Community Outreach & Engagement

CPAD and the Visual Arts
The arts are strongly linked to Detroit’s re-development and renaissance as a hot urban destination, but many Detroit communities continue to lack the arts infrastructure needed to support ongoing activity.
For this reason, CPAD’s initial focus is on highly visible, long-lasting, visual art projects that can begin to create a real and lasting arts infrastructure by establishing arts places that are concrete and recognized as such by their communities.CPAD visual art projects create defined arts places in target communities and foster a sense of pride in, and commitment to their neighborhoods for residents. These arts places support ongoing arts activity and often re-purpose vacant or under-used community spaces and resources, turning community challenges into opportunities.

1. Career Paths
2. Talking Fence and Illuminated Garage
3. Solar Cocoon
4. SolarFly Mood Swing
5. Victory Village
6. Food Justice Amphitheater
7. Growing Together
8. Alley Project
10. History of the Future: Series 1
11. Spirit at Rest
12. Cesar Chavez
13. Sol del Barrio
14. Three Leaves, Day and Night Guitar, Mother Earth
15. Community Rock
16. Illuminated Mural
17. Earth Sky Repose
18. Panther Power
19. Patterns of Play
20. Visions of Hope
21. Memory Field
22. On the Hustle, On the Move, On the Go
23. Edible Hut