The Scarab Club Detroit Focus Photography Group

01/24/2025

01/14/2025

Call for Entry:
The Scarab Club invites submissions for its annual Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition, named for the late Detroit artist and educator. It is an unthemed, all-media exhibition, open to all artists 18 or older. The purpose of the Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition is to recognize the diversity and achievement of artists whose work shows creativity of concept, excellence of design, and expertise of media; to display these works to regional audiences, and to be an educational opportunity for students

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline : 02-16-2025 05:00PM
Jury Results : 02-26-2025 05:00PM
Intake : 03-09-2025 12:00PM
Exhibition : 03-14-2025 - 04-13-2025
Reception : 03-14-2025 05:00PM
Gallery Talk : 03-27-2025 06:00PM
Pick-up : 04-13-2025 12:00PM

10/13/2024

Posted • Rock ’n’ roll photographer Leni Sinclair autographs the beams of Detroit’s Scarab Club, signing an exclusive guestbook of sorts that includes artists like LeRoy Foster, Diego Rivera, Marcel Duchamp, and Isamu Noguchi, among others.

Sinclair signed the beams during the opening reception for ‘Detroit Leni: a Leni Sinclair Retrospective’ on Sunday.

As a documenter of Detroit’s counterculture scene of the 1960s and ’70s who was once married to John Sinclair, the late political activist and former manager of the influential rock band MC5, Leni had a front-row view so to speak of the turbulent time period; the Sinclairs co-founded the White Panther Party, an anti-racist socialist group aligned with the Black Panthers. Her photos were published in , , and , and in 2016 she was named the recipient of the Kresge Eminent Artist Award.

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09/26/2024

Call for entry! Deadline is THIS SATURDAY Sep 28, 5PM !

Posted • Have you applied to our members only call for entry? The annual Gold Medal exhibition features works from our member’s and each artists is given the opportunity to have one artwork included in our annual book. The deadline is THIS SATURDAY Sep 28, 5PM !

04/20/2024

Posted • The Scarab Club invites submissions for its 53rd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Photography. Works may also include video, mixed media and alternative photographic processes. Artists must provide any necessary equipment (monitors, etc.) necessary to display their work. Size limited to 4 ft. x 4 ft. Work must be framed, wired and ready for installation. Participation is open to all artists 18 years or older. Members and non-members. Artists can submit up to 3 pieces to choose from. New work is highly encouraged; work that hasn’t yet been shown in the metro Detroit area is preferred. Scarab Club gets 30% of sales if artists are members and 45% if artists are not SC members.


JUROR
Danielle Eliska is an award-winning screenwriter, film director, photographer, entrepreneur and educator from Detroit. She’s a co-creator of an experimental art community, A LOVE LETTER TO DETROIT.

Danielle received her MFA in Dramatic Writing in Film from New York University, has gained notable screenwriting, film and photography recognition. Danielle was one of the inaugural grant recipients of the 2019 Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and New York Foundation for the Arts [MOME NYFA] ‘Made in NY’ Women’s Fund in Film for her short narrative film, Shield [Digital Press Kit]. She was a 2022 Womxnhouse Detroit Resident, a 2022 Sesame Street Workshop Writer’s Room Fellow, is a 2023 CultureSource + Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Flourish Fund grant recipient and a 2023 Cranbrook Academy of Art Photography Department Artist-in-Residence.

QUESTIONS? Contact Dalia Reyes at [email protected].

03/23/2024

The Scarab Club Detroit Focus Photography Group has an exhibition up at the Ford House right now. On display from March 9th - May 26th, with a reception and artist talk planned on April 20th.

11/29/2023

THIS IS A SCARAB CLUB MEMBERS-ONLY EVENT
Saturday, December 9, 2023
SCARAB CLUB
110TH ANNUAL BOAR'S HEAD DINNER & AWARDS

Cocktails, Dinner & Afterglow 6 pm - $140 pp or $275/couple
Afterglow Only 9 pm - $50 pp
Attendance limited to 80 persons

Originally known as the Boar's Head Christmas Dinner during the nascent years of the Scarab Club, this tradition was modeled after so-called Henry VIII dinners. To inaugurate these celebrations the head of a succulent boar was paraded along with other tempting delicacies among the merrymakers.
For over a century, Scarabs have gathered on the second Saturday of December to commune with fellow members and welcome new initiates, who are invited to meander among the tables as emissaries of Bacchus, pouring wine and becoming acquainted with their art-loving comrades.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scarab-club-110th-annual-boars-head-dinner-and-awards-tickets-764191085107?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/18/2023

Just a quick reminder about Focus this Friday, October 20th. We’ll be having a guest appearance from Mara Magyarosi-Laytner!

Mara is nothing short of amazing, She’s an Artist, Educator, Curator, pretty cool human being. You know your above-average inspiring person. Mara has been featured in exhibitions worldwide, numerous publications, and is the founder of Silver Water Collective, an all female artist collective celebrating the work of fine art photographers across North America.

Mara will join us this Friday, starting at 6pm forging talk about her, her work, what her journey as an artist has been like, and an upcoming project that she and other creatives from the city have come together.

Don't miss this opportunity to hear from Mara and talk to her about work. The insight will be worth it.

Site: https://www.maramagyarosilaytner.com/
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08/28/2023

08/16/2023

This Friday, August 18th @ 6pm, Focus will be hosting the artist talk for "Show Me What You Got" at the Grosse Pointe Artists Association. Come check us Friday evening, we'd love to have you.

07/27/2023

https://aperture.org/editorial/madame-yevondes-color-revolution/

An exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery is a reintroduction to the pioneering artist’s vibrant work.