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⨠Announcing the BULK Space x Talking Dolls Emerging Curator Program â¨
Weâre excited to launch a new initiative supporting early-career curators working in socially engaged, experimental, and community-rooted practices.
The Emerging Curator Program offers:
⢠Access to BULKâs Media Lab + production resources
⢠Opportunities to curate exhibitions, public programs, and publications
⢠Hands-on experience rooted in Detroitâs creative ecosystem
This program centers collaboration, equity, and experimentationâcultivating the next generation of curatorial voices shaping the future of contemporary art in Detroit and beyond.
Program Overview:
The selected curator will participate in a curatorial development program that provides mentorship from experienced arts professionals, access to BULK Space resources, and a public platform to realize an exhibition or project. The program centers experimental, socially engaged, and interdisciplinary practices, with a particular emphasis on amplifying voices historically excluded from mainstream arts institutions.
The selected curator is expected to be highly self-driven, taking initiative in research, coordination, and project development while working in dialogue with BULK Space staff and mentors. Through mentorship, production support, and public presentation, the program supports curators in developing rigorous, community-responsive projects from concept to execution.
Each selected curator will receive a $1,000 honorarium, along with $1,000 in project support to cover artist fees, exhibition production, programming, shipping, and gallery staffing.
The program runs June 1st to August 31, with the resulting exhibition presented at Talking Dolls. Applications open March 9th, offering an opportunity for early-career curators to gain hands-on experience, mentorship, and a public platform to realize a socially engaged, experimental project.
Click here to apply!!
Upcoming Program Info
Talking Singlehood w/ Dr. Jessica D. Moorman
Thursday March 19th
6-8pm
Rates of single status are on the rise, changing how adults form family, navigate their social lives, or plan for the future. Singlehood can be overwhelming, exhilarating, freeing, frustrating, and confusing creating the need for a space to talk it out. In Talking Singlehood, we will do just thatâtalk about being single, what that means to us, and how we can navigate it to get the most out of life. Singlehood is not just about dating, and therefore we will be talking about the spectrum of things that contribute to unmarried life. You should attend this open conversation if you are single and want to talk about what that means to you now and in the future. There will be activities, connection, and fun! This event is open to single adults only. This is not a dating event. See you on the 19th! Please RSVP here if you plan on attending.
About:
Dr. Jessica D. Moorman is a fourth generation Detroiter who researches how sociocultural factors like media and gender role norms shape health and development over the life course. In her primary area of research, Dr. Moorman examines Black womenâs singlehood socialization; the process by which attitudes and beliefs about single status are acquired. For her current book project, Living Singlehood: The Values and Strategies Shaping Unmarried Life for Black Women, Dr. Moorman spoke with 44 single Black women living in Detroit about their experiences of unmarried life to gain a better understanding of the unique challenges facing Black women in singlehood.
Dr. Moorman has received a Pro-Quest Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan in 2018 for her project âBeing Single IsâŚ: A Study of Black Love Media and Black Womenâs Sexual Socialization.â She was named a Pre-Doctoral Fellow for the American Association of University Women in 2017, among other accolades. Dr. Moorman has presented her research for agencies like the United Nations Womenâs Rights Division and has been featured in media outlets like Psychology Today, National Public Radio, and ESPN.
BULK x Stamps Gallery
Reflections on Legacy: Printmaking & College Workshop
Saturday, March 21, 2026
1-4pm
What marks do we inherit? What forms do we reimagine?
Inspired by the exhibition Legacies: Contemporary Art Dialogues with Clay presented by Stamps Gallery at DDD Gallery and organized in conjunction with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts 2026 conference in Detroit, this hands-on risograph workshop explores how traditions are preserved, translated, and transformed across generations.
Working with layered color, repetition, and texture, participants will create prints that honor personal, diasporic, and ancestral histories. Bring photographs, family documents, or meaningful images to incorporate into a collective visual archive of memory and resilience.
Open to artists of all levels.
