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Bruce Rice

Photo by Chloé Hajjar

Bruce is a Plymouth based artist working out of the PASC Westland Studio. Bruce's practice is focused on rendering miniature drawings inspired by photographs found in magazines and large stacks of books. Bruce spends time flipping through each page to find his desired image to reference. Bruce's illustrations are delicately drawn using a black ink pen, to which he will add colored pencil to create textured areas of color. Bruce gravitates towards landscape imagery, florals, design objects, and figures. Although his drawings are tiny, he often combines a series of illustrations to create a composition reminiscent of a collage. Bruce has exhibited work at the PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI (2024) and at University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI (2025).

"Blue, Green and Orange Figures Over Triangle Pattern", by Robert Duncombe

Carbon Into Diamonds, PASC Southgate Gallery

From left to right: DeRon Hudson, Green Squares on Orange, 2021; Robert Duncombe, Blue, Green and Orange Figures, 2022; and Jirard Bond, Two Elmos, 2021.

Participating Artists: Jirard Bond, Robert Duncombe, and DeRon Hudson

Curated by Hannah Lilly

February 11 - April 10, 2022

Opening Reception, Friday, February 11, 3-6pm

PASC Southgate Gallery, 13721 Eureka Road, Southgate, MI 48195

Phone: (734) 250-8695

www.progressiveartstudiocollective.org

Diamonds are made when carbon atoms from broken down plants, animals and shells bond to each other during high pressure, high temperature scenarios, and begin to grow crystals. Diamonds need to be quickly brought to the surface of the earth to cool-most often through a violent volcanic explosion. Without the confidence of swift action, a diamond would be turned to graphite.

The artists Jirard Bond, Robert Duncombe , and DeRon Hudson all create with a jewel’s furious confidence, skipping the pencil for the paintbrush, pen or marker. Despite each artist creating completely unique and recognizable work, they have bonded together like carbon atoms through their ability to unpredictably transform materials, often of similar colors, into things of beauty.

Jirard Bond produces artwork through a process of text-based repetitive markings, continuously layering those marks and often obscuring the text below through energetic action. Robert Duncombe works in a variety of materials, beginning with repetitive lines, working quietly and energetically, often revealing a procession of figures in the in-between spaces. DeRon Hudson assuredly explodes paint on surfaces, transforming text and symbols into identifiable patterns. All of these artists have a strong sense of confidence, color and style, quickly altering a piece of common paper canvas, or any other surface, from carbon into diamonds.

Jirard Bond has been a participating artist in the PASC program since February 2021. Jirard makes mixed media artworks based on one of two subjects, Hulk Hogan or Elmo. These characters represent the hero (Hogan) and friend (Elmo). Jirard thinks of each artwork as a poster for one or the other of his subjects, with their names layered several times over in Jirard’s iconographic language. Jirard’s has exhibited at Swords Into Plowshares Gallery (2021) and in two online exhibitions on the PASC website.

Robert Duncombe has been a participating artist in the PASC program since February 2021. He works at the PASC Southgate studio. Robert draws everything from people, to boats, to animals in a distinct style reducing his subjects to simplified forms of angles and curves. His objects tend to be drawn with a thick outline contrasting with a lined cross-hatched interior. Robert is a versatile artist using pens, colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, graphite and marker to realize his forms. Robert has exhibited at The Scarab Club (2021), Swords Into Plowshares Gallery (2021) and in one online exhibition on the PASC website. This is his second exhibition at the PASC Southgate Gallery.

DeRon Hudson has been a participating artist in the PASC program since February 2021. He works at the PASC Southgate studio. DeRon works in a mainly in an abstract painterly style sometimes incorporating text into his artworks. He has built up a lexicon of symbols, ranging from circles to squares to X’s and dashes, which he paints in rows across the canvas. He works in several sessions on each painting layering his shapes over top of previous shapes. DeRon is fond of bright, vivid colors and stark contrasts. DeRon has exhibited at Swords Into Plowshares Gallery (2021) and in one online exhibition on the PASC website. This is his second exhibition at the PASC Southgate Gallery.

