Click here to read a great write-up of the show!

I also gave a lecture at the Grosse Pointe Art Center on Friday Feb. 26:

Grosse Pointe Art Center Lecture

As part of the current Urban Edge exhibition at the Grosse Pointe Art
Center, you are invited to spend an evening at the Center featuring a
presentation by Taurus Burns, juror of the show. As an acclaimed painter,
Taurus will talk about his artistic development and the path his career has
taken since moving to Detroit. Living and working in Detroit since 1998,
Taurus Burns “makes paintings that challenge cultural and
notions of identity and acceptance.”
Taurus Burns is not on the “edge” - he is front and center and
we invite you to join the members of the Grosse Pointe Artists Association
for this illuminating lecture on Friday, February 26, 2010 at 7 pm.

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Feb 21, 2010

Juried the Michigan Art Education Association Region 10 show at Gallery 194 in downtown Lapeer with fellow artist Bill Stolpin of Holly, MI. More info here.

eARTh Studio

Painting Workshop

October 17-19, 2008

click for more info about eARTh Studio painting opportunities

Oil on Canvas Stretched over Panel

36"x48"

Eleven artists from eleven cities around the country were chosen by GlobalHue, a multicultural advertising company, to produce paintings for the upcoming national choir competition being sponsored by Verizon Wireless. I am the artist they picked out of Detroit!

How Sweet The Sound came to the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit on September 20th. Here I am talking with the host Donald Lawrence about being an artist in Detroit.

Find out more about this event HERE

~Mobile billboards could be seen around town preceding the event~

Detroit A Cappella Soul Clap

Acrylic & Aqua Oil on Canvas

36" x 48"

*If you're on the Verizon Wireless network,

you can dowload the painting as a wallpaper to you phone

for $1.99 by texting "HSTS" to 8940

for

Kim D. Hunter's new book of poetry

"Edge of the Time Zone"

Available through White Print Inc.

Thank you to whoever invented the grid. Without it, street painting would be very difficult.

The Ghetto of Eden

Pastel on Street

12'x12'

@Southfield-Lathrup High School

April 28, 2009

Gave a presentation to students interested in pursuing art. Showed examples of my Detroit paintings and other special projects while talking about my development as an artist. Talked about doing commissions. Encouraged the students to seek mentors to help guide them on their career path in art.

@Washtenaw Community College

April 29, 2008

Before moving to Detroit in 1998, I attended Washtenaw Community College for 1-1/2 years. While I was there I studied under the artist Jon Lockard, who had a profound effect on my artistic development and inspired me to pursue a career as an artist. I went back to visit his Life Drawing class and while giving a presentation of my work I talked about the ideas and processes I use to create my paintings, the changes my art has gone through over the past 10 years, and my experiences as a working artist in Detroit.

Featuring Egyptian-Themed murals painted by local artists

My artwork has been purchased at various fundraising events, including:

Jewel Case, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, November 12 2007

Art Works for Life, sponsored by Midwest AIDS Prevention Project (MAPP), a non-profit agency that provides HIV/AIDS prevention education throughout the community. September 23 2007

Tick Tock, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, December 15, 2006

That DAM Box Show, Detroit Artists Market, September 6, 2006

*from That DAM Box Show

*photograph by Dane Gussin

The street paintings were made using soft pastels, brushes, and water

Mine was an original design based on the Historic Eastern Market district

located in Downtown Detroit

The Professional Level Paintings measured 12 x 12 feet

I started on a 36"x36" blank canvas at the beginning of the session

A Painting Demo at the Detroit Institute of Arts

September 23 2006

A commissioned mural for Caruso Caruso

located at 166 W. Maple Rd.

in Birmingham, MI

The mural was completed in March 2006. It measures approximately 7'x 25'

An Artist-in-Residence Program in which I mentored a group of Detroit-area High School students through the creation of a large-scale public sculpture, displayed at the Detroit Festival of the Arts in September 2000.