the marigold project
In October thousands of golden blooms illuminate an empty lot in downtown Hazel Park. Richard Gage Design Studio and anhelo anhelo come together with a couple hundred Detroit area farmers, artists and residents to build a community-wide project that features a farmer’s market, zine workshops, and an immersive public art installation.
Throughout metro Detroit, farms and community gardens, local businesses and schools in Hazel Park, and any interested residents were mailed marigold seeds, sowed and nurtured the plants through the summer months and were called on to harvest the marigold blooms and bring the fruit of this collective process to build something larger together.
workshops
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A paper making workshop with TRICIA ENNS that uses collected detritus from the area, marigolds, and/or text to create physical mappings of participants’ memories and lived histories of metro Detroit. Feel free to bring materials to add to your paper, or you can meander during the workshop to collect them.
Suggested additional $5-10 donation to support Tricia who is coming all the way from Quebec to host this workshop!
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Learn to make butter from cream, and flavor rolled butter with marigold petals
Sara is a Detroit based artist who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. She also runs Mostly Butter: a food based residency where she and another artist bake something they've always wanted to bake but just never did. https://saranishikawa.com/
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with Leslie Rogers. Other foraged plants welcome, bring something from your garden to add to the mix.
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A community resource & free literature distribution with a focus on labor, class, race, art and anti-imperialism.
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Bring seeds to share or trade. We’ll have a table, that easy.
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To honor resistance. Takes place within the installation, beginning at 6pm.
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Show us the Marigold Project through your eyes. Document what speaks to you about this event and upload to a shared drive, or email to anheloanheloprojectspace@gmail.com. You’ll be credited when your photos are used on the web or in publications.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1atSNcht5IFrXWJYwAp7P9mzmshSrJOgd
