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Join Delaney Erickson (@delaneybeestudio) and I for Memory in the Margins, a junk journaling workshop 📔

As part of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, we are inviting you to slow down and make something with your hands 🤲 This junk journaling workshop grew from a simple idea: that memory lives not only in what we see but in what we touch, arrange, and hold. Bring a photograph that means something to you, whether it is a picture of yourself, someone you love, or a moment from childhood or more recent years, and transform it into a personal scrapbook page 🖼️ Using simple, accessible materials, you will layer your image with color, texture, and handwritten notes, creating a small and tangible piece of your own history ✍️🎨

Think of it as a return to the elementary school art room, where getting lost in glue, paper, and scraps felt like the most natural thing in the world ✂️📎 No artistic experience is necessary, only a willingness to sit with what a single image holds and to leave with something you made yourself 🤍

🗓️ Thursday, October 15 | 6 to 8 PM

📍 Detroit Artists Market (@detroitartistsmarket): 4719 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48201

📷 Remember to bring a photo!

#JunkJournaling #artclass #scrapbookingsupplies #memoryart taken in Detroit Artists Market by @threadsartexchange

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𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 brings together ten Metro Detroit based artists whose work in installation, fiber, and painting explores memory as both a personal archive and a shared cultural inheritance. The exhibition considers nostalgia not as quiet melancholy, but as a complex negotiation between who we were and who we have become. It observes the distance between the world we once knew and the reality we now inhabit. Each artist approaches this territory differently, though a common thread runs through the exhibition: memory is never static. It shifts with distance, softens or sharpens with time, and often surfaces unexpectedly through sensation rather than thought.

📍On view at the @detroitartistsmarket now through 10.31
🖼️: @repunxel, @haque.fatema, @artistryofalexander_, @madhurimagangulyart_, @reidcorev8, @miriamuhura, @melibandera, @jideaje6, @palomaprintmaking, @edethism

#theintimacyofmemories #curatorselection #discoverartists taken in Detroit Artists Market by @threadsartexchange

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This past weekend was nothing short of magical. It felt like a pinch-me moment, and it flew by far too quickly! I have always dreamed of becoming a curator, so having my first in-person exhibition means the world to me. I’ve been quietly planning this show for over a year and a half, and seeing everything finally come to fruition is deeply satisfying.

Thank you to every artist in this exhibition who trusted me with their work. The stories told through each painting, installation, fiber work, and sculpture are so meaningful to me, and because every artist creates from the heart, that sincerity is felt throughout the entire show.

Hearing people say they not only loved the work but truly connected with the stories behind it was quiet confirmation of my curatorial approach. Learning that some visitors got teary-eyed while others couldn’t help but smile filled me with so much joy.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 is on view through October 31. I hope you’ll have a chance to come see it, and be sure to grab a little sweet treat on your way out! 🤍🍬

Exhibited artists: @artistryofalexander_, @jideaje6, @madhurimagangulyart_, @edethism, @palomaprintmaking, @miriamuhura, @melibandera, @repunxel, @repunxel, @haque.fatema

📍Detroit Artists Market (@detroitartistsmarket)
📸 Slides 9, 15-19: TJ Davenport (@davenportcreativestudios)

#SydneyFrakes #internationalart #curator #artexhibitions #discoverartist taken in Detroit Artists Market by @threadsartexchange

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What does it mean to shape a city’s contemporary art scene? For Sydney Frakes, art curator and Director of Threads: The Art Exchange @threadsartexchange , it begins with memory, storytelling, and making space for emerging voices.

Read our latest feature on the vision behind The Intimacy of Memories, bringing together 10 Detroit-based artists.

📍 Detroit Artists Market @detroitartistsmarket | Detroit, MI
🗓️ October 9–31, 2026

#DetroitArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtCuration #DetroitArtists #TheIntimacyOfMemories taken in Detroit Artists Market by @threadsartexchange

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One more day left until 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 opens at the @detroitartistsmarket 💥

#SydneyFrakes #DetroitArtistsMarket #groupshow #curator taken in Detroit Artists Market by @threadsartexchange

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Sydney Frakes is an American curator and Creative Director based in Detroit, Michigan. She is the Creator and Director of Threads: The Art Exchange @threadsartexchange , a contemporary art platform she established in 2023 with artist Alea Brown. Frakes has developed a distinctive curatorial practice centered on artists whose work engages memory, identity, culture, and lived experience.

The Intimacy of Memories, curated by Frakes, was inspired by her own memories of family and her Detroit roots. The exhibition brings together 10 Detroit-based artists @detroitcityarts whose work explores the ways personal and collective histories shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us. Through painting, photography, fiber, and other forms of visual expression, the exhibition considers nostalgia, longing, family, place, and the enduring presence of the past.

