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INSPIRADO: Global Latino Creatives Take Center Stage at Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival

Saturday, October 4, 2025 12:00 – 1:00 PM at New Dodge Lounge (8850 Joseph Campau Ave., Hamtramck, MI)

Hamtramck, MI’s Disco Walls announces INSPIRADO, a vibrant gathering of global Latino artists and creatives during the Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival on Saturday, October 4, 2025, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The afternoon features an intimate panel discussion from 12:00 to 1:00 PM at New Dodge Lounge (8850 Joseph Campau Ave.), exploring creative practice, cultural storytelling, and collaboration across borders.

Curated by Disco Walls, INSPIRADO invites the public to meet artists, hear their stories, and discover how Latino voices are shaping today’s creative landscape from murals and design to music, film, and community-centered placemaking.

INSPIRADO is both celebration and spark, said Julie Sailus (aka Disco Walls), creative producer and event curator. We’re bringing together global perspectives to honor the creativity that fuels Hamtramck and Detroit while opening doors for new connections, commissions, and ideas.

Event Highlights

Artist Meet & Greet (11:00 AM – 2:00 PM): Connect with global Latino artists and creatives; learn about their work and process.

Panel Discussion (12:00 – 1:00 PM): A candid conversation on culture, career paths, and collaboration, moderated by Disco Walls.

Where: New Dodge Lounge, 8850 Joseph Campau Ave., Hamtramck, MI

Cost: Free and open to the public

About Disco Walls

Disco Walls is a Detroit-based creative production studio and art agency specializing in community-driven projects, public art, cultural storytelling, and artist experiences. Working with partners across Michigan and beyond, Disco Walls connects artists with spaces, brands, and audiences to make art approachable for all.

Czr Prz is an urban contemporary artist working in sculptural fabrication, large-scale aerosol murals, and all manner of design. Born and raised in working class Chicago, Prz’s 20 year creative career has spanned America all the way to Europe. Across their multifaceted media, Prz’s artworks tell stories in the folklorico tradition instilled by his Latino-Caribbean upbringing.

Prz recovered from Hodgkins Lymphoma in 2015, a battle that halted his trips abroad, resuming his creative practice without missing a beat. In the past year alone, Prz has painted murals for CATAN in Albany Park and Paint Memphis Fest in Tennessee. Prz’s fine art fabrication has shown at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco and Epiphany Center for the Arts, where he’s the curator behind Idol Hands, a group show centered around craft on view through Feb. 2022. Prz is also one half of Ava Grey, a creative firm based in Chicago’s South Side.

Playing good music for good people.

I’m Raphique I go by Shrinq Mountin i made an album recently titled Emergence please go listen. My live performance consists of looping from scratch, songs from the album, and oud house, live instruments and deep beats.

I’ll be painting one painting for the duration of the festival, which will go home with the highest bidder in a silent auction at the end of the day. I’ll also have on hand some smaller paintings, prints and t-shirts.

Michael Ross was born in the wild, watery woods of Union Lake, Michigan in 1974, got his head straight for a while in the desert green hotspring mountains of New Mexico, and eventually went to school at Oakland University where he learned to love college radio and studied painting under the tutelage of Dick Goody, receiving a BA in Anthropology and Fine Arts. He has no visual influences but enjoys the works of Robert Crumb, Peter Max, Charles McGee and Frank Stella. Also that of John Cage, Yoko Ono, The Grateful Dead and The Fall. And Richard Brautigan and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He’s very interested in Indian Classical Music and often cites the raga, with its inherent improvisation within a formal structure, as a touchstone for his own work. He has been painting at 333 Midland in Highland Park for the past 11 years. He is a painter, a muralist, a curator and an arts council member in his adopted home town of Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, where he lives with his fantastic four year old, his wife, and a very saucy parrot.

Come see Purple and Grey a small Michigan trio perform live from a backyard porch.

Carie Ann Branch is a Hamtramck based muralist who makes odd art for odd people. Murals, line design, and street art captivate Carie’s imagination. Their art is bold, high contrast, and eclectic, utilizing bold color to express whatever strange thought needs to get out.

Live mural painting of the High Dive’s back patio. Chill cocktails and mocktails in a great bar with even greater people.

Through the lens of book and paper art, the exhibit explores the rumination about time spent and elapsed, the lyricism of nature as well as the possibilities of book structure from intimate to installation. Hatch Art Gallery will be open from 12pm – 9pm, with an opening reception starting at 6pm.

Additional offerings include “The Mechanical Requiem” by Ed Griggs and Luke Macgilvray in The Jail Cell, and several of our resident artists will have open studios over the course of the day. All events at the Hatch Art Center are free and open to the public.

Hatch Art is a grassroots nonprofit organization in Hamtramck, serving the Metro Detroit region. Founded and operated by a dedicated group of local artists, Hatch is committed to uplifting area artists through contemporary art exhibitions, arts-based programming, and more. It thrives through the active involvement of the people it serves.

Erin K. Schmidt has her BFA from Michigan State University. After studying book arts at Bowling Green State University she pursued her MA in Book Arts from Camberwell College of Arts at the University of the Arts London, graduating with distinction. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in private and public collections.

Laura Beyer has over 20 years of printmaking experience. Her work has been collected by esteemed organizations throughout the area, including colleges and universities, private collectors as well as the Detroit Institute of Art.

Trixie’s will host local artists without space in our backyard from noon through 8 pm. We will also have live local acoustic acts starting at 5 pm. At 7 pm the Michigan native and current Vermont based band Jaded Ravins will take the stage. This guitar and bass duo compliments their excellent song writing and instrumentation with beautiful vocal harmonies. All events are free.