Detroit Locations & COLLABORATORS
In making the film, the Ovid and the Art of Love production collaborated with many local community groups and nonprofit organizations. These Detroiters shared their buildings, expertise, and personnel with us. Check out these wonderful groups and artists, and support them if you can!
AfroFlow is a recorded and live music concept and platform for community outreach.
American Resource Training System equips individuals with tools for the workplace, home, and community.
Baltimore Gallery is an art gallery in Detroit's Milwaukee Junction neighborhood.
Center for Social Impact, Univ. of Michigan helps businesses maximize their social impact.
Clay School, Detroit’s oldest school building, was renovated as the Clay Office and Conference Center.
Detroit Circus is a collective of acrobats and fire performers.
Detroit Collaborative Design Center is a multi-disciplinary, nonprofit architecture and urban design firm.
Detroit Creative Corridor Center works to make Detroit a center of creative business, innovation, and talent.
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation designs and implements innovative investment, job, and economic solutions for Detroit through public-private collaborations.
Detroit Poetry Society spreads Detroit poetry and helps local poets grow their crafts.
Detroit Public Library empowers people through diverse and dynamic pathways to literacy and learning.
Detroit Youth Monologue Slam is a theatrical performance talent competition
Golden Gate Café is a Detroit cafe and healing center.
Harmonie Club, founded as a German singing club in 1849, is part of the Harmonie Park cultural district.
Ignite Detroit Entertainment Association is a collective of fire performers.
Jbel Development buys and restores Detroit homes.
Lincoln Street Art Park is a recycle center and sculpture garden.
Masonic Temple is the largest Masonic Temple in the world and a concert venue.
Michigan Corps empowers Michigan residents to form a community of social innovators and entrepreneurs.
Operation Get Down offers residential substance-abuse treatment, and a mental-health, homeless, and transitional housing facility.
Packard Plant is a historic, iconic automobile factory in Detroit that fell to ruin.
Recycle Here is a recycling center where materials are collected, often to be transformed into art.
St. Agnes Church is an abandoned church beginning to undergo revitalization.
The Carr Center is a nonprofit aiming to preserve, present, promote, and develop the African and African-American cultural arts in Detroit.
Tires Detroit is a former performance venue and art gallery.
DETROIT ARTISTS
WHOSE WORK APPEARED
IN OVID AND THE ART OF LOVE
Intellect Allison is a poet and musician.
Dante' Cureton is a visual artist.
Lloyd Demery is a visual artist.
SaNia Demery is a visual artist.
Al Depree is a live-scene painter.
BakPak Durden is a visual artist, illustrator, and muralist.
Brittany Eden is a dancer, model, and fire performer.
Brent Gensheimer is a fire performer
Todd Graham is an actor and musician.
Mary Lee Hannington is an artist and the production designer for Ovid and the Art of Love.
Trae IsAAc is a muralist and visual artist.
Gabrielle Knox is a poet and co-founder of the Detroit Poetry Society.
Jason H. Phillips is a visual and tattoo artist.
ROCKET(!!!)MAN is a poet, composer, and performer.
Ben Rolston is a musician.
Robert Sayers is a musician and film professional.
Anna van Schaap is a visual artist.
Paula Schubatis is a visual artist.
Ray Skyfire is a fire performer.
Dessi Terzieva is a visual artist.
Gerard Thierde Is a tattoo and visual artist.
Camille Tipton is a poet and performer.
Tina Wald is a fire performer.
ZelooperZ is a musician.
Scene filmed at Detroit’s former Packard Motor Company factory