There are so many things said about Detroit, negative but one thing is for sure the minds here, the consciousness here cannot be denied. For every story of corruption or misdealing there are five-to-ten stories of cultural awareness, political unrest and child/children getting evolved in something positive these stories are not in the news or media. These stories are laying under stories of DPS misdoings, it is in coffee houses and bookstores and cultural centers some of which are struggling to keep their doors open. In the city of Detroit for you not to be culturally aware is truly a shame, a sin. In the city of Detroit to not know or want to know what art is, or explore an artistic view, feel is truly a crime. It is no wonder that movements, actions, great minds and thinkers have come from or was inspired from being here in Detroit, they never has forgiven Detroit for this fact. As I walked around the cultural district, mid-town, I began to get a feeling of anger at what we, Detroiters has allowed the media, the powers to be to label us and our city as. On my journey to the DIA, I first encounter the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History. The building is huge brown blocks with a circular dome, probably inspired by our Asiatic family in Kemet, with bronze and golden type trim. It is a one-of-its-kind building that houses the largest museum items telling our stories and legacy, here in Detroit. Right next door there is the Science Center another newly expanded and remolded building which just finishes with an extraordinary exhibit of the human body and house I very large IMAX Theater that fascinates and expand young minds. In the area between my destination the center for creative studies building and parking structure beautifully decorated, massive mosaic quilt by Hubert Massey and you have the Scarab club the houses some of today’s finest page poets and professors of creative writing plus more. I finally reach the back of my destination.
From the back the DIA doesn’t say little Italy to me, even though the building is done in that whiteness that the Greek and Romans found to be lacking that is why some of the more famous roman and Greek artist were known as colorist. With that said this part of the building is modern with its streaks of gray mixed in. With these add-ons to an already beautifully designed building makes the DIA one of the largest art institution in the USA, right here in Detroit. The DIA in addition to arts covering the globe and time periods also has a theater that shows independent films and documentaries, also holds shows, classes, and is free to Detroit residence on Fridays. The entrance to the theater is in the back off from one of the new wings and is connected by a foyer with very interesting brown sculptor that looks like a person bending in thought or pain or hugging, truly beautiful. To the right of this sculptor above the entrance it has a sign made into the building that says theater with three heads now giving me the feeling of Greek and Roman art (which is part of the original building). The stairs leading up to another entrance exit of the theater is in that marble beige-look of Rome or Roman style buildings and along the landing it is light by lanterns (electrical) and it has more serious face, God-like heads and figures with signs carved in reading Drama and Music. As I walked around the side of the DIA, the greenery of the grass and the sun beaming and the blue clouds just made me absorb the feeling of creativity, creating something or just being near to something that has already been created and basking in that glow.
In 1960, my twin rode around Detroit with a second cousin. He reported back about the marvelous road, the freeway. That auto money brought fine art and culture to the city. Detroiters should be proud.
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