Kresge Arts in Detroit and WDET present the 2023 virtual artist salon series featuring the 2022 Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Awardees. This nine part series includes never before seen video presentations by awarded metro Detroit artists, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, and performers followed by a public Q+A and conversation.

This salon was moderated by Chris Campbell.

DAAY was raised on Detroit’s east side and began playing piano at the age of four. At 17, DAAY moved to England to pursue her bachelor’s degree in popular music at Falmouth University. While in school, she participated in a study abroad program at ArteZ in the Netherlands, during which she studied jazz voice and pursued an internship at a local studio. At university, DAAY began her practice in music production and sound art. In 2018, she moved back to Detroit and released her first EP, “October,” as a singer-songwriter. In 2021, DAAY debuted her first sound art installation.

Joel Fluent Greene is a poet, author, event curator, educator, and Spirit Of Detroit Award recipient. He was host at Detroit’s iconic Café Mahogany poetry nights and has shared the stage with The Roots, Common, The Last Poets, Ledisi, Big Sean, Wyclef Jean, and more. Greene has served as the creative writing instructor at Mariner’s Inn, a shelter and treatment center in Detroit, for six years and has held poetry workshops in over 60 schools in the metro Detroit area. He is a resident artist with Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts and the author of four poetry books. His latest, “The Detroit Poems,” was released in 2021, with a follow up, revised and edited, “Definitive Version,” released in 2022.