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The Ice House Detroit Raises Awareness About Housing Crisis

If you’re looking to bring awareness to something important, and that awareness-need takes place during winter, why not embrace the season and make art of it, like the Ice House Detroit does.

Shedding…ice…on the housing crisis, the Ice House Detroit takes a foreclosed home and, well, you can see the outcome in the gallery above. A cross between art and awareness, Gregory Holm and Matthew Radune have been spraying it constantly with fire-hydrant water.

Trend Themes

  1. Abandoned Housing Art — Creating art out of abandoned or foreclosed homes to bring awareness to housing crisis.
  2. Winter Awareness Campaigns — Using winter weather to bring attention to important issues through creative means.
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