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Inside Southwest Detroit empowers youth through photography, fostering creativity and storytelling. They provide skills development, community service, and opportunities for young photographers to showcase their work and contribute meaningfully to their community.

We want to make sure Southwest Detroiters have the opportunity to experience this special exhibition!Your contribution will help provide transportation and refreshments for neighbors, local artists, and youth to visit The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum and experience The Lowriders: From Detroit to LA and Back.Every donation helps us reserve seats on the bus, provide refreshments, and make this experience more accessible to our community.$10 | Provides refreshments for passengers $33 | Sponsors one passenger&rsquo;s trip $125 | Sponsors a family of four $500 | Sponsors 15 passengers + a public thank-you on our social media and blogHelp us fill the bus and bring Southwest Detroit to the museum! The Lowriders: From Detroit to LA&nbsp;and Back is a photographic exhibition by Southwest Detroit lens-based artist Erik Paul Howard, currently on view at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum in Saginaw, Michigan. Developed through more than twenty years of photographs and relationships, the exhibition documents lowriding as a social and cultural world shaped by family, craft, club life, public gathering, and cultural memory. Rooted in Detroit while connecting to the broader Midwest and a much larger lowrider story, the exhibition brings a neighborhood-based body of work into a museum setting and creates an opportunity for audiences to encounter the people, places, and traditions that shaped it. Erik Paul Howard is a lens-based artist and cultural organizer born and raised in Southwest Detroit sharing stories of community formed through shared passions and intersecting needs.Howard&rsquo;s creative work is deeply rooted in his two decades of social practice as co-founder of <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.insidesouthwest.com/avis-street-photo-studio" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Inside Southwest Detroit</a>, <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.insidesouthwest.com/thealleyproject" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">The Alley Project</a>, and <a fr-original-style="" href="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522f6eb9e4b0ad0c9681ee72/1540779198164-TCXH79GOCLCZSMXLRZJO/WS001_Page_2.jpg?format=2500w" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Expressions</a>&mdash;a network of initiatives practicing justice through place, <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.insidesouthwest.com/shoeboxing" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">storytelling</a>, and <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.insidesouthwest.com/blessing-of-the-lowriders" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">cultural organizing</a>.&nbsp;

We want to make sure Southwest Detroiters have the opportunity to experience this special exhibition!Your contribution will help provide transportation and refreshments for neighbors, local artists, and youth to visit The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum and experience The Lowriders: From Detroit to LA and Back.Every donation helps us reserve seats on the bus, provide refreshments, and make this experience more accessible to our community.$10 | Provides refreshments for passengers$33 | Sponsors one passenger’s trip$125 | Sponsors a family of four$500 | Sponsors 15 passengers + a public thank-you on our social media and blogHelp us fill the bus and bring Southwest Detroit to the museum!The Lowriders: From Detroit to LA and Back is a photographic exhibition by Southwest Detroit lens-based artist Erik Paul Howard, currently on view at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum in Saginaw, Michigan. Developed through more than twenty years of photographs and relationships, the exhibition documents lowriding as a social and cultural world shaped by family, craft, club life, public gathering, and cultural memory. Rooted in Detroit while connecting to the broader Midwest and a much larger lowrider story, the exhibition brings a neighborhood-based body of work into a museum setting and creates an opportunity for audiences to encounter the people, places, and traditions that shaped it.Erik Paul Howard is a lens-based artist and cultural organizer born and raised in Southwest Detroit sharing stories of community formed through shared passions and intersecting needs.Howard’s creative work is deeply rooted in his two decades of social practice as co-founder of Inside Southwest Detroit, The Alley Project, and Expressions—a network of initiatives practicing justice through place, storytelling, and cultural organizing.

