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TALKING DOLLS STUDIO



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The mission of Talking Dolls is to empower our northeast Detroit neighborhood through justice-focused initiatives. We create a nexus of progressive art and community-led activism through access to our shop, artist studios, and gallery space for workshops, performances and celebration. It is led by co-directors Wes Taylor, Ron Watters, Andrea Cardinal, and Reuben Teleushkin.


Current Events & Exhibition


  1. TDF (Talking Dolls Family) Trip to Zimbabwe! ︎︎︎

Past Exhibitions & Events
2026 SEASON  

Union Hall Arts Residency

  1. A pilot Detroit-based residency to support emerging artists who are rank-and-file union members! 
    08/07–09/07 2026

The Potluck

  1. The Potluck Detroit 4th Annual Festival! 05/22–05/25 2026

Resident Exhibition

  1. Ricky Blanding Ceramics: Solo Show

2025 SEASON
  1. Artist Talk with Nontsi Mutiti & Lillian Magodi
  2. MUBATANIDZWA: LINK
  3. Donate to our Fundraiser for more Detroit–Zimbabwe Exchanges!
  4. A Suite for Malcolm
  5. The Potluck 2025!


A R C H I V E

Collective Incubator Residency

SUMMER 2025
IR 2022
  1. bree gant

MDW Fair

SUMMER 2022
  1. Atlas
  2. Assembly

2022  
  1. Reuben Telushkin

IR 2021
  1. Rebecca Frantz
  2. Zahra Almajidi
  3. Know One
  4. TEIKAUT
  5. Lindsay Skvarek
  6. Yuming Song
  7. Jingying Su

2021   
  1. Aaron Jones

IR 2020
  1. Violet Luczak 
  2. Ciaran McQuiston
  3. Rachel DeBoard

IR 2019
  1. Laura Gibson
  2. Rebekah Sweda 
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TDF Zimbabwe 2026

Some of the Talking Dolls Family will be traveling back to Zimbabwe for the CHEUKA Harare Art Fair and the 2026 CIMAM Curators Conference

Harare, Zimbabwe
November 2026

ANNOUNCEMENT! 
This November, a Detroit delegation from the Talking Dolls Family will be traveling to Harare, Zimbabwe, and surrounding sites, to participate in two exciting initiatives, the CHEUKA Harare Art Fair

and the CIMAM Annual Conference. We will be exhibiting work at the art fair with Animal Farm Artist Residency and learning as much as we can during the curator’s conference to vision for our gallery programming in the future. 

Check back for more updates!
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