MdW Summit 2026 Itinerary

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MdW Summit 2026 Itinerary *

Thursday •

Thursday •

MORNING + LUNCH

10-11 AM — BC-100 /
Lumpen TV Livestream

Cezanne of Rootoftwo in conversation with Roberto Bedoya

11:30 AM-12:30 PM — BC-100 /
 Lumpen TV Livestream

NAAO Panel
led by Abigail Stabinsky
+ Nick Wylie

12:30-2:30 PM — BC-100 

Lunch w/ NAAO
Tacos Hernandez 

AFTERNOON ATTENDEE-LED PROGRAMMING

@ BOYER CAMPBELL

2:30-4 PM

BC-101—Iowa Lakeside Lab 
Artist-in-Residence Program (Alex Braidwood)

Art Infiltration: Creative Practices in Unconventional Places

BC-102—Gabi Roach

COVID Girl:
Detroit Debut

BC-300—Creative Body Institute 
(Raegan Truax + Eleanor Oakes

Embodied Practices for Creative Collaboration

BC-203—Chicago Textile Center (Daliah Silver)

Archiving Your
Creative Practice

BC-201—Field Trip Detroit
(Christina Kanowik and Marwa Helal)

Writing Vernacular Futures: A generative writing workshop using your own unacknowledged languages

4-5 PM

BC-101—UNDERSTORY (Susan Snipes)

Still Running: Digital Infrastructre for Artist Communities

BC-300—Allied Media Projects
(Drewe Haddox, Elysse Dowden, Katelyn Durst-Rivas, Schehrazade Parrish)

Artist Organizers Organizing Artist

BC-208—Watershed Art & Ecology (Claire Pentecost and Brian Holmes)

What is the Meaning of Revolution Today?

BC-200—Spill Paint Not Oil (Conor Cusack)

The Afterlives of Abduction and Occupation

BC-209—Sometimes Space 
(Nathan Byrne and Emily Staugaitis)

Loose Parts: Children as Studio Mates

5-6:30 PM

BC-300—//sense 
(Che Pai, Gordon Fung, Kim Nucci)

Experimental Theater: Sound and Body as a Means of Resistance (Session 2—
Theatrical Models)

BC-101—Lavender Live Arts (Lavender Morin)

Putting the D in DIY: Creating Non
Traditional Spaces

AFTERNOON
OFF-SITE & SELF-GUIDED

5-7 PM — OFF-SITE

City-Wide Drifts

Art Detroit Now will be sharing a map of artist led spaces for attendees to consider visiting in this block of time.

Friday •

Friday •

MORNING + LUNCH

10-11 AM — BC-100 /
Lumpen TV Livestream

Art in Public w/
Ryan Meyers Johnson

11:30 AM-12:30 PM — BC-100 /
 Lumpen TV Livestream

Poetry Reading
w/ Noor Hindi

12:30-2:30 PM — BC-100 

Last Lunch
Pink Flamingo

AFTERNOON ATTENDEE-LED PROGRAMMING

@ BOYER CAMPBELL

2:30-4 PM

BC-101—Iowa Lakeside Lab 
Artist-in-Residence Program (Alex Braidwood)

Art Infiltration: Creative Practices in Unconventional Places

BC-102—Gabi Roach

COVID Girl:
Detroit Debut

BC-300—Creative Body Institute 
(Raegan Truax + Eleanor Oakes

Embodied Practices for Creative Collaboration

BC-203—Chicago Textile Center (Daliah Silver)

Archiving Your
Creative Practice

BC-201—Field Trip Detroit
(Christina Kanowik and Marwa Helal)

Writing Vernacular Futures: A generative writing workshop using your own unacknowledged languages

4-5 PM

BC-101—UNDERSTORY (Susan Snipes)

Still Running: Digital Infrastructre for Artist Communities

BC-101—Allied Media Projects
(Drewe Haddox, Elysse Dowden, Katelyn Durst-Rivas, Schehrazade Parrish)

Artist Organizers Organizing Artist

BC-208—Watershed Art & Ecology (Claire Pentecost and Brian Holmes)

What is the Meaning of Revolution Today?

BC-200—Spill Paint Not Oil (Conor Cusack)

The Afterlives of Abduction and Occupation

BC-209—Sometimes Space 
(Nathan Byrne and Emily Staugaitis)

Loose Parts: Children as Studio Mates

5-6:30 PM

BC-300—//sense 
(Che Pai, Gordon Fung, Kim Nucci)

Experimental Theater: Sound and Body as a Means of Resistance (Session 2—
Theatrical Models)

BC-101—Lavender Live Arts (Lavender Morin)

Putting the D in DIY: Creating Non
Traditional Spaces

Saturday •

Saturday •