Spread Art is presenting thingNY in Detroit on Thursday June 13th, 2013. If you are not in Detroit, Do not worry. Watch it here live: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/spread-art-detroit Jeff Young and Paul Pinto's "Election Tour for a Stranger America" brings experimental music theater to fourteen U.S. cities in June This June, Jeffrey Young and Paul Pinto, members of theatrical new music collective... Continue reading

Spread Art X Playground Detroit Presents: Summer Group Show VI "Brooklyn - Detroit, Don't Box Me In" Saturday June 1st and Sunday June 2nd 12pm to 7pm Outfront of Roberta's Pizza in Bushwick (corner of Bogartst and Moore st) During Bushwick Open Studios 2013, Spread Art and Playground Detroit team up to present Summer Group Show VI – "Brooklyn -... Continue reading

For the Art Detroit Now "Third Thursday" in May, Spread Art Co-Directors Thomas Bell and Christina deRoos both have work in the "Gun Control" exhibit at 555 Arts in SW Detroit. Come meet thomas and Christina at the closing reception for "Gun Control" and check out over 25 artists from across the country and the metro Detroit area! Thomas Bell... Continue reading

Spread Art X Playgraound Detroit Spring 2013 Detroit Artist Residency Exchange artist Michelle Matson has been hard at work here in Detroit creating on a new body of work that opens on May 17th. Continue reading

Join us for an artist brunch work in progress showing and get a first look at the latest work from Sister Sylvester, a Brooklyn-based collaborative theater company in residence with Spread Art as they create Come From There. Sunday April 14th 11:00am until 1:00pm Get Directions Come From There is a piece being made simultaneously in Turkey and in the... Continue reading

Join us for Art Detroit Now's Third Thursdays Thursday, March 21, 6-9pm Spread Art continues our 5th year celebration exhibit featuring a slideshow of past exhibitions and events over Spread Art's first 5 years as well as artwork from the Spread Art Collection which includes various works from past exhibiting artists including directors Thomas Bell and Christina deRoos. Also on... Continue reading

Spread Art invited New York City based theater group Sister Sylvester to Detroit for a 10-day residency retreat to work on their next project: Come From There. Sister Sylvester - April 5th - 14th Sister Sylvester is a Brooklyn-based collaborative theater company that uses performance to investigate the fictions—personal, political, and social—that are built up through language, and the dynamics... Continue reading

Spread Art and PLAYGROUND DETROIT are happy to announce Michelle Matson, as the NYC artist resident participating in our Spring 2013 Detroit Artist Residency Exchange. Born 1981, she currently lives & works in Brooklyn, NY. She has had various solo shows in New York, including “Cactus Milk” (2012) at theYouth Group Gallery, Brooklyn and “Rise“ (2012) paper sculpture installation in... Continue reading

Spread Art and PLAYGROUND DETROIT are teaming up to offer one NYC-based artist a month-long artist residency program in Detroit, MI this upcoming Spring 2013. In collaboration with the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID),the residency will conclude in Detroit with a solo exhibit at Detroit Contemporary or Whitdel Arts, dependent on the artist medium. The artist will also participate... Continue reading

Curated by Spread Art, the 2013 Anti Auto show visual art exhibition showcases works in a variety of mediums that probe beneath the glitz and glamour of Detroit's annual Auto Show to examine the many facets of car culture Continue reading

It's that time of year again! Spread Art is in Miami for all that surrounds Art Basel 2012... We'll be stopping by Fountain Art Fair and checking out the exhibitions and performance art curated by Grace Exhibition Space. If you are in Miami, do not miss the Non Grata Performances on Friday and Saturday nights! As always, the Wynwood district... Continue reading

Spread Art has officially launched its 2012/13 Detroit Artistic Residency Experience, hosting international artistic platform and performance group Konic Thtr (Barcelona, Spain) for a two week artistic development residency. Kònic thtr is an artistic platform based in Barcelona dedicated to contemporary creation at the confluence between arts, new technologies and science. The main activity being focused on the application of... Continue reading

