Current Exhibitions

PASC EXHIBITIONS

WILD THINGS

Wild Things marks the third iteration of our Artist-Curator series, featuring curators Mandy Demorest, Detroit Angel Tweety, and John Peterson, all artists who work out of our PASC Westland studio. For this exhibition, they have selected artworks from all three PASC studios that explore the presence of animals in the natural world. Nature, as an untamed force, has existed since the beginning of time. The chosen artworks reflect this theme, highlighting the connections between human experience and the animal kingdom. Through subject matter and color, the selected pieces showcase the delicate balance between nature and humanity. Adding layers of meaning to the artworks on view, the exhibition also includes short poems, animal quotes, and fascinating facts, selected by the curators.

Curators: Mandy Demorest, Detroit Angel Tweety, and John Peterson

Exhibition Dates: March 13, 2025 - April 19, 2025

Location: PASC, 9301 Kercheval Ave, STE 2, Detroit, MI, 48214

PASC Detroit Gallery Hours: Th, Fr, & Sa, 12– 5 pm and by appointment

OUTSIDER ART FAIR: NYC 2025

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OUTSIDER ART FAIR (OAF), the premier fair dedicated to Self-Taught Art, art brut, and Outsider Art is pleased to announce the 33rd edition of the fair, taking place at the Metropolitan Pavilion from February 27 to March 2, featuring 66 exhibitors from 40 cities in 9 countries. PASC will be showcasing our artists alongside Shelter Gallery (New York) at booth #A9.

Location: Metropolitan Pavilion. 125 West 18th Street. New York, NY, 10011

Dates: February 27–March 2, 2025

Vernissage: Thursday, February 27, 2025: 6:00 pm–9:00 pm

Public Hours: Friday, February 28, 2025: 11 am–8 pm | Saturday, March 1, 2025: 11 am–8 pm | Sunday, March 2, 2025: 11 am–6 pm

SIGNS FROM THE HE(ART)

SIGNS FROM THE HE(ART) is the 2nd iteration of our Artist as Curator exhibition series. Artist-curators Therrin Burns, Nick Granch, and Randy Rodriguez have selected 18 artworks from all three of the PASC studios, reflecting each curator's aesthetic. The artworks showcase a variety of distinctive approaches like colorful washes, whimsical characters, and a diverse range of perspectives. With painted signs throughout the gallery, the curators provide insights into their selections: “He(art) is love”; “shapes, signs, & lines”; “look for messages in the art”; & “emotions, moods, & feelings”. Through these remarks, the curators celebrate the work of their peers while articulating their artistic sensibilities.These artworks were selected by the artist-curators through a process
driven by an emotional response to each artwork, reacting to the feelings each artwork provoked.

Curated by Therrin Burns, Nick Granch, and Randy Rodriguez

Exhibition Dates: January 30, 2025 – April 24, 2025

Location: PASC Southgate Gallery, 13721 Eureka Rd, Southgate, MI 48195

Gallery Hours: Fridays, 9 pm – 3 pm, and by appointment.

All Things You See

All Things You See showcases the distinct expressive styles of PASC artists Eric Green and Renee Rogan in their first two-person exhibition. Eric’s vibrant linework, created with colored pencil and wax pastel, forms poetic narratives of people, animals, objects, and architecture, paired with evocative, Zen-like titles such as “All Day Living Colorful Arts Pictures of The History.” Renee’s artwork, in bold, contrasting colors, depicts figures interacting with objects through geometric, Escher-like designs resembling tesseracts or four-dimensional forms, using media like acrylic, watercolor, and paint markers. This exhibition brings together a wide range of their works, offering a unique dialogue between their styles and highlighting their artistic growth over the past two years.

Exhibition Dates: January 23 – March 1, 2024

Location: PASC, 9301 Kercheval Ave, STE 2, Detroit, MI, 48214

Gallery Hours: Th, Fr, & Sa, 12– 5 pm and by appointment

When I Get Home

When I Get Home is a group exhibition showcasing 27 artworks by PASC artists, many of whom are exhibiting for the first time. Through depictions of intimate spaces and familiar exteriors, the artists explore the concept of ‘home’—a place of safety, comfort, and nostalgia. Works like Caleb Brazill and Dennis Cenzer’s mantelpiece portrayals and Ray Smith and Ashley Hawkins’ tributes to Motown evoke personal connections to domestic life, while family portraits echo the framed memories that line hallways. Yet, home is not universally a refuge; for some, it can be confining or fraught. For disabled individuals, the home often becomes both sanctuary and isolation, especially during crises like the pandemic. This exhibition highlights how creating art bridges the personal and the political, transforming studios into extensions of home where care and creativity intersect.

