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The Artist Village is located in Old Redford on Lahser Rd in Detroit's northwest side, which is located in the African American community. The location was once an abandoned commercial strip. The mission is to be a creative center for the community. Officially opening it's doors in 2010 to serves as a nonprofit community organization and project of Motor City Blight Busters. The place is a community rehabilitation project with founding partners husband and wife team Alicia Marion, John George and muralist Chazz Miller.

The Artist Village is a partnering cooperative project of Motor City Blight Busters for the beautification of the city Detroit, to destroy the cities blight by resorting the community with Art, Education, Technology.[1][2][3]

Murals and Tourism: Heritage, Politics and Identity https://books.google.ca/books?isbn=1317001249

The City After Abandonment - Page 83 - Google Books Result https://books.google.ca/books?isbn=0812207300

References

  1. ^ Artist Village Detroit. 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2017-08-29. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Heripolitics., Staff, (2017). Murals and Tourism : Heritage, Politics and Identity. Staff, Heritage and Identity., Skinner, Jonathan., Jolliffe, Lee. Florence: Taylor and Francis. ISBN 1317001249. OCLC 988869932.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ The city after abandonment. Dewar, Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth), 1948-, Thomas, June Manning, (1st ed ed.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2013. ISBN 0812207300. OCLC 823718180. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: others (link)