Gary Grimshaw
The poster artist of Detroit's Grande Ballroom and the MC5 era.
This artist's work is shown through the museum and artist links on this page while it remains under copyright or awaits a permission-cleared image.
Grimshaw was born in Detroit and raised in Lincoln Park. His first Grande Ballroom poster, for an MC5 show, is dated October 7, 1966. He was Minister of Art of the White Panther Party, and in 1969 the Michigan Court of Appeals overturned his obscenity conviction.
He made the poster for the 1971 John Sinclair Freedom Rally, art directed the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival, and worked as associate art director at Creem.