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Earlier this month, Detroit held the Art X Detroit festival, with help from the Kresge Foundation, featuring local visual artists, writers and performers. Soon after the festival closed, the Detroit Creative Corridor Center, an entity created by business leaders to generate innovation and business growth, played host to a two-day conference called “Rust Belt to Artist Belt” with a mix of speakers — entrepreneurs, educators, policy researchers and artists.

Many artists and creative entrepreneurs in that city regard the arts as a tool. A couple profiled by the Detroit Free Press are developing a venue near midtown to showcase a range of progressive music, along with a gallery, a cafe and retail shops.

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