The last year, I found myself thinking on the themes and discussions touched on at the @curatorsintl 2024 public curatorial conference and forum.
I thought of the relationships between artists, curators, and art institutions, putting those thoughts to words with this essay. With arts organizations unionizing and workplaces abuses being outed, I ask us to reconsider the role of institutions today: Does their prestige come at the expense of the people who sustain them? Link in bio
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“Outsider Art Fair has long been a place for artists whose work challenges and expands our understanding of art,” said OAF Director Elizabeth Denny.
PASC is proud to host our own booth at this season’s fair in New York City, March 19–22, 2026, at the Metropolitan Pavilion.
We are honored to be one of 68 featured exhibitors from across the United States and around the world. We will be featuring artworks by PASC artists: Alsendoe Owens, Angela Rhodes, Bruce Rice, Chantell Donwell, Keisha Miller, Lewis Foster, Robert Duncombe, Ronald Griggs, Santina Dionisi, and more.
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Opening reception for 𝓜𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓹𝓲𝓮𝓬𝓮 /... Thursday, February 19, 2026, from 5-7 pm
𝓜𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓹𝓲𝓮𝓬𝓮 /... is a 2-person exhibition featuring PASC artists Lewis Foster and Nicholas “Nick” Granch. This is the first comprehensive exhibition featuring a large selection of both artists' artworks spanning the past three years.
This exhibition highlights their distinct visual languages, presenting two strong and individual artistic practices in dialogue. View featured artwork on our website.
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 19, 2026, from 5-7 pm
🗓️ Exhibit Dates: February 19 - March 28, 2026
📍: PASC Detroit Gallery, 9301 Kercheval Ave, STE 2, Detroit, MI, 48214
🎨 Curated by Anthony Marcellini and Amber B. Nax
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My summer trip was to the redwoods in North Cali 🌳
1: me on a log i almost fell off of
2: a butterfly i stalked
3: @grandpabarbie & @mj.eff in front the ocean
4: kit, m, georgie and samir on the log i almost fell off of
5: kit and i looking over the clouds after m made us climb a mountain
6: kit, m, georgie, samir & i posing with a big tree
7: kit hugging trees
8: Takuya Nakamura @spotlitedetroit
9: visited @creativegrowth
Thats all folks!!!
Closing out 𝓖𝓸𝓭𝓼 𝓕𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓐𝓯𝓪𝓻 this weekend with so much gratitude! Thank you to our community for supporting PASC artists and being part of this journey.
Curated by Amber Nax, the exhibit asked us to move through changes with kindness as we embrace diversity, and to see divinity in all forms of being and becoming. PASC Detroit Gallery is open Thurs-Sat from 12-5pm.
Up next: 𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭𝓼 𝓦𝓲𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷 𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭𝓼 a three-person exhibit opening reception at PASC Detroit Gallery on Thursday September 11th, from 5-7pm.
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𝓖𝓸𝓭𝓼 𝓕𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓐𝓯𝓪𝓻 at PASC Detroit Gallery and 𝓐 𝓛𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓢𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓮 at PASC Southgate Gallery are two exhibitions currently on view. Through these shows—and through sales—our program supports disabled artists in building their professional art careers.
Both narratives center joy and kindness, two feelings that have felt especially distant to our society currently. Maybe that’s why they matter more than ever. Visit me at PASC Detroit Gallery on the weekends and visit PASC Southgate ❤️
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Join us for “From the Archives: Adler & Adler”, a lecture featuring curator Amber Nax @bilesun ☀️Tomorrow, July 19th at 4 PM - This lecture is free and no registration is required to join!
“Adler & Alder (circa 1910-1970) was one of the few Black-owned photography studios located in what was once Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood. The studio was solely operated by Charles and Manna Adler. After Charles’s death in 1973, with no heirs to inherit the business, the studio and its photographs were left to time. Eventually, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit acquired the collection, preserving rare images of neighborhoods and businesses that have since disappeared. This project premiered at the Southside Community Art Center in Chicago, IL of 2024.”
Catch me tomorrow, July 19th, at @signalreturn from 4–6 PM for a lecture in archives. I’ll be diving into the Adler & Adler collection and highlighting early Black photographers in Michigan history. Come through!
𝓖𝓸𝓭𝓼 𝓕𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓐𝓯𝓪𝓻 opens at PASC Detroit Gallery on Thursday, July 24th, from 5–7 PM. This exhibit brings together artwork from all three PASC studios—Detroit, Southgate, and Westland—featuring a wide range of artistic voices, with several artists showing for the first time.
The exhibition draws its name from Michael Jalen Adams’ artwork and its celestial imagery, guided by Octavia E. Butler’s Earthseed belief that “God is Change”, curated by Amber Nax. Expect transformation, divinity, and abstraction across mediums and minds. Artworks in this exhibit can be viewed on our website.
✨ Opening Reception: Thursday, July 24, 5–7 PM
📍 PASC Detroit Gallery, 9301 Kercheval Ave, Detroit*
🗓 On view: July 24 – Aug 23, 2025
🎨Curated by Amber Nax
*Accessible entrance at Amity St door, ring the doorbell
@bilesun #disabilities #art @littlevillagedetroit@lanterndetroit #disabilityinclusion #PASC #contemporaryart #originalart #artcollector #progressiveartstudiocollective #detroitgallery #artist #disability @servicestoenhancepotential
"Art institutions are not neutral and never have been,” writes Amber Nax (Curatorial Seminar alum, Detroit 2023) in her essay “Curators, Community, and Institutional Relevance,” which is now available on our website. “By valuing collaboration over competition, transparency over gatekeeping, and “common” resources over hoarded power, both the community and the global art sphere can become a space where artists and administrators thrive. These relationships between artists, curators, and art institutions should challenge us to reconsider the role of institutions today: Does their prestige come at the expense of the people who sustain them?”
During our annual Curatorial Forum, ICI selects an emerging curator from our network to conduct research that engages with the themes and discussions of that year’s program. As the 2024 Curatorial Forum Research Fellow, Amber Nax builds on the topics of our first public curatorial conference, Curating and the Commons, offering further insights on a set of community-oriented curators, practices, and spaces that further the concept of the commons—that which we all share. Read the full essay on our website!
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