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EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS 2011 Material Witness, Weston Art Gallery, , OH -- “Total Benefit Solutions” 2010 Hopey Changey Things, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE -- “Neighborhood Machine sketches” Too Much of a Good Thing, MOCAD, Detroit, MI -- installation introducing The Neighborhood Machine Detroit, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Vienna, Austria -- “Alley Weeds” The Neighborhood Project, Detroit Institute of Art -- installation 2009 Heartland, Smart Museum, , IL -- “Heartland Machine” installation Community + Public Arts: DETROIT, Skillman grant recipient -- “Talking Fence” public sculpture in collaboration w. sculptor Wiley McDowell DAM Design Show, Detroit Artists Market -- “Power Chair” 2008 Heartland, Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands -- “Homegrown Design” installation Shrinking Cities - Analysis, Interventions, Prognosis, Akademie der Künste, , Germany -- Mitch Cope and Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop collaborative 2007 Shrinking Cities, MOCAD, Detroit, MI -- Commissioned exhibition design for the ʻLocal Initiativesʼ display Shrinking Cities - Cranbrook Museum of Art & MOCAD, Detroit, MI 2005 Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI -- “M.O.R.E. Manufacturers of Real Excellence” art and marketing campaign 2004 Shrinking Cities Project, Berlin, Germany, Commissioned research & writing for the exhibitionʼs “Working Papers” Shrinking Cities - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany -- Mitch Cope drawing series “Fortifications”

LECTURES & FELLOWSHIPS 2012Portland State University, Portland, OR -- Visiting Artist Lecturer & guest critic Kendall College, Grand Rapids, MI -- Visiting Artist Lecturer & guest critic 2011New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM -- Visiting Artist Lecturer & guest critic Kresge Artist Fellowship, The Kresge Foundation, Detroit, MI AIA Detroit Urban Priorities -- Panelist, Detroit By Design Urban Centers Symposium Maker Faire, Dearborn, MI -- Speaker Tulane University School of Architecture, New Orleans, LA -- Panelist & guest critic, Graduate Student Colloquium University of Revitalization & Business Conference, Ann Arbor, MI -- Presenter 2010University of Kansas School of Architecture -- Lecture, Too Much of a Good Thing Venice Biennale, Dutch Pavillion -- Lecture, neighborhoods MOCADetroit -- Lecture, Too Much of a Good Thing in Context United States Artists (USA) Fellowship -- Nominee Pulitzer Foundation, St. Louis, MO -- Art and Sustainability Panel Discussion 2009Cranbrook Academy of Art -- Humanities lecture series presentation Dutch Art Institute, Enschede, The Netherlands -- Visiting Artist Lecturer Hamilton Anderson Lecture Series, Detroit, MI -- Presentation of our work MOCADetroit -- New Urban Models Panel Discussion 2008Creative Capital Grant -- Finalists Structures for Inclusion 08, Harvard University -- Workshop on neighborhood housing strategies w. Pamela Dorr of HERO Resource Center, Hale County, Alabama 2007Moderator, Univ of Michigan Art Department, Ann Arbor -- Making Art Public 2006Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden -- Public Art Workshop and Visiting Lecturer

PUBLICATIONS 2011 Vitamin Green, published by Phaidon -- Contributor 2009 Under the Influence magazine -- Contributor 2008 A People’s Guide to Detroit -- Concept and content development, a collaboration with designer Nina Bianchi 2007 Detroit: Imaginary Cities -- Contributors; Gina Reichert, Guest Editor; Published by MOCADetroit 2006 Detroit i.e. INFRASTRUCTURE -- Working Group member and contributors; Mitch Cope, Co-Editor; Published by Detroit i.e. & MOCADetroit

PRESS “Envisioning Real Utopias in Detroit,” Vince Carducci, Motown Review of Art, February 1, 2012; Deliberately Considered, February 6, 2012; Huffington Post, February 8, 2012

“Spirited In the Material World,” Kathy Schwartz, City Beat, December 21, 2011 “Cerebral Material,” Maria Seda-Reeder, ÆQAI e-journal, December 15, 2011 “Aesthetic Community in Detroit,” Vince Carducci, Motown Review of Art, December 15, 2011; Deliberately Considered, December 20, 2011; Huffington Post, December 22, 2011 “Affordable Housing That Doesnʼt Scream ʻAffordableʼ,” Allison Arieff, The Atlantic Cities, October 21, 2011 “One House at a Time”, Karrie Jacobs, Metropolis, October 18, 2011 “The Best in Urban Global Design,” Wendy Goodman, Magazine, October 17, 2011 “Hometown Heroes,” Amanda DeMatto, Popular Mechanics, July 2011 “Mitch and Gina of Power House Productions and the Story Behind Juxtapoz in Detroit,” Jason Jaworski, Juxtapoz, January 19, 2011 “Artʼs New Dawn in Detroit,” Murray Whyte, The Toronto Star, January 1, 2011

