Tuesday Evening / August 15, 2023 / 5:30 p.m -8:30 p.m. The Eastern, 3434 Russel St, Detroit, MI 48207

Committed to sharing Black design and art perspectives from our community beyond Black History Month, AIGA Detroit has compiled a list of Black creators that are active in our community.

Celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, with a workshop from AIGA Detroit lead by Parisa Tashakori. Learn about the holiday and its symbols before the event where we'll be making greeting cards to send out in the new year!

Musing on design, other things, and how bad design is good sometimes. In this manifesto, Justine Allenette Ross documents her influences and perspective as a female Black Illustrator in Detroit. Commenting on race, class, and being a designer in a system where good design is often synonymous with “European” or “white” aesthetics. Justine talks through the things that make her herself, and how all of those things are intersectional. You can’t separate who you are from how you make.

We represent a region of thriving Black creatives, Black culture and Black lives. For us that means now, more than ever, Black Lives Matter. It is not enough for us to not be racist, we have to be explicitly and actively anti-racist. That means working to dismantle systems of oppression and seeking justice for those wronged by these systems.