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Page 1: RESUME Marsha Philpot aka Marsha Music

RESUMEMarsha Philpot aka Marsha Music

1302 Nicolet Detroit MI [email protected] / cell 313.492.6072

Ms. Philpot/Music has participated in interviews and oral histories on Detroit, too numerous to list here, for journalists, historians, filmmakers, scholars, international

visitors and masters and doctoral candidates

12/2015 – Narrator, documentary film on Detroit space, redlining, and re-development, by Steven Connolly of London, UK; debuted in-progress video at Trinosophes, Detroit12/2015 - Published, Grand Circus Magazine, memoir, “Requiem For a Record Shop Man,” Detroit12/2015 – Interviewed Part I, with Tobi Voigt, for Detroit 1967 oral history project, Detroit Historical Society11/2015 - Performance with Detroit Symphony Orchestra – read poem of Detroit,

Memoirs and Dreams, commissioned for Symphony in D. Featured in documentary film on Symphony in D, in progress. 11/2015 - Published, Hero Magazine, poem, “Just Say Hi (The Gentrification Blues)”; London, UK11/2015 – Winner, Knight Arts Challenge, 2015, for project, Salon D’etroit - proposed conversations on Detroit themes11/2015 – Opening Presentation, Knight Arts Challenge 2015 Winner’s Event, Fillmore Theatre, Detroit 11/2015 – Interviewed, masters thesis oral history project on Detroit student activism, with Dara Walker11/2015 – Kresge Arts Advisory Council, 2nd year; selection of 2016 Eminent Artist, TBD11/2015 – Published, first in series of commissioned interviews of Shinola’s original employees, for Shinola Website/blog10/2015 – Hosted Representatives from Graz Austria, UNESCO Design City, Can Art Handworks10/2015 - Panelist, post-play, Paradise Blue, on mid-century Detroit, destruction of Hastings St. 09/2015 – Facilitator, Detroit Design Festival09/2015 – Interviewed for documentary film, League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Detroit07/2015 – Member, Advisory Board MMODD (Metro Museum Of Design Detroit) 05/2015 - Presenter, Porous Borders Festival, on DRUM and Black worker activism in Hamtramck; published companion memoir, “Crossing the Border to Dodge Main” for Porous Borders zine; published post-fest article for Infinite Mile arts journal, “A Seasoned Look at the Porous Borders Fest”05/2015 - Featured, documentary “No Place Like Detroit” by French film-maker Natasha Peteuil05/2015 - Presenter, Michigan Sound Conservancy Conference; on mid-century Detroit music03/2015 - Interviewed, by Kelsey Ann Martin for oral history project, Cranbrook School.03/2015 - Published “Kidnapped Children Of Detroit” in Belt, online magazine. March 201503/2015 - Panelist, Gentrification And Art, sponsored by Infinite Mile and Stamps School of Arts and Design, University of Michigan, March 201503/3015 - Interviewed on Detroit, by journalists for Swiss Public Radio program, Switzerland03/2015 - Participant in D4 Civic Leadership course at University of Michigan, lead by Jeff Jones03/2015 - Lectured, College for Creative Study Printmaking Class; with Prof. Toby Millman 03/2015 – Lectured, Humanity in Action; presenter for international Philanthropy and Social Enterprise Fellowship; at University of Michigan, Detroit02/2015 - Storyteller, Twisted Storytellers, Charles Wright Museum of African American History02/2015 - Panelist on "Gentrification in Detroit" panel moderated by Freep editor Stephen Henderson, N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Arts

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02/2015 - Received Blues Horizon Award for 2014, on behalf of father, Joe Von Battle, Detroit Blues Society02/2015 – Featured, Ambassador Magazine, Black History Roundtable 01/2015 - Featured, “The Sound of Detroit”, by Vittorio Bongiorno, in Italian Magazine, Mucchio Extra01/2015 – Presented, “The Kidnapped Children of Detroit/Just Say Hi" in the art installation “From All Sides”, at Oakland Ave. Artists Coalition, North End20013 - Present – Lectures with Jewish students on Detroit mid-century history and Black/Jewish life; in conjunction with Repair the World and Downtown Synagogue, Detroit

12/2014 – Published, epic poem "Just Say Hi (the Gentrification Blues)", in the online journal Infinite Mile and on blog, Marsha Music11/2014 – Featured Presenter, to 2015 Kresge Arts Fellowship applicants, at invitation of Kresge Arts in Detroit 11/2014 – Speaker, tribute to General Baker, University of Michigan - Detroit Campus11/2014 - Presented spoken word poem at The Water Show, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit11/2014 - Presented “The Kidnapped Children of Detroit” in the art installation From All Sides, at 9338 Gallery, Hamtramck, MI 11/2014 - Presented “The Kidnapped Children of Detroit” at Rediscovering Detroit Folklore, Presence II Productions, Detroit, MI11/2014 –Kresge Advisory Council, selection of 2015 Eminent Artist, Ruth Adler Schnee 08/2014 - Read The Kidnapped Children of Detroit at ML Leibler's Jazz Cafe poetry series09/2014 Interviewed for PBS documentary Roots of Detroit Music with journalist Somer Bingham09/ 2014 - Presented at New Work New Future conference, Samaritan Center, Detroit06/2014 - Published memoir/essay on “white flight”, “The Kidnapped Children of Detroit” in the book, The Detroit Anthology, edited by Anna Clark, June, 201403/2014 - Featured narrator, video documentary short on Detroit ruins, by Dr. Richard Raubolt

