Welcome to Detroit Connections!
Detroit Connections is a series of courses offered through the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan that take students, staff, and faculty from the Ann Arbor campus every week into two partner schools in Detroit to lead weekly art workshops and design collaborative projects with Detroit youth. The courses promote engaged and active citizenry, require out-of-the-box creative thinking, and bring together individuals from different backgrounds to co-create and share resources.
We’re currently partnered with Marcus Garvey Academy, on Detroit’s east side, and Detroit Community Schools, in northwest Detroit’s Brightmoor neighborhood.
Detroit Connections: In the Classroom’s Outdoor Library Project with Marcus Garvey Academy 4th graders was recently featured in the Detroit Free Press