Remote Control Tomato (Thomas Bell and Christina deRoos) will perform Saturday 7/28 from 3pm - 7pm at Secret Project Robot (Brooklyn, NY) as part of the You Are Here Festival (aka The Maze)). Six projectors!!! The ‘You Are Here’ festival, takes place in New York City approximately once every two years. The festival consists of 4 weeks of performance and... Continue reading

Ever want to paint your own bus? Come join Spread Art Sat. July 21st during Figment Detroit and help us paint the BUS! "The Art of Letting Go" is an ongoing collaborative participatory mural project with its beginnings in Brooklyn in 2009. Join us for the debut in Detroit on June 21st 12pm to 6pm during Figment on Belle Isle.... Continue reading

Thank you, Playground Detroit, for the interview & profile of Spread Art and our new location in Detroit. SPREAD ART CREATIVE INCUBATOR RELOCATES TO DETROIT FROM BROOKLYN PLAYGROUND DETROIT sat down with the duo behind the organization, Thomas Bell and Christina de Roos, to ask them about Spread Art and their recent re-location from Bushwick, Brooklyn, to Corktown, Detroit. The... Continue reading

104 Meserole St. -- Spread Art Brooklyn. Jan 2008 to July 2012 After 4 and ½ years of successful exhibitions, events, workshops, and residencies, Spread Art has wrapped up activities at 104 Meserole Street in Brooklyn as of July 1st 2012. It has been an amazing time with many wonderful memories and we would like to thank all of the... Continue reading

Compendium: Technics is a public micro-conference with performances taking place over the course of two days: Join us at CPR this Friday and Saturday! Compendium: Technics is a public micro-conference with performances taking place over the course of two days: Friday, June 22, 6pm-10pm Saturday, June 23, 3pm-10pm Panel discussion: June 23 at 4pm Suggested donation $5-15 at the door... Continue reading

Spread Art Announces three events for Bushwick Open Studios 2012 Spread Art Summer Group Show V Spread Art’s 5th annual “Summer Group Show” will include the works of multiple visual artists working in a variety of mediums and feature the works of Spread Art’s current artists-in-residence,Thomas Bell, Christina deRoos, Valerie Kuehne, Brian McCorkle,and Esther Neff. Also on display will be... Continue reading

Here are some videos of recent performances by Spread Art Co-Directors, Thomas Bell and Christina deRoos! Enjoy. playing with myself playing with yourself Christina deRoos, Anya Liftig and Thomas Bell - collaboration at Bronx Art Space. Thomas Bell, Christina deRoos, Anya Liftig April 29, 2012 Bronx Art Space Part of ITINERANT: FESTIVAL FOR CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE ART March 30th - May... Continue reading

Below are reflections and photos from Allison & Taya De Long after returning from a week in La Manzanila, Jalisco, Mexico as part of Spread Art's residency program. We are grateful they were able to take part, and appreciate their positive contribution to the community. See more photos here. Our opportunity in Mexico, thanks to Spread Art, turned out to... Continue reading

Hub Profile: Spread Art Posted on April 26, 2012 by jackiemabey Established in New York by Thomas Bell in 2008, Spread Art is an artist-run center that seeks to foster international collaboration between artists and institutions through residency, exhibition and performance opportunities, and by encouraging “kids and adults to explore their creativity and increase self-awareness through art.” Bell and co-director,... Continue reading

LOW LIVES 4 NETWORKED PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL APRIL 27th-28th 2012: Now entering its fourth year, Low Lives is an international festival of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the world. Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live... Continue reading

I T I N E R A N T Festival for Contemporary Performance Art Sunday, April 29th, 2012, 6 - 9 pm @ BRONX ART SPACE 305 East 140th Street Bronx, NY 10454 Join us Sunday April 29th 6pm to 9pm for the Itinerant Performance Festival at Bronx Art Space. Spread Art Co-Directors Thomas Bell and Christina deRoos join forces... Continue reading

On March 29th Spread Art and Grace Exhibition Space co-presented international performance group Non Grata at Tangent Gallery in Detroit. Continue reading