Emperial Nation is dedicated to preserve history through fashion & arts.

Nicole is a self-taught Detroit based photographer whose focus is to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary with each click of the shutter. She has mad love for the city, found objects, and urban and rural exploring

Ron Zakrin has been a creative force in Detroit\'s artistic community since the mid-nineties - a period when the city was riding the crest of an electronic music wave then sweeping the world. His earliest paintings were meant to complement both that ...
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There is a world tucked away behind this one.
An old world made up of endless fields,
distant hills and timeworn cliffs.
A place where the sun is always setting.
A land in which extinct
slow-moving monsters and
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Making amazing clothing and accessories from used t-shirts and sweatshirts.

The Silent Giants is the alias shared by Christopher Everhart and Ed Knight - an alias that is now accepted as a byword for creative excellence in Metro Detroit and elsewhere. An impressive portfolio has the two listed with The Black Keys, Lupe Fiasc ...
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Artists turn to the creative muse for any number of reasons, but David Foox may be the only one who admits in his curriculum vitae that it was the stressful New York State Bar Exam that prompted him to pick up the brush. It was a decision that prove ...
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When I draw, the sun comes always from the west, the shadows always fall to the east.All shoes are like my ever smiling red lustre mary janes that made me want to never grow up....and all fingers are up to 4 in each hand, exactly as how I always used ...
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Heggie's surname rhymes with "edgy" .... a nice and fitting coincidence. Actually we'll get back to that later. We're going to segue quietly to a personal note of thanks. Mark is the man responsible for inking a profound quote from Nietzche on the fr ...
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D3N!@L or DENIAL, is a Canadian graffiti and mixed-media artist. In the year 2000, he adopted the moniker “DENIAL” as his signature, and as an alter ego for his creative work. The pseudonym “Denial” is a phonetic mix-up representing his first name, a ...
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Amazing functional glass & clay sculpture from the D

Hand making awesome bags!!!

amazing ties are hand-silkscreened onto 100% charmeuse silk or microfiber; the microfiber is a rich, soft fabric resembling silk. Charmeuse silk is a much more expensive and elegant soft silk, smooth with a slight sheen to it. We only use high qualit ...
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MALT a.k.a BrownBagDetroit was born not far from Detroit, Michigan in a city named Warren, in 1975.
Malt has an investigative mind and a precise detail-oriented work style. This, combined with his unique interpretation of form and function and ...
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I gather inspiration from the human spirit and the building materials, which make our lives comfortable. The home is very important to me and I\\\'ve been described as having \\\"Domophilia\\\". I’m quite the evisceral artist and don’t look to my ...
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For obvious reasons we're really struggling to avoid the term "dutch treat" here .... or astro turf. You see, David "Netherland" van Alphen is an artist who freely admits to being influenced by that most benighted of American decades - the 70's. What ...
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Hand making everything with time,knitting needles, crochet hooks and a an abundance of yarns.

Christian is curious contemporary photographer inspired by construction and destruction. His fine art works are born from both the urban and rural and are meant to give a glimpse of both the history and aesthetic of his subjects.

My paintings are usually filled with cute dysfunctional creatures, angry vegetables, zombies, robots and strange little rabbits. I started Kill Taupe at the beginning of 2007 as a place to channel my raging creative energy. I wanted to make things th ...
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Making old paper pretty since 2005. List maker. Letter writer. Radical

Lisa Harrison of Car City Couture began working collaboratively with Kyle Raetz not long after the two met, and Car City Couture was born. With a passion for the art and design of everyday items, quality and uniqueness is of utmost importance. Lisa m ...
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323 East art & fashion boutique is a collection of creative energy materialized in a mash-up of art, culture, lifestyle and fashion. Located in Royal Oak, MI, 323 East offers handcrafted works by more than 150 artists from around the world.

A pirate's life for me, or so the story should go.. I was born in Dothan, Alabama but never stuck around one place for terribly long.. The open roads are my open seas and have now lead me to Detroit(Ferndale), Michigan. Started crafting at the ripe ...
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Chris's thought provoking, chaotically energized expressions on canvas, wood, and other mediums have impacted the Detroit Art Community for nearly two decades. His work in sculpture provides Detroit City with an array of installations, including the ...
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Maria believes in creating your own reality through surrealist realism.

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Glenn Barr is one of Detroit's most celebrated and successful underground artists. His paintings have appeared in galleries from Seattle and San Francisco to New York City. Glenn's work has been featured in a variety of comics and graphic novels such ...
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Regina Pruss is a graduate from the College for Creative Studies.She is here to make pretty things for you to wear.

Please pay close attention to the elements before you. I scour the
universe with my aesthetic judgment to find pockets of perfection. I
gently kiss each fleeting moment in time with my powers of perception,
granting them life e ...
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Michele's words.. live in Pontiac, Michigan with my boyfriend Michael and my Boston terrier Chloe. I moved here from Portland, Oregon. Sometimes I feel like I moved to a different country...it is so different here. I recently decided to become an art ...
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Konquest is a collective of artist and graffiti kids. making sweet art and killer tee's. Check out the whole collection.

With no formal training, I have learned by studying my favorite artists, and looking at paintings my mother had hanging in the house. My paintings, mainly in oil, are inspired from dreams, childhood, music, and poetry. Nearly all my works have a pers ...
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Local Detroit painter focused on creating "Superflat" portraits. Drawing inspiration from anime, manga and the fashion focused girls of Harajuku. I am most inspired by the art of Takashi Murakami, Chiho Aoshima, Nara and Yumiko Kayukawa. I've always ...
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Clearly, I am a bunny.
I am also an illustrator/gallery artist/and sometimes a graphic designer.

I graduated from CCS with a BFA in Illustration in December of 2007. I work for a consulting firm doing their in house design work ...
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