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Mint’s big beautiful success by the numbers for 2019
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Creating connections and more sales: Valuable add ons for emerging artists
  Artists need more than paint and canvas to make an exceptional impression when they hand over their art to a buyer. A business card won’t do it, and bubble wrap or a protective sleeve is just an appetizer for really showing you care for your art and your art collectors.  That said, really beautiful wrapping of your art …
Mint’s successes and miracles: A yearend letter from our director
Dear friends of Mint, Mint Artists Guild is finishing a year of successes and firsts. We are proud of these – and we see how many more opportunities and challenges we could tackle in 2020 and 2021, with your support and donations from individuals, businesses and foundations. Some of our successes have names: Seyi, a photographer, learned to paint with …
How Jessica ended up in two Mint videos and a show in the Fisher Building
Jessica Fligger showed up with her family for the Mint Paint Detroit with Generosity opening last month, a rare artist with a rare opportunity – two of them. She left 90 minutes later with two interviews completed and her paintings shining. This young painter and ceramics artist was thrilled to have her art featured in the Fisher Building – and …
Meet Mint’s new marketing intern Journey
She smiles and creates videos and digital art. Learn more about our new marketing intern.
Mint stars in CBS Eye on Detroit feature
 When he stopped by for a quick hello and a question at the start of TedXDetroit, videographer Tim Brown promised he would return. And he did, and he interviewed Mint co-founder Vickie Elmer and Mint Artists’ Journey Shamily, asking about upcoming events. Then at our invitation, he showed up at our Paint Detroit with Generosity opening at the Fisher …
Three ways Mint practices generosity in Detroit
  “Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style,” said Rebecca Solnit, writer and activist and author of The Mother of All Questions and many other books.  Mint Artists Guild is striving to make …
Holiday cards: back story and today’s beauties
 Credit or blame Sir Henry Cole for the tradition of sending holiday cards to family or friends. The man who would go on to become the first leader of the Victoria and Albert Museum created what the Smithsonian magazine says is the first Christmas card in 1840. That’s when he realized he did not have enough time to send …
Children are our future, our beautiful inspiration for 2020
Read on to learn why we are focusing on children and youth in the year ahead.
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 …
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