REJOICE
Participating artists: Jirard Bond, Sherri Bryant, Anthony Brown, Stanley Brown, Alyce Carter, Angie Crook, Santina Dionisi, Julieann Dombrowski, Latoya Elliot, DeRon Hudson, Ryan McDonagh, Renee Rogan, and Marquise Rucker.
Curated by Hannah Lilly
Opening Date: Thursday, June 27, 4-6pm
Exhibition Dates: June 27 - October 12, 2024
PASC Southgate Gallery
13721 Eureka Road,
Southgate, MI 48195
Ph: 734-250-869
Gallery Hours: Friday 10-3pm and by appointment
Rejoice presents the celebratory nature of the summer and the sunshine of expanding community. In this group exhibition, featuring artists from all three PASC studios, the artwork of Rejoice emits a lightness in the colors, the abstraction and the figuration, celebrating the multiplicities of identities that our artists and our wider community represent. As the weather gets warmer and the sun gets brighter so does the artwork, melting the weight of winter. This exhibition features pieces representing welcoming gestures and acts of creative kindness, with intertwined shapes and hands, and warm expressions of colorful passion. The artwork of Rejoice invites in the larger community through an act of creative collective exploration.
Hannah Grace Lilly is an artist, and educator. She currently works as the lead art advisor at the Progressive Art Studio Collective (PASC), in metro Detroit. Lilly has taught theater at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York, and visual art at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Lilly lived and worked in Kathmandu, Nepal, teaching at the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program Level. Lilly was an activities coordinator on a memory care unit at an assisted living home in San Francisco. Additionally in both NYC and SF, Lilly has managed tattoo shops. From 2014 to 2017 Lilly worked at Creativity Explored, San Francisco and curated an exhibition in the Creativity Explored Gallery. Lilly has a B.A. from Marymount Manhattan College, New York City and a M.A. from the University of Manchester, U.K..
Launched in 2021, PASC is the first progressive art and design studio and exhibition program in Detroit and Wayne County dedicated to supporting artists with developmental disabilities and mental health differences to advance artistic practices and build individual careers in the art and design fields. PASC is a program of Services to Enhance Potential (STEP), a non-profit service organization founded in 1972 that provides services and supports for more than 1,400 individuals with disabilities and mental health differences across Southeastern Michigan.
Our exhibitions program is supported with grants from the Michigan Arts and Cultural Council, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the National Endowment for the Arts.
