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Mint measures up: Success by the numbers in 2021
Learn about Mint’s growth and success in 2021 in this success by the numbers report.
How Mint created two beautiful new Detroit debit cards
Artists commissions require planning and teach lessons. Learn some of ours.
Meet Toni Topp, our creative marketing intern
She’s creative and business-like and more.
Meet the rest of the 2021 winners and celebrate Imagination and Unity
They believe in the power of imagination – and in Detroit’s beauty and unity. Their art and poetry celebrates all that – and gives us something to think about. This year’s winners of the Metro Detroit Youth Arts Competition are just as diverse as the 2020 winners. But many were drawn to the new theme “Just my imagination … running …
Creative sister and brother are Metro Detroit Youth Arts Competition 2021 winners
Arise and Temple Rock are siblings and encourage each other’s creativity. They both won Mint’s Metro Detroit Youth Arts Competition in 2021.
Plein air painting tips and tricks
Painting outdoors – or en plein air painting – started 200 years ago with groups of French and English artists. Artist John Constable’s paintings View on the Stour (1819) and The Hay Wain (1821) were created outdoors and won gold medals at the prestigious Salon in Paris. Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro captured light and modern life by painting al …
Join us in August – a very art-filled month
Join Mint at two very artsy events in August, including a garden party fundraiser hosted by artist / arts patron Ellen Stone, whose painting is shown.
Better than Pinterest: Creative summer arts or craft activities and places in Detroit
Visit Mint in three parks this summer, or head to many other places, in person or online, for your creative child and family fun.
Heroes earn low wages and high praise – and ours show up in Grand Rapids
The heroes of the covid-19 pandemic wear scrubs and stethoscopes or care for frail seniors. They carry a megaphone, cook eggs and work overnight to refill grocery shelves. And they show up in the paintings Mint Artists summer workers created last year, which formed our first traveling exhibit Heroes; Now & Then. That exhibit will be on display at the …