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Los habitantes del suroeste de Detroit y m&aacute;s all&aacute; viajar&aacute;n al Museo de Escultura Marshall M Fredricks para experimentar Los Lowriders: De Detroit a LA y de regreso. Los Lowriders: De Detroit a LA y de regreso es un proyecto de fotograf&iacute;a documental l&iacute;rica de 20 a&ntilde;os que profundiza en el coraz&oacute;n de la cultura lowrider, con Detroit como su centro.Los coches que sirven como lowriders tradicionales fueron dise&ntilde;ados y construidos originalmente en Detroit. Fueron enviados por el mundo e inspiraron a varias culturas de personalizaci&oacute;n automotriz, muchas de las cuales regresaron a la ciudad motora misma. En Los &Aacute;ngeles, la cultura Pachuco de finales de los a&ntilde;os 30 populariz&oacute; la postura baja que lleg&oacute; a ser una declaraci&oacute;n social y estil&iacute;stica lowrider. En los a&ntilde;os 50, LA innov&oacute; en suspensiones hidr&aacute;ulicas, con la capacidad de ajustar la altura del coche mientras a&uacute;n se conduc&iacute;a. Esto fue una respuesta a las represiones selectivas de la ley, pero se convirti&oacute; en una modificaci&oacute;n calificadora de los lowriders poco despu&eacute;s. Erik Paul Howard es un artista basado en lentes y organizador cultural, nacido y criado en el suroeste de Detroit, compartiendo historias de comunidad formadas a trav&eacute;s de pasiones compartidas y necesidades intersecadas. El trabajo de Howard sirve como un &iacute;ndice visual de las tradiciones, cultura e historia de sus comunidades. Para Howard, la fotograf&iacute;a y el video son herramientas de construcci&oacute;n de imaginaci&oacute;n y expansi&oacute;n del capital cultural, forjando un futuro que prioriza la sabidur&iacute;a generacional, la ayuda mutua y la justicia.El trabajo creativo de Howard est&aacute; profundamente arraigado en sus dos d&eacute;cadas de pr&aacute;ctica social como cofundador de <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.insidesouthwest.com/avis-street-photo-studio" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Inside Southwest Detroit</a>, <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.insidesouthwest.com/thealleyproject" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">The Alley Project</a>, y <a fr-original-style="" href="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522f6eb9e4b0ad0c9681ee72/1540779198164-TCXH79GOCLCZSMXLRZJO/WS001_Page_2.jpg?format=2500w" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Expressions</a>&mdash;una red de iniciativas que practican la justicia a trav&eacute;s del lugar, <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.insidesouthwest.com/shoeboxing" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">la narrativa</a>, y <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.insidesouthwest.com/blessing-of-the-lowriders" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">la organizaci&oacute;n cultural</a>.

Los habitantes del suroeste de Detroit y más allá viajarán al Museo de Escultura Marshall M Fredricks para experimentar Los Lowriders: De Detroit a LA y de regreso.Los Lowriders: De Detroit a LA y de regreso es un proyecto de fotografía documental lírica de 20 años que profundiza en el corazón de la cultura lowrider, con Detroit como su centro.Los coches que sirven como lowriders tradicionales fueron diseñados y construidos originalmente en Detroit. Fueron enviados por el mundo e inspiraron a varias culturas de personalización automotriz, muchas de las cuales regresaron a la ciudad motora misma.En Los Ángeles, la cultura Pachuco de finales de los años 30 popularizó la postura baja que llegó a ser una declaración social y estilística lowrider. En los años 50, LA innovó en suspensiones hidráulicas, con la capacidad de ajustar la altura del coche mientras aún se conducía. Esto fue una respuesta a las represiones selectivas de la ley, pero se convirtió en una modificación calificadora de los lowriders poco después.Erik Paul Howard es un artista basado en lentes y organizador cultural, nacido y criado en el suroeste de Detroit, compartiendo historias de comunidad formadas a través de pasiones compartidas y necesidades intersecadas. El trabajo de Howard sirve como un índice visual de las tradiciones, cultura e historia de sus comunidades. Para Howard, la fotografía y el video son herramientas de construcción de imaginación y expansión del capital cultural, forjando un futuro que prioriza la sabiduría generacional, la ayuda mutua y la justicia.El trabajo creativo de Howard está profundamente arraigado en sus dos décadas de práctica social como cofundador de Inside Southwest Detroit, The Alley Project, y Expressions—una red de iniciativas que practican la justicia a través del lugar, la narrativa, y la organización cultural.

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