Curated by Amber Nax

Exhibition Dates: December 12, 2024 – January 11, 2025

Location: PASC Detroit Gallery, 9301 Kercheval Ave, STE 2, Detroit, MI, 48214

Gallery Hours: Th, Fr, & Sa, 12 pm – 5 pm and by appointment

The Open Invitational: Miami Art Fair 2024

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PASC is one of 10 studios participating in THE OPEN INVITATIONAL a new fair dedicated to progressive art studios showcasing the work of artists with mental and physical disabilities. THE OPEN INVITATIONAL describes its aims as “building our artists’ careers while dismantling outmoded hierarchies in the contemporary art world. With openness as our guiding principle, we seek to broaden public awareness of progressive art studios and disseminate incredible, unique, and urgent art to collectors and institutions."

THE OPEN INVITATIONAL was founded by gallerist David Fierman and arts patron Ross McCalla from The Outsider Institute, with support from Craig Robins developer of Miami Design District.

Location: Palm Court Event Space.
140 39th street,
Miami Design District

Dates: December 2-8, 2024

Open Hours: Mon-Sat, 12 pm - 7 pm; Sun, 12 pm - 5 pm

IMAGINATION MAPS

Imagination Maps is our first two-person exhibition showcasing full bodies of artwork from two of our most prolific artists, Sherri Bryant and Robert Duncombe. This exhibition presents two artists who work in a parallel patterned and decorative abstract style. Each artist presents elements that may start with a reference but become abstract through their repetition.

Curated by Anthony Marcellini and Amber Nax

Location:PASC Detroit Gallery
LANTERN
9301 Kercheval Ave, STE 2, Detroit, MI 48215

Dates: November 7 - November 30, 2024

Gallery Hours: Th, Fr, & Sa, 12 pm – 5 pm and by appointment

THE CROSSING POINT

The Crossing Point is an exhibition featuring artists from all three PASC studios whose artworks represent an acute sense of structure and materiality. Spanning from two-dimensional artwork to sculpture, the artists in this show demonstrate a willingness to experiment beyond mediums, allowing their interests and intuition to guide crossings from paper to clay, from ink to thread and from paint to glue. This show represents a lived world of architecture, toys, props and play. It is flat, soft, drawn, and sewn, and it spans the junction between the manifestation of an idea and the materialization of what spatial form it takes.

Curated by Benjamin Haddix and Kristi Ternes

Location: PASC Southgate Gallery
13721 Eureka Road,
Southgate, MI 48195

Dates: October 17, 2024 - January 3, 2025

Hours: Fri, 10 pm - 3pm and by appointment

CUP OF SUGAR

This exhibition is a group show that includes artists and staff from PASC and our neighbors Signal-Return, a non-profit dedicated to preserving and teaching traditional letterpress printing, and building a community center for art, craft, design and collaboration. This show is about the people who work, represent, support and create in both these non-profit art incubators. This show presents artists with and without diagnosed disabilities alongside each other, and spans across both organizations galleries.

Curated by Lynne Avadenka, Joel Grothaus and Anthony Marcellini

Location:PASC Detroit Gallery
LANTERN
9301 Kercheval Ave, STE 2, Detroit, MI 48214

Dates: September 26 – October 26, 2024

Gallery Hours: Th, Fr, & Sat 12 pm -5 pm and by appointment

CREATIVES IN CONTROL

Creatives In Control is our first exhibition curated entirely by PASC Artists. The four-artist curatorial team of Lewis Foster, Rodney Hudson, Keisha Miller, and Lauren Williams has selected 21 artworks from their PASC artist colleagues across all three PASC studios. With an unorthodox approach, each curator has chosen to react to the curatorial process through a visual exposition, creating hand-painted murals on the gallery walls, complementing each artwork with playful abstractions, vivid line-work, and watercolor washes. Like an exhibition text, the murals explore each artist-curator's experience of the selected artworks through inspired gestures.

Curated by Lewis Foster, Rodney Hudson, Keisha Miller, and Lauren Williams

Location:PASC Detroit Gallery
LANTERN
9301 Kercheval Ave, STE 2, Detroit, MI 48214

Dates: August 1st – September 7th, 2024

Gallery Hours: Th, Fr, Sat, 12-5pm and by appointment

REJOICE

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. The artwork of Rejoice invites in the larger community through an act of creative collective exploration.

