2026 Events

Hamtramck, Detroit themed and/or Halloween themed T-shirts and hoodies designed by me. I will also have some of my prints and small artwork for sale. (My location is fluid because I have not spoken to the business owners but I think in front of Snipes or a common ground where most of the artist will stationed will work too.)

Patricia Howell is a Detroit mixed-media artist working in abstract realism since 2012. Better known as Trish, she graduated Henry Ford Community College with an associate degree and attended Wayne State University where she majored in Fine Arts. Trish creates vibrant portraits, landscapes, and nature-inspired works using acrylic, oil, watercolor, resin, and texture. Her art is inspired by the beauty of everyday life and the memories that connect people to Detroit, family, and community.

Our Front Yard has been transformed into a Halloween-lover’s delight! Stop by during the daytime for some light Halloween fun or come by after dark when the spook factor is amplified. We hope to have a scavenger hunt set up to encourage folks to linger and interact (please don’t walk in our garden) with our Halloween instillation.

We’re two creatives living under the same roof. Lynn is a Director at the College for Creative Studies managing a program that provides free art and design classes to over 6,000 Detroit area kids a year, has a background in costume design, and makes mixed-media collages to process the world around her. Joe is a ham radio enthusiast who also loves building things and caring for a jungle of plants both indoors and out.

Celebrating the LAUNCH of Scott Beal’s latest poetry collection STEGOSAURUS MOON. FREE Reading with Scott Beal, Tommye Blount and Dom Witten, produced by the Poetics Lab.

Scott Beal is the author of Wait ‘Til You Have Real Problems (Dzanc Books, 2014) as well as the chapbook The Octopus (Gertrude Press, 2016). He directs the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts program at the University of Michigan and teaches in the Sweetland Center for Writing. He co-hosts the Skazat! monthly online poetry series and co-edits Public School Poetry. Scott’s latest poetry collection, STEGOSAURUS MOON, explores heartbreak, divorce, parenthood and the discovery of new,often unexpected, ways forward.

Tony Hope (b. 1989, Redford, MI – BFA College for Creative Studies, MFA Yale School of Art) is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Michigan. Hope’s work has been exhibited across the country and internationally since 2012, with notable exhibitions at: von ammon co (Washington, DC), Ashes/Ashes (New York, NY), Marlborough Gallery (New York, NY), and Jessica Silverman Gallery (San Francisco, CA). Tony Hope is currently represented by von ammon co in Washington, DC.

Gather ’round for another hour of great stories, silly songs, fun little skits and an all around good time for all ages.

Phil is a local teacher, storyteller, former camp counselor and Book Suey Community Member. He likes dark chocolate and has two adorable pet hermit crabs named Chefi and Teuvo.

Selling fluid art, handmade boxes with international fine papers, vintage hats and boxes.

Graduate of Eastern Michigan University, Bachelor’s and Master’s programs in Elementary Education; 30 additional graduate credits. Seventy two years young Fluid Artists. Member of DFABC, Detroit Fine Arts Breakfast Club. Selling fluid art paintings, homemade boxes with international papers, spruced-up women’s vintage hats and hat boxes. Strengths are diversity, ethics, Creative and loving nature, and caring for all children. Taught Elementary education for 25 years in Saline, MI. Lived and worked with 28 nationalities on board the SS Norway for three years, the largest ocean liner cruise ship in the world.

Come visit The Convent during the Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival! Wander through our open studios, meet the artists, explore the space, and see what goes on here. Plus, you can check out some of our available spaces!

The Convent was originally built in 1929 for the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, a primarily Polish order of Catholic nuns serving Transfiguration Church & School. As the number of nuns declined, the building eventually fell into disuse and disrepair. In 2022, it was revitalized and transformed into an art and wellness hub, providing private office and studio space for health and wellness practitioners, artists, and other creatives. It also offers spacious common areas for larger gatherings and events. The Convent was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019 when the entire Transfiguration campus received historical status.

See through my perspective of Hamtramck. A place my family has been a part of for more than 100 years. I choose to document day-to-life, the people, and events as I acclimate back to the city my family has since all left. Born on Charest in ‘97, my life began in Hamtramck. My father moved us to a new home in New Baltimore in 2001, being the first of our family to leave. In the next year, my parents would split up and I would spend my weekends in my grandmother’s small apartment on Belmont. In 2021, I moved back to the city on my own, with the goal to document the beauty and culture of the city.

