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.

Anetria Cole is a playwright born in Pontiac. While attending Oakland University, the writings of great American playwrights Lorraine Hansberry (“A Raisin in the Sun”) and August Wilson (“Fences”) deepened her passion for writing, at which point she vowed to continue to tell stories of the African American Diaspora by means of theater. Cole has won multiple playwriting awards, including the WDIV Channel 4 Film Challenge Detroit People’s Choice Award in 2017 for her screenplay, “Street Numbers,” based on the African American numbers racket in Black Bottom Detroit.

Carl George is an artist and activist working in experimental film, painting, and collage. His short experimental films have been shown in festivals internationally and are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and the New York Public Library. George’s short film, “The Lost 40 Days” (1986), has been digitized with the assistance of the National Film Preservation Foundation and is now in the permanent collections of the National Film Archive at the Library of Congress and Anthology Film Archives in New York.