Curated by Hannah Lilly

Location: PASC Southgate Gallery
13721 Eureka Road,
Southgate, MI 48195
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Dates: June 27 - October 12, 2024

Hours: Fri 10-3pm and by appointment

PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE

People Are People is an exhibition of 53 portraits of known and unknown persons that seeks to portray the diverse and complex task of representing the human form. The exhibition features artworks by nine PASC artists, showcasing the distinctiveness of their styles of representation. This exhibition also features a mural size painted title-wall by PASC artist Sereal Crawford, announcing the show in his distinctive graphic style.

Curated by Matthew Higgs and Erin Somerville

Location: PASC Detroit Gallery
LANTERN
9301 Kercheval Ave, Suite 2,
Detroit, MI 48214

Dates: June 20 - July 20, 2024

Th, Fri, Sat: 12-5pm

IF ANYONE CAN HEAR THIS

If Anyone Can Hear This, is an exhibition exploring a sympathetic community birthed during a moment of uncertainty or individual pieces finding their larger puzzle. This is PASC's first exhibition our new permanent gallery in Detroit. It features artists from all three PASC studios exploring the range of emotions, personalities and talents that make up the PASC program.

Curated by Scott Vincent Campbell

Location: PASC Detroit Gallery at LANTERN
9301 Kercheval Ave, Suite 2, Detroit, MI 48214

Dates: May 9 - June 15, 2024

Hours: Th, Fr, Sat: 12-5pm

A TAPESTRY OF TRANSFORMATION

A Tapestry of Transformation is an exhibition at The Gallery at Westland City Hall featuring 38 artists from The Progressive Art Studio Collective (PASC) where each artwork serves as a cultural thread woven together to tell the story of our collective. Representing the tastes, desires, and dreams of American society, the exhibit embodies the essence of our culture, historical references and the interplay of identities.

Curated by Chloé Hajjar, Kristi Ternes and Eleni Zaharopoulos

Location: Art Gallery at City Hall
Westland City Hall
36300 Warren Rd, Westland, MI 48185

Dates: March 28 - April 26, 2024

M-F 9-5pm

COSMIC CONNECTIONS

Cosmic Connections is our next show at our PASC Southgate gallery. This exhibition showcases several PASC Southgate artists, who present artworks that reveal our universal 'cosmic' connections through figurative and abstract language, from depictions of planets, to our human and natural commonalities.

Curated by Hannah Lilly

Location: PASC Southgate
13721 Eureka Road, Southgate, MI

Dates: February 29 – May 31, 2024
M-F 10-3pm or by appointment

INTIMACY: THE ARTISTIC COMMUNITY OF PASC

MOCAD is partnering with Progressive Art Studio Collective (PASC) to produce Intimacy: The Artistic Community of PASC, an exhibition surveying the past three years of PASC’s growth in fostering artists with developmental disabilities and mental health differences. This exhibition delves into the interior worlds of over 30 PASC artists, representing personal imagery, art historical and cultural referents, and states of emotional intensity

Location: MOCAD
4454 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48201

Dates: December 2, 2023 - January 14, 2024

SPEAK OUT

Speak Out is a group show featuring PASC artists at the gallery at Wayne County Community College. This show interprets 'speaking' as a communication that doesn’t necessarily require verbal language. Rather ‘speak’ is used here simply to mean the communicating one's voice, a particular opinion or attitude expressed.

Curated by Evan Condron and Hannah Lilly

Location:Brown and Juanita C Ford Art Gallery
Wayne County Community College, Ted Scott Campus
9555 Haggerty Road,
Belleville MI 48111

Dates: October 18 - November 15, 2023

THE SYMPATHETIC RELATIONSHIP OF THINGS

The Sympathetic Relationship of Things is a group show of artwork by artists across all PASC studios, who work in a style where objects, strokes, or textures form repeated patterns in a single artwork, or across a series. This group show will feature the most artists we've shown in this small space. This is PASC's final exhibition at PASC at the Belt a temporary gallery space located in the Belt Alleyway in downtown Detroit.

Curated by PASC Staff

Location: PASC at The Belt
1234 The Belt,
Detroit, MI 48226

Dates: September 8 - October 28, 2023

EVERY PORTRAIT IS A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST

Every Portrait is a Portrait of the Artist features the artwork of Ronald Griggs, Keisha Miller, Alsendoe Owens, Randy Rodriguez and Thomas Saunders. Showcasing artists whose preferred subject matter is portraiture. Each of these artists presents a unique way of rending the human form. This exhibition is PASC’s second exhibition at PASC at the Belt, our pop up gallery in The Belt Alleyway.

