Mint Artists depict justice in many ways, and our new Justice Bird card is just one beautiful example.
Skip the scales. Justice looks beautiful and flies high
Tag: emerging artist
Meet Oluwaseyi Akintoroye, a Mint creative leader, artist, and mentor
Meet Oluwaseyi Akintoroye: A Mint team leader, artist, photographer, student at Wayne State University and so much more. Calm, creative, and caring, Oluwaseyi Akintoroye has been a member of Mint Artists Guild for about four years. She has worked with Mint Artists Guild as a summer mentor/team leader for more than two years. During that time, she’s helped Mint grow …
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 …
Meet Mint Artists jeweler and board member Trinity
Trinity Brown learned wire wrapping herself while on a break from dancing, following tips on a YouTube video. She had had surgery on her back for scoliosis. She started doing shows at 13 and soon joined Mint, the youngest artist to start in our Learn and Earn program.  She is a senior at University High School Academy in Southfield, …
Success! De’Shaia lands in pro shows with Mint
De’Shaia Ventour, a senior at Cass Tech, started making more elaborate duct tape painting after she joined Mint and sold her work at the Palmer Park Art Fair and other Mint events. She still creates beautiful duct tape flower pens and wallets, but her work has gotten bigger, more elaborate and in more venues. Her duct tape painting Black Roses …