Detroit, Michigan - Heidelberg Project
- Address:
- 3600 Heidelberg St., Detroit, MI
- Directions:
- East side of the city. Along the 3600 block of Heidelberg St., between Ellery and Mt. Elliot Sts.
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Detroit, Michigan - Heidelberg Project Although listed as demolished on your website, the Heidelberg Project is alive
and well in Detroit, MI. I was there on October 28, 2001, and the artist recently
participated in an installation at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The artist's brother came out and sold us some postcards. [Mat McGuire, 09/01/2002][RA: We chronicled artist Tyree Guyton's struggle with the city of Detroit in 1998 and '99, which culminated in an official bulldozing of some of the art-enhanced homes and trees. This wasn't the first time that Guyton's work had been demolished. Fortunately, the destruction stopped before much was taken down, and the Heidelberg Project continues today....]
After years of legal wrangling, the City of Detroit finally cleared the way in February for its plan to destroy the colorful urban junkscape known as the Heidelberg Project. On February 4th, a demolition armada of bulldozers, police and city workers arrived and pulled down as much as 30% of the art attached to abandoned houses and hanging from the trees.... [04/10/1999] Complete News Story
Detroit city leaders have once again been thwarted at least temporarily attempting to dismantle the Heidelberg Project. The Project has been the junk sculpture vision of inner city artist Tyree Guyton since 1985.... [09/27/1998] Complete News Story
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