Curated by PASC Staff

Location: PASC at The Belt
1234 The Belt,
Detroit, MI 48226

Dates: May 6-July 1 2023, F-S: 3pm-6pm or by appointment

PERSISTENT VISION

Persistent Vision is an exhibition featuring three painters, Sherri Bryant, Julieann Dombrowksi and DeRon Hudson, who all work in large-and small-scale vibrant abstraction. This exhibition is our inaugural exhibition in PASC at the Belt, a temporary gallery space located in the Belt Alleyway in downtown Detroit, which we will run through September 2023. PASC at the Belt is made possible through a partnership between PASC, Library Street Collective and the Skip, and a grant from MACC.

Curated by PASC

Location: PASC at The Belt
1234 The Belt,
Detroit, MI 48226

Dates: May 6-July 1 2023, F-S: 3pm-6pm or by appointment

EXPANDING ORBITS

Expanding Orbits is an exhibition at Padzieski Gallery featuring 26 artists from The Progressive Art Studio Collective (PASC), an exhibition and studio program for disabled adults, where participating artists work together in a shared group studio space. This exhibition takes the theme of space as a metaphor to discuss creative relationships of force and influence, happy accidents, and unknown phenomenon.

Curated by Evan Condron, Renee Willoughby and Eleni Zaharopoulos

Location: Padzieski Gallery, Ford Community & Performing Arts Center
15801 Michigan Ave, Dearborn, MI 48126

Dates: June 23 – July 22, 2023

FROM EVERY DIRECTION: PASC AT WESTLAND CITY HALL

From Every Direction will feature the artwork of over 40 artists from all three PASC studios, Detroit, Southgate and Westland. For several artists this will be the first time they are exhibiting their artwork publicly. The show features a wide range of styles and methods in many different 2D media. This is our second exhibition at the Gallery at Westland City Hall.

Curated by PASC

Location: Art Gallery at City Hall, 36300 Warren Rd., Westland, MI 48185

Dates: March 31-April 27, 2023, M-F: 9am-5pm

SETTING THE TABLE

There is room for everyone to eat. Setting the Table is an exhibition curated by the artist Tyrell Winston, selected from artwork by twenty-one artists in the PASC program. This show explores art as a form nourishment and the exhibition as a carefully crafted feast for the audience.

Curated by Tyrrell Winston

Location: PASC Detroit Pop Up Gallery @ The Vella Group, 1410 Gratiot Ave, Detroit, MI 48207

Dates: September 2 -25, 2022, Fri, Sat, Sun, 1-6pm

AFFECTIONS

Affection is an act of self-expression. It can manifest in touches, looks, words, gestures, even creative acts, like singing a song or making an artwork. Affection conveys fondness (sometimes love); it promotes greater social connection and community. Each of the eleven artists in this exhibition invite the viewer to engage in an act of appreciation around a personal affection of their own.

Curated by Bridget Finn

Location: PASC Detroit Pop Up Gallery @ The Vella Group, 1410 Gratiot Ave, Detroit, MI 48207

Dates: July 15 - August 25, 2022, Fri, Sat, Sun, 1-6pm

ELECTRIC RELAXATION

Electric Relaxation is an exhibition featuring artworks by 15 artists who use creative and often unconventional means to explore abstraction through vibrant forms and concepts. In these pieces illuminating colors refresh the soul and emphasize repetitious and multi-layered mark-making techniques, while each share common poetics of visually stimulating characteristics.

Curated by Anita Bates and Tom Pyrzewski

Location: PASC Detroit Pop Up Gallery @ The Vella Group, 1410 Gratiot Ave, Detroit, MI 48207

Dates: June 10 – July 10, 2022: Fri, Sat, Sun 1-6pm

LIBERTY REALM

Liberty Realm is the inaugural exhibition in PASC’s Detroit Pop-Up Gallery featuring 32 artworks by 13 PASC artists from across all three PASC studios. This exhibition also marks the first gallery in Detroit dedicated to supporting artists with developmental disabilities and mental health needs, and the start of a five month exhibition partnership with The Vella Group.

Curated by Detroit artist James Benjamin Franklin

Location: PASC Detroit Pop Up Gallery @ The Vella Group, 1410 Gratiot Ave, Detroit, MI 48207

Dates: May 6 - June 5, 2022, Fri, Sat, Sun, 1-6pm