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EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS 2011 Material Witness, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, 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, Chicago, 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, Berlin, 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 2012 Portland State University, Portland, OR -- Visiting Artist Lecturer & guest critic Kendall College, Grand Rapids, MI -- Visiting Artist Lecturer & guest critic 2011 New 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 Michigan Revitalization & Business Conference, Ann Arbor, MI -- Presenter 2010 University 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 2009 Cranbrook 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 2008 Creative Capital Grant -- Finalists Structures for Inclusion 08, Harvard University -- Workshop on neighborhood housing strategies w. Pamela Dorr of HERO Resource Center, Hale County, Alabama 2007 Moderator, Univ of Michigan Art Department, Ann Arbor -- Making Art Public 2006 Umeå 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, New York 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