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Detroit’s Heidelberg Project in Wisconsin? Tyree Guyton Transports His Magic

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Tyree Guyton, The Suns, 2014, Mixed media, 91 × 34 × 7 in.

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Tyree Guyton

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Heidelberg Project-Detroit, MI by Mike Boening Photography Via Flickr: Images from a recently published Photo Essay. See Essay at www.nailedmagazine.com/photography/mapping-heidelberg-by-... This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. If you wish to license them for commercial purposes, want to purchase prints or are interested in commissioning me to take photos, please send me a Flickr mail or visit my website, www.memoriesbymike.zenfolio.com/, for contact information. Thanks.]

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Tyree Guyton

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Heidelberg Project--Detroit

Heidelberg Project–Detroit

At first glance, the large number of vacant lots between derelict buildings on Heidelberg Street in Detroit, MI resembles a crooked smile with a mouthful of rotted teeth. The fields are filled with collections of discarded remnants from everyday life that could easily be mistaken for a bad flea market. But first impressions are completely unjustified, and there is a purpose to the madness…to be…

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Heidelberg Project is coming home, with new HQ in neighborhood

“ [...] the Heidelberg Project purchased 3442 McDougall and its adjoining lots for $490,000. Two months later, in August 2017, it went in 50-50 with artists Jesse Cory and Roula David, owners of Inner State Gallery and 1xRun, and purchased 2905 Beaufait — a 20,000-square-foot building two blocks from the Heidelberg Project — for $350,000.

The nonprofit will be moving into the McDougall headquarters in February. Come spring, the Beaufait warehouse is slated to open as a café, gallery and event space.

And while the group is still working to purchase 40 vacant parcels from the City of Detroit — this year, unlike last, it's seeming more like a possibility.

"It’s clear that they are going to be a permanent fixture in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood, which we are really encouraged by. That’s a really big commitment they’ve made," Maurice Cox, director of planning and development for the City of Detroit, said, explaining that his department is currently working to help the Heidelberg Project create a Strategic Framework — the first step in allowing the city to understand a group's intentions and how many parcels it needs to execute said vision.

"While the heart and soul of Heidelberg is on Heidelberg Street, they clearly are seeing their future in the larger context that is going to uplift the McDougall neighborhood beyond Heidelberg Street," Cox continued.

The real estate developments — nearly $800,000 in investments, when including a $122,000 crowdfunding campaign from last year to create an artist residency program — are newsworthy in themselves. Heidelberg is coming home. For the city, this seems to indicate a seriousness on the part of the project.

But more so than a financial ledger, the developments highlight the most recent metamorphosis of a decades-long project as it moves off the shoulders of one man (Guyton) into the hands of the community.”

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“Heidelberg 3.0 was born — a plan to move the project away from a Guyton-centered production and open it up to the work of other artists. A collective.

With this new direction also came another goal. The land. A say in what happens next. While Archer's administration may have believed the Heidelberg Project with its rusted car hoods and dotted trees hindered development, Whitfield maintains it's quite the opposite. Heidelberg helped put Detroit on the map. It inspired artists, entrepreneurs, business leaders to take risks in the city.

She points to statements made by Corktown businessman Phil Cooley, who has often credited the Heidelberg Project for his decision to open Slows BBQ on Michigan Avenue.”

- Allie Gross, The Detroit Free Press

I’m so happy this is happening on the east side.