist Allie McGhee at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) in 2018, a solo exhibition at the NCRC Rotunda Gallery at the University of Michigan in 2017, and a solo exhibition at The Dennos Museum Center in 2019. Her work was included in the exhibition Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality at the Cranbrook Art Museum in 2019. In 2015 Carole Harris was awarded a Kresge Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship. Harris’ work is part of the permanent collections of the Detroit Institute Arts, Cranbrook Art Museum, Wayne State University Art Collections, as well as several private collections including the Progressive Art Collection.

 

LYNN BENNETT-CARPENTER

Marcelyn (Lynn) Bennett-Carpenter is an interdisciplinary fiber artist and educator. Bennett-Carpenter earned a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2003. She served as the Artist-in-Residence of the Kingswood Weaving Studio at Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (2003-2023). The Kingswood Weaving Studio is the largest, most beautiful hand-weaving studio in North America with its 60 floor looms. Bennett-Carpenter also taught at Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Maine (2023), Penland School of Craft in North Carolina, attended the Open Residency at Haystack (2018) and was a recent Good Hart Artist-in-Residence (2022). Lynn is also co-founder of the Namtenga Soundo Babisi Studio, an active weaving co-operative in Burkina Faso, West Africa that was established in 2007. Bennett-Carpenter maintains an active practice through her studio in Pontiac, Michigan, and has exhibited extensively throughout North America including the solo exhibition Singluars at the Crooked Tree Art Center in Petoskey, Michigan; Landscapes Real and Imagined at Site: Brooklyn, New York; Extreme Fibers: Icons and the New Edge at Muskegon Art Museum; and The Social Fabric at Textile Society of America, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her work is part of the Cranbrook Art Museum collection as well as several private and public collections, including the Applebaum Family Foundation in Birmingham, Michigan.

 

 

JOVA LYNNE
Jova Lynne is a multidisciplinary artist and curator of Jamaican and Colombian heritage, born and raised in New York City, and currently based in Detroit, MI. Lynne is interested in the parallels between fictional, historical, and personal archives in identity development. A student of archives, she seeks to subvert anthropological practice in utilizing lens, sculpture, and performative practices. Lynne received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2017, and has exhibited in a variety of galleries and public museums including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. She is a grantee from various foundations which have supported her work in media and social practice-based projects in Kingston, Jamaica and Berlin, Germany in addition to her work in the United States. Jova Lynne’s work is part of the permanent collections of Harvard Art Museums, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Cranbrook Art Museum, as well as several private collections, including The Wedge Collection and Progressive Collection.

 

BIANCA BECK

Bianca Beck (b. 1979, Columbus, OH) earned a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA and an MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT. The artist has participated in exhibitions at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH; Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME; Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim, Germany; V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Tif Sigfrids Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan; the FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; White Columns, New York, NY; Cheim & Read, New York, NY; and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY among others. Beck currently has work on view at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, and Art Omi Sculpture Park, Ghent, NY. They are a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Helen Winternitz Award for Excellence in Painting at Yale University, New Haven, CT; The Ox-Bow School of Art Fellowship Program, Saugatuck, MI; and Artist-in-Residence at Complimenta, Ithaca, NY. Beck’s work is in the permanent collection of the Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX, and the Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX. Beck currently lives and works in Portland, ME.

 

ALBERTE TRANBERG

​Alberte Tranberg (b. 1990, Copenhagen, DK) received an MFA in Metalsmithing from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and currently lives and works in Detroit. A trained metal fabricator with several years of experience, Tranberg explores the performative nature of interior objects through gentle architectural interventions. Her approach to making is informed by her intimate knowledge of materials and tools, while disrupting traditional craft narrative.

Tranberg's works have been presented in solo and two-person exhibitions at Devening Projects, Chicago,IL; Ornamentum Gallery, Hudson, NY; Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI; BULK Space, Detroit, MI; and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark. Tranberg has recently designed a series of award-winning kitchen cabinet handles for Reform CPH’s Atelier Collection, which launched June 2023.

 

MICHAEL LUCHS

Michael Luchs (b. 1938, Portsmouth, OH, USA; d. 2021, Holly, MI) was among the celebrated Detroit Cass Corridor artists in the 1960s and 1970s. Luchs graduated from Olivet College (Olivet, Michigan) in 1961, and attended the University of Michigan in 1964 before moving to Detroit, where he studied at Wayne State University (1966-68). His work is part of several collections including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Wayne State University James Duffy Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), and the Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, as well as several private collections throughout the United States. In the Spring of 2017, Michael Luchs’ work was featured in a solo exhibition at Matéria Gallery, Detroit, titled Cass Corridor: Connecting Times. At the same time, he was part of the 2017 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in New York, where he was the recipient of the Academy’s 2017 Art and Purchase Award. In the Spring of 2018, Michael Luchs’ work was presented in a solo exhibition titled Fictitious Character at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). In 2019, his work was part of the exhibition Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality, at the Cranbrook Art Museum. Luchs’ work was also included in the group exhibition Another Look at Detroit, curated by Todd Levin at Marlborough Chelsea, New York, in 2014.

Michael Luchs’ last exhibition was a solo presentation at Matéria’s Cass Corridor location in the Spring/Summer of 2020.