EMB ART

Please note the updated exhibition details: Hair Is the Garden We Wear™ will now open on 313 Day — Friday, March 13, at Jo’s Gallery on Livernois. This adjustment, prompted by external conditions outside of EMB Contemporary’s control, ensures the exhibition is presented at the level of excellence expected by our artists, partners, and community.

This shift represents a strategic elevation, positioning the exhibition in a space fully aligned with its vision, its stakes, and its cultural weight. The work remains monumental in scope and intention, and the curatorial direction remains firmly in command—uncompromised, undiminished, and fully committed to the standard originally set. Even with updated logistics, Hair Is the Garden We Wear™ continues to stand as a luxury cultural offering, honoring the artists, the lineage, and the community with the depth, rigor, and representation it deserves.

ARTIST OPEN CALL — Hair Is the Garden We Wear™

Exhibition: Feb 27–Mar 15, 2026
Submission Deadline: Feb 15

Across barbering, painting, ritual, and archive, these works trace the lineage this exhibition stands on.
Now it’s your turn.

We’re inviting Detroit artists whose practice engages Black hair as concept — not material. Identity, memory, cosmology, technology, embodiment, inheritance… if your work speaks to the intelligence of Black hair in any form, this call is yours.

Presented in partnership with Sacred Spaces Detroit and supported by the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan.

Submit via the link in bio.
Space is limited. Curation is intentional. Bring your strongest work.