**Christopher Street Gallery is a community-centered art space located in Hamtramck, Michigan dedicated to showcasing contemporary work by local and regional artists. The gallery features rotating exhibitions, including solo and group shows, and serves as a welcoming platform for creative exchange, cultural expression, and neighborhood engagement. Rooted in Hamtramck’s diverse arts scene, Christopher Street Gallery supports artists at all stages while fostering meaningful connections between art and community. Operating under the umbrella of the Passenger Recovery Community Center (PRCC), the gallery champions local artists while providing a safe, art-centric space for those in recovery. Tim’s vision for CSG is inextricably linked with his personal history and his dedication to the LGBTQ+ community. “The name resonated with me when I lived in Berlin. Christopher Street Days held a special place in my heart!” he explains, referring to the European LGBTQ+ celebration that commemorates the Christopher Street Riots (Stonewall). This powerful homage establishes the gallery’s foundation in inclusivity and historical significance. **

Food, fun, music, and most of all, one of the greatest collections of artists and their work in Detroit! https://www.facebook.com/events/2076111413293298/?active_tab=about

Artists Studios inside a historic brick building in Detroit

The Hamtramck Night Bazaar is a vibrant evening market that showcases artists, makers, and small business owners from Hamtramck and beyond! Our line up for entertainment at the Bazaar: 6-7pm: Raphique 7-8pm: Butterbeets 8-9pm: Marqu3tte

Discover Hamtramck is a platform powered by Hamtramck’s Downtown Development Authority. The DDA is committed to bringing life to our unique downtown, city, and community. The Hamtramck Night Bazaar is one of the ways the DDA empowers small business owners, the community, and artists.

Help Florian East brew their annual community oyster stout. Kids coloring will be available.

Step inside the Motivational Museum, a 2,900-square-foot gallery featuring an incredible collection of art and photography from local and international artists. Explore amazing pieces from around the world in a space where you can slow down, be present, enjoy the atmosphere, connect with art, etc or find the perfect piece to take home. Whether you come to experience the art, get inspired, or purchase something that speaks to you, there’s something here for everyone.

Tons of artists. Bios posted in the gallery

Wine of the World is a solo exhibition by Michaela Nichelle that examines how kinship is formed, utilizing both domestic and public archives. Through the examination of Black women’s roles and labor, Nichelle honors the legacies of memory-keeping and the radical fight for preservation and justice she’s inherited. Through jacquard weavings, hand-sewn flags, and performance documentation, Witness Nichelle’s Altar Keeping practice as she boldly answers the question “how y’all kin?” Hatch studio artists will also have open studios during HNAF– explore work from Mike Kelly, Andrew Dall’olmo, Tisch Mikhail Lewis, and more!

Michaela Nichelle is an interdisciplinary artist, archivist, and arts educator whose practice lives at the intersection of Black girlhood studies, memory, and fine arts. Working across domestic installation, food narratives, culturally specific performance, text, and archival practices, she explores Black girlhood as a site of care, remembrance, and communal knowledge. Grounded in homegirling theory, Nichelle approaches artmaking as a heartfelt practice of remembering and honoring herself alongside generations of Black women and girls whose lives, labor, and everyday rituals shape collective histories. She positions herself as an Altar Keeper: a caretaker, historian, and steward of communal memory who tends to the cultural and spiritual practices that sustain Black life. Through this practice, she asks how remembrance can become an act of liberation, imagining the altar as both a physical and conceptual space where Black girlhood is preserved, celebrated, and continually restored.

Gallery will be showing artworks from Sanda Cook, Luke MacGilvray and Michael Jankovich.

Students will be selling arts, crafts and other goods in their outdoor garden space, and will also include music cold drinks and snacks. All proceeds will go to benefit the Horizon Media Arts program.

High School students at Horizon High School embarking the journey of peace and love through artistic expression and harmonic collaboration. Plugging in to ourselves, our world and each other. Our mission and goal is to raise money to support the endevours of the media arts program and club including enhancing community engagement, field trips and community service.

Join Detroit-based musician, composer, and visual artist Zara Teicher for two workshops, one on October 2nd and one on October 3rd, exploring sound as a pathway for play. We’ll experiment, listen deeply, let loose, get silly, improvise, and follow (or maybe break?) the rules of different game-type pieces. In the spirit of folk traditions and drawing from the work of Pauline Oliveros, Fluxus, and others, we’ll connect to each other as a community through sound making as a living social language. We will use our bodies, voices, and every day objects (that are actually instruments in disguise). Participants can attend one or both workshops. Please register for workshops separately on Partiful. The workshops will culminate in a parade in which we’ll play music together as the “What’s Cooking Orchestra!?!” alongside the Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Fest Monster Parade at 8 p.m. on Saturday night.

