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Animated Incantations

Animated Incantations

Category: Events Series: Animated Curiosities

Seafoam Palace presents: Animated Incantations – A Mystifying Mouthful of Short Animated Films Rarely seen animated wonders from many different countries, shown at Carl Nielbock’s CAN Arts in Eastern Market. Curated by Bryan Papciak; after party at CAN Arts TBA! Free and outdoors ** Please check our Facebook event page in case of rain **


Animated Curiosities

Animated Curiosities

Category: Events Series: Animated Curiosities

We're back! It's our annual screening of short animated films with rarely seen marvels from Eastern Europe, Asia, Detroit and more.


Trash Bunnies and Wheels

Trash Bunnies and Wheels

Category: Workshops Series: Art in Curious Places

Our first Art in Curious Places was so fun, we've decided to host another in the same location near an abandoned factory in Southwest Detroit.


Industrial Cotton Candy

Industrial Cotton Candy

Category: Workshops Series: Art in Curious Places

We’re launching our new outdoor salon series Art in Curious Places at a lovely post-apocalyptic site in Southwest Detroit, complete with a torched car, a nearby abandoned factory, discarded toys and other artifacts among the building rubble.


Oddity Still Life Salon

Oddity Still Life Salon

Category: Workshops

See things differently? Do you want to? Join us for a free salon-style drawing workshop. We will set up several still lifes with objects both natural and unnatural, carefully curated from the Seafoam Palace vaults. Bring your own drawing paper or sketchpads, pencils, charcoal or other supplies. We can offer some direction and basic instruction …


Oddity and Fossil Boxes

Oddity and Fossil Boxes

Category: Workshops

Seafoam Palace presents a workshop for fossil hunters, botany lovers and collectors of rocks and trinkets. Whether found on your last expedition to Mazaghan or an archaeological dig in your own backyard, your souvenirs and prehistoric evidence can easily be displayed with supplies found around your house. In this two-hour class, you will learn how …


Animated Curiosities

Animated Curiosities

Category: Events Series: Animated Curiosities

The program of short films is curated by award-winning animator Bryan Parcival and includes rarely seen marvels from Eastern Europe, Asia, Detroit … and a magical island.


Islands of the Hollow Earth

Islands of the Hollow Earth

Category: Events Series: Phantom Islands

If you recently saw a strange, glowing apparition along the Detroit waterfront, chances are you encountered a phantom island. Probably a phantom island conjured by the Seafoam Palace. Blending local history with a dose of intraterrestrial fantasy, our event Islands of the Hollow Earth floated up an eastside canal as part of the Totems Arts …


Oddity and Fossil Boxes

Oddity and Fossil Boxes

Category: Workshops

Make your own curiosity displays Seafoam Palace presents a workshop for fossil hunters, botany lovers and collectors of rocks and trinkets. Whether found on your last expedition to Mazaghan or an archaeological dig in your own backyard, your souvenirs and prehistoric evidence can easily be displayed with supplies found around your house. In this two-hour …


Chimeras: Spelunking into the Subconscious with Kevin Evans

Chimeras: Spelunking into the Subconscious with Kevin Evans

Category: Exhibitions
Somewhere between flora and fauna, deep-sea darkness and blistering daylight roam the creatures of Kevin Evans like alien cave paintings come to slithering life.