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Detroit, Michigan - The Heidelberg Project
Tyree Guyton's colorful junkscape of art-encrusted houses has run afoul of Detroit's politicians in the past, but today is a paragon of post-suburban visionary art.
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- 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.
- Phone:
- 313-974-6894
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
Detroit, Michigan - Heidelberg Project
The Heidelberg Project is alive and well. They were working on the weekend we visited. Wonderful!
[Sue Witmer, 06/13/2011]- Detroit, Michigan - Heidelberg Project
This is a MUST SEE, Not publicized enough. While walking around and viewing we ran into the creator, Tyre, a very interesting gentlemen who filled us in on the continuing work at the site. He has an amazing vision.
[Leenie, 09/21/2008]
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]Detroit moves to destroy urban junkscape
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.
Notable victims: the "Happy Feet" house was leveled, along with another house not even on Heidelberg Street, where artist Tyree Guyton was storing all the artwork saved from the 1991 demolition of the original Heidelberg Project.
Guyton's legal defense team has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the city.
Detroit's latest bulldozer onslaught was scheduled for April 7, and Heidelberg supporters were planning to rally. The Project is considered the third largest tourist attraction in Detroit.
[04/10/1999]
Another setback for Guyton: his Shoe House, in St. Paul, Minnesota, is in trouble. The new owner doesn't see the thousands of shoes attached to its exterior as "art" -- he's planning to redecorate.
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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....