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Nichole Christian served as the creative director, editor and lead writer for the Kresge Foundation's 2019 Eminent Artist monograph. The book can be requested at no cost while supplies last by sending an email to monographs@kresge.org.
Nichole Christian and Julie Pincus discuss their work as co-authors of Canvas Detroit with the Detroit Federation on Vimeo
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Published in 2014 by Wayne State University Press, the award-winning Canvas Detroit features profiles by Nichole Christian of dozens of top Detroit street artists.
A personal essay written by Nichole while she was a staff writer for The New York Times. 2002
"The day I was born, I was supposed to..," Read the full New York Times essay here.
The Wall Street Journal, January 1998, Staff Reporter. Full Story here.
From the pages of Jet Magazine, June 2014. Freelance.
"The artist Billy Mark intentionally messes with your head. He moves, he morphs, he mystifies. Watch him for even a moment, and it’s soon clear that he embodies this trio of M’s and more—sometimes all at once,'' full essay by Nichole Christian here.
Artist Billy Mark at home in his studio. Photo by Nichole Christian, 2017 for Essay'd.
Portrait of youth poet Yakuza Moon by Nichole Christian. Published in the Detroit Free Press (2016) as part of "Detroit In Verse.''
"Clay sculptor Austen Brantley is unmistakably young—in his years and in his practice.
This is not a conversation Brantley likes to have. He knows, however, it’s where many people start when they talk about his artworks, primarily figurative. To ignore the obvious would be to miss part of the wonder of his work. There’s also this: he’s completely self-taught,'' full essay by Nichole Christian here.
Artist Austen Brantley at work in his studio. Photo by Nichole Christian, 2018.
Blue is the color of...(2016.)
Shadow in Flow. Detroit
Apparitions on the road. Sullivan Country, NY 2015
Man In the Window.
Traveling
hear now what
the Sakura says
in spring here now
only
no want of no wish for
eternity
petals patiently
beginning becoming
fading falling
here now
soon gone