The arts that are
driving Detroit.
United Artists of Detroit membership is comprised of an inclusive roster of creatives including Visual Artists, Musicians, Interdisciplinary Artists, Curators, Arts Administrators, Graphic Designers, Textile and Fashion Designers, Printmakers, Filmmakers, Writers, Poets + Spoken Word Artists, Dancers and Performing Artists.
Chyna Jones
Fluff Punk is an independent freelance art business that makes art for the inner weird art kid in us all. Started by Chyna Jones, a self proclaimed “weirdo”, Fluff Punk operates in the heart of Detroit, Michigan, a hot spot for urban creatives much like herself. Fluff Punk specializes in...
Cydney Camp
Cydney Camp (b. 1994, Detroit) is an artist whose oil paintings and drawings embody the diversity of Black life. She imbues her works with an aura of power and tranquility through a vibrant color palette, often introducing elements of abstraction, forming dreamlike compositions. Many of her scenes reflect moments of...
Gina Reichert
Gina Reichert is an artist, architect and community developer. Her practice is rooted in developing strategies for self-initiated projects in her immediate Detroit neighborhood, defining opportunity in overlooked spaces and using the resources at hand. She has worked for architecture firms and community organizations in Cincinnati, New Orleans, New York...
Markham|Artist
I never tire of talking about my art until someone requires an exhaustive explanation of my subject matter and why it is I paint. I intuitively paint from the visions in my head that express dark overtones of monsters and uncertainty through a mostly surrealist view in order to reveal...
Mav One - Motor City Street Dance Academy
Native to Southwest Detroit, Benito “Mav One” Vasquez came up at a time when hip-hop was a cultural norm. In the late ’90s, breakin’ crews practiced all over Southwest Detroit. Existing in the cultural in-between, hip-hop was taught person-to-person. For Mav, it was the one constant amidst many changes in...
sadboymommyissues
Christoper Newman, who works under the moniker sadboymommyissues, is a self-taught visual artist from Detroit by way of Queens, New York. He is depressed. He is an addict. He needs you to see his flaws. Dealing with themes of addiction, mental illness, and masculinity his largely autobiographical work consists of...
Shoshanna Utchenik
Shoshanna Utchenik has created experimental puppetry performance and art installations internationally, with Chicago’s Redmoon Theater, and throughout the midwest. Under the umbrella of Interstate Arts, her interdisciplinary work explores the transformative potential within individuals and in our shared spaces. She holds an MFA, Northwestern University; BFA, The School of the...
Stefanie Cohen & Corey Gearhart
Artists Stefanie Cohen and Corey Gearhart, (working formerly under the collective alias “Upended Teacups”,) have been merging, embracing, disrupting, fragmenting and mending our backgrounds, educations, and decades of training in performance art, theatre, dance, somatics, sculpture, writing, drawing, and so on, since 2010. We have presented our performance works and...
Trae IsAAc
I am driven by a genuine passion for manifesting awe-inspiring and psychologically empowering pieces of art. Based on my life as person who has had to find power through loss and peace through discomfort. Primarily raised by my grandparents, losing my youngest brother and mother to cancer in my mid-teens were...
Zllen
Actress, Model, Spoken Word, Visual Artist, Activist, and Cultural Creator, Zllen is based in the U.S. Zllen began her career as a hair model for local magazines. Zllen has graced many stages across the Midwest such as Walk Fashion Show, Dream, Styles, The African World Festival, and the Caribbean Mardi...