The Intimacy of Memories
October 9–31, 2026
Curated by Sydney Frakes @sydneynfrakes
@detroitartistsmarket taken in Detroit Artists Market by @threadsartexchange

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𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 curated by Sydney Frakes (@sydneynfrakes) is an exhibition about nostalgia, the quiet ache of longing for a simpler time, and the growing distance between the world we once knew and the one we live in now. Through works that engage sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch, the exhibition awakens the memories we carry with us, often without realizing how close to the surface they remain. Like flipping through old childhood photographs, driving past a shuttered elementary school, or catching the scent of a grandmother’s perfume, each piece invites us to linger in the places and moments that shaped us. In a time of uncertainty, this immersive exhibition offers a dialogue between memory, movement, and culture, an ode to the past and the tenderness it still holds.

Exhibited Artists:
‘Jide Aje (@jideaje6)
Meli Bandera (@melibandera)
Cydney Camp (@repunxel)
Alexander Daniels Escobar (@artistryofalexander_)
Madhurima Ganguly (@madhurimagangulyart_)
Fatema Haque (@writesfatema)
Reid Hulleza (@reidcorev8)
Paloma Núñez-Reguiero (@palomaprintmaking)
Miriam Uhura (@miriamuhura)
Dino Valdez (@edethism)

Opening reception takes place Friday, October 9th at the Detroit Artists Market (@detroitartistsmarket) from 5-9pm.

Artist Walk Through: Saturday, 10.10
Memory in the Margins Workshop: Thursday, 10.15

#SydneyFrakes #TheIntimacyofMemories #artexhibition #memorykeeping #blackcuratorsmatter taken in Detroit Artists Market by @threadsartexchange

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“A painting begins when you are walking down the street and notice the details of a light that seemed interesting to you, or the colors of a tree in autumn, or the force of the sea in its direction and color. Painting begins in the heart and in the observations I make in my daily life.” - Paula Valenzuela Antúnez (@paulavalenzuelaantunez)

In our recent visual essay, 𝘈 𝘚𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘜𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘻𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘢 𝘈𝘯𝘵ú𝘯𝘦𝘻, we take a a curatorial look at how the Chilean paintetranslates gesture and color into abstraction. We move through three elements of her practice, material, space, and color, tracing how each becomes a vessel for forms that emerge and dissolve rather than resolve.

Link in bio to watch the full video on YouTube 🎥

#PaulaValenzuelaAntunez #ContemporaryArt #Visualessay #ChileanArtists #Youtube ThreadsTheArtExchange taken in Santiago, Chile by @threadsartexchange

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What should we discuss next on our next Substack article? Vote 🗳️ or comment 💭

#substack #artworldstories #arthistorylovers by @threadsartexchange

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𝙀𝙭𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙁𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙨: 𝘼𝙢𝙮 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙙: 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙚

There are no words to describe the moment you get to experience art you've seen in books and on television, finally in person.

𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘦 by @asherald, on display at the High Museum of Art, was a delight from the moment I walked in until I viewed the last painting. The faces, the vivid colors, the tiniest details in blades of grass and the stitching on a shirt, made this exhibition an unforgettable one.

The exhibition spans nearly twenty years of Sherald's work, and across that span her subjects share a certain groundedness. They seem settled in themselves, unconcerned with performing for an outside gaze. What catches you is the stillness in their eyes, a stillness that asks you to slow down and notice the details she's chosen to include: the fold of a hand at rest, the pattern of a fabric, the minimal jewelry, and the most striking background colors illuminating her subjects. By the end, identity in these paintings feels less like something assigned and more like something each person is quietly, continuously shaping for themselves.

📍 @highmuseumofart

#AmySherald #AmericanSublime #highmuseumatlanta #artmuseum taken in High Museum of Art, Atlanta by @threadsartexchange

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𝘈 𝘚𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘜𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘻𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘢 𝘈𝘯𝘵ú𝘯𝘦𝘻

In this visual essay, we take a a curatorial look at how Chilean painter Paula Valenzuela Antúnez (@paulavalenzuelaantunez) translates gesture and color into abstraction. We move through three elements of her practice, material, space, and color, tracing how each becomes a vessel for forms that emerge and dissolve rather than resolve.

Link in bio to watch the full video on YouTube 🎥

#PaulaValenzuelaAntunez #ContemporaryArt #AbstractPainting #ChileanArtists #ArtistSpotlight taken in Santiago, Chile by @threadsartexchange

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Read our latest Substack article- link in bio 🔗

#artcuration #curator_artgallery #SydneyFrakes #artshows by @threadsartexchange

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