Franny M. Levitin
Levitin was born in 1991 in Chicago, Illinois. She currently lives and works in Detroit, Michigan. Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions including Hyde Park Art Center, Access Gallery, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Smart Bar. Levitin’s creative mind was developed through her extensive rigorous art background. At the University of Chicago she was an art science culture fellow while an MFA student in the Department of Visual Arts, and an artist in residence at Wedge Gallery in Chicago. Additionally, Levitin was a member of the Inter-Cooperative Council, a student housing cooperative, while earning her B.F.A at the University of Michigan. Levitin considers herself a life-time learner with dreams of facilitating joy for more people through art.
Franny Mendes Levitin is a multidisciplinary artist, information architect, creative technologist, and community builder. Her practice takes shape in creative projects that are both solo and co-created. She's a co-founder of Precious Trash Detroit, an initiative to showcase the value of recirculating second-hand materials. Additionally, she is a co-founder of Matilda, an A/V performance arts group. Her projects explore the lifecycle of materiality in "...distributed and multi-faced modes of media" (Drucker. J). Levitin’s practice searches for connections between concepts that emerge in daily life. These practices include exploration through painting, recovering material from the trash, attending community organizing meetings, composting food scraps, and building rhizomatic systems.
