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Tyree Guyton’s vision has created a world-wide audience of both artists and non-artists and at the same time brought a renewed sense of health and hope back to an impoverished community.
The Heidelberg Project’s ART, COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (“ACE2”) program is a comprehensive program that supplements the lack of art education in metro-Detroit public schools and at the same time teaches children the value of the environment and community.
The ACE2 program includes a school presentation and workshop, an on-site educational field trip to the Heidelberg Project, and a visit with internationally-acclaimed artist Tyree Guyton up close and personal at his studio. The ACE2 program also includes an Educator’s Kit, a comprehensive curriculum with lesson plans, activities, and suggestions for an end-of-semester class project.
The ACE2 program also engages Young Associates of Heidelberg (YAH). YAH helped to develop the lesson plans of the ACE2 program and together with students from Wayne State University majoring in art history, education and art therapy will be trained as ACE2 docents/instructors.
For more information on the ACE2 program, contact ACE2 Program Coordinator Milana Duthie at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Download the ACE2 brochure. View photos of ACE2 students.
The ACE2 is supported in part by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan (CFSEM).
Video sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Financial Services – Produced by Suede Productions
"Art From The Ashes: Detroit's Heidelberg Project" from Tilapia Film on Vimeo.
Heidelberg at Harvard
“I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed working with you on “Heidelberg at Harvard”...you got people talking and thinking. That provocation alone made the project a great success. You communicated especially well with the students. I will remember the film screening and discussion we had as one of the great moments of my time at Harvard.”
-John Beardsley Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, Harvard University
"Arts Education...
... aids students in skills needed in the workplace: flexibility, the ability to solve problems and communicate; the ability to learn new skills, to be creative and innovative, and to strive for excellence."
Dr. Joseph M. Calahan - Vice President, Xerox Foundation
“The arts are not a frill...
The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep differences and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts can lift us up.”
Former Texas Congresswoman, Barbara Jordan