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  • Y Arts Virtual Exhibit: Evans Tasiopoulos

    The photography and artwork of Evans Tasiopoulos have been featured at the Museum of New Art, The Scarab Club, at the Marlene Boll Gallery. His photography has been published in Pure Michigan Magazine, Grosse Pointe Magazine and the Detroit News. His work has also been celebrated internationally in galleries such as The Palazzo Flangini in…

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  • Y Arts Virtual Exhibit: Sanda Cook

    https://ymcadetroit.org/y-arts-virtual-exhibit-sanda-cook/ Soulmates cannot lie what they feel.They just feel, they just love.And they are magnets to each other,loving and bringing light and graceto each other’s lives. Sanda Cook, 2020 Out of isolation comes togetherness. Out of darkness comes yet another reason to return to the light. Lovers in a dangerous time, under the same sky…

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  • JFK, Legendary Photographer Remembered In Exhibit

    A uniquely Detroit exhibit is at the Boll Family YMCA Lobby Gallery this month, marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It’s based around a book from the late Free Press photographer Tony Spina of images he’d taken while covering Kennedy over the years.

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  • Creativity Is Spurred By The Unexpected

    Boll member Sierra Smalley had her work on display in the lobby gallery. And while her photography is interesting and inspiring, her story is even more so.

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    School Spotlighted in Art Exhibit

    Visitors to the Boll Family YMCA throughout the month of March may have noticed some fairly unusual things about the most recent art exhibit in the lobby. They’re organized not by theme or visual similarity, but by school subject. And the works are very diverse — not only paint and pencil, but handwork such as…

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  • Portraits of Potential At The Boll

    One of the guiding principles of the Y — something every staff member and volunteer takes seriously — is youth development. Helping young people to reach their full potential in life is one of the things that makes the Y more than just a place to take swim lessons or work out. So it’s fitting…

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  • Exhibit Sheds Light on Street People

    An exhibit of photographer Bruce Giffin’s portraits of street people is hanging in the lobby of the Boll Family YMCA through the month of August. The work won Giffin the 2011 Kresge Arts Fellowship, and this will be the last time it is on display in one place.

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    Art Show Puts Talent on Display

    A huge art exhibit that took over the lobby of the Boll Family YMCA this month was the work of the youngest artists at the Y — the children who attend the Child Development Center. More than 200 pieces were on display, including group projects parents could bid on in a silent auction.

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