Slow Roll Detroit. (Photo by Aaron Ortiz)
From the Motor City to "Detroit Bike City"? There's seems to be something to that beyond a popular T-shirt with those words.
Biking gains wider traction here, Cassandra Spratling of the Detroit Free Press reports.
"I kept seeing people biking," Matt Fry Matt Fry, director of the Detroit Artists Market tells the Freep. "And it's not just the Slow Roll (weekly ride) phenomenon. There's this seemingly endless list of great cycling-related activities and clubs. It occurred to me that there's this growing bicycle culture in the city."
Fry hatched a plan to put Detroit's bike culture on display in an art exhibit. "We the Vehicles: A Tribute to Detroit Bicycle Culture," featuring approximately 50 works of art created from old bicycle parts, opens Friday and runs through August at the Detroit gallery.
The Detroit Artist Market at 4719 Woodward Avenue in Detroit describes the exhibit this way:
The Detroit Artists Market partnered with Back Alley Bikes to present, We The Vehicles: A Tribute to Detroit Bicycle Culture, an exhibition that celebrates Detroit’s flourishing bicycle culture. DAM artists were given the option to utilize scrapped bicycle parts from our local bike shop, Back Alley Bikes, to create one piece of art with very few parameters. This open call was a great opportunity for both established and new Detroit artists, many of whom will be showing at DAM for the first time.
The exhibit runs July 31- Aug. 28. The opening reception is this Friday from 6-9 p.m.
