Multitudes//Multitudes

Participating Artists: Jotina Ballard, Manual Bart, Aliese Beaty, Chelsee Bosker, Anthony Brown, Stanley Brown, Sherri Bryant, Jerri Burks, Lesley Carlton, Paul Carter, Desirai Chapman, Sereal Crawford, Mandy Demorest, Chantell Donwell, Jerry Dortch, Chris Evans, Je’Vonnie Evans, Lewis Foster, Michelle Funk, Nicholas Granch, Eric Green, Janetter Gordon, Ronald Griggs, Derrick Hall, Constance Haliburton, David Harris, Susan Hudson, Shawn Jackson, Pamela Jones, Larry Kimbrough, Richard Marshall, Dameon Miller, Vanessa Montgomery, Benjamin Okorom, Alsendoe Owens, Jerome Payne, Justin Pollard, Shilpi M. Prasad, Bruce Rice, Phillis Rogers, Gregory Rosati, Marear Smith, Ray Smith, Stephen Tatum, Jeremy Taylor, Marquise Taylor, James Tichler, Jacob Toy, Alverna Tyler, Lorenzo Waters, Starr Waters, Jeremy Washington, Raymond Wells, Willie Whitehead, Lauren Williams, and Chris Wansac. 

Curated by Ben Haddix and Amber B. Nax 

Exhibition Dates: December 4, 2025 – February 7, 2026

Location: PASC Detroit Gallery, 9301 Kercheval Ave, STE 2, Detroit, MI, 48214

PASC Detroit Gallery Hours: Th, Fr, & Sa, 12 – 5 pm, and by appointment

Multitudes//Multitudes is a large group exhibition featuring artworks by 58 PASC artists, many of whom have never shown in the PASC Detroit Gallery before. Organized in a tightly stacked salon style, this show creates an opportunity to honor each artwork while also generating a collective visual rhythm. This arrangement reflects the layered, interconnected nature of the PASC community, with its many colors, textures, and differences coming together on the gallery walls. The artworks featured are created in a variety of mediums and present a variety of subjects, from imagined scenes to surprising abstractions, to dense elemental patterns reflecting varied light and unexpected harmonies.

With artworks placed closely together, Multitudes//Multitudes invites viewers to experience each artwork through the singularity of each artist’s voice and the dynamic energy that emerges when voices gather. Nick Granch’s “Outside Cats” and David Harris’ “Diana Ross” recreate imagined and well-known scenes, yet both carry a sense of familiarity. Mandy Demorest and Jeremy Taylor’s artworks highlight iconic Detroit establishments. These artists all reconfigure common elements into something new and original. Sherri Bryant, Pamela Jones, Chantell Donwell, and Dennis Cenzer experiment with color and form, offering audiences a literal window into their worlds. Artworks by Aliese Beaty and Jerome Payne use circular motifs transformed into uniquely personalized shapes. 

Ben Haddix is a graduate of Evergreen State College in Washington, where he studied art and education. Through his work, Ben has maintained a commitment to accessible and inclusive spaces that hold potential for communally generated structures for learning and sharing. This is a commitment that is reflected also in his art practice – short plays and video works that value participation, amateurism, and the process of learning. He lives in Hamtramck with his two cats, Pia and Temple, and many musical instruments. Ben has been an art advisor at PASC since early 2024.

Amber Nax (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and independent curator from Detroit, MI. She earned her B.F.A. from Wayne State University with a focus on Black American and African history, contemporary art, and folklore. Inspired by the way archives reveal the past, validate the present, and inform the future, Amber strives to create connections across these temporal spaces. Through her work, she uses art as a bridge to explore and deepen our understanding of shared experiences. Recent projects include Adler & Adler (Southside Community Art Center, Chicago, 2024) and the ICI Forum Research Fellowship (Chicago, 2024). Amber has been a Gallery Assistant for PASC since 2024.

Launched in 2021, PASC is the first progressive art and design studio and exhibition program in Detroit and Wayne County dedicated to supporting artists with developmental disabilities and mental health differences to advance artistic practices and build individual careers in the art and design fields. PASC is a program of Services to Enhance Potential (STEP), a non-profit service organization founded in 1972 that provides services and support for more than 1,400 individuals with disabilities and mental health differences across Southeastern Michigan.