This is how it all started…
The Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival (HNAF) highlights Hamtramck, Michigan, a creative, dense city of 2 square miles, and the artists and musicians who call it home. It’s a welcoming community that breeds incredible diversity and boundless creativity.
This isn’t your typical festival, participating creators in the community host the audience in their home studios, front porches, parks, coffee shops, or galleries around the city. We’re also excited to annouce this year all the creative venues & organizations that will be part of HNAF this year festival, The Pioneer Buildings Annual Open House, Hatch/Hamtramck Disneyland, Ukrainian American Archives & Museum of Detroit, Teal Door Artist Collective, Barbershop Art & Book, Buffalo Prescott, Popps Packing, and…
Traveling between these venues throughout Hamtramck, the audience curates their own experience.
It’s a community-organized festival that allows anyone in the city and the surrounding neighborhood to contribute to or host an event. The HNAF embraces the idea that art is for everyone – all are welcome to participate, and all are welcome to tour the artists’ workspaces and attend the day (and night) long events.
Festivalgoers are encouraged to grab a bite to eat while in Hamtramck – we would like to specifically point you toward Pope Park, and the DDA’s Discover Hamtramck – Night Bazaar our top festival sponsor this year, and Passenger & Passenger Radio WHCK, and CSG at 3901 Christopher Street, Hamtramck next to (same building) the old Fowling Warehouse that will be our main HNAF hub, and where we’ll host our HNAF Artists Market. We’re also proud to partner with Christopher Street Gallery within the same building, who’s umbrella’d under PRCC and currently has Hamtramck’s own – (and HNAF official photographer over the years) Jon Sniezek “It Begins With Hamtramck” photo exhibition on display through October.
www.christopherstreet.gallery
HNAF 2026 poster artist is Emily Wood.
http://emilyjanewood.com/
Coffee shops and bakeries, fresh produce and spice markets abound, along with plentiful bars.
If can’t help donate, please just spread the word about the HNAF!