Letâs build future lineages through print.
Click here to sign-up
Held In Sight w/ Ananda Ray
Saturday, Mar 28, 2026
1-4PM
Held In SIght is an interactive workshop where Black Detroit community members co-create KEEPER, a collective memory installation that transforms individual stories into shared visual language.
Participants rotate through three creative stations: sharing personal memories, selecting colors and sensory qualities that represent their stories, and seeing how their contributions shape the artwork. Through facilitated dialogue and hands-on creation, we explore how memories get passed down, what makes them sacred, and how individual stories weave into collective remembering.
This gathering builds a living archive where community voices directly shape the installationâs visual language, proving that technology can serve preservation and transparency when we build it together and collaboratively.
About The Artist:
Ananda Ray is a Detroit-based artist and creative technologist whose work investigates the intersections of race, identity, and emerging technologies. Rooted in Black-centered design principles, she uses technology as a tool for resistance, resilience, and reclamation.
Recent work includes Reflections of Resistance (2021), an augmented reality mural honoring Black womenâs political legacy created with Pratt Institute and Myrtle Avenue Partnership, and KEEPER (2024), an AI-driven installation rooted in community archives exhibited at Prattâs Schafler Gallery. As a Fellow at Michigan Central, she continues building work that prioritizes inclusion, memory, and imagination while expanding access to creative technology for underrepresented communities through workshops, storytelling, and intentional design.
Creative Coding Detroit Meetup (CCDET)
1st Wednesdays
6-8pm
Creative Coding Detroit (CCDET) is a monthly meetup that brings together people pursuing creative expression through code located in (and around) the city of Detroit. Anyone building handmade websites, sketches in Processing, OpenFrameworks or P5.js, interactive installations or experiments in Machine Learning and beyond, and those interested in learning how, are encouraged to join.
Operating within the specific context of Detroit, recognizing its history of forced segregation and disenfranchisement at the hands of the auto industry, CCDET works to subvert this history through intentional, community-scale technology. In a moment where âBig Techâ is becoming more pervasive and influential on a global scale, CCDET joins a world-wide network of creative coding meetups to expand participantsâ ideas about what technology is, who it is for and the beauty it can help us to create. CCDET believes that the lived experience of Detroiters and those who choose to live in the city have valuable contributions to make to the global Arts & Tech community, and aims to showcase them.
BULK Spring Book Launch!
Thursday, April 2nd
6-8p
Join us at BULK Space for our Spring Book Launch, an evening celebrating the release of new artist-led publications developed through collective research, storytelling, and community collaboration. This gathering brings together contributing artists, writers, and partners to share work that explores themes of health, care, food sovereignty, and cultural knowledge.
Many of the books being released were made possible through the generous support of the Priority Health Total Health Foundation, whose investment has helped expand access to critical health information through artist-driven publishing. Developed through workshops, shared meals, and community dialogue, these publications reflect BULKâs ongoing commitment to building accessible platforms for creative expression and knowledge sharing.
Special thanks to our collaborators and community partners, including Ruth Ellis Center, ALL Detroit farmers and food activists, Arielle Laws Nutrition, and Hydra Fund, whose knowledge, care, and leadership have been essential to this work.
The evening will feature readings, conversations with contributors, and an opportunity to engage directly with the publications and the people behind them. We invite you to join us in celebrating this collective achievement and the growing network of artists and collaborators shaping this work.
Donât forget to apply to our brand new membership program!
BULK Space Membership is designed for artists seeking access to tools, resources, and a collaborative creative community. The program supports production, experimentation, and professional growth through equipment access, printing discounts, skillshares, workshops, and peer dialogue. Members join a network of artists committed to shared learning, collective support, and expanding their media-based practices. To learn more about membership please email membership@bulk-space.com
Make sure to check out our website and instagram to stay up to date with our offerings! And as always, thank you for your supportâwe could never do this without our amazing community <3
With love,
BULK Space team
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