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Bagley Housing Community Art Gallery
2715 Bagley
Corner of Bagley and St. Anne
313-964-5942
The Center’s purpose is to promote the richness and diversity of Latino cultures. This year’s program includes exhibitions of Mexican, Peruvian, Colombian, Brazilian, and Argentine artists. Within the community this effort is to instill pride in one’s heritage and encourage those with artistic interest to pursue their talents- for the youth we hope this means “staying in school”, and “see what you can do with the art in you”. We also hope to communicate that the arts are for everyone, not just the talented, rich, or university educated. Outside the community we hope to bridge cultures through an appreciation of art. Seventy-five percent of communication is said to be non-verbal; so we are counting on visual works to express universal values, emotions, and human desires. Most recently, we have expanded our mission to bring to the barrio artist of other ethnic backgrounds in a cultural exchange to promote cross-cultural understanding and appreciation and to see that we share many values, emotions, and desires ( in January a group of Christian and Muslim Arab/American artist exhibited, and in February Detroit African American members of the National Conference of Artists exhibited ).
- From the official Bagley Housing Community Art Gallery website