Kresge Arts in Detroit and WDET have partnered to present a virtual artist salon series featuring the 2021 Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Awardees. This nine part series includes never before seen video presentations by awarded metro Detroit artists and writers followed by a public Q+A and conversation moderated by WDET’s Ryan Patrick Hooper.

Peter Daniel Bernal grew up in Houston, Texas and graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2000 with a BFA in painting. He received additional education at the Rhode Island School of Design and trained in printmaking and drawing in Weimar, Germany, where he lived from 2010 to 2015. In 2015, he relocated from Germany to Detroit. His primary focus is on storytelling-based oil painting but he also creates polychromed ceramic, linoleum prints, and pastels. In the past two years, he has completed several murals around Detroit, under the Perez pseudonym.

Neha Vedpathak creates work that merges the personal and the political. She aims to broaden the dialog and understanding of issues related to spirituality, identity, and social & gender politics. Vedpathak has been artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Art Center, Fountainhead Residency, Skopelos Foundation for Arts, Bharat Bhavan Graphic Studio, and Centre d’Art-Marnay Art Centre. She has exhibited at ASU Art Museum, Weatherspoon Museum, and Poetry Foundation, among others. In 2018, the Detroit Institute of Arts commissioned Vedpathak’s work for their new South Asian wing. Her works will be featured in a solo exhibition at Flint Art Institute in 2021