Hannah Grace Lilly is an artist, and educator. She currently works as an art advisor at the Progressive Art Studio Collective, in metro Detroit. Lilly has taught theater at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York, and visual art at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Lilly lived and worked in Kathmandu, Nepal, teaching at the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program Level. Lilly was an activities coordinator on a memory care unit at an assisted living home in San Francisco. Additionally in both NYC and SF, Lilly has managed tattoo shops. From 2014 to 2017 Lilly worked at Creativity Explored, San Francisco and curated an exhibition in the Creativity Explored Gallery. Lilly has a B.A. from Marymount Manhattan College, New York City and a M.A. from the University of Manchester, U.K

Carmel Wallace

Carmel is an artist who works at the PASC Westland Studio. She is a very focused artist who works in watercolor and colored pencil, making deliberate color choices and shape placement on her canvases. Carmel often mentions the Wizard of Oz which seems to be one of her keystone influences. Although her artworks don’t explicitly reference the film the range in parallel subject matter from rainbows, to complex, yellow-brick-road-like, geometric compositions.

Chantell Donwell

Chantell is a Detroit-based artist working out of the PASC Detroit studio. Her practice centers on the intricate details of natural subjects, including flowers, anatomy, interiors, and symbolic imagery. A master of colored pencil, she creates smooth, richly layered planes of color. Recently, she has begun working on a larger scale, incorporating watercolor and acrylic into her pieces while maintaining her signature attention to detail.

Her artwork has been shown at the Shepherd, Detroit, MI (2025); PASC Southgate Gallery, Southgate, MI (2025); PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI (2024); Signal-Return, Detroit, MI (2024); Art Gallery at Westland City Hall, Westland, MI, (2024); BasBlue, Detroit (2024); MOCAD, Detroit (2023/24). Ford Art Gallery at WCCC, Belleville, MI (2023); Art Space 200, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI (2023); Reyes | Finn Gallery, Detroit, MI (2023); PASC Detroit Pop-Up Gallery, Detroit, MI (2022); Her artwork has been featured at the Outsider Art Fair, NYC, NY (2025) and the NADA art fair through White Columns Gallery, Miami, FL (2024).

Chris Wansac

Chris is a Westland-based artist who works at the PASC Westland Studio. He has been working at the studio for almost a year and enjoys working with staff and other artists. Chris references music, pop culture, road maps and cities in Michigan through layers of text, shapes and color blocking. In his work he uses several media to create his graphic pieces, acrylic paint, sharpie markers, color sticks and india ink, and paint marker.

Chris has exhibited at the annual exhibit at the Gallery at Westland City Hall, Westland, MI (2025); WCCC Gallery, Belleville, MI (2023); and MOCAD, Detroit, MI (2023).

Cosmic Connections

Dennis Cenzer, "Nighttime Light Orbs", 2023, mixed media on paper, 18 x 24 in

Participating artists: Manual Bart, Autumn Bez, Jirard Bond, Stanley Brown, Therrin Burns, Alyce Carter, Dennis Cenzer, Jon Coleman, Ryan Cooke, Santina Dionisi, Robert Duncombe, Zainab Elhasan, Bethany Fater, Alex Ferguson, Derrick Hall, Montgomery Matthews, Billy Medley, Megan Mowers, Justin Pollard, Josef Rampp, Randy Rodriguez, Amanda Ross-Ferree, Marquise Rucker, Nicholas Tamsen, James Tischler, and Theodore Thornton

Curated by Hannah Lilly

Opening: February 29, 5-7pm

PASC Southgate Gallery
13721 Eureka Road, Southgate, MI 48195

Hours:
Monday-Friday 10am-3pm
or by appointment

Exhibition Dates: February 29 – May 31

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself

- Carl Sagan.

