Mike Kelley Creates New Mobile Public Sculpture for Detroit

On Saturday, September 25, Mike Kelley’s (BFA ​‘76) project, Mobile Homestead, makes its maiden voyage from its new home in Midtown Detroit (on the grounds of MOCAD) to return to the ​“mother ship”, the original Kelley home in the suburbs.

On its way down Michigan Avenue, one of Detroit’s main arteries and passageway to the western suburbs, the mobile home passes through some of the city’s most historic neighborhoods such as the old Irish area of Cork Town; Dearborn, the home of the Ford motor company, the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village (Ford’s personal collection of homes and structures associated with great Americans such as Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers and Rosa Parks); Inkster; Wayne (where Kelley attended Catholic school); and finally Westland where the former Kelley family home still stands.

MOBILE HOMESTEAD is commissioned by ARTANGEL in association with MOCAD and LUMA Foundation with the generous support of the Artangel International Circle.