*Those attending on Saturday 10/3 should bring a kitchen item to play music on. 6-8pm each night Presented by Detroit Folk School and Play House Laboratories Suggested Donation $20 (Pay what you can)). Register and pre-pay on Partiful. Cash accepted at the door. Oct. 2 Partiful link: https://partiful.com/e/IEn2QC0Tmy6kJsUIlcFb?c=Ec3m2i-t Oct. 3 Partiful link: https://partiful.com/e/7eX3gItZUFF4MH3hqydB?c=jtts-r_9

Zara Teicher is a musician/artist/educator in Detroit. She has taught experimental music as adjunct faculty at Cranbrook Academy of Art and as a guest lecturer at the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois-Chicago. Currently, Zara is Resident Artist at Smith Shop Detroit where she is building sculptural brass and metal instruments. She has performed and shown work across Southeast Michigan, in Chicago, and in Los Angeles where she played with the Grammy-nominated ensemble Wild Up, among other new music residencies and such. Zara has an MFA from CalArts and a Bachelor’s of Music degree from Northwestern University. Importantly, she is a mom to two very fun kids and two silly Corgis. Recently, she’s been enjoying the sounds of the cicadas in the trees.

SoundHenge is a communal sound experience that has been happening semi yearly for 12 years, making its debut at the 2014 HNAF as Qbert in The Woods SoundHenge is an improvised sound jam in which participants are spread out among 9 stations in a large 150′ diameter circle and play simultaneously while creating a magical soundscape amongst the trees.

Stay tuned for this years lineup of sound masters!! MERCH AND Refreshments will be available for purchase during the event.

Location: Carpenter Park, 2055 Carpenter Ave Park and adjacent Popps Gardens ( across the street from Popps Packing.

Artist based out of metro Detroit. Usually I work with acrylic on canvas, but I’m open to a variety of different mediums.I find inspiration in trying to bring different perspectives to everyday things. Constantly creating helps immensely with my mental health and recovery. I stay involved in different circles such as live rite, passenger, Eastwood, and rivers edge, to learn and create on a whole different level then I would myself. If your interested in anything or on collaborating Facebook is the best way to find me as well as my work.

Live looping of electronic and eastern oud fusion.

Look up and listen to EMERGENCE by Shrinq Mountin I wrote it for your emotional well being.

Teal Door Artist Collective, in partnership with TEAD One Artist in Residency Program, welcomes visitors to an Open Studio event.

Launched in 2026, Teal Door Artist Collective is an emerging co-working space created by artists, for artists. The studio currently hosts 8 artists who maintain their own studio practice while connecting with the broader creative community within the collective and beyond. TDAC shares the creative space with the TEAD One Artist Residency Program. TDAC artists include Jonathan J Sandberg, Christine Tsurui, Matthew Thornton, Martine MacDonald, Jenny Vaughn, Tom Livo, Marta Carvajal and Joya Rush-Kelli.

Explore how a cigar box, cookie tin, a hunk of wood, string and other junk became the backbone of the music we listen to today through instruments of “junkyard luthier” Michael Copado. I will have an eclectic and eccentric collection of homemade instruments, such as cigar box guitars, basses made out of fence posts and washtubs, canjos, diddleybows, washboards and other things made with items scrounged from the dumpsters and alleys around town for people to examine and try. I’ve invited a few musician friends so there will be informal jams throughout the afternoon.

Since 2017, I have been building and (poorly) playing musical instruments made from cigar boxes, cookie tins, found objects (usually from the alleys and dumpsters around town) and reclaimed wood. Inspired the recent exhibition of my instruments and their historical contribution to the music we listen to today at the Hamtramck Historical Museum, I’ve been exploring lately the instruments that our immigrant ancestors and newer neighbors brought with them to these shores. I have begun to build recreations of some of these instruments along with experiment “modern” instruments based on them. I use everything from primitive hand tools up through modern laser engravers along with all sorts of arts and craft techniques from other hobbies, stolen from youtube such as model railroading, jewelry making, silver soldering and even nail art to build unique one of a kind instruments that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike and by every level of musical skill.

Learn about and celebrate the Ukrainian American immigrant story in southeast Michigan. This exhibit is aligned with the America250MI guiding themes of “Power of Place, We the People, and Doing History,” and is directly inspired by the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence as a moment to reflect on whose stories are included in the American narrative and how those stories are preserved for future generations.

Founded in 1958 and incorporated as a nonprofit in 1968, the Ukrainian American Archives and Museum has decades of experience preserving and interpreting immigrant history in Michigan. UAAM’s collections include fine art, traditional Ukrainian embroideries, ritual clothing, folk dress, woodcarvings, pysanky, oral histories, photographs, memoirs, organizational records, audiovisual media, and more than 30,000 books.

Just your friendly neighbourhood artist and teacher specializing in fiber arts.

Learn more about fabric dye and design while creating your very own shibori artwork. The workshop will be held outdoors and will be kid-friendly.

We’re back!!!!!!!

Monster Parade is here, AGAIN! Who has slime, worms, and spider webs? We’re starving and we’re ready for you! Monster love is all love, DUH. Come in your favorite monster gear and walk from Ride It Sculpture Skatepark to Hamtramck Disneyland singing monster chants and signs, after which we will hang at Hamtramck Disneyland with a bonfire and Monster Mash! Light refreshments will be provided.