Dalia Reyes
Dalia Reyes is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist, curator, and arts administrator whose work bridges creative practice, archival research, and community-centered cultural leadership. Rooted in Southwest Detroit and shaped by multigenerational spiritual and creative traditions, her practice explores memory, spirituality, and metaphysical belonging through painting, installation, sound, and exhibition-making. She holds a BA in Fine Arts Studies from the College for Creative Studies and brings over twenty-two years of experience across nonprofit organizations, galleries, museums, and higher education institutions. Reyes has held leadership roles in arts administration, development, and community engagement, where she has designed sustainable systems for fundraising, programming, and artist support. As a curator, Reyes is recognized for developing socially engaged, research-driven exhibitions that center lived experience, cultural equity, and collective memory. Her projects include Everyday People (2024–25), presented in partnership with NAACP affiliates and The Carr Center, and Looking for the Light (2022), an exhibition addressing mental health stigma through creative expression, presented at Galerie Camille, where she served as Curator and Director for four and a half years. As an artist, Reyes creates interdisciplinary works that function as tools for contemplation and emotional grounding. Informed by cosmology, sound-based healing practices, and spiritual inquiry, her visual language creates spaces for reflection, restoration, and connection. Through exhibitions, public programs, and institutional partnerships, Reyes positions art as both a spiritual technology and a social infrastructure—supporting inner transformation while strengthening collective wellbeing. She lives and works in Detroit.
Thomas Dechristofaro
Thomas Dechristofaro is a Detroit-based artist, collector, and cultural archivist whose practice centers on the preservation and interpretation of under-recognized visual and sonic histories, with particular emphasis on materials from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. He is a graduate of Kent State University’s School of Art and has spent over fifteen years working within the vinyl record industry, developing parallel research interests in material culture, analog media, and independent archiving practices. His collecting and curatorial work focuses on rare film ephemera, lobby cards, posters, photographs, and sound recordings that document transnational exchanges between Mexico, the United States, and Europe. Dechristofaro approaches archiving as a critical and ethical practice grounded in accessibility, care, and community engagement. Through exhibitions, public programs, and informal pedagogical initiatives, he activates historical materials as living archives, encouraging audiences to reconsider how cultural memory is produced, circulated, and preserved. His work contributes to expanding conversations around popular culture, graphic design history, and vernacular archives, positioning ephemera as vital sites of artistic and social meaning. He lives and works in Detroit, where he remains deeply connected to the city’s underground music and creative communities.