11/2013 - Performed spoken word narrative for Failure Lab Detroit Project, Detroit Opera House 09/2013 - Presented spoken narrative on essay “The Kidnapped Children of Detroit,” at Detroit Collision Works, Eastern Market, Detroit08/2013 - Presented One Woman Show, Live From Hastings Street at Downtown Synagogue, 201308/2013 - Presented spoken-word presentation on Detroit Style for Detroit Fash Fest, 201305/2013 - Featured Book-talk, for essay “Hidden in Plain Sight” in the book “Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies”, at Source Booksellers – 04/2013 - Performed One Woman Show – Live on Hastings Street! ArtX Festival, April 201304/2013 - Reading of “The Red Headed Girl” for Wayne County Coalition – at Trinosophes, Detroit04/2013 - Appeared on the Brenda Perryman Show, cable television – April 2013.02/2013 - Featured in photo spread for Styline Magazine.02/2013 - Panelist on Customer Service (including Race and the New Detroit) for ModelD Speaker Series 2013-Present – Facilitator to Carlos Nielbock, master architectural ornamental metal-smith, Detroit architectural historian, green energy inventor

12/2012 – Profiled in “Detroit City Is The Place To Be” by Mark Binelli; mentioned in NYTs Book Review06/2012 - Awarded Kresge Fellowship in the Literary Arts - June, 201204/2012 - Published “Hidden in Plain Sight” in the book “Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies”02/2012 – present Manager/Advisor artist David Philpot; master staff maker, assemblage, mosaicist00/2011 - Commissioned story for Metro Times, for annual Detroit Tigers Opening Day issue 04/2010 - Writing and images featured in exhibition, installation Detroit music by Michelle Dimuzio at University of Michigan, Detroit2010 –Present - Lead visiting Japanese Judges and students, architects and international visitors through the Mies van der Rohe townhouses of Lafayette Park

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00/2009 - Contributed article, “Best Music of the Decade” Metro Times 12/2009 - Contributor, University of Michigan’s Living Music Oral History Project, on father, Joe Von Battle and Detroit mid-century, mid-city Detroit history01/2009 - Memoir essay “Joe Von Battle-Requiem for a Record Shop Man" translated into Dutch for “Block” magazine, in Holland, NL2008 – Present - Published online blog, Marsha Music (A Grown Woman’s Tales from Detroit) 04/2007 - Lectured /panelist at the Haverford and Baldwin schools, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania2002 - 2010 Moderated arts and literature forum on international connoisseur’s website (the purists.com), and moderated international specialty wristwatch forum (Paneristi.com) 03/2004 - Lectured at University of Madison, Wisconsin – 2004; symposium on contemporary music00/2004 - Published “Jolene” on online forum, thepurists.com, in online magazine “Counter-Punch, and in literary anthology, Serpents In The Garden, Liaisons In Culture and Sex” - 00/2002 - Appeared in HBO documentary - “City on Fire: The Story of the ’68 Detroit Tigers” 00/1994 – Contributed to “Unknown Tales, Unsung Heroes, an Oral History of Detroit,” 1918-1967; Edited by Elaine Latzman Moon 00/1989 - Keynote speaker, official Dr. Martin Luther King Day event at Fanueil Hall, Boston MA00/1986 - Honored by National Association of 100 Black Women00/1986 - Featured in People Magazine and Black Enterprise Magazine 00/1986 - Named one of “50 Most Powerful Women in Detroit”, Monthly Detroit Magazine00/ 1985 - Led labor parade and speaking tour in Austin Minnesota, Hormel Workers strike00/1984 - Speaking Tour of Civil Rights sites in Alabama, keynote speaker in Selma church00/1981 - Participant and audience speaker, American Writers Congress, New York, NY1960’s – 70’s - Contributor, Inner-City Voice, South End newspapers 1968 – 1970’s - Activist, Black Student United Front/League of Revolutionary Black Workers

EDUCATION - Highland Park Schools, Highland Park, Michigan; honors and award for exemplary writing

EMPLOYMENT - 1991 – Present, Wayne County Third Circuit Court, 1991-present, including:    2014 - Present - Assistant to Presiding Judge, Wayne County Juvenile Court     2009-2013 - Executive Assistant to Chief Judge, Third Circuit Court1983-1988 – President, Bakery Workers Union Local 326, Detroit/Allen Park 1972- 1983 Frito-Lay, Inc., Allen Park, Michigan

Affiliation – Zion Congregational Church of God in Christ – 2135 Mack Ave; Pastor James Hall.

Doll and fiber artist, works have been exhibited and offered Arts Extended Gallery, Gallery of Contemporary Crafts (Fisher Building), DIA Museum Shop and Flo's in Midtown.

Advisor, Connector, Facilitator

Facebook Photographer, Detroit and its people


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