From February 25-May 6, 2023, Eight PASC artists have been selected to exhibit in Get Together at Reyes|Finn Gallery in Detroit. This salon-style group exhibition is dedicated to the creative life of Detroit and its significance as a historical center of avant-garde art production. 

What makes this exhibition of particular importance to PASC, this is the first exhibition in which PASC artists will be exhibiting alongside other neurotypical artists in a professional for profit art gallery. The opening event will be held on Saturday, February 25^th from 4-7pm. We hope you will drop on by.  

Shawna Campbell, Julieann Dombrowski, Chantell Donwell, Lewis Foster, Ronald Griggs, Susan Hudson, Alsendoe Owens, Renee Rogan, Thomas Saunders, Marear Smith, Ray Smith, and Promise Vos will be exhibiting alongside over 100 other Detroit artists. 

On February 23^rd from 5-9, PASC and Chap Lofts are partnering to host an art exhibit and fundraiser ART AT HOME: A Progressive Art Exhibition. Chap Lofts is a boutique loft building in Milwaukee Junction, Detroit. The goal of the partnership is to supplement Chap’s real estate staging with artworks from PASC.

The opening exhibition, ART AT HOME, will showcase PASC artists, sharing their creativity with the wider community, and providing opportunities to support the PASC program going forwards. The opening will feature light refreshments and appetizers provided by STEP’s “What’s Cooking” culinary arts program.

RSVP for the event via our Eventbrite page

The following PASC’s artists will have artworks presented; Jirard Bond, Stanley Brown, Shawna Campbell, Sereal Crawford, Julieanne Dombrowski, Chantell Donwell, Robert Duncombe, Lewis Foster, Eric Green, DeRon Hudson, Susan Hudson, Shawn Jackson, Keisha Miller, Debbie Osteen, Alsendoe Owens, Renee Rogan, Marquise Rucker, Thomas Saunders, Ray Smith, Aaron Taylor, Jeremy Taylor, and Promise Vos.

Chap Lofts is located at 2843 E Grand Blvd. Detroit, MI, 48211.

PASC artist Lewis Foster's artwork will be featured in a group exhibition "By Design" opening Saturday, 2/4 at Sage Studio. The show explores how design touches everything around us—from fashion to interior decorating to the recurring patterns in nature. 

The show features pieces by Anna Burke (SAGE Studio), Lewis Foster (PASC), Annie Rose Macer (North Pole), James Rosa (LAND Gallery), Gav Sears (SAGE Studio), Byron Smith (LAND Gallery), and Woodley White. 

Sage Studio is an Austin, TX based studio and exhibitions program for artists with Disabilities. SAGE (Supporting Artistic Growth and Entrepreneurship) Studio serves artists with disabilities through two main programs: their Studio Program and our Exhibition Program.

PASC Southgate is launching a Saturday studio program open to any disabled adults in the area. We will be hosting an info session on Feb 11, 10am-12pm at our Southgate studio, where we will discuss cost, duration of program and studio details. 

Light refreshments will be served.

Email to RSVP for the info session progressiveart@stepcentral.org

Lewis Foster presented his work to Jen Schantz on WXYZ ABC Channel 7's early morning segment on Saturday, January 21.

https://www.wxyz.com/about-us/as-seen-on/pasc-supports-artists-with-developmental-disabilities-and-mental-health-differences

He and PASC Program Manager Anthony Marcellini talked about the upcoming show “Get Together” at Reyes | Finn Gallery opening Feb 25, which will  feature Lewis and some other PASC artists alongside other Detroit artists.

Listen to Bridget Finn, interviewed by Ryan Patrick Hooper on WDET's CultureShift, where she talks about guest curating Affections, an exhibition at the PASC Detroit Pop-up Gallery, her experience with her daughter, diagnosed with STXPB1, and how she turned to art for support. 

https://wdet.org/2022/08/03/gallerist-and-pasc-guest-curator-holds-fundraiser-to-fund-rare-disease-research/

PASC was featured in a segment by Jenn Schanz of WXYZ Channel 7. PASC artist Stanley Brown was featured along with STEP CEO Brent Mikulski, PASC Program Manager Anthony Marcellini and The Vella Group's Anne-Marie Gattari.   

Watch the segment below

https://www.wxyz.com/news/pop-up-exhibition-near-eastern-market-celebrates-artists-with-disabilities

This weekend offers the last chance to see the inaugural exhibit of Detroit’s first gallery dedicated to artists with disabilities.

The exhibit, titled “Liberty Realm,” opened last month in the Eastern Market storefront conference center of The Vella Group, in collaboration with Progressive Art Studio Collective (PASC). It closes June 5.

The pop-up gallery will host three more exhibits throughout 2022. Artist Ashley Hawkins, whose colorful, Motown-inspired pieces sold quickly, said working with PASC on the exhibition has been a joyful experience.

 Read more at the link below

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2022/06/02/artists-disabilities-shine-liberty-realm-exhibit/9841844002/

Ryan Patrick Hooper interviews Brent Mikulski CEO of STEP and Anthony Marcellini PASC Program Manager on WDET's CultureShift

https://wdet.org/2022/05/10/progressive-art-studio-collective-brings-the-arts-to-disabled-adults-in-detroit/

OMA /Jason Long revealed its latest adaptive reuse project in Detroit, transforming a former bakery and warehouse into mixed-use art, education and community space. Developed in collaboration with Library Street Collective, the project provides new headquarters for two local non-profits, PASC and Signal-Return, while creating a mix of artist studios, galleries, community-serving retail and gathering spaces. Dubbed “LANTERN”, the development is set to become an “activity condenser.”

Read more...https://www.archdaily.com/981334/oma-jason-long-transforms-former-warehouse-into-mixed-use-arts-and-community-venue-in-detroit