Knowing ourselves can give us cosmic insight as we are all connected, through our DNA to the stars to the outer universes. In this group show, Cosmic Connections, PASC artists showcase how they view our universal connections through figurative and abstract language. From depictions of the planets, to showing our human and natural commonalities, to imagining far away cosmic lands. The artists featured here share a through-line of connection. We invite you to imagine a world of humanity's oneness with nature, each other and the stars in this hopeful, multimedia representation of the macrocosm.

Each artist has created details of the cosmos that we can only imagine, and through the act of creating the unknown they know a bit more about our human world. And because the larger world is a reflection of our inner world, the diversity of the artist's personal voice and experiences are mirrored in the wide breadth of artwork in this show. The artworks in Cosmic Connections range from the 1969 moon landing and exotic beings to lights in the sky and planets in space, to interconnected abstract lines and marks.

PASC was launched in January 2021 as the first progressive art and design studio in Detroit and Wayne County dedicated to supporting adults with developmental disabilities and mental health needs to advance independent artistic practices and individual career paths in the art and design fields. PASC runs three studios in Westland, Detroit and Southgate, Michigan, as well as a virtual art studio program, and we support over 180 artists across Wayne County. PASC is a program of Services to Enhance Potential (STEP) a non-profit service organization, founded in 1972, that provides services and supports for 1400+ individuals with disabilities and mental health issues across Southeastern Michigan.

Our exhibitions program is supported with grants from the Michigan Arts and Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Craig Hardin

Craig Hardin is a Detroit based artist who works out of the PASC Detroit studio. He uses a variety of media, such as watercolor, colored pencils, and markers. His subjects range from transportation vehicles to portraits of musicians, family members and other domestic scenes. Craig works methodically and with a consistent focus on his artwork. His artwork has been shown in "From Every Direction" (2023) at the art gallery at Westland City Hall.

Creatives In Control

Alexis Young, Design Eyeballs Two, 2023, Acrylic paint on canvas, 10 x 10 in

Participating Artists: Rubin Bates, Jerri Burks, Mandy Demorest, Chantell Donwell, Robert Duncombe, Latoya Elliot, Ronald Griggs, Johnie Lockhart, Richard Marshall, Tracy Mason, Ryan McDonagh, Nathaniel McNeal Jr., Dameon Miller, Khiry O'Neal, Marquise Rucker, Detroit Angel Tweety, and Alexis Young.

Curated by Lewis Foster, Rodney Hudson, Keisha Miller, and Lauren Williams

Opening: August 1st, 5 pm –7 pm

Exhibition Dates: August 1st – September 7th, 2024

PASC Detroit Gallery
LANTERN
9301 Kercheval Ave, Suite 2,
Detroit, MI 48214
313-267-9797

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

Creatives In Control is the first exhibition curated entirely by PASC Artists. The four-artist curatorial team of Lewis Foster, Rodney Hudson, Keisha Miller, and Lauren Williams has selected 21 artworks from their PASC artist colleagues across all three PASC studios. With an unorthodox approach, each curator has chosen to react to the curatorial process through a visual exposition, creating hand-painted murals on the gallery walls, complementing each artwork with playful abstractions, vivid line-work, and watercolor washes. Like an exhibition text, the murals explore each artist-curator's experience of the selected artworks through inspired gestures. The result is an exhibition as immersive visual experience.

As curators, Foster, Hudson, Miller, and Williams exercise their ability to lead and independently make choices, while respectfully responding through their own form of curatorial communication, highlighting their taste, and eye for art. With this initiative the artists-as-curators take ownership of their gallery space, bringing all the creative imaginations of PASC together to create one brilliant world.

Creatives In Control was facilitated by PASC Art Advisor Chloé Hajjar and PASC Gallery Assistant Amber Nax. Both staff helped to guide the curatorial process through engaging the four curators with prompts, conversation and offering context to the curatorial process. This exhibition was supported directly with a grant PASC received from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to develop a curatorial program for artists/curators with disabilities.

