Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit
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The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit or CAID is a community based non-profit organization. CAID fosters and promotes the link between contemporary arts and contemporary society through exhibitions, performances, critical and public discourse and the funding of contemporary arts and art related activities.
History
CAID was founded in 1978 by a group of Detroit area artists, including Charles McGee and Jean Heilbrunn .[1][2] In the years since its inception, CAID has existed in several different forms, and has generated many events that have directly supported the arts in Detroit.
In 1980, CAID sponsored Exhibition Sites 1, 2, and 3. This show included performance, conceptual and video art at
After little activity during the mid to late 1990s, CAID re-emerged on the Detroit art community in the fall of 2002 with the four-part series LINK. LINK included an exhibition of Detroit-based artists at the Detroit Contemporary gallery, a symposium on Detroit music at Wayne State University, an electronic-music party called Frequency at the Detroit Contemporary, and Motor City Breakdown, a live-music show at the Magic Stick [1].
In the winter of 2004, CAID presented unCAGEd: the exploration of non-intention, a mixed-medium event based on the theories of
In November 2004, after 25 years of nomadic existence, CAID took up residence at 5141 Rosa Parks Boulevard, in the space formerly occupied by the Detroit Contemporary [2] Archived 2004-12-29 at the Wayback Machine. The newly remodeled gallery serves as an exhibition and performance space, along with the administrative offices for the organization.
Funk Night Raid
Early Saturday morning, May 31, 2008, a Detroit police SWAT team raided the museum during its monthly Funk Night, forced more than 130 people to the ground at gunpoint [3][4][5] citing "after-hours dancing and drinking" without proper permits [6] charged 116 people with loitering and impounded 44 cars [7]. The raid was later ruled unconstitutional by a
.References
- ^ "Metamorphosis: Nomadic Arts Organization Finds a Home". The Detroiter. Archived from the original on 2004-12-29. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
- ^ "The Art of Seeing Art". Detroit Metro Times. January 4, 2006. Archived from the original on 2015-01-13. Retrieved 2020-05-07.