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Art for all: Make more Mint crafts and coloring pages

Mint Artists Guild believes in crafts – and we offer them to children in Detroit regularly. Seven times this summer, we hosted a free arts and crafts activities for families and individuals in Palmer Park, with support from the Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency and individual donors. We set up right outside the Mint Studios and children showed up in …

How we are going to win a window on Woodward in 2020, with one minute of your help

We really want to win a competition to be featured in a window on Woodward, so please, please take one minute to vote for us!

Tea and friendship

Consider hosting a Mint Tea, or joining us at a future one to connect with creatives and support Mint Artists Guild.

Don’t miss out! Awesome art, one evening only

This painting by Hughie Lee Smith is part of the eclectic, international collection of attorney Jerome Watson and Judge Deborah Geraldine Bledsoe Ford.

Don’t miss out. The art in our hosts home goes on and on. But Mint Masterpieces is one evening only, Oct. 19.

How collectors choose the emerging artists they buy

Five pieces of advice from art advisors and experts for collectors who seek emerging artists’ work.

Our fall and winter wish list

Mint is seeking donations of sequins, felt, greeting cards and more in our fall wish list. Please share, or give, or both!

Creative, beautiful art at Mint Masterpieces, Part 2

Meet some of the generous artists donating work to Mint Masterpieces.

Advice from a major Italian art collector

Emerging artists need this smart advice from an internationally known art collector in Italy.

Creative, beautiful art at Mint Masterpieces, Part 1

Guests at Mint Masterpieces on Oct. 19 will savor art that has been collected  by our co-hosts Judge Deborah Geraldine Bledsoe Ford and attorney Jerome Watson. And they will be able to bid on and take home some art created by Mint Artists as well. Our silent auction features certainly work by well established artists including Anthony Brass, Donald Calloway, …

Grabbing opportunities and reusing your work: Sophie Grillet’s smart advice

Seize opportunities and be reliable, Ann Arbor artist Sophie Grillet said in a visit to the Mint Studios.