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Art & Soul Gorden Memorial Community Garden Art & Soul is a purpose driven community initiative rooted in place, legacy and love.

Cultural heritage isn’t only what a community keeps from the past. It’s how residents understand who they are and what t...
10/09/2026

Cultural heritage isn’t only what a community keeps from the past. It’s how residents understand who they are and what they can build next.

Sixteen nonprofits across Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park will share $1.3 million through the Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit Plus (KIP:D+) Cultural Heritage grant initiative.

Over the next two years, they’ll carry out projects shaped by community engagement to remember history, care for important local places and strengthen belonging across neighborhoods.

Projects range from preserving Detroit’s Indigenous cultural traditions to documenting Black women’s health stories through photography and storytelling to an oral history archive strengthening intergenerational connection.

KIP:D+ is funded by Kresge and led in partnership with Co.act (Co.act Detroit) and Michigan Community Resources (Michigan Community Resources). Since 2015, the program has distributed more than $16 million.

Swipe through to meet the full cohort: American Indian Health and Family Services | Detroit MI, Art & Soul | Detroit Community Wellness Hub, Bailey Park NDC, Black Bottom Archives, , Canfield Consortium, Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings, Detroit Artists Market, Hamtramck Historical Museum, MBAD African Bead Museum, Remembering Cherubs, Ruth Ellis Center, SASHA Center, Shrine of the Black Madonna, Eastside Community Network

09/29/2026

A little behind the scenes from a very special day at Art & Soul. 💙🌱

We had the opportunity to sit down with KIP:D and share the story behind this space—how it started, why it matters, and what we’re building through wellness, healing, and community.

Our story will be shared October 20. Until then, here’s a little peek behind the scenes. 🌱✨

Closing out our partner spotlight series with KIP:D+. 💙Art & Soul Gorden Memorial Community Garden is honored to be part...
09/28/2026

Closing out our partner spotlight series with
KIP:D+. 💙

Art & Soul Gorden Memorial Community Garden is honored to be part of the 10th cohort of Kresge Innovative Projects: Detroit Plus (KIP:D+) Cultural Heritage.

This investment gives us an opportunity to continue telling the story of a space rooted in memory, community and wellness — while thinking even more intentionally about what it means to preserve the stories, people and experiences that give a place its soul.

Our cohort gathering was also a reminder that cultural heritage isn’t only about what we preserve from the past. It’s about what we’re creating, documenting and carrying forward right now.

Thank you to The Kresge Foundation , Co.act Detroit , Michigan Community Resources and Sidewalk Detroit for investing in community-led work across Detroit — and for including Art & Soul in this year’s cohort.

The garden holds memories. Now we get to think even bigger about how we preserve and share them. 🌱

Wear it. Live it. 🌿Wellness doesn’t always have to be so serious. 😏Our Art & Soul yoga tees bring a little personality t...
09/28/2026

Wear it. Live it. 🌿

Wellness doesn’t always have to be so serious. 😏
Our Art & Soul yoga tees bring a little personality to the practice—and NAMASTEish says just enough. 😂

Created for movement, community, and showing up exactly as you are.

Yoga Tees • Art & Soul

Interested in grabbing one? DM Art & Soul | Detroit Community Wellness Hub for availability. 💙🌱 Shout out to Princess Galloway RN of Balance&FlowYogaDetroit for wearing her NAMASTEish tee perfectly.

Gather with us. 🌿Art & Soul was created to be more than a garden. It’s a place for people to come together, celebrate, c...
09/28/2026

Gather with us. 🌿

Art & Soul was created to be more than a garden. It’s a place for people to come together, celebrate, connect and create experiences of their own.

From intimate gatherings and community events to workshops, celebrations and creative experiences, our garden can become the backdrop for yours.

Private Events • Community Gatherings • Experiences

Interested in gathering at Art & Soul? Click the link in bio to book!💙🌱

Move with us. 🌿At Art & Soul, movement is about more than exercise. It’s an opportunity to breathe, reconnect with yours...
09/28/2026

Move with us. 🌿

At Art & Soul, movement is about more than exercise. It’s an opportunity to breathe, reconnect with yourself, and experience wellness in community.

From gentle movement to high-energy experiences, our garden is a space to move, feel good and be together.

Movement • Wellness • Community

Follow us for upcoming experiences!

Some partnerships are part of the story from the very beginning. 🌱As we continue recognizing the partners who have inves...
09/25/2026

Some partnerships are part of the story from the very beginning. 🌱

As we continue recognizing the partners who have invested in Art & Soul, we’re celebrating Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance — a supporter that believed in this work early and continues to invest in what we’re building.

That support has helped us turn a vision for a neighborhood wellness space into a place where community happens — where people gather, move, connect, create and simply have space to be.

We’re grateful for the continued investment, the partnership and the belief in what Art & Soul can be for Cody Rouge.

Supported from the start — and still growing. 💚

A little garden time + some really good news. 🌱❤️💛💚We are proud to be a second-year awardee of the Detroit Black Farmer ...
09/23/2026

A little garden time + some really good news. 🌱❤️💛💚

We are proud to be a second-year awardee of the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund grant!

I’m incredibly grateful for the continued investment in the work and for the opportunity to be in community with so many people growing, creating and caring for Detroit.

And of course, I couldn’t leave D-Town Farm empty-handed. 🌿 Shoutout to Teleshia Huston for my waist beads and Shon for my pineapple + ginger shot. 🍍🔥

The work you see is supported by investments you don’t always see. 🌱Over the next few weeks, we’re taking a moment to re...
09/21/2026

The work you see is supported by investments you don’t always see. 🌱

Over the next few weeks, we’re taking a moment to recognize some of the partners who have invested in Art & Soul and helped make this work possible.

We’re starting with the National Black Food & Justice Alliance .

Building a community space isn’t only about what happens inside the garden gates. It’s also about creating the foundation that allows the work to continue, grow and remain rooted in community.

We’re grateful to NBFJA for investing in the sustainability of spaces like ours and for being part of the story we’re continuing to build. Thank you 🖤

The numbers are in. 🌿Over 12 weeks, 219+ people walked through the gates of Art & Soul to move, breathe, connect, laugh,...
09/02/2026

The numbers are in. 🌿

Over 12 weeks, 219+ people walked through the gates of Art & Soul to move, breathe, connect, laugh, sweat and simply be in community.

And we ended the 2026 season exactly how we hoped we would — with a packed garden. 💚

Every number in these charts represents a person who chose to spend a little piece of their summer with us. That means everything.

Thank you to everyone who showed up, brought a friend, tried something new, supported a class, taught a class, shared a post or simply found a little peace in the garden.

2026 was a beautiful season

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