Coordinating

Artists and Allies is seeking volunteers to assist with coordination efforts on the following fronts:

Coordinate with health care organizations in the Detroit metro area that need supplies.

Help with supply chain management between US and China (right now we are relying on a team of private Chinese individuals who are placing our mask orders, we’d love a business to help us ramp up our orders).

Source the plastic shield materials.

Coordinate the assembly of the plastic shield materials among Artists and Allies members; once the armatures are delivered, we need to fit the shields as fast as possible.

Call to action: If you can lend a hand in any of these ways, please express your interest using the form linked below.

Coordinating

Artists and Allies is seeking volunteers to assist with coordination efforts on the following fronts:

Coordinate with health care organizations in the Detroit metro area that need supplies.

Source the plastic shield materials.

Coordinate the assembly of the plastic shield materials among Artists and Allies members; once the armatures are delivered, we need to fit the shields as fast as possible.

Call to action: If you can lend a hand in any of these ways, please express your interest using the form linked below.

Crowdfunding

Artists and Allies would like to continue this work via the crowdsourcing for 1000+ face shield armatures, N95, and KN95 masks for distribution to Detroit area hospitals. The more money we raise the more PPE we will buy. No money raised will be used for anything other than the purchase and shipping of PPE.

Call to action: volunteers fluent in GoFundMe campaigns are invited to indicate their interest using the form linked below.
Duties may include: graphic design, monitoring, update posting, and other communications efforts.

Team

Jane Prophet

Artists and Allies is organized by Jane Prophet, a British artist and the Associate Dean for Research, Creative Work, and Strategic Initiatives at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

Rebekah Modrak

is an artist and professor. She is a social critic concerned by the way inequities play out and affect agency, education, and, in this case, healthcare.

Halima Cassells

is a native Detroiter, community-engaged artist, and mom of three. Her work explores value placement, village wisdom, and the necessary mechanics for operationalized community thriving.

Silvia Lindtner

is a professor of information and science and technology studies. Her research and teaching interests include cultures and politics of innovation, entrepreneurship, making and hacking, with a particular focus on issues of labor exploitation, gender, and enduring colonialism in technology production and design.

Steve Neavling

is a Detroit-based investigative journalist for Metro Times. His work focuses on racial and economic disparities, environmental justice, and underserved communities.

Advisors and Partners

Ivan ZHAO

Hong Kong new media artist and senior maker, inventor of the flexible 3D printer buildplate, Easy-Peelzy.

Tarek Naser

Financial Officer at DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital, Harper University Hospital, and Hutzel Women’s Hospital, Detroit, Michigan.

Stephanie Dickey

is a fiber-artist at designer in Detroit, Michigan. Her shop is now making masks for frontline workers. She is also making masks to sell to fund the making of the ones she donates.

Stephanie Brown

is an interdisciplinary artist based in Atlanta, GA. She creates photographic and interactive conceptual experiences. Broadly, her work is a historical yet critical investigation of identity construction and the occurrence of implicit and explicit bias in the world around us.

David Richardson

is an enlightened ex-investment banker and financial innovator, working up and down the balance sheet. Keeps a close eye on the intersection of public/private/technology for maximum social impact. Advises, mentors, cajoles startups and later stage growth companies.

Sheila M. Palmer

fiber artist in Detroit, Michigan who is the owner of a small studio downtown. Quetarshe Textiles Design Studio who is making masks for frontline workers, associates, family and friends and creative entrepreneurs. She is listed on Instagram and Facebook.

Robert Hall

is a digital creative and prospective graduate from Goldsmiths Bsc Digital Arts Computing. Specialising in installed work, He has turned his skills to web development in the wake of the pandemic. As well as working on an online artwork for an upcoming virtual degree show, He built and maintains our website.

Team