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just a lil south central secret don’t tell nobody 🤫 lol

Lauren Halsey all day long 😍 omg

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✍🏻✂️🪢 We designed the graphics and wall-mounted tools that invited visitors to contribute. ICA’s installation team painted the graphics in the exhibition palette and applied the titles and text in adhesive vinyl. Clipboards, a paper roll, neon masking tape, markers, colored pencils, scissors, and letter-size paper gave people ways to leave drawings, questions, and opinions during workshops.

The curtains changed the atmosphere around those walls. They could darken the gallery for a projection, a drag show, or to create a more intimate space for individual reflection and collective discussion. The same graphics took on a different role as the room and its activities changed.
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✍🏻✂️🪢 Diseñamos la gráfica y las herramientas fijadas a la pared para invitar a los visitantes a participar. El equipo de montaje del ICA pintó la gráfica con la paleta de la exposición y colocó los títulos y textos en vinilo adhesivo. Portapapeles, un rollo de papel, cinta de enmascarar neón, marcadores, lápices de colores, tijeras y hojas tamaño carta permitían dejar dibujos, preguntas y opiniones durante los talleres.

Las cortinas cambiaban la atmósfera alrededor de esas paredes. Podían oscurecer la galería para una proyección, un show drag, o crear un espacio más íntimo para la reflexión individual y la conversación colectiva. La misma gráfica adquiría otro papel cada vez que cambiaban el espacio y sus actividades.

#ParticipatoryDesign #ExhibitionGraphics #CollectiveMemory #MuseumEducation #SpatialDesign

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We had a TIME at The Potluck 2026!

We want to send a special shoutout to all of the incredible artists, musicians, healers, vendors, sponsors, and community members who made our event possible. Stay tuned and follow for more recap highlights and info about upcoming events!

Thanks you to our amazing photographer @myartmyrules for capturing these amazing photos!

#ThePotluckDetroit #HealingThroughArt #CommunityVibes #detroitcreatives

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One of the things we absolutely love most about our little family business’s journey and growth over the 10 some years we’ve been at it, is the support of our beautiful friends that have shown up to see us in the various stages of the journey 🥰🥰🥰

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How a Durag Pulled Me Into Everyday Black Matter-ing by Dr. Chaz Barracks.

A cousin’s boyfriend. A fresh line-up. Ocean waves. And the careful tying of a durag — an initiation into ritualized Black hair and care that marked the beginning of something much larger.

From that memory, Barracks builds a theory. The durag is not just maintenance. It’s style, signal, archive, and refusal. A material object that Black femmes and queers have long inhabited — not just inherited — stretching its meaning to carve out more livable ways of being.

Moving through Tyler Mitchell, Symone’s iconic Drag Race runway, and the quiet femininity of mothers and aunties, Barracks traces what he calls “everyday Black matter”, the ordinary textures of Black life that narratives of suffering or excellence consistently leave out.

To style yourself into being is its own kind of world-making
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#BlackYouthProject #BlackQueerLife #BlackStyle #BlackCulture #Durags

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✨Artist Spotlight: Chaz A. Barracks, PhD✨

Chaz A. Barracks, PhD (he/they) Chaz A. Barracks, PhD (he/they) is a mixed-media scholar, filmmaker, podcast host, and educator exploring Black popular culture, Black feminist theory, and Black joy through oral history and critical media practice. Their work examines Black everyday life, queer aesthetics, and material/digital culture — from durags to digital commons — centering Black feminist/femme practices of care, pleasure, and worldmaking performance.

Known for his powerful 2020 film Everyday Black Matter, Chaz teaches and creates at the intersections of experimental media, Black popular culture, and joy and pleasure studies. His current writing project dives into the politics of deviance in everyday Black life. At Potluck, he explores “durag matter” — merging oral history, material design, and exhibition to create knowledge from everyday Black life (aka Black matter).

Catch Dr. Chaz at The Potluck on Saturday, May 23 for an interactive “durag matter” screen printing/storytelling oral history session. Bring your Durag and join in on the fun!

🗓️ Saturday May 23, 10am
🔥 Bring your durags for an interactive session with oral history collection!

📍Taking Doll Studio: 7145 E. Davison, Detroit MI

🔗Click the link in bio to register

#ThePotluckDetroit #HealingThroughArt #CommunityVibes #detroitcreatives

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✨The Potluck is back for its 4th year!  Join us for a free, 4-day celebration of live music, art, poetry, healing, and community joy, right here in Detroit.
✨ The full weekend lineup is here! 
Check out who’s performing, when the workshops are happening, and everything in between.

🗓️ May 22–25  📍Talking Dolls Studio, 7145 E. Davison, Detroit MI 48212
  🎨 Art. Music. Healing. Family.
This is a space to dance, heal, create, and gather in honor of our ancestors and in service of our descendants.
  Open to all. Free for the whole family.
🔗 Click the link in bio for the full schedule + to register!

@angel_checked_out @i4kt @ix_lives @onecustomcity @illingsworth @itsjayp @studioamelia @kvngtec @3steez @jamallbufford @riverwisemagazine @vontheofficial @ov.theog @mackthorsday @kvngtec @everydayumuthi @y_knots1962 @sinnennis @reggiehobb @callmesharod @marii.danielle

#ThePotluckDetroit #DetroitCreatives #MovementDetroit #ThePotluckDetroit2026

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The 2026 Lineup is CRAZY!

We can’t wait to see what our incredible artists create for 2026. Shout out to all of the artists who have been rocking with us over the years and the artists new to the lineup.

Join us May 22-May 25
Taking Doll Studio: 7145 E. Davison, Detroit MI 48212
Free for all

Free with registration. Register in the Link in bio🔗

@venusloc @pollybergen @onecustomcity @i4kt @illingsworth @ix_lives @medicinemoonmama @riverwisemagazine @studioamelia @iamjenniferray @vontheofficial @ov.theog @angel_checked_out @mackthorsday @kvngtec @everydayumuthi @y_knots1962 @sinnennis @reggiehobb @callmesharod

#thepotluckdetroit #movementdetroit #detroitcreatives

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The Potluck is back for the 4th year, and you’re invited! Join us May 22 through 25 for a free, 4-day gathering in Detroit filled with live music, art performances, poetry, healing workshops, and more. It’s completely free for the entire family ✨

This is a space for joy, for release, for honoring our roots and creating something beautiful together.

Bring your people, and come party and heal together in community. Come ready to dance, heal, create, and connect.

This celebration is for the community. For the ancestors. For the future.

Check us out May 22, 23, 24 & 25
📍Taking Doll Studio: 7145 E. Davison, Detroit MI 48212

🔗Click the link in bio to register

#ThePotluckDetroit #HealingThroughArt #CommunityVibes #detroitcreatives

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@thepotluckdetroit 2 Weeks Away!!
We are so excited to present our 4th annual Potluck May 22-25

Join us as we create art and heal together in community!

Taking Doll Studio: 7145 E. Davison, Detroit MI 48212

#ThePotluckDetroit #HealingThroughArt #CommunityVibes #detroitcreatives

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2 Weeks Away!!
We are so excited to present our 4th annual Potluck May 22-25

Join us as we create art and heal together in community!

Taking Doll Studio: 7145 E. Davison, Detroit MI 48212

#ThePotluckDetroit #HealingThroughArt #CommunityVibes #detroitcreatives

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so I honesty couldn’t engage AI if I tried but I am definitely a historian, at least. and I will flood the socials with throwbacks that nobody asked for until it all comes crashing down. here are the slides:

1.my fav grandad

2.buckwheat

3.my fav auntie

4.my fav human

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