Lewis Foster, Rodney Hudson, Keisha Miller, and Lauren Williams are Detroit-based artists working out of the PASC Detroit studio. Lewis creates realistic drawings featuring neat rows of objects, text and logos. Rodney creates artworks that features stylized bold abstractions which he often refers to as freestyles. Keisha is a realist artist, in that she aims to depict her references in the most exacting detail, a style marked by strong linework, and vibrant colors. Lauren Williams’ artworks gravitate toward positive idealized images of people, cakes, unicorns, and videogame inspired scenery.

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. Our exhibitions program is supported with grants from the Michigan Arts and Cultural Council, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Installation view, “Creatives in Control", (2024) PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI

Cup of Sugar

Image caption: Title image for Cup of Sugar features a drawing by PASC artist Keisha Miller and typeface by Signal-Return

Participating artists: Lynne Avadenka, Emilee Bergum, Sherri Bryant, TomMarla Day, Chantell Donwell, Santina Dionisi, Ronald Griggs, Joel Grothaus, Carol Harris, Chloé Hajjar, Elaisha Hilliard, Lauren Hurst, Shawn Jackson, Taylor Jenkins, Dominick Lemonious, Hannah Lilly, Anthony Marcellini, Charles McGee, Keisha Miller, Amber Nax, Renata Palubinskas, Pat Perry, Suzy Poling, Rashaun Rucker, Thomas Saunders, Tylon Sawyer, Kevin Shureb, Todd Stevens, Aaron Taylor, Jeremy Taylor, Kristi Ternes, Sue Carman Vian, Renee Willoughby, and Eleni Zaharopoulos.

Exhibition Dates: September 26 - October 26, 2024

Location: PASC (STE 2) and Signal-Return (STE 1)
9301 Kercheval Ave, Detroit, MI, 48214

PASC Detroit Gallery Hours: Th, Fr & Sa, 12 – 5 pm and by appointment
Signal-Return Gallery Hours: Th-Su 10 – 4 pm

Curated by Lynne Avadenka, former director of Signal-Return and Joel Grothaus, Studio Manager of Signal-Return; alongside Anthony Marcellini, Founder and Manager of PASC

PASC’s current exhibition is a group show with artists and staff from PASC and our neighbors Signal-Return a non-profit dedicated to preserving and teaching traditional letterpress printing and building a community center for art, craft, design and collaboration. This show is about the people who work, represent, support, and create in these non-profit art incubators. This show presents artists with and without diagnosed disabilities alongside each other and spans across both organizations' galleries.

This exhibition is also a prelude to a print project Signal-Return has initiated with PASC artists Sherri Bryant, Chantell Donwell, Ronald Griggs, Shawn Jackson, Keisha Miller, Thomas Saunders, Aaron Taylor, and Jeremy Taylor, to premiere later in the Fall of 2024.

PASC (Progressive Art Studio Collective) was launched in January 2021 as 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 independent artistic practices and build individual career paths in the art and design fields. Our exhibitions program is supported with grants from the Michigan Arts and Cultural Council, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Signal-Return is a Detroit nonprofit dedicated to preserving and teaching traditional letterpress printing, and building a community center for art, craft, design and collaboration. For more information visit. www.signalreturnpress.org

This exhibition is being presented as part of the Detroit Month of Design.

https://www.detroitmonthofdesign.org/event-details/cup-of-sugar

Link to purchase Signal Return Staff and Artist works: https://www.signalreturnpress.store/

Link to PASC Staff and Artist Checklist: https://shorturl.at/cE92F

D'Angelo Kidd

D’Angelo is a Canton based artist who works at the PASC Westland studio. His artwork is driven by abstract and realist imagery featuring fine details and whimsical color combinations. D’Angelo’s has an interest in political activism so his artwork sometimes presents texts featuring political statements, references to cultural politics, or sometimes simply emotional abstraction. He works in many 2D mediums, acrylic, watercolor and drawing.

