Tim Price

Bio

Founder and CEO of The Market Detroit, Tim Price is a veteran of Detroit’s art, fashion, and music industries, and an advocate for the queer community. An early champion for the city’s electronic music community, Price spent much of the 90s working with various techno labels and event companies before helping to launch the inaugural Detroit Electronic Music Festival (now Movement Festival) in 2000. He continued as assistant Artistic Director to Carl Craig for the 2001 DEMF. In 2003, he relocated to Berlin to manage electronic music artist Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman) and help a generation of Detroit-area expats establish a creative community within the German capital. Price returned to Detroit in 2013 after years of touring and began to harness his imagination and zeal to help revitalize the city he calls home, taking advantage of the cultural influences and experiences he accumulated during his travels around the world. Since returning to Detroit, Tim and The Market Detroit have been instrumental in marketing and production for institutions such as TV Lounge and Northern Lights Lounge. He is a long-time board member of the Motown Mansion (w/ Geared For Life), and sits on the legacy council for Detroit Sound Conservancy and the Club Heaven restoration committee. As part of the Hamtramck community, Tim also chairs the Hamtramck’s Arts & Culture Commission, sits on the board of Hamtamck’s Queer Alliance, and has spent many years on the City of Hamtramck’s DDA (Downtown Development Authority) Marketing Committee. Tim Price is also a guest curator at the Detroit Historical Museum, and partner and curator at (the former) Blossoming Artists Gallery in Midtown. He continues to work to develop artists and other creatives in countless other galleries and pop-ups, advocating for art and culture in Hamtramck, Detroit and beyond. The new programs he’s producing at WHCK, and with Passenger Recovery showcase Tim’s relationship with the people who’ve influenced the music, art and culture of the region.