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About the Artists Workshop
Introduction to the Artists Workshop
Roots of Artists Workshop: Red Door gallery
Detroit Jazz Roots (as told by Harold McKinney)
The Artists Workshop Society: A Manifesto
In these pages, the Workshop founders offer their original concepts in the Manifesto and Getting Out From Under articles, appearing as they were once printed in mimeographed form. These statements speak of collective consciousness and are as valid today as they were forty years ago. In its heyday, the Workshop was a dynamic, evolving organization, one in which artists discovered their abilities and developed their styles. Many moved on, some relocating to other (similar) communities in other cities. While the face of the Workshop eventually changed (into “Trans-Love Energies”), the basic premise of group consciousness remained constant.
The prime mover of the Artists Workshop a/k/a Trans-Love Energies was John Sinclair, and the Workshop’s timeline is interwoven with his own. Rather than repeat what John has amply described in his website, these pages are an attempt to define the collective concept as it occurred, from the earlier Workshop years onward, eventually resurfacing as Trans-Love Energies and the Rainbow People's Party.
Yet, the historical aspect is only a sidebar. The real purpose of our presentation is to show how the message of the founders is relevant today, in this new millennium – how it speaks across forty years. And so, we come to the Wrap-Up of this section, which concludes with a series of discussion questions, to be explored in our online forums. We look forward to shaping the outlook – the product of these questions, with you, our web surfer friends – so that our response to changing times will be a collective one, rather than an isolated one.Top
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Detroit MI, Pre-November, 1964: Red Door gallery, jazz roots
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Detroit MI, November 1, 1964: Founding of the Artists Workshop Society
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Detroit MI, Summer, 1965: Weekly concerts held; Artists Workshop Press underway; WORK/1 published
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Detroit MI, August, 1966: Grande Ballroom replaces the Artists Workshop as the focal point of community
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Detroit and Ann Arbor MI, January, 1967: Trans-Love Energies formed, Warren-Forest SUN published
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Detroit MI, April, 1967: Love-in organized by Trans-Love Energies and held on Belle Isle
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Ann Arbor MI, May, 1968: Detroit community moves to Ann Arbor
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Detroit and Ann Arbor MI, March, 1968: THE SUN tabloid published
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Ann Arbor, MI, November, 1968: White Panthers Party formed
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Ann Arbor MI, July, 1970: The Program of the White Panthers Party
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Ann Arbor, MI, July, 1971: White Panthers becomes Rainbow People's Party
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Detroit, MI, November, 1974: Artists Workshop 10th anniversary celebration
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Detroit, MI, November, 2004: Artists Workshop 40th anniversary celebration
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Detroit, MI, January, 2007: Artists Workshop website receives attention from Web users all over the world Top
