During the recent Diego Rivera/Frida Kahlo exhibit at the DIA, Hannan artists not only had an opportunity to tour the exhibit but also to create their own retablos as seen in the gallery. Using clay, workshop artists designed, fashioned and painted their individual retablos, telling stories they shared with each other. For five weeks in…

Bob Sestok conducted a series of workshops with older artists (see below) in 2010 to share mutual experience and ideas from which he drew inspiration for the “Sunbeam” sculpture now installed as the center piece in a newly created pocket park in front of the Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation. Sestok describes his piece as a…

Artists: Matt Lachowski, and Deanne Rogers, with in-kind support from the Ceramic Department at Wayne State University. Senior artists from at Hannan reviewed the work visiting the design studio at WSU and meeting with the artists throughout the project. Commissioned by the Foundation in 2010, this installation was conceived and designed to provide a link…

The Community Group Program at the DIA is a unique opportunity for the museum to partner with local agencies to provide one-of-a-kind art experiences in the galleries and studio with DIA teaching artists. This program is based on studio teaching philosophy which engages students, encouraging personal expression and reflection through art. Projects are tailored to…

Four master artists/ educators were engaged to bring their talents and experience to the community in multi-generational tours and drop-in workshops free and open to the public. Families and people of all ages were recruited to attend. Eric Mesko, Small Wooden Sculptures Participants created small wooden animals, people and structures. Participants were focused on creating…

Beginning with a tour of galleries at the DIA,   participants learned from Vito about the physical making of a variety of work, the maker/artist and the story they left behind.  They toured several galleries at the DIA    and returned to Hannan for lunch and artist’s talk followed by discovery of self exercises and drawing…