Dameon Miller

Dameon is a Detroit-based artist working out of the PASC Detroit Studio. He builds his work on a foundation of color fields, overlaid with intricate linework as a second layer. Inspired by organic forms, he sometimes traces his fingers to create shapes, using only watercolor and gel pens. He often selects a specific color palette, experimenting with both color and material contrast while creating a series of related works. In his free time, Dameon enjoys Gospel music, appreciating its rhythm and energy.

Dameon has exhibited with the Shepherd, Detroit, MI (2025); PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI (2024); the Art Gallery at Westland City Hall, Westland, MI (2024, 2023); and Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery, Detroit, MI (2022).

Deanna Poppenger

Deanna is a Canton-based artist working out of the PASC Westland studio. Her artwork is defined by layers of graffiti-like repeated mark-making. Her earliest artworks feature mostly shapes such as circles and sometimes squares layered over top of each other. But as her practice has grown she has been incorporating a more complex visual vocabulary of letters and full words, sometimes her name, the word mom, the names of others in her life and seemingly random letters and numbers. Her pieces are created by layering acrylic or ink over vivid watercolor washes.

She has exhibited at the annual exhibit at Art Gallery at Westland City Hall, Westland, MI (2024/2023/2025); MOCAD, Detroit, MI (2023-2024); Madison Heights Civic Center, Madison Heights, MI (2023); PASC Detroit Pop Up Gallery, At The Vella Group, Detroit, MI (2022). Her artworks have been featured at the art fairs Open Invitational, Miami, FL (2024) and NADA presented by White Columns Gallery, Miami, FL (2024).

Debbie Osteen

Debbie is a Westland based artist who works at the PASC Westland Studio. She is multi-media artist focused on line, color and the physicality of mark-making. To construct her artworks she patiently adds abstract layers of colors and linework. Once she is comfortable with the background she adds an overlay pattern or grid-work of paint. In her collage work she cuts up one seemingly finished piece and combines it with another to make a hybrid object.

She has exhibited at PASC Southgate Gallery, Southgate, MI (2025); PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI (2024); BasBlue, Detroit, MI (2024); Art Space 200, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI (2023); the annual exhibit at Art Gallery at Westland City Hall, Westland, MI (2023); Swords Into Plowshares Gallery, Detroit, MI (2022); Detroit Repertory theatre, Detroit, MI (2022); PASC Detroit Pop-Up Gallery, Detroit, MI (2022); The Scarab Club, Detroit (2021); and an online exhibition with PASC.

Dennis Cenzer

Dennis is an artist who works at the PASC Southgate Studio. Dennis is most interested in buildings, interior architecture, furniture, fibers and design objects. He uses this subject matter to create drawings and paintings, often using the ruler to order and balance his artworks into symmetrical compositions. Into these drawings and paintings Dennis will add bright contrasting colors to create artworks that appear both as realist artworks and concrete abstractions.

Dennis has exhibited with the PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit MI (2024); PASC Southgate Gallery, Southgate, MI (2024/25); Padzieski Gallery, Ford Community & Performing Arts Center, Detroit, MI (2023); Detroit Repertory theatre, Detroit, MI (2022); Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery, Detroit, MI (2022); and the Scarab Club, Detroit, MI (2021).

Deon Davis

Deon is an artist who works at the PASC Detroit studio. Deon expresses himself almost exclusively through drawing, making cartoonish minimal illustrations of people and objects, that showcase his precise and confident linework. Although when working Deon can seem like a very serious artist, the simplicity of his drawings suggests a humorousness reminiscent of satirical illustrators like Saul Steinberg.

