Community members will have more opportunities to contribute pieces to a growing Voting Rights Art Installation exploring voting, democracy, barriers, and civic participation in Ferndale next week.
Voting Access for All Coalition (VAAC), in partnership with Indivisible Metro Detroit, are hosting additional community pop-ups where participants can create personal art pieces connected to their experiences, perspectives, and reflections on voting and civic life on May 28th.
Through writing, drawing, collage, and mixed media, participants are contributing 5×7 pieces that will become part of a larger public installation centered on voting rights, access, and community voice.
The project creates space for people to reflect on questions including:
- What does voting mean to me?
- What barriers do communities face when trying to vote?
- What does it look like to protect access to voting?
The installation is rooted in the understanding that not every experience connected to voting, exclusion, or civic participation can be fully explained through policy discussions alone. Art creates another way for people to express frustration, hope, memory, resistance, and lived experience.
No art experience is needed. Participants can create independently or alongside others.
The work is being developed in collaboration with Detroit artist, writer, and storyteller Yusef Qualls-El, whose work explores incarceration, race, identity, dignity, and the silencing of marginalized voices. His leadership helps ground this project in lived experience, creative expression, and community storytelling.
Join us at the next pop-up:
Thursday, May 28 | 5:00 to 7:30 PM
Jim’s Corner
22757 Woodward Ave Ste 100, Ferndale
VAAC and community partners are also planning additional art pop-ups as part of the Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action taking place July 17–19, 2026.
The national weekend of action honors the legacy of Congressman John Lewis through grassroots organizing, voting rights advocacy, and nonviolent action focused on protecting democracy and civil rights.
Additional event details, locations, and times will be announced soon.
Community members are invited to stop by, create, reflect, and contribute to the growing installation.
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