Born Detroit, 1949 / BFA, School of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts; MA, Wayne State University / Died Ferndale, MI 2018
Robert Bielat was an artist’s artist, a sobriquet applied to those whose work is brilliant but idiosyncratic, deeply compelling in a way that is obvious to those who can see it, but not necessarily so to the market or to the arbiters of so-called “good” taste.
Vince Carducci is a cultural critic and publisher of the blog Motown Review of Art. He has written on a range of subjects, from the visual and literary arts to popular and consumer culture, politics, and the media for the academic and trade press. In 2010, he received a Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Arts Fellowship. He currently serves as Dean of Undergraduate Studies at College for Creative Studies in Detroit.