Derek Ellis

Derek is an artist who works at the PASC Westland Studio. Derek works mainly in acrylic. He is drawn to expressionist realist artists like Van Gogh, although his subjects can range from landscapes to geometric patterns. His realists pieces are usually simplified or abstracted down to broken stripes and rectangles. Recently he has been focusing on flower paintings, which have been some of the most engaging subject matter for him.

Detroit Angel Tweety

Detroit Angel Tweety works out of the PASC Westland studio. She creates colorful acrylic paintings featuring drawings of her pets and other extraordinary animals in domestic and more exotic scenes such as jungles, deserts and forests. She paints in a romantic realistic mannerist style reminiscent of Henri Rousseau.

She has exhibited at PASC Detroit Gallery, Detroit, MI (2024); PASC at BasBlue, Detroit, MI (2024); MOCAD, Detroit (2023); Art Gallery at Westland City Hall, Westland, MI (2022/2023); and PASC Southgate Gallery, Southgate, MI (2022). Her work has been featured in NADA through White Columns Gallery, Miami, FL (2024).

Welcomes You to Karen's Room, by Raymond Wells

Dream It Out Loud

John Peterson, Tyree and Olayami Dabls, 2025, ink and watercolor on paper, 30.5 x 22.5 in

Chris Wansac, Happy Crown, 2025, acrylic and ink on paper, 18 x 24 in

Participating Artists: Eric Baczewski, Lesley Carlton, Chelsee Bosker, Desirai Chapman, Sereal Crawford, Dwayne Curry, Mandy Demorest, Detroit Angel Tweety, Jeremy Dillard, Chanel Edmonson, Derek Ellis, Je'Vonnie Evans, Michelle Funk, Lonell Garrett, Susan Hudson, Beth Ketchum, Shannon Lovelace, Scott Maciejewski, Kenny Mason, Sandra McCain, Sam Menjivar, Denise Munlin, John Peterson, Deanna Poppenger, Shilpi Prasad, Bruce Rice, Christian Salice, Lauren Samuels, Francis Sills, Jacob Toy, Promise Vos, Chris Wansac, and Raymond Wells

Curators: Ben Haddix and Renee Willoughby

Exhibition Dates: March 28, 2025 – April 24, 2025

Location: Art Gallery at City Hall, Westland City Hall,
36300 Warren Rd, Westland, MI 48185

Westland City Hall Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm

"We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives inside the dream."

- David Lynch

When we dream, we walk, talk and fuse representations of the real and the extraordinary together. Our common experiences are suddenly shifted to an uncertain angle and the boundaries of our real and imagined lives become blurred and blended. Some dreams happen subconsciously, while others are experienced while awake and with intent.

Artmaking is a dream-like process. It involves bringing together ingredients from our life, the lives around us, and our dream life, to create an unpredictable new experience. The artworks in Dream It Out Loud ask you to explore this unpredictable encounter, where places, people, shapes and patterns converge into something not yet perceived. Like the logic of dreams, these artworks see something newly born from the scrambling of life and the imagination. Here, we see the lyrics of favorite songs mix with personal references to create hybrid albums; or designs for clothes and shoes mixing with desires for sugary deserts to become the blueprint for wildly flavorful clothing lines; or even artworks that emerge from seemingly nightmare-like scenarios to become doorways into entirely new creative processes. In Dream It Out Loud, we encounter a world where dreams live and merge together to form an entirely unique creative vision.

Dream It Out Loud is an exhibition with artists from the Progressive Art Studio Collective (PASC) program. This is our fourth year of exhibiting at The Gallery at Westland City Hall, bringing the artwork of PASC to the halls of the Westland Government. This year the exhibition features artwork by 30 artists all from the PASC Westland Studio Program.

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 runs three studios in Detroit, Westland, and Southgate and works with over 190 artists across Wayne County. PASC is a program of Services to Enhance Potential (STEP), a non-profit service organization founded in 1972 that provides services and supports for more than 1,500 individuals with disabilities and mental health differences across Southeastern Michigan.

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