“Young Guns: Activist Designers,” Miyoko Ohtake, Dwell, December 21, 2010 “Juxtapoz's Detroit Experiment,” Patricia Montemurri, Detroit Free Press, December 27, 2010 “Art into action: Design collaborators building community one power house at a time,” Kelli B. Kavanaugh, Model D, November 30, 2010 “Artists in Residence,” Linda Yablonsky, New York Times, September 22, 2010 “MOCAD Meditations,” Vince Carducci, Motown Review of Art, July 16, 2010 “Art as Security System,” Rob Walker, New York Times, July 5, 2010 “Joyfully uninviting,” Ingrid Fetell, Aesthetics of Joy, June 3, 2010 “Design 99's Neighborhood Machine,” Lisa Smith, Core 77, June 1, 2010 “Bringing a Dead House Back to Life,” Karyn Dybis, Time.com, April 26, 2010 “Putting Yourself Out There,” William Bostwick, Architectural Record, March, 2010 “40 transformative Design Projects,” David Sokol, I.D. Magazine, January/February 2010

“Exhibition Presents New and Innovative Work by Artists,” Artdaily.org, October 1, 2009 “Four Corners of Detroit: A City Remakes Itself One Person at a Time,” Rebecca Mazzei, Art Voices, Sept 1, 2009 “The Ten Spot,” Kathy Barnes, ReadyMade, August/September 2009 “Taking a Chance on a $100 House", 20/20 ABC News, March 20, 2009 “What would you do with a $100 house?” Ismael Estrada, Anderson Cooper 360º CNN, March 19, 2009 “Renewing Detroit,” Here & Now, WBUR Boston NPR, March 18, 2009 “In Detroit, Artists Look For Renewal In Foreclosures,” Jennifer Guerra, All Things Considered, NPR, March 18, 2009 “Designing Detroit,” David A. Greene, Dwell blog, March 18, 2009 “Detroit House: $100. Bold New Ideas for the City: Priceless.” Walter Wasacz, Model D, March 17, 2009 “Detroit's hard edge - and dirt-cheap real estate - attract artists from around the world,” Michael Hodges, Detroit News, March 13, 2009 “The Upside Of Foreclosures,” Jennifer Guerra, Michigan Radio NPR, March 11, 2009 “For Sale: The $100 House”, Toby Barlow, New York Times, March 7, 2009 “Design 99 in Hamtramck,” Tom Hendrickson, Model D TV, February 17, 2009 “A storefront for creativity,” Fabrizio Gallanti, Abitare, February 2, 2009 “The Power House Project,” Sweet Juniper Inspiration Blog, January 26, 2009 “Detroit and Support,” Charles Esche, Kitchenblog, January 25, 2009 “Hamtramck's Design 99 relocates to Caniff,” Kelli Kavanaugh, Model D, January 13, 2009 “Hamtramck Insider's Guide,” Terry Parris, Jr., MetroMode, January 13, 2009

“Design shop finds that smaller is better,” The Hamtramck Citizen, December 18, 2008 “Sustainability in the post-capitalist city. A short impression.” Abitare & Volume, October 12, 2008 “Art of Life: A proposal for a ʻpower house.ʼ” Metro Times, September 17, 2008 “Detroit Make it Here: These artists arenʼt starving.” Crain’s Detroit Business, August 25, 2008 “Design 99 publishes Detroit guidebook that will grow,” Kelli B. Kavanaugh, Model D, May 13, 2008 “Model D-troiters: Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope,” Terry Parris Jr., Model D, February 25, 2008 “Map of Jos. Campau showcases diverse business and service offerings,” Kelli Kavanaugh, Model D, Feb 12, 2008 “Detroit Design Guide,” Design*Sponge, January 15, 2008

“Enter here for design: Between store space and art place,” Constance Bodurow, Metro Times, September 19, 2007

EDUCATION !Mitch Cope 1999MFA painting -- Washington State University, Pullman, WA 1995BFA painting -- College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI

!Gina Reichert 2003M.Arch -- Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1997M.Arch, B.Arch -- Tulane School of Architecture, New Orleans, LA