This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

About "Cass Corridor Art & Beyond"

Cass Corridor Art & Beyond tells the stories of a half-century of Cass Corridor artists, their importance, and the nuances and intricacies of their artmaking. Narrated by Bob Sestok, this live storytelling event uses photos, slides, and videos taken by Cass Corridor artists, providing an intimate portrait of this artistic community and their collaborative exchanges.

About Bob Sestok

Robert Sestok is a sculptor, painter and printmaker who has worked in Detroit’s Cass Corridor since 1967. Together with other Cass Corridor artists, Sestok sought new forms and methods of artistic expression, using non-standard materials in response to civil rights struggles, the anti-war movement, and the pervasiveness of the automotive industry in Detroit. In 2015, he opened City Sculpture, a permanent public art space in Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood that exhibits three decades of sculptural work.

Sestok’s work is in the permanent collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Cranbrook Museum of Art, and Wayne State University, among others. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Cranbrook Museum of Art, College for Creative Studies, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and Marianne Boesky Gallery. He is the recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

About "Neighborhood on the Edge"

Neighborhood on the Edge is a sound and image installation featuring the voices and images of 10 Hubbard Richard residents reflecting a range of ethnicities, ages, and durations lived in the community. The installation involves 4x8’ portraits and other large-scale neighborhood landscapes by photographer Romain Blanquart, and a sound score edited from nearly 10 hours of residents’ testimonies installed at the Mexicantown Latino Cultural Center in the Hubbard Richard neighborhood.

About Dr. Shaun S. Nethercott

Dr. Shaun S. Nethercott uses immersive or mobile staging, audience engagement, and polyphonic voices to explore feminist, environmental, and other social justice themes. She has dedicated her life to creating plays that give voice to the unheard through structures that transmit their own meaning, and which engage audiences in personal, interactive, and place-based ways. Over her 30-year career as an artist, arts administrator, and activist, she developed and produced 32 new plays, including mobile works Fear and Faith, Raven’s Seed, and Ghost Waters; site-specific works Once Was Paradise and Boomtown 1925; and immersive pieces ’37-’87, Trial, and Mother Tongue. Most of her performances have integrated wide-scale community engagement activities developed in partnership with non-arts community organizations. As the founder of Matrix Theatre Company in Detroit, she has received numerous awards and commendations, including the Governor’s Art Award, Mattin Arts Award for work with at-risk youth, and the Theresa Maxis Award for Social Justice.

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