The Big Culture Lesson

Hispanic Arts

Funded by a Big Culture grant from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs in 2004. Click here for more information.

Kiln Room Tile Project

As part of the 2004 renovation project, community members created tiles for the exterior of a prominent architectural feature at the Flint Institute of Arts. Click here for more information.

Flint Faience Tiles

A special exhibition focusing on the Flint Faience & Tile Company, a division of A.C. Sparkplug that manufactured decorative tiles in the 1920’s and 1930’s in Flint. Click here for more information.

Boys Will Be Men

An artist-in-residence program with photographer Bill Bamberger that was part of the Artists & Communities: America Creates for the Millennium project. Click here for more information.

Rhymes + Rimas — A Collection  of Nursery Rhymes in English and Spanish

This booklet was developed in conjunction with the exhibition From Spark Plugs to Tiles: The Flint Faience Tile Company, which contained several nursery rhyme tiles. With these tiles as inspiration, children from the Catholic Charities’ North End Soup Kitchen Kids Camp created their own tile illustrations using paper pulp or clay. The nursery rhymes illustrated are included in both English and Spanish. Click here for more information

Past Projects